Sample Edit Note Prompts

Edit note prompts can be broad ("Make it funnier") or specific ("Remove the line "I love my mother.") They can be just a sentence long, or several pages long. You can discuss the structure you want ("Move this section before the other section"), the tone, and even explore possibilities by asking about footage you may never have seen before.

Sample Raw Sequence Prompts

In the Guided Edit tab, you can provide Quickture with instructions on how you want one sequence edited.

"Edit this scene so the focus is on Jane and her plans for the summer trip. Start with her entrance and then go to the part where she talks to her husband about the trip. Include the conversation about rooms, about her conflict with Anna, and about how she hates hiking. Don't include anything about the flight plans. End the edit when the phone rings."

Quickture will attempt to make all of these changes as it edits the Raw Sequence.

"Edit a 30 second teaser including the most shocking soundbites from the interview"

Quickture will make a short teaser for the interview.

Sample Refine Edit Prompts

When you're refining a previous edit (you’re in a Child Sequence), you can make requests about the current cut, or reference the Raw Sequence if you want to add more material that isn't present in the current cut.

"Remove the part where she describes growing up in Chicago."

Quickture will attempt to remove a specific section of the existing cut without changing anything else.

"Make it funnier."

Quickture will do its best to make the cut funnier! And you'll learn a lot about robot humor.

"Remove everything about her childhood."

Quickture will try to remove anything in the cut that could be associated with the subjects childhood.

"Revise the edit so it tells the story of her life in chronological order."

Quickture will reorder the beats to tell the subjects life story chronologically.

"Add in anything about her dating life."

Quickture will go back to the raw footage and try to add anything that isn't included in the current cut that is associated with the subjects dating life.

"Delete the line where he says 'Drop the suitcase!' "

You can be as specific as you want!

"Make it shorter."

Quickture will shorten the cut while attempting to keep in the most interesting parts. You can also say "Make it half as long" or "Make it 20% as long". We're currently developing a system to allow more accurate time controls. Standby!

"Start from scratch and focus on Mike's emotional story and his conversation about his relationship with his mother."

Quickture will throw out the current cut and start from scratch to tell Mike's emotional story.

"Remove everything about her boyfriend. Shorten the section about how she got her job. Keep the sections tight and end on joke."

You can also combine multiple requests into a single revision prompt. Go nuts!

"Add two more Mini episodes about Larry."

Quickture will edit more Mini episodes. Can't get enough Larry!

Adding Context

Quickture is very flexible! You can paste all kinds of stuff into the Chat fields to guide an edit. You can copy and paste an entire script from a PDF, or your script supervisor’s notes. Just tell Quickture what to expect (“Here are my script supervisors notes on this scene”) and it will try to incorporate that information into the edit decisions.