What makes an interview answer clippable
A good interview clip starts with the answer, not the question. It should make sense to someone who never heard what was asked, which usually means the guest restates the premise in the first sentence before going somewhere unexpected. The picker is briefed to look for exactly that: an opening line that frames the idea, a story or an opinion that develops it, and a resolution within sixty seconds. Long rambling answers are trimmed at a sentence end; short ones are extended forward until there is enough for a stand-alone short.
Framing for one or two people
Interviews are shot in two common ways. A single camera on the guest, with the interviewer off screen, suits centre crop perfectly: the guest fills the vertical frame and the captions sit over the lower third. A wide two-shot with both people in frame suits blur-pad, which keeps the full width letterboxed in the middle so neither person is cut off, with a blurred version of the shot filling the space above and below.
If you recorded both angles, upload the guest camera. The picker chooses the same moments either way, but the single-camera version reframes more naturally.
Captions for quiet, considered answers
Interviews often run at a slower pace than commentary, and the default uppercase highlight style can feel loud over a reflective answer. The clean caption style sets the words in sentence case with a dark outline and no highlight, which reads calmly and still works with the sound off. Both styles use the same word-accurate timing from the transcript; only the look changes.
Documentary and research interviews
Not every interview is for a show. Researchers, journalists and documentary teams record long conversations and need short excerpts for review, pitching or social. The same pipeline applies: upload a segment, get back titled clips with transcript excerpts attached, keep everything private by default. Clips are only ever public if you flip the switch, and the source recording is deleted automatically after a day.
- Every clip shows the exact transcript excerpt it covers.
- Clips stay private unless you make them public.
- The uploaded recording is removed after 24 hours.
- Titles are written as hooks, in the language spoken.
Pricing for interview work
A job is forty credits and returns three to five clips from a segment of up to fifteen minutes. A long interview split into four segments is four jobs; the Channel plan covers twenty-five jobs a month, and the one-time Archive Pack covers the same number without a subscription for teams working through a backlog.