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title: text-based video editing
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  **Text-based video editing** is a way of editing a video by editing its
  transcript as text: changes made to the written words drive corresponding
  changes in the video and audio, instead of the editor working directly on a
  media timeline.
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# text-based video editing

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## Definition

**Text-based video editing** is a way of editing a video by editing its transcript as text: changes made to the written words drive corresponding changes in the video and audio, instead of the editor working directly on a media timeline.

**Text-based video editing** is the practice of editing a video by working with its transcript as text — cutting, rearranging, or removing words on the page and having the corresponding video and audio change along with it — rather than manipulating the media timeline directly. It is a workflow that AI tools have made far more practical, which is why it comes up in conversations about how creators are adopting AI.\{' '\}This term is explored in the episode *How a Top Podcaster Rides the AI Wave - Ep. 28 with Nathaniel Whittemore*, where the discussion turns to how a working podcaster folds AI into an established production routine. Text-based editing sits in that context: it is one of the concrete ways AI-assisted tooling changes the day-to-day craft of producing a show, letting a creator move from spoken recording to editable text and back.\{' '\}For anyone exploring how AI reshapes creative work, text-based video editing is a useful illustration of the shift: the editing surface changes from a timeline of clips to a document of words, lowering the barrier for anyone who can revise text but not navigate traditional editing software.\{' '\}\{['Text-based video editing = editing video by editing its transcript as text.', 'It comes up here in the context of a top podcaster adopting AI tools in an existing workflow.', 'The takeaway: AI moves the editing surface from the timeline to the page.']\}