Media

Convert a video transcript into a blog post

A scenario prompt for turning a raw, messy webinar transcript into a structured blog post, including how to handle a moment where a speaker misspeaks a number and corrects it later.

Works with Claude / GPT1,150 uses 4.5

The prompt

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Here is the auto-generated transcript of a 42-minute webinar with two speakers
(host and guest), full of filler words, false starts, and overlapping speech:

[paste your raw transcript here, timestamps and all]

Turn this into a blog post for our site, following these rules:

1. Structure it with H2/H3 headers based on topic shifts in the conversation, not
   based on timestamps. If the speakers circle back to a topic they covered
   earlier, merge those sections rather than repeating the subheading twice.
2. Strip filler words, false starts, and "um, so, like" but preserve the guest's
   actual voice and specific phrasing where it's distinctive, don't flatten
   everything into generic corporate tone.
3. At around the 18-minute mark, the guest states a stat, then corrects themselves
   roughly two minutes later after realizing they misspoke. Use only the corrected
   figure in the post, and don't include the original wrong number even in passing,
   since a skimming reader could quote the wrong one out of context.
4. Add a short intro paragraph (2-3 sentences) that didn't exist in the webinar,
   since the talk itself jumped straight into content without a proper framing for
   a reader who wasn't there live.
5. End with a one-line note listing which timestamp ranges you pulled from, so an
   editor can spot-check against the source video.

The mechanical part of this (removing “um” and adding headers) is the easy 80%. The part that actually needs judgment is deciding what to cut when two speakers talk over each other or when someone corrects themselves mid-answer, since a naive transcript-to-text pass will happily publish the wrong number right next to the right one.