How to Turn One Long Interview into Short Clips and a Tight Long-Form Cut

Run one long interview through Weftly’s Find Clips and you get ranked short clips with timestamps. Run the same video through Edit from transcript and you get a trimmed long-form cut. Short clips bring people in, and the long cut keeps the story whole.

Why would one interview need two versions?

Mike Lagerquist records long conversations with people who have deep ties to Mankato, Minnesota. In the video above, he describes two of them. One person sat down and told a series of linked stories that ran about six or seven minutes. A friend told stories about growing up in Mankato and about his grandfather, in a string of segments that each ran from a minute and a half to four minutes.

Viewers use these differently. Many people like small bites: they watch one clip and come back later for another. Others want to follow the story from beginning to end. Publishing both serves both groups from a single recording.

How do I turn a long interview into short clips?

1. Upload the interview to chat.weftly.ai and ask for clips, or call find_clips from an MCP client.
2. Weftly transcribes the video and returns ranked candidates. Each has a title, start and end times, and the words spoken in it.
3. Read the candidates and choose the ones you want.
4. Cut them. Each clip is $0.50, or join several into one reel for a flat $0.50.

Find Clips is $2.00 per video, and the transcript comes with it, so you don’t pay for a separate transcription. The source video stays in storage for 72 hours, so you can cut more clips later without uploading again.

You stay in control. You see the candidates before anything is cut, and you choose which ones to publish.

How do I keep the long version short?

Long interviews contain false starts, side trips, and moments when the same topic comes up twice. Edit from transcript lets you delete those sentences or move related ones together, then cuts the video to match. It runs against the video Weftly already stored, so there is no second upload. See how Edit from transcript works.

The result is a long-form version that is still fairly short and follows the story from start to finish.

What does this look like with a real interview?

Mike recorded a retired Minnesota State University, Mankato music instructor, Al “Doc” Wortman, who led a concert choir called the Ellis Street Singers for about three decades. The interview ran about 45 minutes. Using Find Clips, Mike and Becki put together eight to ten clips about different parts of Doc’s story, and viewers can watch them all in a YouTube playlist. Weftly also suggests other clips to watch when you finish one.

A long-form version of the full conversation is next on their list, for viewers who want to follow the train of thought from beginning to end.

What does it cost?

Step	Cost
Find Clips on the interview (includes the transcript)	$2.00
Each clip cut	$0.50
Several clips joined into one reel	$0.50 flat
Edit from transcript for the long-form cut	$1.00

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Try it

Open chat.weftly.ai, drop in a long recording, and ask for clips.