# Guides

> Three edits people ask for most: a full edit from the raw file, a screen tutorial with your camera, a 9:16 short. What to ask, what your agent does, what to check before you export.

Web page: https://brollss.com/mcp/guides. All MCP pages: https://brollss.com/llms.txt (index) and https://brollss.com/mcp/llms-full.txt (everything in one file).

## A full edit, from the raw file

From a file on your disk to an edit you can export. The agent works for several minutes, longer on a long video, and tells you where it stands as it goes.

```
Import ~/Videos/interview.mp4 into Brollss and make a publishable edit: cut the hesitations and retakes, open on the strongest sentence, add scenes where they help, captions on the key sentences and calm music under my voice.
```

### What your agent does

1. It imports the file and gives you the project link right away. The transcript takes a few minutes.
2. It reads the whole transcript before it cuts anything.
3. It cuts hesitations, retakes and tangents, and opens on the strongest sentence.
4. It counts the moments that need a visual, draws a scene for each and tries every scene on your video before placing it.
5. It adds zooms, captions and music, then measures the music against your voice.
6. It checks the whole edit, looks at the final picture, and reports what changed, with times.

### Before you export

- Watch the first five seconds. That is where people decide to stay.
- Play each scene once. To redo one, give your agent its time: "redo the scene at 1:42, simpler".
- Not happy with a whole pass? Restore the checkpoint saved before the agent's first change, from the Studio.

## A screen tutorial with your camera

A screen recording with your face in a corner. Your agent follows the screen tutorial style: zooms on what you click, marks on what you point at, your face kept in view.

```
Edit my latest Brollss project as a screen tutorial: zoom on the screen each time I click or type something, circle the buttons I point at, keep my camera visible, and cut the waits while things load.
```

### What your agent does

1. It looks at your recording to find the screen and your camera window.
2. It cuts the waits, the retakes and the moments where nothing happens on screen.
3. When you say "here" or "this button", it zooms on that part of the screen or circles it.
4. It keeps scenes for ideas the screen does not show, and leaves the screen alone while you show code or a menu.
5. It checks that no zoom pushes your face out of its window.

### Before you export

- Read the zoomed text at full size. It should be sharp.
- Check that each circle sits on the right button.

## A 9:16 short from a long video

A vertical short cut from a longer recording. The format is chosen at import, so ask for 9:16 from the start. The short is a new project: your long edit stays as it is.

```
Import ~/Videos/episode-12.mp4 into Brollss in 9:16 and make a 45-second short: keep the strongest idea, open on its best sentence, captions on the whole video in a bold style, and a scene where it helps.
```

### What your agent does

1. It imports the video in the vertical format.
2. It reads everything, picks one idea that stands on its own, and cuts the rest.
3. It opens on the sentence that makes people stay.
4. It turns captions on for the whole video, since a short is often watched without sound.
5. It only uses scene layouts that fit a vertical frame.
6. It checks the edit and looks at the final picture.

### Before you export

- Check the length against what you asked for.
- Make sure the captions cover neither your face nor a scene.

## Going further

- [Workflows](https://brollss.com/mcp/workflows.md): The same jobs, tool by tool, for your agent.
- [Best practices](https://brollss.com/mcp/best-practices.md): The habits that make an agent edit well.
- [Tool reference](https://brollss.com/mcp/tools.md): Every tool and its parameters.