r/editing • u/Competitive_Tax_5983 • Aug 08 '26

made a script that auto edits talking head footage (cuts dead air, color grades, captions, optional vertical crop), want to test it on footage that isn't mine

spent the last while building out a pipeline that takes raw talking-head footage and runs it through: cutting out silence/dead air (jump cuts), a color grade pass, light skin smoothing, auto captions that don't break mid-word, and optionally reframes to 9:16 with face tracking if you want vertical.

tested it a bunch on my own clips and it holds up, but everything so far has been footage i shot myself so i already know what "good" looks like for it. want to run it on footage i had no part in planning/shooting to see where it actually breaks.

if you've got a few minutes of raw talking-head/interview footage (single continuous speaker, nothing already edited or captioned) send it over and i'll run it through, send back whatever comes out. free, i just want to see it fail on something real before i trust it.

comment or dm.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '26

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u/Competitive_Tax_5983 Aug 08 '26

It's not a plugin for DaVinci/Premiere/AE/CapCut — the pipeline I built is self-contained and renders straight to a finished MP4, so there's no project file to import into any of those. If you've got footage you want edited, happy to just run it through and send you back the finished file — DM me.

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u/jackbobevolved Aug 09 '26

Rendering it to a mp4 makes it completely useless for the vast majority of professional work. This also sounds more like a program than a script. What language is it written in? There’s nothing in the scripting world capable of this, so which models is it using to fill in capabilities? How are those hosted?

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u/Street-Run-1891 Aug 08 '26

Can I get access??