How an agent reads a hard drive before we do.

[ 01 ] · What we did

Ingest the drive. Rank the moments. Cut the short list.

Fanatics handed over a hard drive from a Livvy Dunne campaign shoot. Hundreds of clips. Scripts, behind-the-scenes, lifestyle, b-roll.

The workflow ingested the drive, scanned every clip, and surfaced hook candidates with timecodes: a name said clearly, a moment of surprise, a tight quote, a usable b-roll beat. Each one ranked by hook strength so the editor opened a short list, not a haystack.

[ 02 ] · The result

One editor. One cut list. No two-editor scrub week.

The editor cut from a pre-ranked list instead of scrubbing for usable moments. The candidates that didn't make the library still earned their slot. The misses taught us what the agent was reading too generously, and we tightened the criteria for the next pass.

When production hands you the drive, you don't have a week. You have days.

[ 03 ] · Why it matters

Most ad libraries get built in panic. This is how you stop wasting the front half of the timeline.

The drive shows up, the deadline is days away, and the first three days disappear into scrubbing. Move that to the agent and the editor starts on the third day already cutting. Same timeline, double the output.