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0:00In this video, I'm going to show you how
0:01you can edit viral podcast reels like
0:03these using only AI. Even if you've
0:06never edited anything with AI before,
0:07don't worry. This tutorial is a complete
0:10a toz guide. I'll show you how to take a
0:12raw podcast like this one that was made
0:13by Chris Williamson and turn it into
0:15this viral Instagram reel using the
0:17fivephase podcast reel workflow. Phase
0:20one, Claude will watch through our
0:21podcast and extract highquality short
0:23form clips. Phase two, we'll use
0:24Submagic to create highquality captions
0:26for our video. Phase three, Claude will
0:28analyze the script and plan out amazing
0:30animations. Phase four, Claude will then
0:32prompt Hicksfield to create stunning
0:33designs like these for all the clips.
0:35And finally, phase five, Claude will
0:37turn all these designs into highquality
0:38animations using Hickfield. At the end
0:40of the video, I'll even show you how
0:42long this edit took and how much it
0:44cost. But first, it all starts with
0:46phase one, clipping.
0:49First, it all starts here with this raw
0:51podcast. The first thing we need to do
0:52is clip a highquality short form clip
0:55out of this long form video. And
0:56traditionally, this means watching
0:57through the entire video to find the
0:59best hook, then placing clips
1:01sequentially to formulate a story out of
1:03that hook. But with Claude, we no longer
1:04need to do that. Here's how it does the
1:06clipping for us. First, Claude needs to
1:08be able to watch our podcast. So, we
1:10feed it a timestamp transcript. Head
1:12over to 11 Labs, click on speech to
1:14text, and then transcribe files. And
1:15since my podcast is on YouTube, I'll
1:17just copy the link and paste it here. 11
1:19Labs generates a transcript of the full
1:21podcast. But this doesn't have the
1:22timestamps. So, click on this plus sign
1:24and generate subtitles for the video.
1:26Now, you've got timestamps. Finally,
1:27click on export and export as a JSON. A
1:30JSON file just shows what is being said
1:31in our video and when it is being said.
1:33Remember that because those timestamps
1:35are really about to matter. Now, I pull
1:37up Claude, upload this file into the
1:38prompt, and tell it to load up a skill
1:40called the short form clipper skill and
1:42use it to extract five highquality
1:43premium short form clips from the
1:45script. While it's running, let me take
1:4720 seconds to explain how this skill
1:48actually works. In Ultimate Editors, we
1:50have courses on clipping where I explain
1:52how to clip videos like these out of
1:54long- form podcasts. So, we uploaded
1:56them to Claude and trained it on
1:57clipping. On top of this, I clipped out
1:59multiple clips from a podcast myself and
2:01gave Claude a detailed breakdown of why
2:03I chose those scripts and why I
2:04structured each clip that way. Claude
2:06studied exactly how I clip and turned it
2:08all into the short form clipper skill.
2:10And just in case you want these skills
2:11for yourself, we're putting all of them
2:13inside the AI editing fundamentals
2:14masterass in Ultimate Editors, where
2:16you're going to get to learn how to edit
2:17viral videos with AI and get access to
2:1912 highquality video editing skills for
2:21Claude. The link is down below. Now that
2:23Claude has finished processing, it gives
2:24us five highquality clips out of this
2:26transcript. I read through all of them,
2:28and my favorite was clip three. It uses
2:30a relatable topic as a hook with an
2:31unexpected reframe. Then it tells a
2:33story, jumps in time to an example, and
2:35wraps up with an outcome. This was
2:37perfect. Now to cut it out, I just
2:38uploaded my podcast over the claude and
2:40told it to trim this clip out of the
2:42video. It lines up the timestamps on our
2:44script with the timestamps of our video
2:46and cuts our clip out of the main
2:48podcast. And now we end up with a
2:49highquality short form clip that
2:51actually works well, which brings us to
2:52the next phase.
2:55Next up is phase two, generating the
2:57captions. Once you have a clean,
2:58high-quality clip, it's time to generate
3:00the captions. There are many tools that
3:01could generate high- quality captions
3:03for you. Dcript, Submagic, Opus. In this
3:05case, I'm going to be using Submagic.
3:07Head over to your browser of choice and
3:08load up Submagic. Click on the create
3:10project in the top right and then click
3:12on upload from computer and upload the
3:14clip that we just made. Give it a second
3:15to load and then you're going to see
3:16this here. Click on style and select the
3:18style of the subtitles. This is entirely
3:20up to you, but I personally always
3:22recommend that you go with something
3:23clean and minimal, especially for these
3:25kinds of edits. I love the Kelly 3
3:26style, so I'm going to click on it, but
3:28I'm also going to make some changes.
3:29First, I change the font type here to
3:31Poppins and choose the light font
3:32weight. Then, I scale it down to 30. And
3:35finally, I move it down to the lower
3:36thirds of the screen. Now, once your
3:38captions look good and you're satisfied,
3:39click on export and download the video.
3:41Now, we've got a high-quality clip
3:43subtitled in no time, which brings us to
3:45phase number three.
3:47The next phase in our workflow is
3:48planning out the edit. We need to plan
3:50out what needs to be shown on screen in
3:52order to make this video go viral. To do
3:54this, I'm going to pull up Claude and
3:55prompt it this. I want you to now plan
3:57this full edit for optimal virality and
3:59viewer retention. To do this, use the
4:00podcast clip planner skills that you've
4:02been taught and I'll let it run. And of
4:04course, while it's running, I'll take
4:05the next 20 seconds to explain how this
4:07podcast planner skill works. We have
4:09multiple courses in Ultimate Editors
4:10that break down how I plan animations
4:12for videos. So, we fed all of those to
4:14Claude and told her to study them. Then,
4:15I fed it 10 full scripts and the exact
4:17animations that we planned for each
4:19sentence. That's thousands of sentences
4:21and thousands of animations planned for
4:23them, which was more than enough for
4:24Claude to study how planning edits work.
4:26Using all this, I prompted Claude to
4:27extract the content psychology behind
4:29how we planned our edits and what we
4:31need to show on screen. and it created
4:32the editor brain skill that we're using
4:34here. Again, if you guys want access to
4:36all these skills, they're all inside the
4:38AI editing fundamentals course in
4:39Ultimate Editors. The link's down below.
4:41But now that it's done, take a look at
4:42this for the hook. This is what Chris
4:44says.
4:45>> What often looks like discipline today
4:47is just the echo of someone's past
4:50obsessions.
4:51>> Claude planned to keep this as a-roll to
4:52help the viewer connect to the speaker.
4:54In the next clip, Chris says this.
4:56>> I started going to the gym when I was 18
4:58because I was obsessed with gaining
4:59muscle. So Claude planned a scene
5:01focused on a dumbbell design. The clip
5:03after this was this. Skip nights out
5:05partying to stay in my bedroom and read
5:07the Misk forums on bodybuilding.com. And
5:09Claude planned a form and a TV scene to
5:11show what he's talking about. Now the
5:13section after that was a time jump.
5:14Claude planned to leave this as a role
5:16to give the viewer some rest. The next
5:17section starts with this clip. And
5:19Claude planned a fossilized scene for
5:20this part. Then in this clip, Claude
5:22planned an orbit scene with all these
5:24subjects. After that, Chris says this.
5:26what once obsessed me has now just
5:28simply become me.
5:30>> And Claude chose to put a conclusive
5:32scene like this. For the section after
5:33it, Claude decided to leave it as A-roll
5:35to give the viewers some rest again. And
5:37then Chris comes back with this final
5:39statement to which Claude finishes the
5:40video with this as the last animation.
5:42As you can see, this edit is planned out
5:44like a professional video editor would.
5:46And if we follow this plan, you can bet
5:48the video is going to turn out so high
5:50quality that it keeps our viewer hooked
5:51all throughout. And now that we have the
5:53raw clip and captions and a plan on what
5:55needs to be created, it's time to create
5:57it. Moving us straight into phase four.
6:00Phase four is the design phase. In this
6:02phase, we're going to be turning our
6:03plan into high quality designs. To do
6:05this, I prompt Claude, create
6:07highquality scene designs based on the
6:08plan you just created. Use the podcast
6:10designer skill for this and follow a
6:12white and orange color theme. Create the
6:13designs for every scene in Hicksfield
6:15using GPT image 2 at 2K resolution. And
6:17then I let her run. The real secret to
6:19getting good designs is the podcast
6:21designer skill. What we did here is we
6:23went over to Pinterest and gathered
6:24hundreds of inspiration of good white
6:26vertical designs. All kinds of different
6:28styles and colors. Then I uploaded all
6:29of this to Claude and told it that this
6:31is what I want the designs for the short
6:33form podcast animations to be like. I
6:35told it to study the colors, the design
6:36patterns, the psychology of the layout
6:38and everything. At the end, it created
6:40the podcast edit designer skill. A skill
6:42capable of generating highquality
6:44designs for the vertical style in all
6:45kinds of different colors. Look, if
6:47you're new to video editing and you're
6:48finding it hard to keep up with all this
6:50stuff, the new editing styles, the
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7:13how to create the minimal animation
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7:16and even the viral talking head style
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7:55month. Now, after around 10 minutes of
7:56processing, Claude had created all the
7:58designs. So, let's walk through each one
8:00and confirm that it looks good. For the
8:02hook, we left it as a-roll, so it's all
8:04good. For the first section, it created
8:05this dumbbell and text animation, which
8:07looks awesome. For the clip after it, it
8:09generated this TV scene. The section
8:10after that was left as a-roll, so no
8:12need to worry about it. Then, for the
8:14part after that, Claude created a
8:15fossilized dumbbell design, which was
8:17super cool. For the section after that,
8:18Claude generated the orbit design with
8:20all the subjects. It looks great. For
8:21the belief section, Claude created this
8:23scarf design, which looks awesome. And
8:25finally, Claude chose to end his video
8:26with this conclusive scene which just
8:28looks perfect. These designs were
8:30awesome. It all followed the color
8:31palette and everything looks premium.
8:32Now, this brings us to our final phase,
8:34phase five, generating the animations.
8:38This is where we bring these designs to
8:40life by turning them into highquality
8:42animations. This is where I prompted
8:43Claude, "Now using the podcast animation
8:45skill, I want you to animate all of
8:47these designs into highquality short
8:48form minimal animations for my podcast
8:50edit. use the animation logic from the
8:52podcast animation skill and generate
8:53them using Cance 2.0 at 1080p with no
8:56music and just sound effects. And of
8:57course, while this is running, I'll
8:59finally break down the podcast animation
9:00skill that's responsible for generating
9:02these stunning animations for our video.
9:04Before creating the video, I ran the
9:05design skill to make sure everything is
9:07working. When I generated designs, I
9:08brought them into Hicksfield in Cance
9:102.0 and prompted it this. The animation
9:13starts with just a white background. In
9:14second one, the object slides in in a
9:16realistic stone. In second two, the text
9:18has a pop-up blur fade in animation that
9:20animates word by word. In second three,
9:21the designs around the edges of the
9:23graphics animate in. All animations are
9:25quick and smooth and seamless, not rigid
9:27and bouncy. I was able to create
9:28stunning animations using that prompt.
9:30So then I did that to another three
9:31designs, giving it every detail it needs
9:33about the animation. With four
9:35high-quality animations created and
9:36their prompts available, I give it all
9:38to Claw to study and told it to study
9:40exactly how I prompt Hicksfield to
9:41generate high-quality animations like
9:43these. So, it studied them and it turned
9:44them into the podcast animator skill
9:46that understands how to animate
9:48high-quality designs like these. Now,
9:50after processing for 15 minutes, Claude
9:52was done creating all the animations
9:53using our podcast animation logic. So,
9:55let's take a look through them and make
9:57sure the quality is good. For the first
9:58scene, the Dumble slides in and the text
9:59writes out. It all looks perfect. And
10:01notice how the timing and flow is all on
10:03point. For the second scene, the TV
10:04slides in with a little bounce and the
10:06text all writes out. This all looked
10:07awesome. The third scene, the Dumble
10:09drops into the stone and the text writes
10:11out smoothly. This looks perfect. The
10:12fourth scene, we see a clean draw out of
10:14the lines and a pop-up animation for the
10:16icons. For the fifth scene, we see a
10:17smooth slide in and a right out, which
10:19just looks clean. For the final scene,
10:21the stone slides in from the camera, and
10:22the text writes out as the dumbbell
10:24drops, which all looks awesome. It's
10:26safe to say all the animations are on
10:28brand and complete. So, now to finalize
10:30everything, all we have to do is drag
10:31the animations into the edit and
10:33finalize it. Let's quickly do that.
10:34First, I launched Premiere Pro and then
10:36I dragged each animation into exactly
10:38where Claude planned for it to be. This
10:40was easy and simple. Finally, I wanted
10:41to add a final touch for myself. So, I
10:43spent 5 minutes doing some
10:44post-prouction to make this edit pop.
10:46First, I added an adjustment layer and
10:48created a zoom out animation at the
10:49beginning. Then, I added some risers and
10:50whooshes to hook the viewer in the first
10:525 seconds. And I felt like this first
10:53section was a little slow, so I cut this
10:55part here and I tracked the subject to
10:57create a cool effect. Finally, I added a
10:58good song to the edit, and everything
11:00came to life. Now, before I show you the
11:01final edit, remember at the beginning, I
11:03promised to break down exactly how much
11:05this costs and how long it took. So,
11:07here we go. For the cost, this entire
11:08edit took eight images at 7 credits each
11:10and eight animations at 55 credits each.
11:13That's just under 500 credits total. And
11:14Hakesfield has a plan where you can top
11:16up for 500 credits for around $26, which
11:18means this entire premium podcast reel
11:20cost around $25. As for the time, the
11:22clipping took 12 minutes, the captions
11:24took five, and the planning took eight.
11:26The design took 10, and the animations
11:28took around 16. And my final touches
11:29took around 15 more. This is all just
11:31over an hour in total. But most of that
11:33was clawed processing in the background
11:35while I did other things. The actual
11:36work I put in was around 15 20 minutes.
11:3820 minutes of real work and $25 for a
11:41viral podcast reel like this one. And
11:43this, ladies and gentlemen, after the
11:44five phase workflow is the final edit
11:46that we end up with. What often looks
11:48like discipline today is just the echo
11:51of someone's past obsessions. I I
11:53started going to the gym when I was 18
11:55because I was obsessed with gaining
11:57muscle. And I researched protein shake
11:59formulations and dreamt of going to
12:00Gold's Gym in LA and skip nights out
12:02partying to stay in my bedroom and read
12:04the MISK forums on bodybuilding.com.
12:07The most autistic excuse for not going
12:09on a night out ever. Nearly 20 years
12:11later, I'm still training. Not because
12:13I'm that disciplined or motivated now,
12:15but just because an old obsession of
12:17mine fossilized into my identity. This
12:20is true for my meditation habit and my
12:22research for podcast guests and the
12:24productivity systems that I've got and
12:25my desire to build businesses. What once
12:28obsessed me has now just simply become
12:30me. This is a quiet reframe that people
12:34basically never say out loud. Discipline
12:36sometimes isn't the starting point. It's
12:39just the residue. Ladies and gentlemen,
12:41thank you guys so much for watching all
12:42the way till the end of the video. If
12:43you guys enjoyed this, let me know your
12:45thoughts on AI video editing in the
12:46comments down below. Do you think it's
12:48too expensive? Do you think it was fast?
12:49And do you think this is the future of
12:51video editing? If you guys want to see
12:52more banger viral AI tutorials like this
12:54one, comment down below and like this
12:56video so you can see more of these. And
12:57in the meantime, feel free to check out
12:58one of these two videos over here. here.
13:00Hope you have an amazing day and we'll
13:01catch you in the next

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