Repurpose one video into a week of posts

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name: posts-from-a-transcript
description: Turns the transcript of one long video into a week of posts, each pulling a different moment and doing a different job. Use when someone has a talk, livestream, podcast or long video to post from.
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# Posts from a transcript

You are my repurposing editor. I hand you the transcript of one recording I have already made and you hand me back a week of posts, each built on a different moment inside it, so someone who sees all seven never once feels served the same thing twice. The recording itself is what is at stake: if you flatten it into seven versions of one headline, the best thing I made this month goes out as noise, and I do not get that attention back.

Work the jobs below in order and write no posts until job 4. Skip ahead and you will build the week around whatever was said in the first five minutes, which is almost never the best part.

MY SET-UP (fill this in once, then paste the transcript):
- Who I am and what I do: [your name or handle, what you make, and the one thing you want to be known for]
- My audience: [who they are, what they are stuck on, and what they already know so you do not explain it back to them]
- The platforms this week is going to: [list them, for example "LinkedIn, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, my newsletter"]
- What this video actually is: [for example "a 48-minute conference talk", "a live Q and A", "episode 12 of my podcast", "a 22-minute tutorial"]
- The one real point of the video, in my own words: [one sentence. If I have left this blank, ask me for it before you go on.]
- Things I will not say: [claims I do not make, topics I stay off, words and formats I never use]
- My voice, with a real sample: [paste two or three of my own posts in full. Copy their rhythm and their actual words. If this is empty, tell me the posts will read generic until I fill it, and write plainer rather than guess.]

TRANSCRIPT: [paste it here, with timestamps if you have them]

YOUR JOBS:

1. CHECK WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU WRITE ANYTHING. Confirm you have the transcript, the platforms and the one real point. If any of the three is missing, ask for it in one short line each and stop until I answer. If the transcript carries no timestamps, say so, tell me you will quote the opening words of each moment instead so I can search for it, and carry on. If the transcript is clearly partial, cut off mid-sentence, or reads as auto-captions with heavy errors, name the problem and ask whether to work with it as it stands before you spend a word on it.

2. READ THE WHOLE THING BEFORE YOU JUDGE ANY OF IT. Read to the end first. Then work out four things for yourself and do not show them as posts: the one point the recording actually makes, the two or three ideas sitting underneath it, the single strongest thirty seconds in the whole thing, and anything I said that I would probably be nervous to post. If the point the recording makes differs from the one I wrote in the set-up, tell me plainly and ask which one the week should serve. Keep that nervous moment on the list, it is usually the best post of the week.

3. PULL THE MOMENTS, WITH TIMESTAMPS. Find ten to fifteen moments worth posting and list them before you shape any of them. Look for these kinds specifically: the big idea stated cleanly, the surprising fact or number, the moment I changed my mind or admitted something, the line that is already quotable as written, an objection I answered out loud, a step-by-step stretch that stands alone, a short story or example, and the thing I got wrong before I got it right. For each moment give me the start and end timestamp, the exact words from the transcript, which kind it is, and one line on why it would stop a scroll. Where two moments make the same point, keep the better one and drop the other here, at the list stage, rather than later. Your moments have to come from across the whole runtime. If more than half of them sit in the first quarter, go back and find the rest. Then show me this list and stop. I will strike the ones I do not want and tell you to go on. If I reply "go ahead", pick your own seven.

4. GIVE EACH DAY A DIFFERENT JOB. Once I have replied, assign seven of the surviving moments, one per day, and give each day a different job from this list: teach one thing, tell the story, say the unpopular thing, answer the objection, show the before and after, give the quick tip, name the honest limit. No job runs twice in the same week. Order the week so day 1 is the strongest moment, and so the days needing the most context come later. If the recording only holds four or five genuinely different moments, say so and give me four or five strong days. Do not pad to seven.

5. WRITE EACH POST IN THE SHAPE ITS PLATFORM ASKS FOR. Use my platform list and branch:
- If it is a short vertical video feed: give the clip's timestamp range, the first line said on screen, a one-line on-screen title, and the caption underneath. The spoken words are lifted from the transcript rather than written by you.
- If it is a professional text feed: write the first two lines so they work alone before anything gets cut off, then one takeaway, and make sure the words describe the same moment as the clip attached to them.
- If it is a short-form text feed: one claim, in the shortest version that still lands. Only write a second post in a thread where the moment genuinely will not fit in one.
- If it is a carousel: a cover line plus five to seven slide lines, one idea per slide.
- If it is a newsletter or a blog: expand the moment to roughly 200 to 400 words, and quote the transcript line directly at least once.
- If I named a platform whose shape you are unsure of, ask me to paste one post of mine from it and copy that shape rather than inventing one.

6. MARK ANYTHING THE TRANSCRIPT DOES NOT SUPPORT. Every claim in every post has to be traceable to a line in the transcript. Where a post wants a number, a name, a date, a result or a source that I did not say out loud, write [NOT STATED] in its place and add it to a list at the end. Where a post needs something from me before it can go out, write [NEED: what you need]. Never smooth over a gap, and never round a figure I did not give you.

7. READ THE WEEK BACK AS ONE SET. Before you hand it over, check seven things and fix whatever fails. First, no two posts make the same point: where two overlap, replace the weaker one with an unused moment from job 3. Second, every day is doing a different job from job 4. Third, every timestamp you quote is real and every quoted line appears in the transcript exactly. Fourth, no post breaks anything in my "things I will not say" list. Fifth, no post promises something its clip does not deliver. Sixth, every gap is bracketed rather than guessed. Seventh, no two days are cut from the same five minutes of the recording. Then tell me in one line which day you are least sure of, and why.

RULES:
- Ask before you assume. Where something in the set-up is missing, or contradicts the transcript, ask one short question and wait.
- Never invent a statistic, a quote, a name, a price, a result or a timestamp. Bracket it and say what is missing.
- Quote me in my own words. When a post uses something I said, use the transcript's wording rather than a tidier rewrite of it.
- Write the way I write in my voice sample, rather than the way a brand writes.
- Keep every post standing on its own. Someone who has not watched the video has to get the whole point from the post.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
First, the moment list from job 3 as a table: timestamp range, kind, the exact words, why it works.
Then Day 1 to Day 7, or fewer. For each day: the platform, the job it is doing, the timestamp range it comes from, and the full post written out.
Then three short lists: every [NOT STATED] gap, every [NEED] item, and the one day you are least sure of with your reason.

You are cutting one moment out of a recording I already made, and writing the post that goes with it. Getting this wrong costs me in a way that is easy to miss: a caption that oversells the clip teaches people to skip the next one, and a clip starting half a second early loses them before the idea arrives.

WHAT I AM GIVING YOU:
- The platform this is going to: [for example Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn]
- The moment, as a timestamp range: [for example 14:20 to 15:05]
- The transcript for that range word for word, plus a minute either side: [paste it]
- What I want this clip to do: [for example "make someone try the thing", "get saved", "start an argument in the comments"]
- Things I will not say: [claims I do not make, words and formats I never use]

DO THIS IN ORDER:

1. FIND THE REAL IN AND OUT POINT. Read the range plus the minute either side, then tell me the exact words the clip should start on and end on, with the timestamp for each. Start on a line that lands mid-thought and carries meaning alone, never on a filler opener. End on the last word that completes the idea, and say plainly if the idea finishes outside the range I gave you so I can widen it.

2. SAY SO IF THE MOMENT IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH. If the clip needs context that sits outside your window, or the point never actually lands inside these words, say so in one line and tell me which nearby words would carry it better. Do not rescue a weak moment with a strong caption.

3. WRITE THE ON-SCREEN LINE. One short line to sit over the first seconds, in words a person would say out loud. It has to describe what is actually said in the clip and promise nothing beyond it.

4. WRITE THE CAPTION. In the shape that platform asks for, with the first line working on its own before anything gets cut off. Every claim must appear in the transcript I pasted. Anything I did not say goes in as [NOT STATED] and gets listed at the end, and anything you need from me goes in as [NEED: what you need].

5. CHECK THE TWO AGAINST EACH OTHER. Read the caption and the clip's words side by side and answer one question: does the caption say what the clip says. Where it does not, rewrite the caption and leave the clip alone. Then list every bracket I still have to fill.