RhebaReaux
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- Mar 12, 2022
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How many of us get regular invites to some very long, potentially interesting, webinar but with a flood of sales talk and tedious participant interactions ("give me a thumbs up in the comments if this is you") ? Or maybe you've downloaded a how-to video from somewhere and it's 2 hours long and full of waffle and fluff.
No-one has time for that.
I recently caught a copy of a well-known marketer's video about domaining - what his secret sauce was, and some new method of turning domains into gold.
BUT - the problem was it was 2 3/4 hours long - and I sure as heck wasn't going to site down and wade through all the fluff.
Time to deploy AI, and it worked out pretty well.
Here's my method:
1) You're going to need a transcript. Now I wrote a python script using Sphinx to create a transcript, but to be honest, it wasn't great. The best way for me was to upload the mp4 to Youtube, set the video to private and wait for Youtube to create a transcript for free. There are plenty of sites that can do this as well, but you'll need to pay. (I deleted the video from YT after I'd got what I wanted.)
2) When it's been processed by YT, click on the three dots on the right under the video and then "show transcript". Then the three dots again and "toggle timestamp", then select all, copy and paste into a text file.
3) Now go to Claude chat (claude.ai), sign up if you haven't already, and then start a new conversation. You could start by asking for comprehensive summary of the transcript, then upload the .txt file, and let Claude do its stuff. There's no need to format the text file - Claude is pretty good at interpreting badly formatted text.
4) I use the sales blurb to start asking questions. So, in my example, I asked Claude to explain what was the secret sauce, how is it implemented and whether there was any cost. Because of its huge token capacity, Claude is great for analysing large documents, and I've found it's pretty accurate.
5) Copy and paste all the answers into a document and within a few minutes you'll have a pretty good understanding of what was in the video without the pain of having to listen to long and boring sales patter.
If you treat Claude as a slightly introverted friend who knows the answers but has to be coaxed into explaining things, you can get a lot out of it.
Hope that helps.
No-one has time for that.
I recently caught a copy of a well-known marketer's video about domaining - what his secret sauce was, and some new method of turning domains into gold.
BUT - the problem was it was 2 3/4 hours long - and I sure as heck wasn't going to site down and wade through all the fluff.
Time to deploy AI, and it worked out pretty well.
Here's my method:
1) You're going to need a transcript. Now I wrote a python script using Sphinx to create a transcript, but to be honest, it wasn't great. The best way for me was to upload the mp4 to Youtube, set the video to private and wait for Youtube to create a transcript for free. There are plenty of sites that can do this as well, but you'll need to pay. (I deleted the video from YT after I'd got what I wanted.)
2) When it's been processed by YT, click on the three dots on the right under the video and then "show transcript". Then the three dots again and "toggle timestamp", then select all, copy and paste into a text file.
3) Now go to Claude chat (claude.ai), sign up if you haven't already, and then start a new conversation. You could start by asking for comprehensive summary of the transcript, then upload the .txt file, and let Claude do its stuff. There's no need to format the text file - Claude is pretty good at interpreting badly formatted text.
4) I use the sales blurb to start asking questions. So, in my example, I asked Claude to explain what was the secret sauce, how is it implemented and whether there was any cost. Because of its huge token capacity, Claude is great for analysing large documents, and I've found it's pretty accurate.
5) Copy and paste all the answers into a document and within a few minutes you'll have a pretty good understanding of what was in the video without the pain of having to listen to long and boring sales patter.
If you treat Claude as a slightly introverted friend who knows the answers but has to be coaxed into explaining things, you can get a lot out of it.
Hope that helps.
