Luo · Dholuo

Edit Luo interviews with AI

You have hours of Luo interviews and need a story, captions and a timeline your editor can finish. Download Luo captions as a free SRT or VTT file. Open Export and choose Transcript. Eddie writes the spoken words, timed to your cut or to the whole source. 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 Luo interviews in

    You ask
    Upload the interviews, or add them from Frame.io, Dropbox, Google Drive or your editor's bin.
    Eddie does
    The Eddie desktop app (Download) runs on Mac and Windows. It integrates with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer. From Premiere and Resolve it pulls clips, multicam clips and timelines from your bin into Eddie. From Final Cut it takes the clips and projects you drag in. Avid is in beta and pulls clips from the bins you have open. You can also upload from the browser, or add media from Frame.io, Dropbox and Google Drive. Eddie 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 a Luo sample line in the transcript slot

  2. Step 02

    Transcribe the Luo interview

    Eddie does
    Eddie detects Luo 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
    A Luo 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 a Luo 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. Stay on whoever is talking, and use the wide for quick back-and-forth.”
    Eddie does
    Eddie reads the Luo 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. 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 rough cut you can watch, trim, reorder and refine in plain words. A multicam cut that follows the conversation, ready to export to your editor.
    Step 3: a prompt asking Eddie for a three-minute story on the speaker's camera, Eddie's reply and the resulting timeline, with a Luo sample line in the transcript slot

  4. Step 04

    Add Luo captions

    You ask
    “Add documentary captions, two lines at the bottom.”
    Eddie does
    Eddie builds the captions from the Luo 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. Download Luo captions as a free SRT or VTT file. Open Export and choose Transcript. Eddie writes the spoken words, timed to your cut or to the whole source. Luo captions burn into the MP4 on the cloud export and on the desktop app's local export.
    A video frame with a caption band and the five caption looks, with a Luo sample line in the transcript slot

  5. Step 05

    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.
    The export menu beside an editor timeline with picture, sound and caption tracks, with a Luo sample line in the transcript slot

Good to know for Luo

The script

Luo is written in Latin script.

Burned-in captions

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

Detection and variants

Eddie detects Luo on its own, so you do not have to choose it. If an interview switches between languages, Eddie detects that too.

Subtitle files

SRT and VTT subtitle files work in Luo, as in every language. They are free to download, timed to the whole source or to your cut.

Finish Luo edits in your editor

Questions

Do I have to tell Eddie the interview is in Luo?
Eddie detects Luo on its own, so you do not have to choose it. If an interview switches between languages, Eddie detects that too.
Can Eddie translate Luo 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 Luo?
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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