Auto-cut Shorts From a Longform Podcast
Turn a 60-minute conversation into 8 publishable shorts overnight — with the hook lines pre-chosen.
The stack in the order it runs — data flows from the source through to where it lands.
Descript’s scene + filler-word detection turns the raw recording into editable text in one pass, with vertical-aspect export baked in.
Claude reads the transcript and scores each candidate 30-second window on "curiosity hook" strength, so I publish the eight cuts most likely to travel rather than the eight earliest mentions.
I publish from Buffer because at this volume it’s the cheapest scheduler that supports vertical video without a creator-suite seat.
The stack (2)
How it runs
- 1
Transcribe + scene-cut in Descript
Drop the recording in. Let it cut scenes, strip filler. Export the transcript with timecodes.
uses Descript - 2
Score moments with Claude
Pass the transcript. Ask Claude to return 8 windows ranked by hook strength, each with a suggested caption.
uses Claude - 3
Cut + caption + queue
Back in Descript: trim to the windows, layer captions. Then queue them in your scheduler with the captions Claude wrote.
uses Descript
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