Quickture is an AI‑powered tool that helps professional editors turn raw video footage into a rough cut quickly. It transcribes and analyzes footage, identifies speakers and story beats, and then uses AI to generate edits. You can interact with Quickture via Chat to plan or refine edits and work with single or multiple sequences. Quickture integrates with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Step | Purpose | Key points |
Step 1: Transcribe | Converts audio to text and labels speakers | Quickture’s Advanced Transcription Service transcribes quickly (about 2 minutes per hour of footage) and identifies speakers. Transcripts are the foundation for edits. |
Step 2: Label | Verify or correct automatically predicted speaker names | Quickture predicts speaker names roughly 80 % of the time. Unknown speakers can be labelled by clicking on their first line. Various transcript formats (ScriptSync‑ready, XML, Excel, traditional script) are saved automatically. |
Step 3: Analyze | Summarizes and scores footage | Quickture writes a comprehensive summary and provides both a simple transcript and a story‑beat transcript. Story beats are scored on criteria like biographical value, story value, emotion and humor. A heat map highlights high‑ and low‑scoring beats. |
Step 4: Edit | Create your edit using one of Quickture’s editing modes | Quickture offers Auto Edit, Guided Edit, Multi Edit and Minis Edit. The Edit UI appears below the summary and transcript. |
Interview (Biography) – For classic biography or casting interviews. Prioritizes character development and backstory extraction.
Interview (Topical) – For interviews on any subject, including panels or press junkets. Focuses on themes and discussion points.
Scene – Ideal for reality TV, documentary scenes, or general non-interview content. Emphasizes beats, tension, and action.
Full Episode – Best for full-length episodes or feature-length content. Enables comprehensive beat analysis and downstream editing options like trailers or social clips.
Standup Comedy – Designed specifically for stand-up routines. Helps break down jokes, sections, and comedic rhythm.
News – Optimized for field pieces, anchor reads, and press conferences. Highlights facts, speakers, and segment structure.
Auto Edit lets Quickture build the best possible cut with minimal input:
Set target length – use the slider to pick the target length of your edit. Results are typically within 1-2 minutes of the desired length.
Set example sequences – pick one or more finished edits as templates so Quickture matches tone and structure.
Choose included speakers – toggle speakers on/off to include or remove them from the cut.
Remove low‑ranked beats – omit low‑scoring story beats (highlighted red) by enabling this option.
Smoothing – control how Quickture handles silences and cut frequency. Modes include:
Off (no smoothing, lots of cuts)
Low (consolidate roughly 2‑second gaps)
Medium (about 5‑second gaps)
High (up to 10 seconds)
Chunk (big sections; good for clip pulls and mini‑episodes)
After you generate an auto edit, review the new sequence and use Refine Edit at the bottom of the panel to refine it. Quickture shows a Revision Timeline so you can track each of your resulting edits.
Check out the Guided Edit tutorial video
Guided Edit is ideal when you have one raw sequence (scene, interview, etc.) and want to discuss or edit it. It provides the following features:
Edit suggestions – Quickture auto‑generates three prompts to suggest different types of edits (for example, include/exclude topics, adjust tone or structure).
Chat modes – choose between Discuss and Edit:
Discuss mode lets you ask questions about the footage and plan your edit (for example, “make an outline that introduces characters and focuses on emotional moments”). Quickture responds with outlines; when ready, switch to Edit mode.
Edit mode generates the edit based on your prompt or the conversation. You can pull clip selects, follow a paper edit, or give notes on content, structure and tone.
The more you give, the more you get – detailed prompts (for example, pasting a show bible or detailed notes) help Quickture align the edit with your vision.
Check out the Multi Edit tutorial video
Multi Edit enables you to intercut scenes and interviews across multiple sequences—ideal for editing a sequence from an entire project or season. Key steps and options:
Select active sequences – use the Set Active Sequences button to choose which sequences to include.
Set active speakers – optionally deactivate speakers to exclude them from the edit.
Chat modes – like Guided Edit, Multi Edit has Discuss and Edit modes. In Discuss mode you can ask questions across all selected sequences (for example, psychological profiles of characters, lists of scenes or recipes). In Edit mode you can plan complex edits. For example, you can plan to edit a dinner‑party scene by intercutting seven interviews.
Combining scenes with interviews – to get the best results, provide (1) an overview of the goal, (2) specific instructions for the scene, (3) instructions about which interview bites to include, and (4) optional example scripts to guide tone and style.
Best practices – separate different topics (interviews, scenes, etc.) into individual sequences; multiple shorter sequences are easier for Quickture to analyze and yield faster, more accurate edits. It is always suggested to create separate sequences for unique topics rather than stringing things out into long sequences.
The Minis Edit tab is used when your finished episode is imported into Quickture in Full Episode mode. It generates standalone social‑media clips (30 seconds to 2 minutes 30) that highlight dramatic or emotional moments.
Use the slider to choose between 1 and 8 clips.
Set example sequences – provide 1–3 finished social clips as templates so Quickture learns your desired tone.
Chunk mode – turning on Chunk smoothing helps produce complete mini episodes without unnecessary cuts.
Use the Edit notes field to specify requirements (for example, avoid spoilers, choose funny clips, aim for around 30 seconds).
Although Quickture can technically work with sequences of any length, for best results it is suggested to limit individual sequences to 6 hours of footage. If working across many hours of footage, it is best to divide the footage up into 6 hour sequences and then use the Multi Edit edit mode to edit across them.
