Shamir Allibhai

Writing

• BlogOct 17, 2026

  How to Build a Rough Cut in Premiere Pro with AI (Round Trip, Step by Step)

  Send a bin from Premiere Pro to an AI editor, ask for the rough cut in plain language, and get the sequence back in Premiere, relinked to your original media. The clicks, the rules and the costs.

• BlogOct 17, 2026

  How to Edit a Podcast with ChatGPT (Multicam, Step by Step)

  ChatGPT cannot sync your cameras or cut a podcast on its own. Connect it to an AI editor that holds the recording and a prompt becomes a multicam cut, clean of filler, with clips for social and a timeline for Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut.

• BlogOct 17, 2026

  How to Edit by Transcript in Final Cut Pro (With AI)

  Final Cut Pro has no text-based editing mode of its own. Here is how to cut an interview from its transcript anyway, and bring the result back into Final Cut as an FCPXML with Favorites, keywords and transcript markers on your clips.

• BlogSep 9, 2026

  Eddie AI x IBC Accelerator: Cutting RAI's Archive and a Blackmagic Cloud Project

  Eddie AI joined IBC Accelerator's FRAMES project in Amsterdam, helping search RAI archive footage and cut generative video takes inside a Blackmagic Cloud project.

• BlogSep 8, 2026

  Eddie v4: The Most Powerful AI Assistant Editor in the World

  Eddie v4 watches your rushes, syncs your cameras, writes the music, sources the b-roll, and hands the finished cut to Premiere, Resolve, Avid or Final Cut as a real project file. See it first at IBC 2026.

• BlogJul 26, 2026

  How to Add Captions to a Video Automatically

  Automatic captions done properly: word timing taken from the edit rather than re-transcribed, animated or plain styles, and an honest account of where the caption track travels and where it stops.

• BlogJul 26, 2026

  How to Build a Rough Cut from an Interview Transcript

  Turning a transcript into an actual assembly, not a document. How soundbites are matched, what happens to clips you rejected, and what the first cut will and will not get right.

• BlogJul 26, 2026

  How to Cut a Multicam Interview or Podcast Automatically

  How angle switching actually works when a model does it: what it cuts on, the rules it follows, how ungrouped cameras get synced, and exactly how the multicam survives into Premiere and Final Cut.

• BlogJul 26, 2026

  How to Export an AI Edit to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut

  Five export formats, what each one carries, the DaVinci Resolve import quirk that makes a good timeline look broken, and the honest list of what does not survive the handoff.

• BlogJul 26, 2026

  How to Make Vertical Clips for Social from a Podcast or Interview

  How to pull a 9:16 clip out of a long interview or podcast, including the split-screen two-camera layout, what survives the export to Premiere and Resolve, and why nothing here tracks a face.

• BlogJul 26, 2026

  How to Remove Filler Words from an Interview

  Cutting every "um" and "you know" out of an interview by hand is hours of scrubbing. Here is how to do it by naming the words instead, what Eddie refuses to cut, and what it does to edits you already built.

• BlogJul 25, 2026

  How to Edit Video with ChatGPT (Step by Step)

  ChatGPT can't cut video on its own. Connect it to Eddie, an AI video editor, and a prompt becomes a rough cut you can open in Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut.

• BlogJul 25, 2026

  How to Edit Video with Claude (Step by Step)

  Claude cannot cut video on its own. Here is what it does well in an edit, exactly where it stops, and how to connect it to an editor so a prompt produces a real timeline you can finish in Premiere or Resolve.

• BlogMar 19, 2026

  Eddie AI Is Coming to NAB 2026

  Find Eddie AI at NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas — booth N1672, North Hall. See demos, sessions with Shamir Allibhai, and AI editing for pros.

• BlogDec 16, 2025

  Import dirty multicams (aka synced timelines)

  Import dirty multicams (synced timelines) into Eddie AI. Edit multi-camera interviews as one timeline, then export back to Premiere or Resolve.