Do I need to be a video editor?

No. You describe what you want in plain words — "make a clip of the bit about glazing" — and Bernard finds the moment and does the cutting. You review the result and decide what to use.

Will any of this change my live site on its own?

Clips download to you and don't touch your site. Captions, chapters and a fresh trailer attach to your course; a new trailer goes live on the course page once it's ready. Any other change to a live page still waits for your approval before it goes out.

What do I need before I can do this?

A lesson with a video you've uploaded (or imported), indexed and ready. Everything else — the captions, the searchable transcript, the moments a clip is cut from — comes from that one video.

What can I do with my videos?

Once you've put a video on a lesson, it isn't just a file sitting there. Bernard reads it — the picture and the words — and that turns one recording into a handful of things you can actually use. This page is the map; each one has its own how-to.

What you can do with a lesson video

Get captions and a searchable transcript, automatically. A few minutes after a video is ready, Bernard writes the captions and a running transcript — learners can switch captions on, and the transcript scrolls along as they watch. See Captions and transcripts, written for me.

Find any moment by asking. "Where do I talk about kiln safety?" — Bernard searches inside your own videos and tells you the lesson and roughly the minute. Learners get the same search on every lesson. See Where do I say that? Search inside my own lessons.

Break a long lesson into chapters. Markers at each new topic, so a learner can jump straight to the part they need. Bernard can suggest them from the transcript, or you set your own titles and start points. See Break a long lesson into chapters.

Cut a short clip to share. Point Bernard at a moment and get a short clip — vertical for reels and stories, square, or widescreen — with captions burned in, ready to download and post yourself. See Turn a lesson into a shareable clip.

Give the course a free trailer. A short, watch-this taster for the course's public page, cut from your own lessons and ending on a call-to-action card. See Give my course a trailer.

Getting a video in, in the first place

All of the above starts from a video on a lesson. You can upload one straight in (Put my own video file into a lesson), bring one over from an Instagram reel (Turn an Instagram Reel into a course lesson), or move one across from YouTube (Use the videos already on my YouTube or Vimeo).

Where it earns its keep

One recording becomes a searchable, captioned, chaptered lesson and the raw material for a week of social clips and a trailer that sells the course — without you opening an editor. Ask Bernard for what you want; you approve what goes out.

The prompt

“Give me a rundown of what I can do with the video in my [lesson name] lesson — captions, chapters, a clip, a trailer.”

The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.

Questions people ask

Do I need to be a video editor?: No. You describe what you want in plain words — "make a clip of the bit about glazing" — and Bernard finds the moment and does the cutting. You review the result and decide what to use.
Will any of this change my live site on its own?: Clips download to you and don't touch your site. Captions, chapters and a fresh trailer attach to your course; a new trailer goes live on the course page once it's ready. Any other change to a live page still waits for your approval before it goes out.
What do I need before I can do this?: A lesson with a video you've uploaded (or imported), indexed and ready. Everything else — the captions, the searchable transcript, the moments a clip is cut from — comes from that one video.