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Text-First Editing
specific discipline within paper editing that mandates structuring the story's first pass based *only* on the written transcript, deliberately avoiding watching the video footage. This purist approach prevents the editor from being seduced by compelling visuals or performance tics that might not serve the core narrative, ensuring the story is built on the strongest thematic and logical foundation. This approach can be powerfully combined with spatial synthesis, where transcript-based highlights are arranged visually in a 2D space to discover thematic clusters before assembling a linear sequence.
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The combination of text-first selection with spatial synthesis is where things get interesting. You're no longer just building a radio edit; you're creating a visual mind-map *from* the text, which then informs the video sequence. It's a multi-modal approach to finding structure.
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