Creating podcast highlights is a fantastic way to engage your audience by offering them bite-sized snippets of your full episodes. These highlights are especially useful for promoting your podcast on social media, YouTube, or teaser clips.
However, the time it takes to create them can vary greatly depending on whether you're doing it manually or using AI tools.
In this blog, we’ll dive into the process of creating podcast highlights without AI versus using AI, the time each method takes, and why AI might be the game-changer you didn’t know you needed.
Without AI: Manual Podcast Highlight Creation
When manually creating podcast highlights, there's a multi-step process that requires both time and attention to detail.
Here’s a breakdown
Watching The Entire Podcast
To pick the best moments, you must listen to the entire episode. For example, for a 45-minute podcast, you’re looking at 45 minutes (at the very least) and additional listening because sometimes you may have to rewind or re-listen to certain parts, which can add more time.
Identifying Key Moments
As you listen, you’ll need to mark timestamps for the key moments you want to highlight. This involves pausing and making notes, which adds time to the process.
This process could take up to 20-30 minutes, depending on how many key moments you find.
Editing the Highlight
After identifying the moments, the next step is trimming those sections and editing them together to make a smooth and engaging highlight. If you’re new to editing, this can take a while.
The time spent on the process could be upto 60- 90 minutes, depending on your editing skills and how well you know the software.
Adding Visuals (Optional)
If you share your highlight on social media or YouTube, you’ll probably want to add visual elements, such as captions or animations. Designing and syncing these can take up more time.
Adding visual elements could take up to 20-30 minutes.
Proofing the Final Product
Before posting, you’ll need to proof the highlight by listening or watching it again to ensure it’s smooth and free from errors.
Proofing would take up to 10-15 minutes.
Total Time (Without AI)
With AI: Streamlined Podcast Highlight Creation
Using AI for podcast highlights can significantly reduce the time and effort involved. AI tools can assist with transcription, identifying key moments, and even automating the editing process.
Here's how you can do it with AI
Automated Transcription
AI tools can transcribe your podcast in minutes, making it easy to skim the content and find key moments. You won't need to view the entire episode anymore.
This would take up to 2-3 minutes for a 45-minute podcast episode.
Highlight Suggestions
Many AI tools can automatically suggest key moments by analyzing the speech patterns, energy, and audience engagement factors.
AI does the heavy lifting here, so it takes 2 minutes.
Auto-Editing
AI-powered platforms can automatically trim and stitch together highlights based on Key moments from your full-length podcast video; you just approve what the AI suggests.
This would only take a minute. All you need to do is review and make any minor adjustments (in case there are any)
Adding Visuals (Optional)
AI tools often offer visual components like auto-generated captions and video effects that sync with your podcast. So no additional time will be spent to attach captions or any effects to your podcast highlights.
This step would take 2-3 minutes and is optional.
Final Proofing
You still need to proof the final product, but AI significantly cuts down on the amount of editing needed.
Since everything is already done, you can spend 2-3 minutes fast-forwarding your podcast highlight clip to check if it has everything you need.
Total Time (With AI):
For a 45-minute podcast, creating a highlight using AI could take 5- 15 minutes.
AI Vs. Manual: The Time-Saving Advantage
From Hours to Minutes: Rizzle AI Transforms Podcast Highlights
Say goodbye to endless editing, and hello to Rizzle! This AI video generator effortlessly extracts the best moments from your videos and creates highlights from your podcast.
Rizzle's THCs feature has a smart scene selection, so you can capture epic moments from your video podcasts without missing a beat.
AI-Powered Clip Creation
Rizzle's video editing software effortlessly extracts the best moments from your video podcasts.
Smart Scene Selection
Capture epic highlights with precision.
Multi-Platform Magic
Perfectly optimized video podcast clips for every social media platform.
Real-Time Preview
Get it right on the first try with instant feedback.
Ready to make your clips shine? Dive into Rizzle and turn your content into must-watch moments with ease!
Transform your podcast recording sessions and editing with Rizzle to make every video podcast clip count on your social media platforms.
Conclusion
Whether you manually create videos or podcast highlights or leverage AI tools, each method has pros and cons. If you're short on time or have a high volume of podcasts to edit, AI tools like Rizzle can save you hours, allowing you to focus on producing more content.
But overall, if you want to streamline the process and quickly create polished, shareable highlights, AI can be a game-changer in the podcasting world.
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