Tools
How we make video, and why it behaves that way
Every control in the editor, the limits it actually enforces, and the production standard behind each one. The numbers on these pages are checked against the running code, not written from memory.
Transitions
Fifty-eight joins between scenes, with four on the shelf and the rest in a vault.
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Backdrops
A background image behind the programme, dimmed by measurement until the words on it are legible.
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Scene length and inserted scenes
A scene runs as long as its narration, or longer if you say so — never shorter. An inserted scene declares its whole length, and everything after it moves.
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Captions and banners
Text over the picture, anchored to a scene so it travels with the shot it belongs to.
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Crop and speed
Reframe a shot to part of its source, and play it faster or slower, without touching the line over it.
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Motion on stills
A slow push or drift across a photograph, and nothing at all on footage that already moves.
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Music beds
One track under the whole programme, ducking under the speech by measurement.
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Shot framing
Who is in the frame — a single, a two-shot, or the whole cast.
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Generated pictures
Describe the B-roll you need and it arrives in your library as a picture, promoted and usable like anything you uploaded.
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The assistant director
It proposes placements and cuts; you approve or deny each one on its own.
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The podcast feed
Every published episode goes out as audio, through a feed any podcast app reads.
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What the audience did
Views, likes and comments come back to the card, and the hooks that earned them start the next brief.
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Voices
Hundreds of voices with real accents, and reads that take direction.
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Live channels
Finished videos pushed to YouTube or Facebook as if live — looped for a crowd, or once for a webinar.
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Guests and the green room
A door for your show: guests arrive by a link, wait, watch the show go out, and you bring them up on camera.
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The live room
Comments, super chats, polls and reactions from the audience — on the door, on the console, and on the broadcast every social carries.
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Spyglass
The screen-recording lab: your screen with you in the corner, filed as a recording with its transcript and a page anyone with the link can watch — and still a take you can cut an episode from.
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The Lab
Broadcast graphics made in the studio: a moving plate, a rig of elements anywhere on the frame, and the frames around the guests — from a prototype, the director, or a reference.
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History and rollback
Every edit is a version, and going back to one that was rendered brings its video with it.
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See it run end to end
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