AI Prompts for Editing Podcast Clips

Before you copy a prompt

Start with the source recording and choose the workspace for the job. Replace every bracketed placeholder with words or details from your episode.

• Open Make Clips / Social Clips to generate candidate moments from an uploaded episode. Choose a target length: Auto, 15–30 seconds or 30–60 seconds.
• Review the generated candidates and their source boundaries. Open a selected clip in the full editor for more timeline controls and follow-up editing requests.
• In the full editor, work with the footage available in that project. If a preceding question is missing from the selected clip, return to the source and adjust the boundary rather than expecting missing audio to be invented.
• Specify the audience, topic and destination. Prefer a complete answer over forcing an arbitrary duration.
• Listen to the result, check qualifications, correct names and inspect the framing before export.

Six usable prompt cards

Adapt these request templates to the footage in your editor. Clip generation and full-editor revisions are separate steps; check the actual result after each change.

Prompt A: Describe the idea you want to keep

Use this when the relevant episode or passage is available in the full editor. For automatic candidate generation, start in Social Clips instead.

Prompt B: Edit a passage I have already selected

Use this prompt when you already know the start and end words of the quote you want to extract.

Prompt C: Restore missing context

First check whether the preceding question is available in this project. If it is outside the clip, return to the episode source and extend the selection.

Prompt D: Tighten pacing while preserving a conversation

Use this prompt to remove long silences and stutters between host and guest without sounding robotic.

Prompt E: Make captions easier to read

Request captions, then check names, terms and placement against the recording. Correct text and styling in the caption controls when needed.

Prompt F: Fix one weak moment

Use this prompt for targeted follow-up revisions without changing the rest of your edited clip.

An illustrative context example

This is a fictional transcript to explain a review decision, not a measured Cubix test or an exported sample.

• Host: "What did you change about onboarding, and do you know whether it helped?"
• Guest: "We simplified the setup instructions. We still need to test whether they are clearer."
• A weak excerpt starts at "We simplified…" and removes the qualification. It would imply a proven outcome that the guest did not claim.
• Keep the relevant setup and the sentence about testing. Request the source question only if its audio is in the project; otherwise extend the clip from the episode.
• Review the actual audio boundaries and captions before publishing. No particular duration or editing result is implied by this written example.