Before & After: Raw Footage → Retention-Optimized Edit Started with raw talking-head footage and ...Before & After: Raw Footage → Retention-Optimized Edit Started with raw talking-head footage and ...
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Before & After: Raw Footage → Retention-Optimized Edit
Started with raw talking-head footage and a script. From there: sourced supporting b-roll for the key moments in the script, layered in sound design and SFX, added animated captions, and paced each scene to hold attention start to finish.
Swipe through to see the raw clip next to the final edit — and the Premiere Pro timeline behind it.
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It's the fastest way to turn complex healthcare workflows into a clean, effortless visual story.
A recent piece we crafted for an ai health tech platform:
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How I keep episode 40 looking exactly like episode 1.
The look of a series doesn't live in the timeline. It lives in components - titles, charts, captions, lower thirds - built once in code and fed by the numbers in the script.
Change one value, and every chart in every episode updates. 16x9 for YouTube and 9x16 for Shorts come out of the same build, so the vertical cut is never an afterthought.
That is how one person can ship a weekly series without the style drifting by week six.
Editors and producers - do you template your series, or rebuild every episode from scratch?