Resources

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  June 2, 2026

Every interview edit starts with a transcript and ends with a timeline. What happens in between determines whether the edit takes 4 hours or 14. This is the complete workflow for bridging that gap efficiently, from transcript markup through final assembly.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 26, 2026

Revision scope creep is the number one margin killer for video editors and production companies. Here is a complete review and approval system designed by an editor, for editors, covering round structures, feedback consolidation, and the conversations to have before the first cut goes out.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 26, 2026

Most editors learn documentary structure by instinct. But there are proven frameworks that give you a vocabulary for the decisions you are already making, and a toolkit for the projects where instinct alone is not enough.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 19, 2026

A paper edit is the most underused tool in professional editing. It turns hours of unfocused timeline work into a focused 30-minute assembly. Here is a complete methodology for building one, from transcript markup through narrative structure.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 19, 2026

The difference between a manageable documentary edit and a months-long nightmare is not the footage. It is the system. Here is the organizational framework I use for projects with 40 to 200+ hours of raw material, from ingest through final selects.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 12, 2026

Both Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve can handle documentary editing. But they differ in media management, color grading, audio post, collaboration, and AI integration. Here is which one is better for interview-driven documentary workflows.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 12, 2026

AI can process 200 hours of documentary footage in the time it takes you to watch one interview. The question is not whether to automate the rough cut. It is how to automate it without flattening the story you spent months capturing.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 5, 2026

Transcript-based editing tools treat every word equally. Audio pattern analysis does not. Here is the technical case for why analyzing speech patterns, not text, produces rough cuts that professional editors describe as "emotionally intelligent."

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  May 5, 2026

AI rough cut tools export XML files that open in Premiere Pro, but the import process has pitfalls. Here is how to import XML timelines cleanly, preserve metadata, and troubleshoot the most common issues.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 28, 2026

Two-person interviews create editing opportunities that single-subject interviews do not: reaction shots, conversational rhythm, and the interplay between speakers. Here is how to use them for maximum audience engagement.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 28, 2026

Prosodic analysis studies how people speak, not what they say. For video editors, it is the difference between cutting based on a transcript and cutting based on genuine delivery. Here is what it means, how it works, and why it changes AI editing.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 21, 2026

A step-by-step rough cut process for professional editors working with interview footage, from initial review through narrative assembly. Includes time estimates per phase and where AI can compress the timeline.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 21, 2026

Every documentary and corporate editor faces the same problem: too much footage, not enough time. Here is a structured system for processing 4+ hours of raw interviews efficiently, from the first watch through final selects.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 1, 2026

The best AI rough cut tool for professional editors depends on your content type, your NLE, and whether you need the tool to understand what your subject said or how they said it. This guide breaks down every serious option.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 1, 2026

Transcript-based editing tools cut by what was said. Prosodic analysis tools cut by how it was said. For interview content, prosodic analysis consistently produces more natural, emotionally resonant edits. Here is a technical comparison of both approaches.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 1, 2026

Eight concrete methods for speeding up interview editing, ranked from smallest to largest time savings. From keyboard shortcuts (15 minutes saved) to AI prosodic analysis (6-12 hours saved per project).

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  April 1, 2026

Documentary editors need AI tools that understand narrative arc, handle hours of unscripted footage, and export to professional NLEs. Here is how every serious option stacks up through the specific lens of documentary post-production.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  March 31, 2026

Interview projects eat time in predictable places. Here are 10 strategies professional editors and producers use to deliver faster without cutting corners, from pre-production decisions that save hours in the edit bay to AI tools that eliminate the rough cut bottleneck entirely.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  March 22, 2026

Every "Descript alternatives" list recommends tools built for creators. Here is the list for professional editors who work in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro, and need their AI tools to work within that reality.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  March 3, 2026

Search for "AI that understands narrative structure in video" and you will find tools that generate stories from prompts. But what about AI that finds the story already inside your raw footage? That category barely exists yet.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  March 3, 2026

Every AI editing tool reads the transcript. Almost none of them listen to the voice. Here is why analyzing speaker delivery, not just words, is the key to better automated editing decisions.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 28, 2026

If you're building LLM pipelines and getting mediocre results, check whether you're asking the model to think and format at the same time. We were. It was killing our output quality.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 27, 2026

We doubled the quality of our AI editing pipeline by adding a critique loop. But the real insight wasn't adding the loop. It was how we structured the feedback.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 26, 2026

The hardest part of building an AI editor isn't the AI. It's defining what "good" means. Two editors can watch the same rough cut and disagree on whether it works.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 26, 2026

I quit a stable career to build a startup. Here's what the first 30 days actually looked like.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 25, 2026

Professional editors spend 12+ hours per project on footage they have already reviewed. Here is what is actually working in 2026 to automate the rough cut for interview-driven content, from transcript-based tools to narrative analysis engines.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 25, 2026

In NLP, the standard pipeline is: audio in, transcript out, process the text. We did the opposite. The most important information in an interview isn't in the words. It's in the voice.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 25, 2026

Every AI "editing" tool I've tried does the same thing. It reads the transcript. It finds the keywords. It clips the highlights. It exports. That's not editing. That's search with a timeline.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 24, 2026

Video editors don't trust AI. And honestly, they shouldn't. Every AI editing tool on the market was built by engineers who think editing is a search problem.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 19, 2026

AI-assisted editing is changing how professional video teams handle post-production. Here is what it actually means, how it differs from AI clip generators, and what to look for when evaluating tools.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 18, 2026

When I had to edit five documentaries in two weeks, I reverse-engineered an AI workflow that saved 12+ hours per project. That workflow became the foundation of Threadline Studio.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 18, 2026

Most AI video tools treat editing like a search problem. Find the keywords, clip the highlights, export. That is how you build a content clipper, not an editor.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 17, 2026

Our AI editing pipeline was producing mediocre results until we stopped asking the model to reason and format at the same time. Splitting those two jobs was the cheapest quality upgrade we have made.

Bradley Smith · CTO & Co-Founder ·  February 17, 2026

We doubled the quality of our AI editing pipeline by adding a critique loop. But the real insight was not adding the loop. It was how we structured the feedback.

Jacinto Salz · CEO & Co-Founder ·  February 16, 2026

We cold-messaged video editors on LinkedIn for three weeks. Our 15% response rate, against an industry average under 2%, told us something important about the problem we are solving.