Repurposing
Planning the shoot keeps reuse possible. The material, audience response and next brief help decide which scenes deserve another life.
The short version
What you get. Footage and delivered assets prepared for the additional uses agreed in the scope.
Is this for you? For a new shoot with several planned uses, or an existing library with material worth revisiting. Not if clips should come straight off the retention peaks; a peak only suggests where to look.
What leaves your plate. Reuse planning, candidate selection, platform-specific edits and delivery within the agreed scope. Editable project handover is agreed separately.
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Settled on the shoot day, chosen from the graph and its context
The question belongs before the camera goes down
"How do I film this so it can be used again" is a planning question with production answers. A second take of the opening. Framing that leaves a vertical crop somewhere to follow the subject. A clean pass with nothing on screen. B-roll shot from a list. None of those can be added later, and each of them costs minutes on the day against hours if it is missing. Read more: shot and b-roll lists →
Choose scenes using evidence and editorial judgement
Retention patterns can suggest scenes worth revisiting, but a peak does not explain itself. We consider what happens in the scene, what the new piece needs and whether it can stand alone.
Footage and masters kept for a year
We retain each video’s footage, masters and working project for one year after delivery. You can request your deliverables and supplied assets within that window; editable project-file handover has separate terms and a fee.
A text-free master keeps more options open
We supply a text-free master alongside the final export. It allows new captions and overlays without removing burned-in text from the picture. More extensive changes may still need a new edit or the editable project.
Versions, and where they run
What one shoot day should produce
Depending on the scope, one shoot can support a long video, Shorts or Reels, a compilation, stills or an ad version. We plan the intended outputs before production and prepare each for its use.
Each version is cut for the platform it lands on
A vertical piece is built in a vertical sequence with every clip reframed and rescaled inside it, and nothing squeezed out of the horizontal one at the last minute. Music, captions and length follow each platform's own habits, which differ from one another and change more often than anybody would like.
At the bench
The work, demonstrated
Try a decision from the craft: drag, tap or toggle, then read the trade-off.
These are illustrative models; no partner’s results are shown.
More demonstrations at the bench →Planning several uses lets the footage do more work. The edits and outputs are agreed in the scope.
What changes for you
More useful outputs from the material you already plan to record, with an organised archive for later opportunities.
Related: Vertical video editing · Shorts and Reels · What to spend on before you film · Content systems and planning
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What you will get
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A recommended next step, even if that step is not us.
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The work, written up
The case studies keep their dates, sources and limits visible.
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