Guides for getting more out of Chat Octopus
Practical, first-hand guides for turning ideas into finished media with Chat Octopus: templates, repurposing, motion graphics, and more.
You have the raw material: footage, a blog post, a podcast episode. These guides walk the fastest route from there to something you can publish, in the same plain language you would type into the chat.
Pick the job closest to the one on your plate. Every guide ends at the chat box, so you can run the workflow the moment you finish reading.
How to Get the Text Out of an Image Without Retyping It
Why free converters return a wall of characters, what to say when you send the picture instead, which parts of the result to check, and what to ask after.
What B-Roll Is, and How to Get Some When You Only Shot Yourself
A-roll is the take carrying the words. B-roll is what the picture cuts to while those words keep running. Four ways to get it from one recording.
YouTube Thumbnails: What Makes Someone Stop, and How to Get Four Options Made
Why a frame grabbed from your video fails at thumbnail size, the four hooks that work, and how to get four finished options back with the reasoning attached.
Finding One Moment in Two Hours of Video
Ask footage where something happens and get a time back. How exact those times are, how much video a single pass can read, and where it stops helping.
Motion Graphics: What They Are, and How to Describe the One You Want
The name bars, title cards and counting numbers in other people's videos. What each one is, when a video needs it, and how to describe one precisely enough.
How to Fix Bad Audio: What Comes Out, and What Never Will
A two-minute listening test that tells you whether a bad recording can be rescued, which noises lift off a voice, and which ones are baked into it for good.
How to Turn a Recording into Text You Can Actually Use
What automatic transcription gets right and wrong, how to ask so the transcript is usable rather than merely accurate, and what to do with the text after.
Captions vs Subtitles: What's the Difference and When to Use Each
Captions vs subtitles: what separates them, the open vs closed distinction that changes your workflow, and how to pick the right one for every platform.
Templates: How to Save a Request You Keep Retyping
A template is a request you already wrote, saved under a name. How to build one out of a message that worked, and what separates the good ones.