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Editing documentaries by hand replaced: a 100 to 150 hour edit cut roughly in half

Picked and checked by Olga Pearson, host of The Practical AI Show · Published

Result

self-reported

Over 30 days and 8 projects, an AI agent driving Premiere Pro cut his 20 minute documentary edits from 100 to 150 hours to about half that, and took over 10 to 15 hours of interview cutting, syncing and transcripts per project.

Jude Charles has run a video production company for 20 years, making documentaries for entrepreneurs. From Sept 28 to Oct 28 he tested agentic editing on 8 real projects, with an AI agent working inside Adobe Premiere Pro through an MCP connection. A 20 minute documentary used to take him 100 to 150 hours to edit. He says it now takes about half that. The interview prep work (cutting, syncing and transcripts) used to eat 10 to 15 hours a project and is now handled by the AI. He logged about 106 hours of testing to get there.

Who did it

Jude Charles (@JudeCharles)Video production company (documentaries for entrepreneurs)Jude Charles on X · Oct 28, 2026

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  4. Write down what it got wrong and add those rules to its instructions.
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Sync the interview footage, make transcripts, and build a rough cut of the strongest answers on this timeline. Don't delete any source clips, and list every cut you made with timecodes so I can review it.

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Self-reported by the owner after a 30 day test, and he spent about 106 hours learning the setup first. Keep the story and final cut decisions human, and back up projects before letting an agent touch a timeline. Build it with Page: a simple project intake page where clients upload footage and answer your story questions.

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