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What You Need

  • Full podcast recording (video or audio)
  • Optional: Graphics or lower thirds

How to Make It

1

Upload Your Podcast

Drop the full episode into Cardboard. 30 minutes or 3 hours, doesn’t matter.
2

Find the Highlights

AI finds them automatically:
“Find the 10 best moments from this podcast for social clips. Look for interesting insights, funny moments, strong opinions, quotable lines. Each clip 30-60 seconds.”
3

Polish the Clips

“Add captions to all clips”“Add lower thirds showing speaker names”“Remove the ‘um’s and long pauses”“Add text overlay at the start with the main takeaway”“Add my podcast logo in the corner”“Convert all clips to vertical (9:16) for Reels”
4

Export

Do manual tweaking if needed and then Export

Common Prompts

Fine-tune your video with prompts like:
“Find the 10 most engaging moments and create 45-second clips”
“Pull the section about [topic] and make it standalone”
“Create highlight clips from the Q&A section”
“Make a compilation of the funniest moments”
“Create clips that end on cliffhangers”

Video structure

Hook (0-3 sec): Text with main takeaway The Good Part (3-50 sec): The actual insight or story CTA (50-60 sec): “Full episode out now”

Quick Tips

Start mid-sentence. Jump straight to the interesting part. End on a cliffhanger. Make them want more. Captions are non-negotiable. Most don’t turn sound on. Keep it punchy. 30-60 seconds max. One idea per clip. Don’t cram multiple topics.

What’s next?