Arabic · العربية

Edit Arabic interviews with AI

You have hours of Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic sample line in the transcript slot

  2. Step 02

    Transcribe the Arabic

    Eddie does
    Eddie detects Arabic 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 Arabic transcript in Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic sample line in the transcript slot

  5. Step 05

    Add Arabic captions

    You ask
    “Add documentary captions, two lines at the bottom.”
    Eddie does
    Eddie builds the captions from the Arabic 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. Arabic captions burn into the cloud MP4 export, which shapes Arabic text correctly and runs each line right to left. A desktop build that cannot draw the script yet refuses its local render and points you to the cloud export.
    Step 5: a video frame with a caption band and the five caption looks, with an Arabic 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 Arabic sample line in the transcript slot

Good to know for Arabic

The script

Arabic is written in Arabic script. It reads right to left. In an editor file, the caption cards arrive as Arabic text, and your editor draws them with its own text engine and your installed fonts. Before you deliver, check one card for the font and the right-to-left line order.

Burned-in captions

Arabic captions burn into the cloud MP4 export, which shapes Arabic text correctly and runs each line right to left. A desktop build that cannot draw the script yet refuses its local render and points you to the cloud export.

On-screen titles

Eddie's own titles and motion graphics do not render Arabic text correctly yet. Captions are not affected. Set on-screen titles in your editor instead.

Finish Arabic edits in your editor

Questions

Do I have to tell Eddie the interview is in Arabic?
Eddie detects Arabic on its own, so you do not have to choose it. If an interview switches between languages, Eddie detects that too.
Can Eddie translate Arabic 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 add on-screen titles in Arabic?
Eddie's own titles and motion graphics do not render Arabic text correctly yet. Captions are not affected. Set on-screen titles in your editor instead.
Can Eddie make an audio-described version in Arabic?
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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