Ask Eddie to analyze footage before it builds an edit

Ask Eddie to review your footage or a reference video and propose a plan first, without building or changing anything, until you approve it.

Sometimes you want Eddie's read on your footage — or on a finished reference video — before it touches your timeline. You can ask for exactly that, and Eddie will hold off on building or changing anything until you say go.

How to ask

Be explicit that you want analysis only, for example:

"Review this footage and develop a plan. Don't build or change anything yet — show me the plan first."

"Analyze our finished reference video to learn its editing style, and don't start editing new footage."

Eddie will read transcripts, look at frames, and (if you ask) tell you the editorial logic it's seeing — pacing, structure, strong moments, usable passages — without touching the timeline. It confirms when it hasn't changed anything.

What Eddie can actually analyze

Eddie doesn't listen to audio directly. It reads the transcript (words, speakers, timing) and looks at frames (silent images). If your request depends on something only audible — tone of voice, music, ambient sound — Eddie will say so and offer the one tool that can search footage by sound: Find Moments, which is a paid search with the price quoted up front.

Plans and costs

When Eddie proposes a plan, it can save that plan as a set of steps you review before running — each step shows its price, and nothing is charged until you approve. Asking for a plan or an analysis-only pass is generally cheap or free; it's the build itself that costs the bulk of the credits. If you want a hard ceiling on spend, know that Eddie can quote a price and wait for your go-ahead, but it cannot enforce a spending cap you state in your prompt — the price-then-confirm step is the actual control you have.

Good to know

Say clearly "don't build/edit yet" — otherwise Eddie may start building once it has enough information.
A long, detailed brief is itself billed as part of the analysis if it requires reading transcripts or reviewing frames to answer.
Reference videos you want Eddie to learn from should already be in the project as a source, or added via Backgrounder for reuse across projects.

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