Create 30 Days of Clips From Existing Videos (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: You might already have your next month of content sitting in videos you've already recorded. You just haven't found the best moments yet. So today we're turning those recordings into 30 clips scheduled across the next 30 days. And all of this you can get done in under an hour of work. We'll use Claude to search the transcripts for strong hooks and moments worth sharing, then polish and schedule the clips in Riverside. I've already covered connecting Claude to Riverside in another video about MCP, which you can watch right up here. So in this video, we're jumping straight into the workflow. Now you have two ways to start creating content. If you've already recorded in Riverside, you can work with the recordings that are already there. Or if your videos live somewhere else, you can upload those clips into Riverside. You can use a podcast, an interview, a webinar, or a collection of videos you've made over time. For this example, I'm using recordings I've already made with Riverside about video creation. The important thing is having enough useful material. A longer conversation might give you several great clips, while another recording might only have one or two. In this case, the more the better. Normally, this is where you'd start scrubbing through recordings, trying to remember where someone said something interesting. But instead, we're going to ask Claude to search our Riverside transcripts. But if we just go in here and type, find me some clips, that's pretty vague. We'll get more useful results by explaining who the clips are actually for and what makes those moments worth sharing. Here's the prompt that I'm using. Search my Riverside recordings about video creation and identify 30 potential short form clips for beginner creators. Prioritize strong opening hooks, surprising insights, relatable problems, and practical takeaways. Each clip should make sense on its own and ideally be 30 to 60 seconds long. Include the source recording, timestamps, a suggested title, and why the moment could engage viewers. Avoid repetitive topics. Now, this gives Claude a direction beyond simply finding highlights. If you're doing this for the first time, you might have to allow a few things. So just make sure to click allow once or always allow. I also want to mention that all the prompts that I'm going to be giving you in this video, I'll make sure to paste as templates in the description down below so that you can use them yourself. Now, the cool thing about connecting Claude or any MCP with Riverside is that it can search your actual transcripts to find all of this content. So that's exactly what Claude has done here is that it's found all of these pieces of content through the transcripts that are connected to my Riverside account. And all of the content that I've made over the years is right here and popping up in the suggested clips that it's created. And it's broken them down into different categories like planning and workflow, B-roll and storytelling, growth and post mindset. Now, this is a really good starting point and helps us clearly have a guide of where all of this content is coming from and how we can execute on that content. It might be a little overkill, but hey, I'm not complaining. Now, all this information that Claude has given us is fine and dandy, but we want Claude to go even further than that. So let's give it a prompt to give us links to each of the clips that are listed here so that we can review them and potentially edit them in Riverside before we start building our posting schedule. Now, to do that, I'll use this prompt. Create each clip in Riverside in a vertical 9 by 16 format for social media. Apply magic audio and add captions using my branding style. Once you're done, give me a link to each of the videos in Riverside in list format so I can review them. So now it's going to go through all of these clips that it's listed using the timestamps, the reasoning, everything. And it's going to create a list of all those videos that I can click on each link and review them before we start scheduling them out to social media. So once Claude is done processing all this, it comes back with a list of all the different videos that we had right here. It tells us how long each one of them is and even gives us some suggestions of like where they're from or like if some of these clips could be combined or something like that. But all these are links. We can come in and click on one of these and then edit them in Riverside. So, for example, let's go ahead and click on number seven. This is going to pull up Riverside. So now that we have this open in the Riverside editor, see that it's in a nine by 16 format. Let's see if magic audio was applied. Magic audio has been applied. And let's see if we have captions. We do have captions and they are in the format and style that I have. They are in the wrong position. So let's just go ahead and drag this down. I usually put them like right here and it might be a little too big. So let's go down to like right there. I like them to be simple. That's just my style. Now, in the editor, you can make sure that Claude made all the edits that you wanted it to make. If it missed something, we can adjust it or added ourselves really quick. You can also add motion graphics using a template or a custom prompt, add sound effects, music and any other elements that will help us enhance the video for social media. I really want to ignore this part of the process because I can make some mistakes. And of course, you want to review anything before it goes live on your social feed. So like, for example, I can see right here that I repeated this sentence and did another take. So I'm actually just going to highlight this and hit delete. And then I made my little edit and I can also come in and remove silences or filler words. And I can come up to my AI tools and I can do the same thing. I can remove pauses. I can make it a little light so it's not like super choppy. I can remove filler words so I can go ahead and remove those. Looks like there's not any. But I just want to go through and add anything in here that's going to make your edit more interesting for social media and get it ready to post. So once you've gone through this list and check that the clips are to your liking, you don't have to do all 30 right now. Maybe you just do like the first 10. Then we can come in here and get these ready to schedule with Claude. Now, first, ask it to organize the schedule and write the captions. For this, I'm going to use the prompt create a 30 day posting plan for these 30 clips starting on October 19th, 2026. Alternate topics so similar clips don't appear back to back and write a short conversational social caption for each one. Show me the plan before scheduling. We always make sure to say let me look at it before you actually do anything. That way we can review and make sure that everything's working properly. So after a couple of minutes, we have a little schedule that it made for us on the right hand side of the screen here. It has all of our clips in order of posting links to the clip, the topic and the caption. I'll take a few minutes to kind of look through this, but this has everything that we need to review each one of these. What day it's going to be posted on, what category it's under and the caption that it's going to be using for the actual post. Now, after taking a look at the plan and if it's all good to go, then you can tell Claude schedule these clips to my connected Instagram, TikTok and YouTube shorts account in Riverside using the captions we approved. Post one each day at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Use the default export settings. Set YouTube shorts is unlisted. Reels should appear in the main Instagram feed. Now, this is a pretty specific prompt because it'll ask you these follow up questions. But I made sure to include those things in the prompt so you don't have to go through that. Also, if you haven't connected any of your social accounts to the Riverside planner yet, you'll need to do this before you send the prompt. So Claude has access to schedule that content. All right. So Claude is all done here. It's telling me, hey, I scheduled all of this content on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube shorts. So now we can hop into Riverside and take a look at the planner. So in our Riverside studio, I'm going to come over to planner and I can see that it has scheduled all of these clips for each platform starting on the 19th and going all the way to November 17th. So now I have 30 days of content. You can still edit these or make any changes before they go live, but make sure to verify that all the information is correct. Open this up. I can play back the video. I can see this is connected to TikTok. After it's posted, I can even look at analytics and I can see that this is my caption. This is the day it's going to go live. And if I need to, I can come in here, I can say edit posts and I can change anything that I want to hear. You can also change the posting date if you need to make those changes. And just like that, my entire next 30 days of content is here on the calendar, ready to go live. Now, your total time is obviously going to depend on how much footage you're working with and how much customization each of those clips is going to need. But once you get this process set up, it will be a lot easier to do again and again. Also, once those clips start going out, pay attention to which ones connect with your audience. Make sure to engage with the comments and still stay active on that account. That's really important for any type of growth on social media. You can utilize what you learn from those videos and then apply them to the next batch of 30 videos. And that's how you can use Claude and Riverside to make 30 days of content. If you want to turn your recordings into more content with Claude and Riverside, you can use the link in the description to get started. And if you haven't connected Claude to Riverside yet, I'll make sure to link our setup tutorial right up here and in the description down below. Be sure to like this video and subscribe for more content just like this. If you have any questions about this workflow, feel free to leave them in the comments. I'll be happy to answer them personally. Thank you so much for watching, and we can't wait to see what you create.