Video Repurposing - 2 New Apps For Multi-Speaker Videos

Repurposing long-form videos is at the core of my SMM content strategy for clients.

At the core of my content strategy for clients is to take long-form content like videos and podcasts and repurpose it to create smaller “snackable” pieces of content. That then leads viewers back to the long-form versions and eventually to a conversion event.

The walkthrough I share earlier shows the easiest part of the process thanks to ChatGPT, text generation. Part of that process also identifies quotes that could be taken by an editor to manually pull clips from the larger video. They can then export those clips using a tool like Descript to create the snackable pieces. To get a good short-form video, I have yet to find a way without human intervention.

Tools such as GetMunch and Vidyo work well for single-speaker videos and ok with two speakers. However, with my clients many times they will have multiple quests during a podcast interview. Even with one guest, in most episodes, there is two hosts.

Yesterday I found two solutions to improving multi-speaker video repurposing.

2Short.ai

This one is the easiest of the two. The design is very specific in it’s purpose and still uses AI to identify cuts from your YouTube videos to pull for shorts automatically.

By pasting in a YouTube url, it will generate about 5 - 6 Short quotes from the video. You can have it process more of the video and create more as well. It gives you a notice of how much of the video has been processed as you go.

Then when you select one, it takes you into a simple editor that allows you to select the areas of the video using layers to create your shot and adjust the timeline for each of your clips from this section.

It’s a pretty basic editor but very effective for this type of video and can be done rather efficiently.

App.Wisecut.Video

This one is a lot more complicated but also more powerful. Unlike all of the other tools I have tested, you can’t simply give it a YouTube URL to start with. I think they are focused more on the creative process of creating shorts as part of the initial process before the video is uploaded.

This one still doesn’t work great with more than two speakers but still has a lot of benefits. Like Descript, it automatically removes “dead air” when you are not speaking, creates jump cuts, punches-in for a close-up, and out for a wider shot. FInds the perfect background music and more. Even for longer-form video editing, this simplifies the process if you hate video editing, to begin with.

On the repurposing side, the feature I like the most is being able to search the transcript for keywords, and then select the best scenes to create a montage based on those keywords.

Wisecut Demo

AI In Politics

We are seeing what the political campaigns might look like in the upcoming election with the first 100% AI-generated attack ad campaign video. While it was disclosed in the original source as AI, I can see how this may be used for propaganda as it is shared without the AI context. Graphics are pretty poor in my opinion, but that may have been on purpose as well.

Tomorrow I am going to share some of the AI news that has interested me the most this week. Some interesting developments in Patent and Trademark rulings and Opensoure models this week.

Until tomorrow,
Kevin Davis
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