THE PROBLEM

Your documentary has 20 interview subjects filmed across multiple locations and shoot days. The director wants to see every answer about "childhood memories" grouped together. A string-out that lets the story team compare responses and find narrative threads.

Without a way to search by topic, you're scanning through hours of interviews, remembering (or guessing) who talked about what, and manually pulling clips into a sequence. Do that for one topic and it takes half a day. Do it for five topics and you've lost the week.

String-outs are one of the most valuable tools in documentary editing, but they're expensive to build by hand. Most projects only create them for the most obvious themes, leaving potential story connections undiscovered.

WITHOUT WIDEFRAME

Half a day per topic, manually

WITH WIDEFRAME

Topical string-outs in minutes

90% TIME SAVED

HOW YOU SOLVE IT WITH WIDEFRAME

01

Import your interviews

Bring all interview footage into Wideframe. Each subject's material is analyzed and indexed by what they actually talk about, not just filenames or timecodes.

02

Search by topic or theme

Type a topic: "childhood memories," "turning point," "regret", and Wideframe's agent pulls every relevant passage across all 20 subjects into a single string-out sequence.

03

Review and reorder for story

Watch the string-out as a sequence. Reorder clips to find narrative flow, mark your selects, and flag the moments that belong in the cut. Build string-outs for as many topics as you need.

TRY IT

Build string-outs from your interviews

Wideframe gives you an AI agent that handles the mechanical work of video editing so you can focus on the creative decisions. 7-day free trial.

REQUIRES APPLE SILICON

RELATED USE CASES

MEDIA ANALYSIS

Identify Speakers Across Interview Footage
Know who's speaking in every clip without watching every take. Speaker ID across your full shoot.

AGENTIC SEARCH

Find a Specific Sound Bite Across Hundreds of Hours
Search for exact dialogue across your entire footage library in seconds, not hours of scrubbing.

MEDIA ANALYSIS

Generate Searchable Transcripts from All Dialogue
Turn every spoken word across your footage into searchable, timestamped text.