Edit Plan
Turn a timed transcript into an edit decision list (EDL) plan: tighten a recording, find short clips, or mark chapters.
Cloud feature. Edit Plan runs on Nodaro Cloud. On a self-hosted install, connect your instance to nodaro.ai (Integrations → nodaro.ai, or paste an API key) and the node relays to the cloud; without a connection the node saves on the canvas but cannot run.
Overview
The Edit Plan node reads a timed transcript of a recording and produces an edit decision list (EDL) — a compact, JSON description of an edit that the Apply EDL node renders into a finished cut. Edit Plan reads the transcript (and optional silence ranges), never the pixels, so it plans quickly and cheaply and hands the actual rendering to a downstream node.
It has three modes:
- Tighten — remove silence, filler words and false starts, and emit one EDL that is a cleaned-up version of the whole recording.
- Clips — find the strongest short, shareable moments and emit one EDL per clip. The node’s output fans out, so each clip becomes its own downstream render (wire the output into an Apply EDL node and every clip renders in parallel).
- Chapters — mark chapter boundaries with titles and emit a
{ startMs, title }list.
Because the plan is just data, an agent or you can decide what the edit is; the render happens downstream.
Inputs
| Handle | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcript | json | Yes | The timed, word-level transcript. Wire it from a Transcribe node’s json output. |
| Silence | json | No | Silence ranges from a Silence Detect node — helps the tighten pass cut dead air precisely. |
| Sources | video/audio | Yes | The media the edit draws from (1–6). Each connected source becomes an EDL source; annotate role / speakers / offset per source in the config panel. |
Outputs
| Handle | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EDL | json | The edit plan. Tighten → one EDL object; Clips → a list of EDLs that fans out one downstream render per clip; Chapters → a { version, chapters } object. Wire it into Apply EDL to render. |
Configuration
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | Select | tighten | tighten (clean up the whole recording), clips (find N short clips), or chapters (mark chapters). |
| Tier | Select | standard | Reasoning tier: economy (fastest, cheapest), standard, or premium (highest fidelity). Affects both quality and credit cost. |
| Instructions | Text | – | Free-text steer for the plan (e.g. “keep the intro tight, drop the sponsor read”). |
| Style guide | Text | – | Longer editorial guidance the plan should follow. |
| Clips: count | Number | – | Clips mode only. How many clips to find (1–50). |
| Clips: target length (s) | Number | – | Clips mode only. Target clip length in seconds (5–180). |
| Target aspect | Select | – | Intended delivery aspect (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5) — informs clip framing. |
| Platform | Text | – | Intended platform hint (informs pacing and length). |
promptPrefix / promptSuffix |
text | – | Optional pre/post text wrapped around the instructions at run time (settings panel → Pre & post text; hidden from app users; captured by presets). See Prompt pre & post text. |
Credit Cost
Provisional pricing. The numbers below are placeholders and will be finalized at launch. The Run button always shows the live estimate at the current rate.
Edit Plan is priced per source-minute × tier, plus a flat component for the extra per-clip work in Clips mode. The source duration is rounded up to a bucket (15 / 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 180 minutes) — the credit id carries that bucket.
- Per source-minute (by tier): economy
2, standard4, premium8credits per minute. - Clips flat (by tier, added once in Clips mode only): economy
10, standard20, premium40credits. - Formula:
credits = per_minute(tier) × bucket_minutes + (mode === "clips" ? clips_flat(tier) : 0)
| Example | Bucket | Formula | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tighten · standard · 45-min episode | 60 min | 4 × 60 |
240 |
| Chapters · economy · 20-min episode | 30 min | 2 × 30 |
60 |
| Clips · premium · 90-min episode | 90 min | 8 × 90 + 40 |
760 |
The reserve is taken from the recording’s own duration; on Nodaro Cloud the exact amount is settled against your account.
Common Use Cases
- Tighten a long podcast or interview recording into a clean cut before rendering.
- Auto-find shareable short clips from an episode and render each one in parallel.
- Generate chapter markers with titles for a long-form upload.
Tips
- Wire a Transcribe node’s
jsonoutput into Transcript, and (for tighten) a Silence Detect node into Silence, then wire Edit Plan’s EDL output into an Apply EDL node to render the result. - In Clips mode, one Edit Plan node feeds many renders: the output fans out, so a single Apply EDL downstream renders every clip.
- Use economy tier for a fast first pass; switch to premium for the final plan.