How to Edit a Podcast with AI: The Complete Workflow
Start with your recorded podcast video, describe the cleanup and caption style, then review the edit in context. This walkthrough covers the source, editing brief, corrections and final Studio export. Processing and review time depend on your episode and the work requested.
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Upload the recording, direct the cleanup and review the preview. Account creation and uploads are free; editing requires a subscription.
Create an account →What the Agent Handles
Describe the requested work in chat, then check the timeline and preview to confirm the result. The silence, filler, and retake cleanup is the core of a podcast edit, and the cuts and cleanup docs walk through it request by request.
The Workflow
Upload the raw recording
Upload the recorded podcast video in MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV or WebM, within both limits of 14 GB and 3 hours. Let the initial source analysis finish before reviewing the edit.
Describe the episode you want
Describe the target length, pacing, caption style and passages to protect. Supply guest spellings and a theme track if needed. Treat a duration target as a preference when meeting it would remove essential context.
Review like a listener
Listen to the preview for flow, tone, clipped syllables, and missing context. Compare each requested change with the resulting passage; recorded edits and the agent summary support review but do not guarantee that the cut is correct.
Refine with notes
"Leave more air after the big answer at 31:00." "Drop the music a touch under the interview." The agent applies each note to the cut.
Export, then ask for clips
Create the final episode MP4 in Studio. Select individual excerpts or multiple story arcs for child clip projects, then finish the captions, framing and edit in each child. Review and export each final clip separately in Studio.
Why Transcript Accuracy Decides the Edit
Transcript word timings help locate spoken passages, but transcription and alignment can be imperfect. After filler removal, listen to the words on both sides of the join. Widen a boundary or restore a passage when speech is clipped or the pacing feels rushed.
For retakes, specify the intended read and check that an apparent repetition is not an important correction. The transcript is editable: fix a misheard name, then inspect the resulting captions and their timing. A text correction does not change the spoken audio. The timeline and transcript docs cover the panel, and the captions docs cover styles — color, size, position, karaoke word-pop, and fade, pop, or slide-up animations.
Music and Levels — What It Does and Doesn't
Upload your theme track up to 50 MB and request its range, fades and level under the conversation. Valmera supports audio-layer gain and ducking. Listen to the preview, especially quiet answers and transitions; a configured ducking operation is not proof that the mix is balanced.
Valmera does not provide denoise, audio restoration or independent speaker balancing within a single source track. If one microphone is distorted or much quieter than another, prepare those source repairs in a suitable audio tool. The audio and music docs cover the ducking and gain controls in detail.
Example Requests to Copy
Multiple selected arcs can become separate child clip projects. Open each child to finish its edit, captions and framing, then review and export its final MP4 in Studio. Account creation and uploads are free, but agent editing requires a subscription. If you publish weekly, the Creator plan is $15/month with 1,000 monthly credits.
Review Your Episode Edit
Request the cleanup, check the preview and refine the conversation. Account creation and uploads are free; a subscription is required to edit.
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Edit Your Podcast with Valmera
Finished, captioned episodes from plain-English requests. Account creation and uploads are free; a subscription is required to edit.
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