Docs

One lens per job.

Vanpelt Studio is a set of lenses, each answering one question about the video you are making. Every page below explains what that lens does, why it is worth doing, and how it works underneath. Only what ships today: no roadmap, no feature list.

13 lenses, and six videos on this site that were actually made with them: 71, 81, 128, 149, 150 and 203 clips ingested. Every case study prints the verdict the app gave before publishing, unedited, including the one where the audience went on to disagree with it. A real finding, from a vlog whose whole episode was built to land a number: Beat 7 (the scoreboard / MRR target) is missing, so the viewer gets no concrete number or timeline to follow next episode. That beat never aired, and the check said so the evening the footage landed rather than on day three of the edit.

Footage triage

Drop in everything you shot. It transcribes and describes every clip on your machine, then Speed confirm sorts the pile in one pass instead of an afternoon.

• Footage Drop in everything you shot. Every clip is transcribed and described on your own machine, which is what makes it searchable afterwards. Read the docs →
• Shot check Match footage to the shot list, auto-accept the confident matches, auto-discard the clear misses, and hand-confirm only the ambiguous middle. Read the docs →
• Inventory Ask for a moment by name and get every clip it appears in, matched on transcript and visual index, then collect the hits into a bin. Read the docs →

Short finder

Built on the triage: once every clip is indexed, it mines the footage you never used for self-contained stories worth a Short.

• Short finder Find Shorts in footage you never used, with any candidate that is a recut of the main video disqualified outright. Read the docs →

Ideation and planning

Spin up new video ideas that fit your channel, then turn the one you pick into a beat sheet, a script and a shot list you can shoot to.

• Story Turn a rough idea into a spine: the ordered beats the video actually needs, each with an intent, before you shoot anything. Read the docs →
• Story miner Propose two or three story angles that fit the footage you actually have, each as an ordered beat sheet with its gaps named. Read the docs →
• Script Script per beat, so the words and the structure never drift apart into two documents that disagree. Read the docs →
• Shot list The shots each beat needs, generated from the beats themselves, so the list on your phone matches the plan you wrote. Read the docs →

Performance assessment

Read a published video against its own analytics: where viewers left, what was happening there, and whether that drop was worse than a typical video of the same length.

• Retention Line the retention curve up with the beats that actually aired, so a drop becomes a named moment instead of a shape on a chart. Read the docs →

Thumbnail and title testing

A blind read of the thumbnail on its own, then a simulated audience screening variants of the thumbnail and title pair.

• Assessment A blind read of the thumbnail first, then a graded pass against your plan, plus an A/B screening of variants against a simulated audience. Read the docs →

The rest of the run

Steps that only make sense inside the whole workflow: the go or no-go on your footage, getting the files in order, and handing the structure to whoever cuts it.

• Verdict A written verdict on whether the footage you got adds up to the video you promised, quoting transcripts and naming the cheapest fix for each problem. Read the docs →
• Organize Rename the app-owned copies into something an editor can read, leaving your original files untouched. Read the docs →
• Export Export markers, bins and a manifest your NLE can open, so the structure you worked out arrives with the footage. Read the docs →