Course recordings into lessons, clips, and carousel briefs
I worked through the second day of CXO.dev course recordings, revised the social cuts, and turned the teaching into carousel briefs for a designer. Alongside that, I was working on the ChatPRD and How I AI plugins. The recordings became a useful source for several different formats.
Edit speaker and screen-share recordings into course lessons with Codex
I gave Codex the Zoom recordings from my CXO.dev course, including the speaker and screen-share views, and asked it to make separate lessons. The teaching and Q&A needed to stay intact; the introductions could go.
The first cut split the recording but did not make good enough choices about what viewers should see. I had Codex go back across the available recordings and switch between the speaker, slides, and interview views as the content changed. We used the CXO brand references in Figma for the lesson frames, then carried the same process into the second day of recordings.
For the social clips, I asked it to use my existing cutting skill. Those needed full-frame footage, tighter openings, and speaker-focused cuts in portrait and landscape. The course frame did not belong around every short. Codex produced a local preview library with the exports, transcripts, and downloads together so I could review the edits.
The useful part was giving the agent an editorial job as well as an export job: preserve the teaching, choose the view that explains it, and make a different cut for a different audience. The exports were prepared for review; making the files did not post them anywhere.
# Edit a course from multiple recording views
Use the recordings and transcripts I provide. Inventory the speaker, gallery, and screen-share files, identify their shared timeline, and flag missing or mismatched recordings.
Propose lesson boundaries around complete topics. Preserve substantive teaching and Q&A. Identify introductions and housekeeping separately so I can decide what to remove.
Choose the visible view for each section based on what the viewer needs to understand: a readable screen for demonstrations, the speaker for explanation, or both when useful. Use my supplied brand assets for lesson framing.
Create a separate social edit plan. Use full-frame footage, complete thoughts, and tight openings. Do not shrink a branded lesson player into a vertical video. Follow an existing editing skill if I supply one.
Export a small sample first. After feedback, produce the lessons and selected shorts with a browsable preview and source timestamps. Check representative cuts, audio alignment, caption timing, and downloads. Keep all footage private and leave publishing to a separate instruction.Turn course transcripts into carousel briefs with Codex
After Codex had worked through the course recordings and clips, I asked it to use that context for social carousel ideas. Someone else would design the slides. I wanted a handoff with enough substance that they would not have to watch the whole course to understand each idea.
It produced 24 outlines with six slides of draft copy each, a caption starter, visual direction, and timestamped sources. Topics came from the teaching: where the bottleneck moves when code gets faster, what a spec needs to say about verification, and what changes when more people on a team can build.
I kept the recording attached to the idea. A designer could trace an outline back to the relevant discussion, and guest examples kept their attribution. The slide copy was an adaptation for social, not a transcript to put inside quotation marks.
This gave me an editorial queue and a creator handoff from material the agent had already reviewed. The carousels were outlines, not finished designs or published posts. That was the work I had asked it to do.
# Make carousel briefs from recorded teaching
Read the supplied transcripts and any existing clip catalog. Find distinct ideas that can stand alone for someone who has not watched the recording. Keep each idea tied to a source passage and timestamp.
For each selected idea, draft a short sequence of slides: an opening claim or question, the explanation, a concrete example, and a useful closing question or exercise. Include a caption starter and visual direction for a designer. Adapt the number of slides to the idea.
Preserve guest attribution. Mark rewritten copy as adapted; reserve quotation marks for exact verified wording. Do not invent performance numbers, results, or speaker opinions.
Group the briefs into a sensible editorial queue, identify overlapping ideas, and recommend a small starting batch with reasons. Give the designer source references and editable copy together. Deliver drafts only; do not post or send them.