Transform hours of interview footage into polished edits in minutes using Eddie's AI video editing technology - perfect for bringing dusty hard drives full of footage back to life.
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Ever been sitting on a batch of interview footage, waiting for it to magically edit itself and appear in a perfectly curated timeline? Yeah, me too. Let's be honest - sometimes the worst part of editing an interview project is just getting started. But what if I told you that you could get the summary, topics, sound bites, and rough cuts from your interview footage in just minutes with a few prompts? Well, it's not a dream anymore. You can actually do it today with Eddie.
Think of Eddie as your AI storytelling buddy for video work - basically ChatGPT for video editing. You import your interview footage, give Eddie a story prompt, and boom - in seconds, it cuts it for you. You can view the edit right in your browser and keep tweaking it with Eddie until it's just right. When you're happy, just export it as an .mp4 or to your NLE and you're golden.
So quite a few years ago, I shot these interviews with my family, including this amazing hour-long chat with my grandparents. We covered everything - their lives growing up, how they met, their careers (my grandma was a school teacher and my grandpa was a NASA engineer - yeah, very Cleaver family of us), and all their wisdom for future generations of our family.
I managed to cut a small teaser, but then? Classic story - that footage ended up on a hard drive collecting dust year after year. I always felt guilty about it, wanting to grab that footage and cut a short doc, but who has time to sift through all that footage? Well, to finally make my family proud, I decided to tackle this project using AI video editing with Eddie.
Since it had been forever since I watched this footage, I started simple. I just asked Eddie, "Can you give me a summary of this footage?"
Eddie came back with the ten main topics from the interview, plus all the juicy details within those topics. It explained everything in this super natural way that got my creative wheels spinning about what story I wanted to tell.
(Pro tip: This is insanely helpful when you're editing footage you didn't shoot - like when you're the editor who wasn't at the actual shoot.)
My grandpa was an engineer at NASA during the Apollo missions (cool, right?), so I wanted to dig deeper into that. I asked Eddie, "Could you give me a more detailed description of Jim's career at NASA here?"
Eddie delivered big time - gave me this deep dive into my grandpa's work, including this wild bit about them using binoculars to read numbers on the huge displays in those old control rooms. There was even stuff about him working during Apollo 13 - no Tom Hanks, but still pretty dramatic!
Now that I knew what I was working with, it was time for some AI video editing magic. I had Eddie gather all the soundbites about my grandpa's NASA career - took just a few seconds.
But why stop there? I asked Eddie to create:
Since my brother's also in the video world (we weren't great at math, so we couldn't all be engineers), I sent him a share link so he could play with the cuts in his NLE too.
Getting everything into Premiere was a breeze - just dragged the XML into the media library, relinked to my local footage, and boom - all three cuts were ready for B-roll, sound effects, and some color grading love.
The crazy part? This whole process took just a couple of minutes and a handful of questions. A project that sat collecting dust for years is now ready for final touches. Without AI video editing, I'd still be scrubbing through footage trying to wrangle a story out of it.
So here's my question for you: What kind of projects do you have sitting on your shelf, waiting to be edited? Because Eddie's ready right now to help you tackle them.
Let's be real - we all have those projects we keep putting off. But with AI video editing, there's no excuse anymore. Time to dust off those hard drives and start telling those stories.
