Oral history
A respectful edit of a long life-story interview into chapters, keeping the speaker's own words and pauses, with dates and places on screen only where they are confirmed.
Made for: Archives, museums, families and community projects recording life stories.
What it needs
- Footage
- A long interview, often an hour or more
- Optional photographs or archive footage
- Backgrounder
- Recommended. Names, dates and places to check, and any photographs to place.
- Brand kit
- Not used.
- You fill in
- Target length — a number from 5 to 60 minutes
- Whose story is it, and for whom? — your own words
- Captions — On / Off
What Eddie does
- 1Map the storyEddie maps the interview into life chapters in the order they happened.
- 2Keep their voiceIt keeps the speaker's own words and pauses, cutting only repeats and interruptions.
- 3Add contextIt adds chapter titles and places photographs where the speaker talks about them.
- 4ReviewIt applies the Style, adds captions for accessibility and shares a review link.
The Style it uses
Dark ink on clean white cards with quiet type. Minimal and premium.
Titles, lower thirds, stats and captions use this Style. If your project has a brand kit, its font and colors win.
What it costs
100–480 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.
Oral history
Edit this oral history interview into a {target_minutes}-minute film in 16:9. Context: {editorial_focus}. Organize it into chapters of the speaker's life in the order events happened, even if they were told out of order. Keep the speaker's own words and their natural pauses; cut only repeats, interviewer interruptions and technical breaks. Never shorten an answer so that it changes its meaning. Build it with create_edit_result at the target length with breathy pacing. Add a chapter title with set_titles at the start of each chapter. Show a date or place on screen only if it is confirmed in the project's Backgrounder; otherwise leave it off and list it for me to check. If the project has photographs or archive footage, place them with add_brolls where the speaker talks about them. Captions: {captions}. If on, use add_captions with the documentary look. No music. Style: call set_style_pack with pack "clean-white" 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.