Podcast episode trailer
A 30 to 90 second trailer for one episode: a question that hooks, three short answers that tease, and a title card with the episode name.
Made for: Shows that promote each new episode on their feed and newsletter.
What it needs
- Footage
- A podcast recording, single camera or synced multicam
- Backgrounder
- The show name and the guest's name and title.
- Brand kit
- Optional. The end card uses your logo and colors.
- You fill in
- Trailer length — a number from 20 to 120 seconds
- Episode title — your own words
- Video shape — Landscape (16:9) / Vertical (9:16) / Square (1:1) / Portrait (4:5)
What Eddie does
- 1Find the questionEddie finds the question or tension at the centre of the episode.
- 2Pick the teasesIt picks three short answers that raise interest without giving the ending away.
- 3Build the trailerIt cuts them into a fast trailer with music under it.
- 4Title itIt applies the Style and ends on a title card with the episode name.
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
100–470 credits a run
Worked out for a project with about 1 hour 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: 250 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.
Podcast episode trailer
Cut a {target_seconds}-second trailer for this podcast episode in {aspect_ratio}. The episode title is: {episode_title}. Structure: open on the question or tension at the centre of the episode, in the speaker's own words. Then three short answers or moments, each under about ten seconds, that raise interest without giving away the conclusion. Do not cut a sentence so that it says something the speaker did not mean. Build it with create_edit_result at the target length with tight pacing. Add a music bed from the workspace music library with add_music_track, ducked under speech, and snap the cuts to the beat with snap_cuts_to_beats where no word is cut. Add a fade-out at the end with set_transitions. End on a title card with set_titles showing the episode title and the show name. Add captions with add_captions in the editorial look. 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. 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.