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Edit Afrikaans interviews with AI

You have hours of Afrikaans interviews and need a story, captions and a timeline your editor can finish. Here is how Eddie gets you there, one step at a time: what you ask, what Eddie does, and what you get back.

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Step by step

  1. Step 01

    Bring your Afrikaans interviews in

    You ask
    Upload the interviews, or add them from Frame.io, Dropbox, Google Drive or your editor's bin.
    Eddie does
    Eddie imports the interviews and any b-roll, from the browser or from the desktop app, which also reads bins in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro. It analyses every file before you can prompt, so no edit is built on half the footage.
    You get
    One project with every source, analysed and searchable.
    Step 1: dropping interview and b-roll files into Eddie, with cloud sources listed, with an Afrikaans sample line in the transcript slot

  2. Step 02

    Transcribe the Afrikaans

    Eddie does
    Eddie detects Afrikaans on its own, so you do not have to choose it. If an interview switches between languages, Eddie detects that too. It labels the speakers and keeps a timing for every word.
    You get
    An Afrikaans transcript in Latin script that you can search and cut from. Ask Eddie to fix a misheard name everywhere it appears, or to rename “Speaker 1”, and every word keeps its timing.
    Step 2: a transcript with speaker labels, timecodes and a search panel, language detected automatically, with an Afrikaans sample line in the transcript slot

  3. Step 03

    Ask Eddie for the cut

    You ask
    “Cut a three-minute story about how the company started, and open on the strongest line.”
    Eddie does
    Eddie reads the Afrikaans transcript, picks the soundbites that answer your brief, proposes a story structure and builds the edit beat by beat. It tells you the finished length against your target. You can prompt in English about footage in any language.
    You get
    A rough cut you can watch, trim, reorder and refine in plain words.
    Step 3: a prompt asking Eddie for a three-minute story, Eddie's reply and the resulting timeline, with an Afrikaans sample line in the transcript slot

  4. Step 04

    Cut to the right camera for each speaker

    You ask
    “Stay on whoever is talking, and use the wide for quick back-and-forth.”
    Eddie does
    Eddie groups the cameras of one take, syncs them, and cuts each line to the speaker's own camera. When the angles are not labelled, it works out which camera shows which speaker and asks you to confirm. Short interjections stay on the current camera, and switching angle can hide a jump cut where a line was trimmed.
    You get
    A multicam cut that follows the conversation, ready to export to your editor.
    Step 4: three camera angles, the active speaker's camera highlighted, and a timeline coloured by angle, with an Afrikaans sample line in the transcript slot

  5. Step 05

    Add Afrikaans captions

    You ask
    “Add documentary captions, two lines at the bottom.”
    Eddie does
    Eddie builds the captions from the Afrikaans word timings, in one of five looks: social, documentary, minimal, punch or editorial. Filler words are left out of the caption text by default. Captions are the spoken words, never a translation.
    You get
    Captions in the player, ready to burn into an MP4 or carry into your editor, plus free SRT and VTT files. Afrikaans captions burn into the MP4 on the cloud export and on the desktop app's local export.
    Step 5: a video frame with a caption band and the five caption looks, with an Afrikaans sample line in the transcript slot

  6. Step 06

    Finish in your editor, or deliver an MP4

    You ask
    “Export this edit for Premiere.” Or Resolve, Final Cut Pro or Avid.
    Eddie does
    Eddie writes a timeline your editor opens with every clip relinked to your source media: a Premiere project or XML, a DaVinci Resolve project or FCPXML, a Final Cut Pro XML, or an AAF into Avid Media Composer (beta). Or it renders a finished MP4.
    You get
    The cut in the tool you finish in, with angles and captions as editable items.
    Step 6: the export menu beside an editor timeline with picture, sound and caption tracks, with an Afrikaans sample line in the transcript slot

Good to know for Afrikaans

The script

Afrikaans is written in Latin script.

Burned-in captions

Afrikaans captions burn into the MP4 on the cloud export and on the desktop app's local export.

Finish Afrikaans edits in your editor

Questions

Do I have to tell Eddie the interview is in Afrikaans?
Eddie detects Afrikaans on its own, so you do not have to choose it. If an interview switches between languages, Eddie detects that too.
Can Eddie translate Afrikaans captions into another language?
No. Captions are always the spoken words, verbatim. Translating what the edit says is dubbing, which is a separate feature.
Can Eddie make an audio-described version in Afrikaans?
Not yet. Eddie's audio description is built and measured for English speech, so it is offered for English programmes only.

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