# A real recording

> One real recording through Eddy: how far it got, what the app changed in it, and what hasn't been finished or measured yet.

Source: https://eddystudio.ai/docs/real-edit/ · Written from the app's source code, last checked 3 November 2026; generated tables are rebuilt from the source on every build; not every behaviour hand-tested in the beta build

This page follows one real recording through Eddy. It shows only what the app actually made from it. Nothing here is a mock-up.

> **Not yet:** A finished edit to show. The beta run on this recording stopped during the edit stage, when the app restarted for an update, before Eddy had planned the motion graphics. No beta test run has yet taken a real recording all the way to a finished long video and Short, so there is no finished file on this page, and no time.

## What a finished edit looks like

Until a beta run finishes, the closest proof is LAB-0024, an episode of the same show, edited with the engine that ships in the Eddy beta. It is the quality bar the beta is measured against. It is not this recording.

[Video on YouTube: LAB-0024, the long video (14:07), on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGJmUUqUr8)
[Video on YouTube: A Short cut from LAB-0024 (1:19)](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sIuka-k1Hf0)

## The recording

A real episode of the founder's own YouTube show: a 66-minute 1080p camera recording with sound, plus a 4K screen recording of the same session. It went into Eddy the normal way, by dropping in the folder.

[Media: Before: a frame of the raw recording, untouched.](https://eddystudio.ai/docs/media/real-before.webp)

## What Eddy changed in it

Each AI Tool was run on this recording in the app. These are the app's own words for what each one did:

- **Remove retakes**: "Removed 28 retakes · 3:26 shorter · 10 to review"
- **Shorten word gaps** (default settings): "Shortened 184 gaps · 37:35 shorter"
- **Edit for clarity**: "Ignored 14 duplicated sentences · 0:12 shorter"
- **Remove filler words**: "Nothing detected in this composition."
- **Style all scenes** (no button; the chat editor and agents run it): "Styled 260 layers", though the preview looked the same before and after.

[Working with Eddy](https://eddystudio.ai/docs/working-with-eddy/#ai-tools) has a before and after clip, cut from this recording, for each tool that made a change you can see. They are **Not published yet**: they go up once the founder has okayed them.

## How far it got

These are frames from Eddy's preview of this project. The [pipeline on How an edit works](https://eddystudio.ai/docs/how-it-works/#from-raw-footage-to-finished-files) uses the same frames, step by step. Like the clips, they are **Not published yet**.

[Media: A Short (9:16) in Eddy's preview, before the edit stage finished. No file was exported.](https://eddystudio.ai/docs/media/real-short.webp)

## How long it took

> **Not yet measured:** No beta test run has yet taken a real recording all the way to a finished long video and Short. Until one does, there is no honest time to show, so this page doesn't show one.

Eddy's beta test is five runs in a row on the same build, each from a real recording to the finished files, each timed by the clock. Passing runs so far: 0 of 5. When a run passes, its measured time and the finished files go here.