Talking-Head Podcast Recut

Use this skill to turn existing speech-led media into truthful, useful derivative edits. The central obligation is editorial integrity: every cut must remain faithful to what the speaker meant in the source recording, and every commercial, synthetic, legal, or rights risk must be surfaced before publishing.

This is provider-independent. Use whatever local or hosted tools are available for transcription, diarization, editing, captions, audio repair, motion graphics, and export, but keep the workflow, ledgers, and review standards below intact.

Operating principle

Treat a recut as a quotation with pictures, not as raw material to rewrite.

• Do not create a clip whose apparent claim, emotional tone, chronology, or endorsement differs from the source.
• Do not use reaction shots, cutaways, captions, titles, or music to imply agreement, conflict, surprise, confidence, causality, or product endorsement that the original source does not support.
• Do not publish synthetic voice, face, avatar, or reconstructed dialogue without explicit approval from the rights holder and the depicted/simulated person.
• Do keep enough context for the clip to be understandable without requiring the audience to know the full episode.
• Do keep an audit trail from final frame back to source timecode.

Intake: refuse to cut blind

Before editing, collect or infer a production brief. If any high-risk item is unknown, pause or mark it for approval.