> Choose a workflow around your footage, creative direction and the level of manual control the project needs. Source: https://shortyedit.com/solutions/freelance-editors/workflow-selection --- # Find the right starting point for your edit. Choose a workflow around your footage, creative direction and the level of manual control the project needs. ## Bring the story into focus Decide whether the project needs an assembled AI edit or detailed manual control. ## Put your footage to work Start with preferred source takes, a sequence brief, reference traits and the client's fixed requirements. Evaluate the same source set and requirements against the level of precision and review work each workflow needs. ## Start with a prompt like this Create a video for freelance editors using my footage. Decide whether the project needs an assembled AI edit or detailed manual control. Evaluate the same source set and requirements against the level of precision and review work each workflow needs. Use my supplied titles and closing message. ## Shape the next version in chat Watch the edit, collect your feedback and tell Shorty what to change. Supply a preferred shot or exact replacement title when it helps make the direction clear. ## Keep the ideas coming ### More for freelance editors Give Shorty your selected clips and a clear brief. Explore an assembled edit, refine the story and decide where to take it next. ### Explore the workflow For a collection of your own clips, consider Shorty: upload the footage, describe the edit or add a reference, then review a rendered MP4. Captions AI Edit fits a preset style treatment; OpusClip AI Producer fits raw talking-head editing; Descript Underlord combines prompted editing with transcript control. Choose by your source material and test one revision. ### Make the next version Shorty is an AI video editor you can revise by chat. Open an existing edit and describe the change in plain language, such as a new opening, different shot timing or corrected title text, or select an editable title or graphic in the preview and say what should change. Shorty renders a new version to compare with the previous cut. ## Questions, answered. ### What do I need to get started? Preferred source takes, a sequence brief, reference traits and the client's fixed requirements. ### What matters for this video? Use a traditional editor where frame-level manual work is central to the job. ## Your next video starts here. Bring the footage. Tell us the idea. Shape the edit. --- Published by Tools Products FZ-LLC. Canonical HTML: https://shortyedit.com/solutions/freelance-editors/workflow-selection