Why AI-First?
An AI-first workflow does not mean letting AI do everything. It means structuring your editing process so that AI handles the high-volume, low-creativity tasks first, freeing you to focus entirely on the craft of storytelling.
Setting Up Your Project
Start by organizing your project structure in Premiere Pro with clear bin naming conventions. Spingle uses these bins to organize culled footage, selects, and assemblies. A clean project structure makes AI output more useful and easier to navigate.
The Ingest Phase
During ingest, run Precision Culling before you review a single clip manually. This immediately removes technically unusable footage, reducing your review pool by 20-40% on average. Adjust the threshold based on your project needs.
AI Selects in Practice
When using AI Selects, think in terms of scenes and moments rather than technical descriptions. Instead of requesting specific shot types, describe the content and emotion you need. The AI understands context better than keywords.
Refining Your Assembly
Once you have your selects, use them as building blocks. Whether you use Auto-Assembly for a rough cut or build manually, the time saved in the selection phase compounds throughout your entire edit.