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Finding the narrative inside hours of raw interview material.
A long interview transcript can look like a collection of unrelated conversations. The structure is often already there — it's just buried inside the material.
When editors think about transcripts, they often think about search. Analyzed as editorial material, they can reveal much more than a word to jump to.
Interviews contain experiences, not stories. Here is how professional documentary editors discover narrative structure by connecting ideas across interviews before building the timeline.
Story producers discover the story; video editors transform it into an experience. Here's how the roles differ and why documentary workflows need both.
AI is changing how stories are produced, not replacing editors. It accelerates story discovery by organizing interviews, themes, and relationships before editing begins.
Story discovery is how documentary editors find the narrative hidden inside hours of interviews—before a paper edit exists, before the timeline opens, and before any clip moves.
Story producing is the discipline of finding a story inside raw material. Here is how to identify themes, conflict, and character arcs in interview footage before the edit begins.
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