# Long form first, then the clips

Story / Test and publish / Posting. Checked 2026-11-13.

The shorts come from the best moments, already found.

- Use when: Teams that make long videos and shorts from the same footage.
- Phrase: cut the finished long video first, then clip the shorts from that cut
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/publish/long-form-first
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/publish/long-form-first.json

## Watch out

- A head of content's reason: editors given 40 hours of raw footage did not send back the best clips, so they now get the finished 15-minute cut, without titles or music. (practitioner; Director Chair notes on Paid UGC on performance (Hector Serrano, Wispr Flow))

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
Give me a step-by-step plan I can follow this week, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is long form first, then the clips: the shorts come from the best moments, already found. How it works: cut the finished long video first, then clip the shorts from that cut. It is right for: teams that make long videos and shorts from the same footage. A head of content's reason: editors given 40 hours of raw footage did not send back the best clips, so they now get the finished 15-minute cut, without titles or music. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
```

## Goes well with

- Pain, prize, news: https://directorchair.ai/script/pain-prize-news
- 60-second script: https://directorchair.ai/script/script-60s

## Source

Own words from Director Chair notes on Paid UGC on performance (Hector Serrano, Wispr Flow)

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.