Mini-doc profile
A three to six minute portrait of one person or place: their voice carries the film, observational footage shows their world, and it ends on a line that stays with you.
Made for: Brand film teams, nonprofits and journalists making short character portraits.
What it needs
- Footage
- An interview with the subject
- Observational footage of their work, home or place
- Backgrounder
- The subject's name, role and any facts that will appear on screen.
- Brand kit
- Optional. For an end card.
- You fill in
- Target length — a number from 2 to 10 minutes
- Who is it about, and what is the feeling? — your own words
- Video shape — Landscape (16:9) / Vertical (9:16) / Square (1:1) / Portrait (4:5)
What Eddie does
- 1Find the voiceEddie finds the lines where the subject reveals who they are, not just what they do.
- 2Open on the worldIt opens on observational footage before the first line is spoken.
- 3Build the portraitIt lets the voice carry the film over footage of their world, with room to breathe.
- 4FinishIt applies the Style, adds a title and a quiet music bed, and shares a review link.
The Style it uses
A heavy serif on warm near-black cards with an ochre accent. Reads like a documentary title card.
Titles, lower thirds, stats and captions use this Style. If your project has a brand kit, its font and colors win.
What it costs
110–520 credits a run
Worked out for a project with about 2 hours of footage. A run is priced on the work Eddie does, so most runs land inside this range, and footage length changes it only a little.
- Importing that footage is separate: 500 credits, at 250 credits an hour. Footage already in the project is not charged again.
- Downloading the result as an MP4 is free for the first 10 each day, then 50 credits. An export to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro is 100 credits.
- Adding the recipe to your workspace is free.
The brief Eddie follows
This is the recipe's prompt. The parts in {curly brackets} are the blanks you fill in when you run it. You can edit the brief after you add the recipe to your workspace.
Mini-doc profile
Build a {target_minutes}-minute mini-documentary portrait from this project in {aspect_ratio}. Subject and tone: {editorial_focus}. Open on 10 to 20 seconds of observational footage, with natural sound and no speech, before the first line. Let the subject's voice carry the film: choose lines that reveal who they are and why they care, not only what they do. Cover most of the interview with footage of their world using add_brolls, and show their face at the moments that matter most. End on a line that stays with the viewer. Build it with create_edit_result at the target length with breathy pacing. Add a title card with set_titles after the opening footage, and one lower third with add_graphic naming the subject. Use only names, titles, numbers and claims that are in the footage, my notes or the project's Backgrounder. If a name or title is uncertain, ask me before you put it on screen. Add a quiet music bed from the workspace music library with add_music_track, ducked under speech, and fade in and out with set_transitions. No captions. Style: call set_style_pack with pack "editorial-bold" as soon as the edit exists, before you place any title, lower third, stat or caption. Do not switch to another pack. When you finish, tell me the finished length against the target, list each item above as done or not done with the reason, and create a review link with share_review_link.