What is an AI Cutdown?
Scenery’s AI Cutdown streamlines your video editing process by shortening the tedious, uncreative aspects of editing from your workflow. With the AI Cutdown, you can quickly generate a focused edit for a video by describing what you want with a prompt-based UI. In a lot of ways, you can think of it like a really fast and thorough editing intern.
How it works
The AI Cutdown analyzes and categorizes your content based on the transcript, then lets you quickly create an edited cutdown by describing what they want to create. For example, you can take that hour long interview and ask the AI Cutdown to:
“Edit this to only show the responses from the interviewee, removing all the questions that the interviewer asks”
“Create a 90 second edit that features the funniest responses for sharing on social media”
Once the edit is generated, you can refine the edit as needed or try a new prompt and easily compare the two.
Generating an edit
💡 Eligible Media: Must have audio to transcribe - the AI Editor generates edits based on analysis of the media’s transcript
Open a project or go to your media library
Select your media
Hit the “AI Assist” button
Choose from Scenery's suggested prompts and add keywords, or create your own prompt
Determine the duration of the output you would like to get
Select “Generate”
Your edit will now be placed on timeline
💡 Pro Tip: Save your prompt to your Team Settings
Refining your edit
If you’re looking to refine your edit get started on the timeline basics
Recommended workflows:
Import, Generate, Refine, Repeat:
A classic workflow within the AI Cutdown consists of importing a long media clip, let’s say an hour long interview, and asking the AI Editor to use one of the prompts Scenery provides for you. From here, you can alter the prompt or simply click generate.
For example, you can take an hour long interview and ask the AI Cutdown to:
“Edit this to only show the responses from the interviewee, removing all the questions that the interviewer asks”
Then create another scene and ask the AI Cutdown to:
“Create a 90 second edit of the most thought provoking discussions within this episode for distribution on social media”
Once the edits are generated, you can refine as needed and add the bells and whistles to ultimately export and publish your video
Create new scenes for each AI Cutdown and compare different outcomes:
Whether you use a prompt provided or created or own, once you generate your first edit, you can try new prompts and easily compare to other scenes.
For example, you can take an hour long interview and ask the AI Cutdown to:
“Edit this to only show the responses from the interviewee, removing all the questions that the interviewer asks”
Then create another scene and ask the AI Cutdown to:
“Extract the quotes that highlight the responses from the interviewee with no duplicates”
From here, you can decide which of the two results you like better and continue to refine the edit from the Scene that had the better outcome