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How I Make YouTube Videos in Half the Time (5-Step System)
A 16-minute walkthrough of the AI-assisted five-step production system that cuts monthly content work from eight days to four.
June 30thThe argument in one line.
A live stream and its YouTube replay are two different videos for two different audiences, and six specific edits, now automatable with a Claude-generated cut sheet, turn a warm-audience live into a replay built for cold strangers.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- You go live on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or YouTube regularly and currently let the recording sit unused or post it as-is.
- You run a YouTube channel alongside a live show and want a repeatable way to turn each live into a separate piece of cold-audience content.
- You use Claude or ChatGPT for editing-adjacent tasks and want a concrete workflow for turning a transcript into an edit plan.
- You have a backlog of old recorded lives, webinars or sessions sitting in a drive that you've never repurposed.
SKIP IF…
- You've never gone live and have no recorded footage to repurpose. This is a repurposing workflow, not a video-production tutorial from scratch.
- You're looking for camera, lighting or recording setup advice. The video is entirely about post-production and packaging.
The full version, fast.
A recorded live stream and the YouTube replay built from it serve two different audiences: the live nurtures people who already follow the creator, while the replay is what YouTube tests in front of total strangers. Six mistakes quietly kill that replay: leaving in the live intro, the housekeeping chatter, an unplanned structure, the live title, the live event-banner artwork, and expired live calls to action. The fix is to plan a beginning-middle-end structure before going live, then cut with a text-based editor like Descript or Riverside, using an AI-generated cut sheet built from a timestamped transcript to flag what to remove before a human reviews it. Package the result with a new title, a new thumbnail and an evergreen call to action.
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00:00 – 01:51
01 · Why the replay matters
Sets up the core claim: most creators let the live recording sit unused, but repurposing it onto YouTube is the one way to reach cold strangers without recording anything new.
01:51 – 03:14
02 · Cold audience vs warm audience
Defines the temperature spectrum in marketing terms: a warm audience already trusts the creator and is likely to buy, a cold audience has never heard of them.
03:14 – 04:34
03 · How YouTube tests a cold video
Explains that YouTube pushes a new upload to strangers first and expands distribution based on how well it performs, which is why even modest 100-130 view averages compound into real reach over 52 videos a year.
04:34 – 05:41
04 · The six mistakes that kill replays
Frames the rest of the video: any recorded live, talk or guest session can become a YouTube video, but six specific habits stop the replay from working on a cold audience.
05:41 – 07:14
05 · Mistake 1: leaving in the live intro
The live-only chat banter and warm-up has to be cut; the replay should start at the first interesting sentence because the first five seconds decide whether a stranger stays.
07:14 – 09:24
06 · Mistake 2: leaving in housekeeping
Tech checks and chat prompts that work live read as dead air to someone with no chat to respond to; the dinner-party-versus-blind-date analogy explains why cold viewers are less forgiving.
09:24 – 12:06
07 · Mistake 3: not restructuring the video
The fix starts before the live even happens: plan a beginning-middle-end structure with an evergreen call to action, so editing becomes trimming instead of reconstructing the video from scratch.
12:06 – 19:22
08 · Mistakes 4-6: titles, thumbnails and live CTAs
The replay needs its own title built for search and cold comprehension, its own high-contrast YouTube thumbnail instead of the dated event banner, and every expired live call to action cut out.
19:22 – 26:17
09 · Building a cut sheet with Claude
Demonstrates feeding a timestamped transcript to a Claude skill that returns a strikethrough cut sheet, then applying those cuts manually in Riverside's text-based editor.
26:17 – 28:13
10 · New title, thumbnail and publishing
Closes the loop: ask AI for a cold-audience title and thumbnail, publish, and let YouTube test the replay against strangers, with her own channel's 10%+ member conversion as proof it works.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- A live stream nurtures the people who already follow you, but a repurposed replay is what gets cold strangers to discover you for the first time.
- YouTube tests every new upload in front of people who have never seen the creator before, so a replay dressed for a cold audience gets pushed further than one still speaking to the live chat.
- Posting 52 repurposed lives a year, even at a modest 100-130 views each, adds thousands of first-time viewers who were never reachable through the live stream alone.
- The single biggest edit is cutting everything before the first interesting sentence, because the first five seconds decide whether a stranger stays or leaves.
- Housekeeping banter that works live, like asking people to drop a 1 in the chat, reads as dead air to someone watching later with no chat to reply to.
- Planning a beginning-middle-end structure before going live turns editing into trimming instead of reconstructing the whole video from scratch.
- A live title can lean on inside references because the audience already knows the host; a replay title has to work as cold search intent with zero context.
- Event-banner thumbnails carrying a date and time are built to sell attendance at a moment; YouTube thumbnails have to win a stranger's attention with no context at all.
- Live calls to action expire with the event they were tied to, so a replay needs a call to action that still makes sense weeks or months later.
- Text-based editors like Descript and Riverside let you delete a word in the transcript and the matching video frame is cut to the millisecond, replacing manual scrubbing.
- An AI cut sheet built from a timestamped transcript can mark an entire live intro and the housekeeping block for deletion before a human ever opens the editor.
- A creator converted more than 10% of a sub-800-subscriber YouTube channel into paying members, with most of those subscribers discovered cold through repurposed replays.
Six mistakes separate a dead replay from a cold-audience magnet
WHAT TO LEARN
A live stream and its YouTube replay are two different videos for two different audiences, and the gap between them comes down to six fixable habits, now largely automatable with an AI-built cut sheet.
02Cold audience vs warm audience
- A warm audience already knows, likes and trusts the creator, so they're primed to buy; a cold audience doesn't know the creator exists yet and has to be won from zero.
- A live stream nurtures the warm audience because it only reaches people already following and notified about the event.
03How YouTube tests a cold video
- YouTube distributes every new upload to a sample of people who've never seen the creator before, then expands reach based on how that cold audience responds.
- Even a modest average of 100-130 views per video compounds: 52 repurposed lives a year brings in thousands of first-time viewers the live stream alone never reaches.
04The six mistakes that kill replays
- Any recorded live, guest session, or talk can become a replay; what breaks it isn't the source, it's six specific habits carried over from the live format.
05Mistake 1: leaving in the live intro
- The first five seconds of a video decide whether a stranger keeps watching, so the replay should start at the first genuinely interesting sentence, not the live welcome.
- Chat prompts and warm-up banter that work live give a cold viewer FOMO for a conversation that no longer exists, instead of pulling them in.
06Mistake 2: leaving in housekeeping
- Tech checks and 'can everybody hear me' banter that feels normal live reads as dead air once the live chat is gone and there's no one left to respond to it.
- Cold viewers are less forgiving of waffling because they have no existing goodwill toward the creator; they judge the video purely on whether it delivered what the thumbnail promised.
07Mistake 3: not restructuring the video
- Planning a beginning-middle-end structure, intro, key points, call to action, before going live turns editing into trimming instead of rebuilding the video from scratch afterward.
- The strongest point shouldn't sit forty minutes into a replay; restructuring means pulling the best material forward so the arc holds a cold viewer.
- A live call to action tied to a specific date, like a webinar, expires; replace it with something evergreen that still makes sense weeks later.
08Mistakes 4-6: titles, thumbnails and live CTAs
- A replay needs its own title, different from the live title, geared toward search and understandable to someone with zero context on the creator.
- Live event-banner artwork is built to sell attendance at a date and time; a YouTube thumbnail has to win a stranger's attention with high contrast and a chunky, swirl-free font, no context needed.
- Any call to action tied to a live-only moment, like asking viewers to comment where they're tuning in from, has to be cut from the replay entirely.
09Building a cut sheet with Claude
- A text-based editor like Descript or Riverside lets you delete a word in the transcript and the matching video frame is cut to the millisecond, replacing manual timeline scrubbing.
- Feeding a timestamped transcript to an AI skill returns a cut sheet with strikethroughs marking exactly what to remove, built around finding the video's spine: beginning, middle, end.
- A human still has to review the cut sheet before applying it, in case the AI strikes out a tangent or story that was actually worth keeping.
10New title, thumbnail and publishing
- Once the cut sheet is applied, the replay still needs a new, cold-audience title and thumbnail before it publishes, since those are what gets a stranger to click at all.
- A creator who converted more than 10% of a channel under 1,000 subscribers into paying members, with most of those subscribers found cold through repurposed replays, is the proof the workflow compounds.
Terms worth knowing.
- Cut sheet
- A document, generated here by an AI skill from a timestamped transcript, that marks which sections of a video to cut before a human applies the edits in a text-based editor.
- Cold audience
- People who have never encountered the creator before and have no existing trust or context, as opposed to a warm audience already following them.
- Text-based video editor
- An editor like Descript or Riverside where deleting words in a transcript automatically cuts the matching video frames, instead of scrubbing and trimming on a timeline.
- Event banner
- A thumbnail format used for scheduled live streams that includes the date and time of the event, distinct from a standard YouTube video thumbnail.
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10:43productThe Solopreneur Show members area
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“Your first five seconds are the most important in the whole video. That is your hook.”
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“These days, guys, there is no flipping excuse. It is so easy to edit.”
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“I'd probably leave out conceptual stuff like avatar interview and be a bit more Ron Seal and a bit more straight to the point.”
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“Two weeks later, you're going on a blind date and you turn up and you serve up that same messy platter.”
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“I'm currently up to 800 and something subscribers. I have converted more than 10% of those into my membership.”
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I know a lot of people that go live on Facebook, maybe LinkedIn, maybe Instagram, maybe even YouTube, and then they leave it at that. They've done their live stream. It's one part of their content creation process.
And I'm here to tell you that if you're going live, you absolutely, absolutely need to be putting your live stream replays on YouTube. Because what's going to happen with a live that you... go live that is to serve your warm audience people that know you already that are already following you that are seeing your live stream notification and seeing your promotion that you're going live etc those people the live stream is brilliant to nurture them however there is a strategy that is killer that is going to enable you to get from that live stream a stream of cold people finding you that you have never been discovered by before without you needing to record any extra content other than doing your live streams.
And that is by repurposing them and posting them onto YouTube as a normal YouTube video. However, they're very different and they need packaging in different ways. And so what I'm going to go through with you today is how to do that really well.
And if you've never come across me before, if you are watching the packaged version of this live. Hi, my name is Cordelia. I run a YouTube channel called The Solopreneur Show and I have a live show every single week.
I have converted 10 % of my subscribers over on that channel. And I specialize in using live events to convert a warm and mighty. audience.
What you won't see on my channel is loads of vanity metrics that I can just feel great about. It is ugly metrics, the low numbers, but behind the scenes, there are high conversion rates. And those are the numbers that I care about most.
So let's get into it. Just in case you don't know about temperature when it comes to marketing, there is a difference between a cold audience and a hot audience. And this difference is significant in terms of...
It's literally strangers versus your best friends. A cold audience of people that don't know you. So therefore they don't like you.
They've never heard of you. They don't trust you. They might be aware of their problem.
They don't know that you're the solution to their problem. They have no idea who you are. And a hot audience or even a warm audience, they know you.
They probably like you and trust you because otherwise they wouldn't be following you or listening to you. They are likely to be aware of their problem because otherwise they wouldn't be following or listening to you. And they're aware that you're the solution to their problem and they're quite likely to buy.
Okay. Now, live stream is amazing for nurturing those people because live stream is going to most likely be seen by the people that are already following you. For the reasons that, number one, when you go live, notifications go out to people that are already following you.
And if you do what I do and promote the fact that you're going live, your audience are notified. And if it so happens to be a topic that they're interested in, because everything's a test, who knows, they're going to come and join. the live stream and watch the live episode.
However, when we take that live and we repurpose it and we put it out as a YouTube video, we want to be thinking cold audience because what's going to happen is YouTube will push that video for you. Thank you, Google. And are going to test it in front of a cold audience, people that have never come across you before and see how well it fares.
And if it does well, I'll push it in front of more and more. And that's how YouTube videos get. thousands of views, hundreds of views.
Now, even if you're only getting 100 views per video, my views are quite modest. I've got a couple of videos that have done 2000 views, and I've got a few that have got just a few hundred, and a few that have got 100. And so on average, I probably get 130 views per video, and then there's a few that spike.
However, They are all cold people. They're people that have never seen me before.
And if I do lots of these videos, if I do one per week, there's 52 videos going out per year that are bringing at least 100 new people into my world that have never come across me before. And I'm gaining subscribers. And slowly but surely, it's increasing.
And I did talk about a couple of weeks ago, I will link you in on this video up here, right top right hand corner to a video that I did teaching you how I am monetizing my YouTube channel if you're interested in that. But I'm not going to go into that today.
What I'm going to go into is how to then get that live stream and make it so it's good enough to attract cold people to your channel. Because there are a few mistakes that people make when they repurpose live streams. I'm going to go through those.
And I'm also going to go through my cheat strategy for... taking that live stream and converting it into something that is ready for the cold ones. Makes me feel, I am a Twilight fan.
That makes me think of Twilight. For the cold ones who have never come across you before as a great attraction and discovery piece for them to come and want to get involved in your channel. And then of course, see your future lives.
The six mistakes that kill live stream replays as replays. So you get your live stream, you join your live, and your live stream could be anything by the way. It could be you delivering a talk.
It could be... you doing a session into someone else's community or like live course you've been invited in as a guest expert to deliver a session they let you keep the recording it could be you just going live on facebook to share some knowledge some expertise some content right it doesn't matter like it could be a number of things it doesn't have to be a live show although it could be and if you want to talk live shows then i'm your girl um but i would say the The number one mistake that people make when repurposing is keeping in the live intro.
Now, when you go live, you're talking to the people that are watching on the live stream and you want to do that. You want to be chatting with them. You don't want to live stream what looks like just an evergreen pre -recorded video because that's the wrong format.
You want to be chatty, having conversations with people in the chat, like asking them questions, getting them to get involved, and just basically... keeping this an interactive experience. Because if you do that with your lives, what's going to happen is that people will show up for them because they like to be involved in that.
But the problem is, if you deliver that to a cold audience that have never met you before, that weren't involved, they've missed the party now, they weren't there. They're not interested in putting in their live into the chat. In fact, the chat's gone.
It doesn't exist now. You're asking them to put things into something that doesn't exist anymore. And so they're not going, it's not the best user experience and they're not going to want to watch it because if anything, it'll give them FOMO.
They'll wish they were there live and they weren't. So nevermind, scrap that, move on. So you want to cut your live stream to the first interesting sentence or where you start sharing.
the goods, not, hey, welcome to the show. Remember your first five minutes. Five minutes?
Whoa, that was generous. Your first five seconds are the most important in the whole video. That is your hook.
That is going to be whether people watch it or walk away. And that is going to tell the algorithm. If you've got strangers watching and staying for your video, that is going to do good for your video getting circulated further.
So that live intro. It's got to go, my friend. It has got to go.
Cut it out and start the video at the most interesting sentence. The second mistake people make is leaving in the housekeeping. There is always a bit of housekeeping when you're live.
Sometimes you're commentating your tech issues. So if you're anything like me, sometimes you are like saying, oh, hello to the people on Instagram or, you know, I don't know. Can everybody hear me?
drop a one in the chat if you're this or that and so that housekeeping has also got to go nobody wants to watch a video that's got housekeeping in it we want to make sure that the video is tight and tidy so that it's going to deliver the promise that people clicked on it for because that's the difference between a live and an evergreen video is that alive is like offering this live environment where you can come and be a part of me sharing the content the one that you're putting out on youtube the edited version, the evergreen version, that is going to be packaged up in a way that delivers a promise.
And the cold people that are going to watch that are less forgiving of you waffling or you sharing your housekeeping because they don't know you. And they are going to judge your video based on whether it gave them what they clicked on it for. And so you want to keep that tight and tidy so that it delivers the promise.
And then that will of course, make them want to learn more from you. And then once they've got to know you a bit, well, then they'll be getting involved in the messy lives, perhaps.
It's a bit like and cooking up some stuff and just not really worrying too much about how everything looks. You just plate up this messy platter. It's your friends.
They're not going to judge you. They love you. They're coming around for this dinner party because they want to hang out.
And then two weeks later, you're going on a blind date and . It's just not going to have the same effect because the endearment that they have towards you is not there. They're less forgiving.
They're going to be relying on a first impression and the messy platter isn't going to give them the first impression. So we're going to tidy it up to deliver it to the blind date, the person that's never met you before. We want to win them over.
We want to show them that we are someone that's worth following. Okay, number three, not restructuring your video. Now look, here's the tip.
The biggest tip I could give you is think ahead of your live stream. with the replay in mind and think about creating a structure for it that will then be able to be the structure for the evergreen one. If you just turn up and deliver a live and it kind of goes all over the place and that's just how it ended up, maybe it's not gonna work for an evergreen video because it doesn't have an argument or a specific talking point or promise.
But if you just put a bit of thought into it ahead of and think, okay, beginning, middle and end, which is literally. introduction in terms of relate to the audience. Why should they care about this topic?
Why is it for them? is it solving a pain or a problem that they've got is it enabling them to achieve a vision that they have is it well is it going to relate to them because they have this issue too etc you want an intro that's going to relate to them and then your top like your key takeaways in the middle your steps maybe you've got three steps something or you've got a process or a strategy or just just three bullet points that are your main key point an argument and then a call to action and maybe a conclusion i'm not a fan of concluding by doing a revision of everything that was discussed.
I find that a bit wooden and boring, but definitely a call to action. Okay, now they've watched this. What do you want them to do with it?
What next? My call to action is come to the Solopreneur Show members area where I'm going to give you on a step -by -step piece of digital paper where you can follow and implement along. That's my call to action.
What's yours going to be? And this is important too with the call to action. You want that to be something evergreen.
If it's for a webinar on Tuesday, People are watching this in a few weeks. That webinar's gone.
They've missed out. We don't want to give them FOMO. So what could be your call to action evergreen?
And if you need a call to action in the live, well, just work in a wrap up that would work on the evergreen, like something as simple as, thank you so much for watching this video. It's been awesome to have you here. I'll see you on the next one.
There we go. Happy days. You just say that at the end, you can cut out the call to action, slap that on the end.
Boom, you're good. So restructuring. It's a bit of a job if you didn't have a structure in the first place.
So my recommendation is I have a structure to every live and then I go live. And then when I edit, sometimes I'm restructuring, I'm taking some bits out or moving some bits in front. We don't want like the best point to be 40 minutes in.
Try and bring that up a bit and just restructure it a little bit if necessary. But definitely starting with a structure is going to really, really help so that when you come to editing, there is a spine already there. And there's a clear arc for the person watching.
The next biggest mistake. Sadly, I do see a couple of my clients in LivePod doing this. It is on my list of things to tell them about.
Like, come on, guys, we need to not do this. Using the same title for the live as the replay. Reason being, your live and your replay are solving two different problems.
They are two different videos for two different audiences. It's the same video in two different packages for two different audiences. same ideal client but one is cold and one is hot so we want to have the the live title can be it can be a little bit more forgiving in terms of how you word things because it's aimed at your people so long as they know what they're going to get out of it they're likely to come along the replay title you want that to be different from the live number one so that it looks like it's different content posted to youtube if you've already gone live on youtube with your live title Posting an edited version with a different title will do better to demonstrate that this is a different video to your audience and also to the algorithm.
However, there's also a difference in what you want to do with these titles. So a warm audience already know you a little bit and already kind of understand what it is that you do and teach. Whereas a cold audience had never come across you before.
So your cold title needs to be more geared towards search engine optimized and really demonstrating the outcome that they're going to get from watching this video. If I was to do a video on how to teach my avatar interview strategy, which is a market research strategy that also works as a client getting strategy and bringing people into.
a call with you so that you can interview them, find out more about them, do an avatar interview, and then offer your services to them. If I was going to do an episode on that, the live title would probably be something along the lines of the avatar interview strategy that gets you market research and client prospects fast.
Whereas if I was going to do a cold title, I'd probably leave out conceptual stuff like avatar interview and be a bit more Ron Seal and a bit more straight to the point. market research strategy that also gets you clients. So it's just a little bit less me branded and more likely to come up in search results.
Don't worry too much. Just make sure that your edited version of the title is clearly stating what they're going to get from the video and is not in any, like you've left out, leave out like episode 23. That does not belong in an evergreen title.
You might keep that in a live one, but definitely not an evergreen one. And making sure that cold people that have never come across you before, that have no context on what you're about, will get it and understand it in one glance. Number five is similar in the sense that we want to create differentiation, is using the same artwork for the replay that you used for the live.
Now on the live, you might... create some artwork. And by that, I mean the thumbnail that is sharing that there's an event happening.
You might put the title on it. And the reason being when you schedule a live stream on Facebook or LinkedIn and YouTube, it goes out as a scheduled event and an event cover image normally has the title and the date, et cetera. And when you put that out, with your scheduled live stream, that's brilliant because that's telling people there's an event coming up that I can be a part of and we want that.
But when it comes to a YouTube video and we're now editing this and putting it out as a YouTube video, we want to make sure that we are now following the YouTube thumbnail guidelines rather than the event banner guidelines, which are going to stop someone in their tracks in the scroll and show them what they're going to get out of clicking on the video at a glance.
Here are some lives. And you can see these are the live thumbnails. So I've got the date, 11th of August at 11 a .m.
Why I'm leaving school and building my own platform. Live with Cordelia Kate. Okay.
Now, if I show you the YouTube version of that video, it's this one. It doesn't have a date anymore because it's evergreen. And it has a caption here that is designed to just catch your attention and be clickbaity.
And it's different to the title because this isn't going out as an event banner anywhere. This is not an event. This is a thumbnail for a video.
So you want to hook on that thumbnail. That is very clear, high contrast, chunky font, no swirly fonts, no Times New Roman. Sorry, if that's your branding font, it's just not going to work.
But yeah, so nice, chunky font, high contrast, easy to see when it's small. If we zoom right out and look at this one, for instance, you can still read it on a tiny thumbnail. And yeah, so.
That is very different to if you put that on an event banner, people wouldn't know what it means or what it is because it's out of context. But here in YouTube as a thumbnail, it's within context of that being a hook, making sense, and going to actually hook people in. Okay, so, so far, just a little recap.
Top mistakes that people make when repurposing live streams into YouTube videos. Keeping the live intro. Leaving in the housekeeping.
Not restructuring it or structuring it in the first place. Using the live title. Using the live artwork as a thumbnail.
Finally, I actually accidentally covered this one. So we'll be brief. Leaving live CTAs in.
So if you've got any live call to actions, like put a question in the chat where you're tuning in from or any non -evergreen call to actions, such as sign up for an event that is happening on a date. Here's the link. Cut that out.
Now, when I used to live stream every week, I used to do a full blown presentation. every single week into my Facebook group. And it would be live on Zoom, live streaming, and then I'd take the recording and do nothing with it.
Because it was so hard back then to repurpose content. I was really busy. I was running a six -figure business.
I had like 50 clients. I, you know, had a team of five. I was running a networking event.
It was chaotic to say the least. I didn't now have time to start editing this up into other stuff. And getting someone else to do it would be quite expensive because the tools were difficult back then.
I mean, you had to use Rev .com to transcribe videos for a start. You paid by the minute. And then on top of that, cutting things up took ages because you'd have to listen to the video and find like where you feel is like the best place to cut it.
And if the video is an hour, you're going to spend more than an hour because you've got to listen to it, keep rewinding. And I just didn't have time, all the patience to dedicate to that. It was hell on earth, to be quite honest.
All these videos, and there were about 200 of them by the time I was done, were sat in this Google Drive. And then what I did is I used them, actually. I edited every single one of them and put them in a members hub at one point.
And that took weeks just to trim the front and the back. I didn't edit the middle of them. But these days, guys, there is no flipping excuse.
It is so easy to edit because there are two things that create huge shortcuts. Shortcut number one, use a text. based editor not a traditional video editor so Descript was the first text -based editor I used and it is absolutely genius how it works you basically edit the text rather than the video frames and so you can go through and find the parts of the text that you want to cut out for instance you can cut out all of the ums just click click delete and it deletes the um from the video And it takes out to the millisecond the accompanying video that goes with that word, which is amazing because listening for the video frame of where you said, and cutting either side of that, I was just like flipping, man, you need the patience of a saint.
And there are some saints out there. I know they exist, but I am not one of them. And so Descript just changed the game in terms of making editing so much easier because of the text -based editing, which is brilliant.
And Riverside also has a text -based editor. inside it which is brilliant however there's also a way to make this 10 times easier and i am getting you the skill that you can plug into claude that is going to do this for you and a prompt in case you don't use claude so that you can take that prompt and get chat gpt to do this for you and that is a to take your video and the skill what it does and the only thing you need you need a time stamped transcript What we're going to get AI to do is read through this transcript.
Number one, find the spine of the video. So where is the beginning, middle and end, the arc, the thing that is giving us the main point? Where should we cut from?
Where should we cut to? What should we cut out of the middle? Listening for the housekeeping, listening for the live connection commentary, listening for the tech issues, because we want to make it a tight and tidy replay for the cold ones.
And so what this is going to do is then create you a document. that has the full -time transcript with strikethroughs on it for what sections to delete in order to make this a really tight and tidy document but first it needs to know what to cut what the priority is of what to keep in what to take out what's important what's not important and you want to keep a human in the loop to just give that a read over to make sure it hasn't accidentally cut out a story that was a bit of a rabbit hole that actually would be good to keep in is going to add something to the video.
So we're going to use Claude to do this cut sheet. In this example, I'm going to head over to here where I have got a timestamped transcript. I'm going to copy that and then just paste that into Claude.
Now what I need to do is get the prompt that's going to go with the transcript so that Claude knows what I want it to do with this transcript. So I'm going to head into the Solopreneur Show members area and then go to Claude's skills. And down here we have the live to evergreen cut sheet skill.
If I download this, what I'm going to do is install this as a skill inside Claude, and then Claude is going to know exactly what to do with it. So just be careful when you're uploading skills from people you don't know. I don't know if you know me.
If you know me, then you feel safe. If you don't know me, then do your due diligence and make sure you read the prompt because some people have been putting malicious instructions into skills. And this is, I promise you, absolutely safe, of course, but just do your due diligence when in.
putting skills from people you don't know. Okay. So I'm going to upload that skill.
You can have a little read of the prompt and see, you know, what it's asking it to do. But essentially what we're going to do is come into, we can then do the forward slash and search for cut live to evergreen cut sheet. There it is.
And press enter. There we go. I'm going to use Opus 5 .5.
So that is going to go through this now and this transcript and basically find the areas in which we want to cut. And meanwhile, I'm going to show you over in Riverside. I'm currently uploading the video so that I can show you what it looks like in the editor to edit with text.
Now, a client of mine, if you're super techie and you feel like... trying this has used an mcp between claude and riverside to connect riverside to claude and then apparently claude code can just go in and do the cuts for her um so it creates the cut sheet and then does the cuts so she doesn't have to go in and do it i'm going to show you more of a manual method first and then if you want to explore by finding out how to do that just talk to claude code and um claude will know how to do that we'll figure it out so here we are in riverside And you can see that we have the transcript here that is going to basically enable us to go through and know what to cut where.
But the cool thing about text editing video editors is that all I have to do is highlight a bit of text and then press delete. And it removes that from the video. And you can still see and restore it.
You can still see where it was, but, you know, it's been taken out. It just completely cut that bit out. Obviously, if I then put that back.
and talk to you about marketing this amazing business. So you can, you can literally take out ums. Just then I said, you can, you can, that was something that I can take out.
If you accidentally said something twice, loads of things, but you can also just get a cut sheet from Claude, like the one that we are currently waiting for. Here it is. Okay.
So this is really bloody cool. So you can see that Claude has given us this cut sheet is telling us what to cut where. So what I would probably do is have two tabs sharing side by side.
I can't do that whilst I'm screen sharing, but we can see it starts here with hello. Okay. So hello, welcome.
And then we've got on the script here. Hello, welcome to the solopreneur show. It's actually saying to cut all of that.
And for everything is cut, cut, cut. I don't think there's anything that isn't cut through up until we get to. And if you are someone who's decided to recently start a YouTube channel, and then so in riverside we're now looking for this um part where it said to cut everything here so i'm gonna do that and press the back button you see that's all been cut from the video and actually i would probably cut the end so it's just starting with if if you are someone who's decided to recently start a youtube channel so claude has decided that that is my hook and all of this stuff up here is a load of guff that needs to be got rid of so that's fine come back into claude um And there's no cuts at all until we get to three minutes into the video.
So what you can do is just look for where three minutes into the video is. So you're then looking for that next part around three minutes in as to where it was and then make that cut and then come back. So it'd be easier if you could split screen and have them side by side so that you can look at them.
But once you're happy with it and you've done it, then you just hit export. Or of course, from Riverside, you can actually just send it directly to YouTube from here, which is really cool. We're going to now dress it up for a cold audience.
So it needs a new title. It needs a new thumbnail. Ask.
AI to help you with this. It's got the transcript. It can help you come up with something good for cold people.
ChatGBT comes up with better things than Claude most of the time. Don't ask me why. And publish to YouTube.
And what's going to happen is that YouTube is then going to test this in front of a cold audience to see how well it does. And you will be bringing people to you that have never come across you before without needing to record any extra content at all. So there we have it.
That is the strategy and the process. I'm going to be putting all of this on a step -by -step for you. here inside the solopreneur show members area if you haven't seen it come and check it out it's really awesome we've got like if you remember msn messenger as a kid i made a chat room that takes me back and brings the nostalgia of that um but there's a chat room there's there's an awesome search that searches the whole the whole platform based on it was an ai search the transcripts of every video is stored in there so it's absolutely loads of knowledge in here for you to tap into.
There are downloadables and show notes for every single episode. There are loads for you to binge and you can grab a free trial. Cost you nothing to get today's extended show notes, which you will find in the link in the description down below.
That's going to take you to go and grab a step -by -step sheet that gives you the full strategy, all the steps, the Claude skill, the chat GPT prompt if you don't use Claude and everything you need to do this really simply and really easy. And honestly, if you've got lives in the bank, Use them, get them out there, share them as YouTube videos, because I'm telling you, you don't know how many people you're going to attract into your business through sharing content this way.
And I wish I was doing this years ago because I've been absolutely baffled by how well this works as a strategy. Like I say, this year I started this channel. I'm currently up to 800 and something subscribers.
I have converted more than 10 % of those into my membership, the Solopreneur Show members area, which was previously a school membership. And I've... converted 10 % of those followers, those subscribers that have come, the majority of them from cold discovering me through the videos I've been posting on YouTube.
Lots of love guys. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day and I will see you very soon.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Most creators treat the live stream recording as a leftover, something to leave sitting in a drive once the live chat goes quiet. Cordelia Kate argues the replay is actually a second, more valuable video, built for an entirely different audience, if you know which six things to cut first.
Named ideas worth stealing.
04:34list
The six mistakes that kill live stream replays
- Keeping the live intro
- Leaving in the housekeeping
- Not restructuring the video
- Using the same title as the live
- Using the same artwork/thumbnail as the live
- Leaving in live calls to action
The full punch list for turning a recorded live into something a cold audience will actually watch, covering both the content and the packaging.
Steal forany workflow that repurposes webinars, guest sessions or recorded talks into standalone YouTube videos
19:22model
The live-to-evergreen cut sheet workflow
- Get a timestamped transcript of the live
- Feed it to the Claude skill (or an equivalent ChatGPT prompt)
- Claude returns a document with strikethroughs marking what to cut
- Review the cut sheet as a human to rescue any worthwhile tangents
- Apply the cuts in a text-based editor like Riverside or Descript
- Write a new cold-audience title and thumbnail
- Publish and let YouTube test it against strangers
The repeatable process the whole video builds toward: transcript in, AI-marked cut sheet out, human review, then a packaged replay.
Steal forturning any long recording (livestream, podcast, webinar) into a tight edit without manually scrubbing the timeline
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
27:02link
“Cost you nothing to get today's extended show notes, which you will find in the link in the description down below.”
Soft, benefit-first close: frames the link as a free extension of the video (the full cut sheet skill, the ChatGPT prompt, the step-by-step) rather than a hard pitch, with the paid membership mentioned only as what the show notes sit inside.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
