Glossary
Clip bank
One long recording turned into a bank of short clips, each one idea at 40 to 75 seconds, mapped beat by beat and handed to an editor as a ticket.
Why does it matter?
The sign of a weak editor is the inability to trim down. Mapping the whole recording first means every clip is one idea, and nothing good is lost in the edit.
How does it work?
- Map who said what, with timestamps, before picking a single clip.
- Hold every clip to one idea and 40 to 75 seconds. Two ideas become two clips.
- Give each clip a 3 to 5 word hook with a number or a name in it, and put the hook first.
- Make one ticket per clip, titled from the question asked.
Where has Tom used it?
One hour of Creator Hotline recording became a bank of 59 clips, two months of daily posts, each one handed to the editors as its own ticket.
Related terms
- Recording day: One booked studio, one person asking and a bank of questions written in advance, turned into clips and tickets.
- Fake pod: A podcast built for the clip: real answers to questions written in advance, recorded in one sitting in a studio, with a guest who is there to ask.