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Automate UGC Video Editing From Raw Clips with ChatGPT

Use ChatGPT's multi-modal capabilities to automatically edit user-generated content (UGC) style videos. The AI can transcribe clips, select the best takes, assemble a narrative, and redact sensitive on-screen information.

Automate UGC Video Editing From Raw Clips with ChatGPT

21:24 to 32:30: Nick Baumann gives ChatGPT raw clips, asks it to find the strongest takes, assemble a UGC edit, and redact private details.

Before you start

What you need

  • The raw clips for one story
  • The intended audience, length, aspect ratio, and caption style
  • A list of private details that must be hidden

What you’ll make

A vertical UGC video assembled from the strongest takes, with captions, pacing, and sensitive information handled.

Tools used

Step by step

The workflow

Follow the sequence once, then adapt the prompts, checks, and handoffs to your own setup.

4 steps

Step01

Upload Raw Video Files

Drag and drop a folder containing all your raw, unedited video clips directly into the ChatGPT Work interface.

Example prompt
Drag and drop a folder containing all your raw, unedited video clips directly into the ChatGPT Work interface.

My actual values:
[insert the files, settings, accounts, or constraints for this step]

Give me the exact commands, settings, or output to use. Finish with a pass or fail check for upload raw video files.
Step02

Prompt the AI Editor

Dictate a detailed prompt that explains the story you want the video to tell. If you have one, specify a custom plugin that contains your stylistic preferences like video format (e.g., 9x16 for social media) and caption styles.

Example prompt
I recorded a video for the record and replay feature. It starts with me just explaining that I'm apartment hunting... and then I walk through and show the feature in real life... Can you go through these clips first, like pull the transcripts, find the best takes, and then kind of piece this together into a UGC-style video?
Step03

Initiate Multi-Agent Editing

The AI will start a complex process: transcribing all clips, analyzing transcripts for verbal cues ('that's a good take') to select the best segments, processing video frames for visual context, and assembling the final narrative.

Example prompt
The AI will start a complex process: transcribing all clips, analyzing transcripts for verbal cues ('that's a good take') to select the best segments, processing video frames for visual context, and assembling the final narrative.

My actual values:
[insert the files, settings, accounts, or constraints for this step]

Give me the exact commands, settings, or output to use. Finish with a pass or fail check for initiate multi-agent editing.
Step04

Verify Automatic Redaction

The AI automatically identifies and adds animated blurs to redact sensitive on-screen information, like addresses or personal data. It self-corrects until the redaction is perfect. Review the final output before publishing.

Example prompt
The AI automatically identifies and adds animated blurs to redact sensitive on-screen information, like addresses or personal data. It self-corrects until the redaction is perfect. Review the final output before publishing.

My actual values:
[insert the files, settings, accounts, or constraints for this step]

Give me the exact commands, settings, or output to use. Finish with a pass or fail check for verify automatic redaction.

What good looks like

  • The edit tells one coherent story without repeated takes
  • Names, addresses, notifications, and other private details are not visible
  • The exported video matches the requested aspect ratio and length

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After the steps

Runbook notes

How to recover when the loop fails and where human judgment helps.

Recover

If it goes sideways

The edit uses weak takes or loses the story
Name the opening, turning point, and final payoff, then ask ChatGPT to rebuild the cut around those beats.
A private detail survives the first pass
List the exact visual regions and terms to redact, then inspect every frame around each occurrence before export.

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