AI doesn’t shoot for you. It transcribes the footage, helps you build a first rough cut, translates the subtitles, and turns the video into short formats. The eye, the pacing, and the choice of what stays in the edit are yours.
AI helps videographers with tasks such as “Log interviews from the transcript,” “Write a video’s script and shot breakdown,” and “Price and write the quote for a video.” Start with a single task, in MacWhisper: allow 20 minutes the first time, and always review the result before you use it.
For each task: how it goes today, then with the tool. And the time it takes the first time.
MacWhisper · Model marked “Speaker Recognition”
TodayThree forty-minute interviews to listen to all the way through to find the ten lines that will make the video: a full day in headphones before the first cut.
With MacWhisperThe outline of each interview and the strong lines with their timecodes, so you go straight to the right spot in your editing software.
Claude · Word file created in the conversation
TodayThe brief is three lines long and the shoot is in ten days. Without an approved breakdown, you overshoot, and the video gets figured out in the edit.
With ClaudeA shot breakdown in a table, scene by scene, and the list of shots to film by location.
ChatGPT · “Chat” mode
TodayThere is always a line item you forget: the music, the vertical versions, the third round of revisions. And your margin pays for it.
With ChatGPTA quote phase by phase, with the revisions included, the rights, and the schedule, plus its cover message.
Also
Descript · Text-based editing, then “Underlord”
A rough cut for the client to approve, before you redo the edit properly in your software.
Descript · “Studio Sound”
A noticeably clearer voice, and the list of passages still to caption or replace.
ElevenLabs · “Text to Speech”
A scratch voiceover timed to the edit: the client approves the script and the pacing before the final recording.
Runway · “Tool,” from an image
A 5- or 10-second shot to cover a cut, disclosed to the client as a generated shot.
DeepL · File translation, with “Glossary”
A translated subtitle file, timed to the same timecodes, and the list of blocks to shorten.
OpusClip · “ClipAnything”
A set of vertical clips, reframed on the speaker and captioned, to rework one by one before delivery.
A revision table in the order of the video, the points to settle, and the summary message to the client.
All 10 use cases on this page are in Nova, each with its steps and its prompt.
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MacWhisper transcribes on your Mac: nothing leaves the device. Once you paste the text into an online assistant, that is no longer true. Listen again to every line you keep: a transcript can distort a word. No Windows version.
Log interviews from the transcriptMacWhisper · Model marked “Speaker Recognition”The prompt to copy
Here is the raw transcript of [three] interviews shot for a video about [topic], with timecodes. Each interview starts with its file name. Don’t rewrite anything. One: the outline of each interview, topic by topic, with the timecode where each topic starts. Two: the fifteen strongest lines, copied word for word, grouped by idea, with the file, the speaker, and the timecode. Three: a proposed story arc for the video in [six] beats, using only those lines. Four: what is missing to tell the story, which will have to be covered with footage or a voiceover. If a passage is unclear or seems badly transcribed, flag it instead of guessing.
In Nova, “My path” starts from your level: one next step at a time.
The first moves, with free tools.
In your jobWrite a video’s script and shot breakdown
In your jobCreate a missing B-roll shot
In your jobPrice and write the quote for a video
For a team: everyone moves forward in their own job. You see the team’s progress, never one person’s activity.
The script and its shot breakdown in a table, spotting the strong lines in a transcript, and sorting client feedback, timecode by timecode.
Recommended planFree to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly), if you use it every day.
It transcribes the footage on your Mac, sends nothing online, separates the speakers, and exports a caption file with timecodes.
Recommended planMacWhisper Free, €0: transcription, speakers, export as text and captions. To export to Word and PDF: MacWhisper Pro, €64, one-time payment.
Build a first rough cut of an interview by striking out sentences in the text, and clean up a voice with “Studio Sound.”
Recommended planFree, $0: 60 media minutes per month and 100 AI credits, granted once. Then: Hobbyist, $16 per user per month, billed yearly.
Turn a video or a filmed event into vertical clips, reframed on the speaker and captioned, which you then rework one by one.
Recommended planStarter, $15 per month, with no annual commitment: no watermark, with the editor. The Free plan, $0, puts a watermark on clips.
Lay a scratch voiceover on the rough cut, to time the edit and get the script approved before recording the final voice.
Recommended planStarter, $6 per month: the Free plan, $0, allows no commercial use and is only good for choosing a voice.
Create the missing B-roll shot from one of your photos: 5 or 10 seconds, to be disclosed to the client as a generated shot.
Recommended planStandard, $15 per month ($12 per month if billed yearly): no logo on videos. To try it: Free, $0, with 125 credits granted once.
Prices taken from the vendors’ official pages, dated on each tool page. These subscriptions are not included in Nova. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.
Nova recommends 6 to start with: Claude, MacWhisper, Descript, OpusClip, ElevenLabs, and Runway. 3 of them can be used for free to get started.
The script and its shot breakdown in a table, spotting the strong lines in a transcript, and sorting client feedback, timecode by timecode. The plan to choose: Free to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly), if you use it every day.
With “Log interviews from the transcript,” in MacWhisper (Model marked “Speaker Recognition”). Allow 20 minutes the first time. The outline of each interview and the strong lines with their timecodes, so you go straight to the right spot in your editing software.
No. Nova is software, not an accredited training provider: it issues no diploma or certification. It costs €19 per month for one person, and €129 per month for a team of up to ten people.