The hardest part of editing

The hardest part of editing a podcast clip isn't the edit It's finding the 52 seconds inside +100 minutes that actually deserve to exist online. Most editors start in the timeline. I start in the transcript, looking for the moment where the speaker stops explaining and starts believing something. Those land differently on camera. You can hear it. This clip opens at 40:52 with one line: "The key to storytelling is contrast. I'll die on this hill." No host intro. No setup. Just that, frame one. The motion graphics sequence came from a real problem: the speaker uses a knight-and-dragon analogy mid-explanation. Without a visual, it almost lands. I built the After Effects sequence because "almost" is where viewers leave. Everything else in the edit is subtraction. Cut what the speaker was still figuring out. Keep what he'd already decided. If you're sitting on hours of podcast footage that isn't converting into content, that's the problem I solve. 📩 DM me or drop a comment. Happy to take a look at what you're working with.