Making videos without filming yourself means posting passages from your video calls rather than videos shot for the purpose. The webcam you use for calls is the camera, your calls with clients are the material, and the time spent shooting drops to zero.
That is what Dailies Studio does. It is a video studio you subscribe to: it records the calls you hold in Chrome and turns them into captioned vertical shorts, ready to post.
What does “without filming yourself” actually mean?
Three things leave your week:
- the camera to set up. No tripod, no lights, no lapel mic. The webcam you already use on calls is enough;
- the session in front of a lens. You no longer block half a day to record ten videos in a row with a script in front of you;
- the retakes. Nobody asks you to start again because you hesitated: the edit takes the hesitations out.
One thing does not leave: you. You stay on screen, filmed by your webcam during your calls. This is not faceless content, and not an avatar speaking in your place. It is you, answering a real client.
That is often what stands in the way: plenty of professionals dread filming themselves, or never find the time. With no shoot, there is nothing left to dread and nothing to squeeze into the diary.
Why do your calls make better videos than a shoot?
A professional spends 14.8 hours a week in meetings on average, according to the survey by Reclaim.ai, a maker of calendar software. Some of those hours you spend advising, explaining, handling objections. That is exactly what a prospect would like to watch you do.
A passage from a call has three advantages over a video shot for the purpose:
- the question is real. It comes from someone who has the problem, in their own words, which are also the words your prospects type into a search engine;
- the answer is not recited. You talk the way you talk, with whatever example comes to mind, and it shows;
- the time is already spent. The call would have happened anyway. Whatever you get out of it is a bonus.
We argue this in our manifesto: you do not create content, you document what you already do.
How does it work with Dailies Studio?
- You hold your call in Chrome, on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, in English or French. The Dailies Studio extension records the call’s sound, your microphone, your webcam and the picture of the people you talk to, as the call receives it.
- Dailies Studio reads the whole call and keeps the passages that share real value: up to eight per call, 30 to 90 seconds each.
- It edits them: a vertical 9:16 frame on whoever is speaking, silences and hesitations cut, captions in one of its templates or in your own brand style.
- You watch and choose, a few minutes after you hang up. Dailies Studio also drafts the post for each network, which you keep, edit or delete.
- You schedule, Dailies Studio publishes on the day and at the time you chose. Nothing goes out unless you scheduled it.
What is left for you to do?
| You | Dailies Studio |
|---|---|
| Hold your calls in Chrome, as usual | Record the call from your browser |
| Tell your guests the call is being recorded | Find the passages that make sense on their own |
| Watch the shorts on offer and keep the good ones | Reframe, cut the silences, add captions |
| Schedule the ones you want to post, and where | Draft a post for each network, then publish |
Telling your guests is the step you cannot hand off. Dailies Studio records from your browser, not with the platform’s own recorder, so it is up to you to tell them at the start of each call. One sentence is enough, and we have written which one, and how to bring it up.
In the shorts themselves, a switch blurs your guests and disguises their voices. It is on from the moment your account is created. And if a short shows your guest, lets them be heard or quotes them, post it only with their agreement.
Who is it for?
First of all for people who sell their expertise on calls, several times a week: consultants, coaches and trainers who work with businesses. Each of these trades has its own page, with the calls worth recording and what comes out of them.
It is a poorer fit if:
- you hold few calls, or calls where you say little;
- your calls are held in a language other than English or French;
- you take your calls in a desktop app or on your phone: Dailies Studio only records in Chrome, on a computer;
- your conversations fall under professional secrecy or concern health: Dailies Studio is not made for those calls.
Where are these videos published?
Dailies Studio shorts are vertical 9:16, the format that fills a phone screen on every short-video network. We cover the 9:16 vertical format: proportions, safe zones and captions.
On publishing, Dailies Studio publishes your shorts for you to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn and TikTok, on the day and at the time you plan, with post texts proposed for each network you pick. You are present wherever your clients look for you, without redoing the work network by network.
What does it cost?
Dailies Studio is sold as a single plan, with no meter on your calls or your shorts. The pricing page has the details, and What is Dailies Studio? answers the questions people ask before they start.
Key takeaways
- “Without filming yourself” means without a shoot, not without appearing: your call webcam is the camera.
- Your calls already hold your best answers, to real questions.
- You hold your calls, tell your guests, choose and schedule. The rest happens without you.
- Dailies Studio publishes your shorts to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn and TikTok.
To see what your own calls would give, book a call with the team: thirty minutes, by video.
Source
- Reclaim.ai, Smart Meetings Trends Report, 2024: a software vendor’s survey of professionals.