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AI Video Editing for Social Media Managers

The calendar wants daily video; the day has the same 24 hours. Valmera turns one source recording into a week of platform-ready posts — every deliverable a brief, not an editing session.

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One recording in, a batch of platform-ready clips out. Free to try.

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The Daily-Video Problem

Every platform wants native format
Captions on everything, always
Editing queue longer than the calendar
Brand look drifts across posts
Trends move faster than production
One person, five accounts

Agentic editing changes the unit of work: a post costs a two-sentence brief and a review, so volume stops being a production problem and goes back to being a strategy question. The mechanics of pulling many posts from one recording are covered step by step in turning long videos into clips.

The Weekly Workflow

1

Collect the week's source

The podcast episode, the webinar, the founder ramble, the product shoot — whatever the org already produced.

2

Brief clip by clip

One clip per request: platform, length, moment, caption style. Reuse the standing brief below, swapping the moment and format each time.

3

Review as you go

Each request returns one clip's preview. Notes are messages — "start on the question", "captions bigger" — then brief the next clip.

4

Export per platform

9:16, 1:1, 4:5, or 16:9 — reframed by crop, pad, or blurred-pad. Each format is a quick follow-up request, not a fresh edit.

5

Schedule and move on

The calendar fills from one recording. Your afternoon goes to strategy, not scrubbing.

Briefs Social Managers Actually Send

Weekly batch
This 40-minute founder interview is this week's source — five clips total, one at a time. Start with clip one: a 30-second Reel in 9:16 of the strongest moment, hook first, XL yellow karaoke captions, silences and filler words removed. I'll brief the next clip after I review this one.
Trend-jack post
Cut a 20-second 9:16 vertical clip of the demo moment at 12:15. Cut every pause so it feels fast, XL captions with the pop animation, then generate a bold 'Link in bio' end-card image and splice it in as the last two seconds.

Consistency Without a Brand Kit

Valmera does not store logos, fonts, or saved templates — consistency comes from one standing brief per client, reused every week. The brief pins down the caption style (color, size from S to XL, bottom/middle/top position, the karaoke word-pop style), the target aspect ratios, and the music track you upload with the project (up to 50MB, auto-ducked under speech). For branded end frames, have the agent generate an end-card image — a full-frame still spliced in as the last seconds of the clip.

At posting volume, the honesty layer is the quiet workhorse: every agent reply is checked against what was actually edited, so it can never claim a change it didn't make. Steady single-brand posting fits the $20/month Plus plan (800 monthly credits); multi-account volume fits Pro at $50/month for 2,400.

One Recording. A Week of Posts.

Brief the batch, review the previews, schedule. Free tier — 20 daily credits.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Take the week's source material — a podcast, webinar, founder interview, or product shoot — and brief the agent per deliverable: platform, length, hook, caption style. Each post is a request, not an editing session.
Yes. The same footage becomes a 9:16 Reel, a 1:1 or 4:5 feed post, and a 16:9 cut, each with platform-appropriate captions. Reframing works by crop, pad, or blurred-pad — you tell the agent what to keep in frame ("crop to 9:16 and keep the speaker centered"); it does not automatically track a moving subject.
There is no saved brand-kit library, so consistency comes from a standing brief you reuse per client: caption color, size, and position, the karaoke word-pop style, the music track you upload with the project (up to 50MB), and the target aspect ratios. Paste the same brief every week and the clips come out consistent.
With editing reduced to briefs and reviews, a single manager can ship daily video across several accounts — the bottleneck moves back to strategy, where it belongs. The honesty layer helps at volume: every agent reply is verified against the edits actually made, so a quick preview check replaces a full re-watch.
Free is 20 credits every day (they reset daily) plus a one-time 150-credit welcome bonus. Plus is $20/month for 800 monthly credits and Pro is $50/month for 2,400. Each edit charges credits in proportion to the AI work in the turn, so a simple caption or trim request costs a few credits.

Run Your Calendar on Valmera

Platform-ready video at posting volume, from plain-English briefs. Free tier available.

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