The Best Prompts for Editing Podcasts

Rough cut

1. Trim the episode

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   Make the full episode edit from the host's first line "[opening line]" to the sign-off. Remove the [mic check at the start] and the [break at time], and keep natural pacing.

   Eddie finds the boundaries in the transcript, removes what you named and keeps the conversation's rhythm.

2. Tighten a long episode

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   Cut the episode down to about [60] minutes. Remove tangents about [topic] and any stretch where we repeat a point, but keep every guest story whole.

   Eddie builds to the target length and reports what it used against the full recording.

Highlights

1. A cold open

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   Find the [20]-second exchange that would make the best cold open for this episode and put it before the intro.

   Eddie picks a self-contained moment from the transcript and places it at the start.

2. Episode chapters

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   List the topics we covered with a timestamp for each, so I can paste them as chapters in the episode description.

   Eddie reads the transcript and returns the topics with their times.

Social clips

1. Exchanges, not monologues

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   Find [5] exchanges of 30 to 90 seconds where [host] and [guest] disagree, laugh or build on each other's point. Make each one its own edit named after the topic.

   Eddie reads the speaker-labelled transcript for turns between the two speakers and builds one edit per exchange.

2. Stack both speakers vertically

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   Make all the clips 9:16 with [host]'s camera on top and [guest]'s camera below, each cropped to a close-up of their face.

   Eddie places the two angles as stacked layers on a vertical canvas and crops each to the detected face.

3. Square clips for LinkedIn

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   Make square versions of the [two] strongest clips with the speakers side by side.

   Eddie re-lays the clips on a square canvas with one speaker on each side.

Captions

1. Speaker-coloured captions

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   Add social captions in the middle of the frame between the two speakers. Make [host]'s words white and [guest]'s words yellow.

   Eddie colours each speaker's words, so viewers know who is talking with the sound off.

2. Name the speakers

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   Speaker 1 is [host name] and Speaker 2 is [guest name]. Rename them across every camera in this episode.

   Eddie renames the speakers for the whole multicam group, so captions and transcripts use the right names.

B-roll

Eddie uses your own b-roll first. Where you have nothing that fits, it searches stock footage: free Pexels clips, plus your own Shutterstock catalog if you connect it. When neither has the shot, it can generate a short b-roll clip. It quotes the credits first and generates nothing until you agree. You can also tell it to use only your own footage.

1. Illustrate the stories

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   When [guest] talks about [their first company], show b-roll from my own footage, then stock footage where I have nothing. Ask before generating any shot.

   Eddie uses your b-roll first, searches stock for the gaps, and only generates a shot after you agree to the quote.

Music

1. Intro and outro music

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   Put our theme "[track name]" under the first [15] seconds and the last [20] seconds, ducked under speech, with a fade at each end.

   Eddie places your library track as two cues with fades and ducking.

Multicam

1. Sync every camera and the mixer

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   Sync [cam A], [cam B], [the wide] and [the mixer recording] as one multicam group, and use the mixer audio for every cut.

   Eddie measures each file's offset against a reference camera and sets the group's audio.

2. Cut to whoever is speaking

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   In the episode edit, show the camera of whoever is speaking, go to the wide shot when both talk over each other, and hold on a listener's reaction when they laugh.

   Eddie assigns an angle to each segment of the edit from who is speaking.

3. Fix one wrong angle

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   From [time] to [time], use [guest]'s camera instead of the wide shot.

   Eddie changes the angle on just those segments and leaves the rest.

Export

1. Episode to Premiere Pro with real multicam

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   Export the episode as a Premiere Pro project and keep the multicam clips as multicam, so I can change angles there.

   Eddie writes a native .prproj with real multicam clips pointing at your original media.

2. Episode and clips as files

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   Export the episode as an MP4 with podcast-friendly web loudness, and the clips as vertical MP4s.

   Eddie sets the delivery loudness and renders each edit in the cloud.