Short-Form Clip Factory Retainer (10-14 days)
A productized offer that turns a client's existing long-form footage into a governed pipeline of vertical clips and captions, with a brand voice gate that keeps automated output from flattening client differentiation. Time: 10-14 days.
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Short-Form Clip Factory Retainer (10-14 days)
A productized offer that turns a client's existing long-form footage into a governed pipeline of vertical clips and captions, with a brand voice gate that keeps automated output from flattening client differentiation.
- At least 4 hours of owned long-form footage (webinar, podcast, or interview) cleared for commercial reuse; a client-side approver who can sign off on brand voice rules within 48 hours; access to the client's social accounts or a scheduler handoff; a caption style sheet covering fonts, colors, and safe-area margins; agreement on clip volume per month and the platforms in scope.
- 1.Inventory the client's footage library and flag segments with weak audio or missing release forms
- 2.Document the three competitor accounts the client wants to be visually distinct from
- 3.Confirm the monthly clip quota and which platforms receive first publish
- 1.Run a 20-clip pilot through the chosen platform to expose caption and reframing failure modes
- 2.Score each pilot clip against a brand voice rubric covering tone, pacing, and on-screen text density
- 3.Record which clip archetypes the automation handles well and which need manual pickup
- 1.Build the caption style sheet: font, weight, highlight color, and safe-area margins per platform
- 2.Lock a hook formula library of 10 opening lines drawn from the client's own past top performers
- 3.Define banned phrases and claims the automation must never caption without review
- 1.Configure the automation stack with the approved style sheet and hook library
- 2.Set aspect-ratio and reframing rules for each destination platform
- 3.Establish a naming convention so every exported clip traces back to its source timestamp
- 1.Produce the first full batch at target monthly volume
- 2.Route every clip through a human brand voice gate before scheduling
- 3.Log rejection reasons to identify whether the bottleneck is selection, captioning, or pacing
- 1.Tune the moment-selection threshold based on the day 5 rejection log
- 2.Add b-roll or overlay rules only where the pilot showed a retention drop
- 3.Re-run the rejected clips to confirm the tuning actually fixed the failure mode
- 1.Publish the approved batch across the client's channels
- 2.Capture baseline metrics: 3-second hold rate, completion rate, and saves per clip
- 3.Flag any clip that underperforms the client's existing median by more than 30 percent
- 1.Review week-one performance against the baseline and isolate the two weakest clip archetypes
- 2.Rewrite the hook library entries tied to those archetypes
- 3.Confirm the client approver can sustain a 48-hour turnaround on future batches
- 1.Document the production runbook so a junior editor can execute the batch without supervision
- 2.Set the escalation path for clips that touch regulated claims or named competitors
- 3.Agree the monthly reporting format and the metrics the client will see
- 1.Hand over the runbook and style sheet to the client's internal team or the assigned delivery pod
- 2.Run one supervised batch end to end with the receiving team driving
- 3.Close with a written scope note covering volume, turnaround, and revision limits
Agencies price this on clip volume and turnaround, not editing hours, because the automation stack does the first 80 percent of the cut and the human gate only touches selection and brand voice. That gate is what justifies a retainer above commodity clip-farm pricing: the client is buying differentiation insurance, not raw output. Once the runbook exists, the same pod can carry three to five client accounts at the same headcount, which is where the margin sits.
- Caption style sheet with per-platform safe-area and typography rules
- Hook formula library of 10 approved opening lines
- Production runbook covering batch cadence, escalation path, and revision limits
- First published batch with baseline performance report
- Brand voice rubric used at the human review gate
The client's team or the assigned delivery pod has run one full batch end to end using only the handover runbook, and the published clips meet the agreed volume and brand voice rubric without the original strategist in the loop.