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AI Video Editing for Podcasters

You love the conversations. Nobody loves hunting silences at 11pm. Valmera turns the raw session into a finished, captioned episode — and the promo clips — from a couple of plain-English requests.

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Upload the session, describe the episode, review the result. Free to try.

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The Podcast Post-Production Problem

An evening of editing per episode
Silences and umms by hand
False starts and repeated takes
Captions as a separate chore
Clips need yet another tool
Outsourced editing bills you every week

Every one of those line items is either work the agent does from a description or a bill it replaces. The silence, filler, and retake cleanup is the heart of a podcast edit — the cuts and cleanup docs walk through it request by request. The weekly grind becomes: record, request, review, publish.

The Valmera Workflow for Shows

1

Upload the session

The full raw recording as a video file — MP4, MOV, MKV, or WebM, up to 2GB. No pre-trimming needed.

2

Send your standing brief

The same request every week: silences, fillers, repeated takes, captions. Write the wording once, paste it every episode.

3

Review like a listener

The agent did the mechanical pass. You check flow and tone — and if the transcript misheard a guest's name, fix the sentence in the editable transcript panel and the captions re-render.

4

Ask for the promo clips

Vertical 9:16 clips of the strongest moments, captioned and hook-first — one clip per request, from the same upload.

5

Export and publish

Clean MP4s rendered from your original full-quality file. Episode day stops being edit day.

The review step leans on the editable transcript and the visual timeline — the timeline and transcript docs cover both. For theme music, upload your own track (up to 50MB) and the agent handles volume and ducking so it never fights the conversation; the audio and music docs have the details.

Requests Podcasters Actually Send

The weekly edit
This is episode 42, a 58-minute interview. Cut the silences and filler words, remove the false starts where we restarted answers, and add clean captions. Keep the conversation natural — don't over-tighten.
Promo clip
From this episode, make a 45-second vertical clip of the most quotable moment. 9:16, karaoke captions, hook first.
Intro music
I've uploaded our theme track. Put it under the first 25 seconds at low volume, fade it out as the interview starts, and keep our voices clearly on top.

The clips request is a workflow of its own — turning long episodes into clips covers picking moments and caption styles. The Free plan's 20 daily credits are enough to try all three requests on a real episode; a weekly show fits the Plus plan at $20/month for 800 monthly credits.

Get Episode Day Back

Record the conversation. Describe the episode. Publish. Free tier — 20 daily credits.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Upload the raw session, describe the episode — "cut the silences and filler words, drop the repeated takes, add captions, keep it natural" — and the agent returns a finished episode. Follow-up messages handle your notes, then the same footage produces vertical clips for promotion. Every reply is checked against what the system actually did, so the agent can never claim an edit it didn't make.
Yes — long raw sessions are the core use case. Uploads go up to 2GB (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM), analysis runs once per upload — longer files take longer, and progress is visible while it runs — and then the agent works through the whole recording: silences, filler words, false starts and repeated takes, and captions built from the word-level transcript.
Yes. Send the same standing request each episode — the exact wording that got last week's episode right — and refine once with follow-ups. The notes you give carry the sound and feel you want into a repeatable brief you paste every week.
Ask after the main edit — one clip per request: "a 45-second vertical clip of the best moment, 9:16, karaoke captions, hook first." Repeat the request for each moment you want; promotion comes from the same upload.
Yes. Pick something from the built-in royalty-free library — 24 tracks across eight moods — or upload your own file up to 50MB. Either way the agent lays it under the episode with volume control and smooth ducking, so the music dips whenever someone speaks and swells back in the gaps.
Fix it yourself in the editable transcript panel — correct the sentence and the captions re-render from your correction. The transcript is word-level (Deepgram nova-3, with whisper as fallback), so caption timing stays accurate after the fix.
Every account includes 20 free daily credits plus a one-time 150-credit welcome bonus. Plus is $20/month for 800 monthly credits; Pro is $50/month for 2,400. Edits charge credits in proportion to the actual AI work in each turn, so a simple cut costs just a few credits.

Podcast Post-Production, Solved

Finished episodes and promo clips from plain-English requests. Free tier available.

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