Speech cuts

A short cut from talking footage lives on its words. The framing can be perfect and the short is still unwatchable when it opens on half a sentence or spends its first two seconds on "yeah, no, totally". So the cut is planned from what is said, and checked as what is heard, before anything is built.

Read the footage

Read every source as the footage-analysis skill says for talking footage: a transcript kept as the tool returned it (transcript-<source id>.json where you run commands), which sets every boundary, and a watch, which picks the moments. A photo has no speech at all: it is a beat, not a backbone.

Plan the cut