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Story0 watches every clip. Your desk makes every call.

For teams that license and publish footage of real events.

For teams that license and publish footage of real events. Story0 takes the first watch. It checks every clip against your brief and asks one question: use it or skip it? Your researchers start from its view and its reason, not a raw clip. The clips you keep can become captioned videos.

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Every clip on this page is from a worked example Big Leap built: six clips licensed from Pexels and a public-domain 1946 newsreel.

red-car-mexico-city.mp4Israyosoy, Pexels

Use this clip?

Story0 would use it: vehicles and a scooter navigating deep urban floodwater during a rainstorm.

Checked against the example desk's brief

Clips arrive all day. Each one needs a call.

Seven clips reached the example desk: Big Leap's team, working to a brief written for a desk that licenses weather footage to broadcasters and publishers. The desk agreed with Story0 six times. It skipped one clip Story0 would have used.

  • Red car on a flooded avenue, 0:18. Story0 would use it. The desk used it.
  • Dog wading down a flooded street, 0:11. Story0 would use it. The desk used it.
  • Night traffic in standing water, 0:15. Story0 would use it. The desk used it.
  • Floods sweep East, 1946 newsreel, 0:22. Story0 would use it. The desk skipped it.
  • Flooded road under an overpass, 0:16. Story0 would use it. The desk used it.
  • Flooded path and warning sign, 0:23. Story0 would use it. The desk used it.
  • Surfers on a big wave, 0:12. Story0 would skip it. The desk skipped it.

The desk overruled Story0 here.

1946 newsreel: archive, not this week's weather.

All 7 decided. 5 using, 2 skipped.

Clips from one event can become a story.

When new footage comes in, Story0 suggests which clips show the same event, and a person confirms. Inside a story, you choose which clips the video uses. Leaving one out never changes its call on the clip list.

Choose clips

Streets turn to rivers after a downpour

  • Red car on a flooded avenue

    Clip list:Use

  • Dog wading down a flooded street

    Clip list:Use

  • Flooded road under an overpass

    Clip list:Use

  • Night traffic in standing water

    Clip list:Use

  • Flooded path and warning sign

    Clip list:Use

5 of 5 clips in this video.

The example's story: five clips from five contributors. Leave one out to see what happens to its call.

It plans the video in parts, from the hook to the payoff.

The example desk typed one request. Story0 planned six parts around it.

What the example desk asked for

Open on the red car in Mexico City, then give each other clip its own part

  1. Hook
  2. Background
  3. What happened
  4. What happened
  5. What happened
  6. Payoff
  • What the example desk asked for: Open on the red car in Mexico City, then give each other clip its own part
  • Hook, 0:00
  • Background, 0:06
  • What happened, 0:17
  • What happened, 0:28
  • What happened, 0:38
  • Payoff, 0:47

Each shot comes from the part of the clip the desk kept.

The hook opens on the strongest moment, even when it comes late in its clip. If the desk cut part of a clip, that part stays out. In the approved cut, the editor started the hook two seconds later, as the red car reaches the water.

  1. Hook

    Red car on a flooded avenue

    0:11-0:17

  2. Background

    Red car on a flooded avenue

    0:00-0:11

  3. What happened

    Dog wading down a flooded street

    0:00-0:11

  4. What happened

    Flooded road under an overpass

    0:04-0:14

    inside the desk's trim, 0:00-0:14

  5. What happened

    Night traffic in standing water

    0:06-0:15

  6. Payoff

    Flooded path and warning sign

    0:00-0:08
  • Hook: Red car on a flooded avenue, 0:11-0:17, from 0:11 in its clip, where the editor started it
  • Background: Red car on a flooded avenue, 0:00-0:11
  • What happened: Dog wading down a flooded street, 0:00-0:11
  • What happened: Flooded road under an overpass, 0:04-0:14, inside the desk's trim, 0:00-0:14
  • What happened: Night traffic in standing water, 0:06-0:15
  • Payoff: Flooded path and warning sign, 0:00-0:08
  • Hook: Red car on a flooded avenue, 0:11-0:17, from 0:11 in its clip, where the editor started it
  • Background: Red car on a flooded avenue, 0:00-0:11
  • What happened: Dog wading down a flooded street, 0:00-0:11
  • What happened: Flooded road under an overpass, 0:04-0:14, inside the desk's trim, 0:00-0:14
  • What happened: Night traffic in standing water, 0:06-0:15
  • Payoff: Flooded path and warning sign, 0:00-0:08

Captions are written from the desk's copy.

Copy is the text your desk writes about the story. Each caption comes from a sentence of it and sits on the part it describes. Without copy, captions come from what is seen and said, and a soundbite stays whole, with its own sound. Here the editor shortened some captions to fit.

From the desk's copy

A red car threw up a wall of spray, followed by a taxi and a motorcyclist.

Caption

A red car throws up a wall of spray, followed by a taxi and a motorcyclist, on a flooded Mexico City avenue.

  1. Heavy rain turned an avenue in Mexico City into a river, but drivers kept going through water that covered the road.

  2. Contributors in other places sent their own footage: in one clip, a dog wades across a flooded street as rickshaws pass.

  3. In another clip, people keep to the edge of a flooded road beneath an overpass as a motorcyclist rides through the water.

  4. A third clip, filmed after dark in heavy rain, shows cars crawling through standing water with their headlights on.

  5. In a fourth clip, floodwater runs past a roadworks sign leaning at the edge of a grassy bank.

  • 0:00. From the desk's copy: A red car threw up a wall of spray, followed by a taxi and a motorcyclist. Caption: A red car throws up a wall of spray, followed by a taxi and a motorcyclist, on a flooded Mexico City avenue.
  • 0:08. From the desk's copy: Heavy rain turned an avenue in Mexico City into a river, and drivers pressed on through water that covered the road. Caption: Heavy rain turned an avenue in Mexico City into a river, but drivers kept going through water that covered the road.
  • 0:19. From the desk's copy: Contributors in other places sent their own footage of flooded streets. In one clip, a dog wades across a street under water while cycle rickshaws and a truck pass behind it. Caption: Contributors in other places sent their own footage: in one clip, a dog wades across a flooded street as rickshaws pass.
  • 0:29. From the desk's copy: In another, people keep to the edge of a flooded road beneath an overpass as a motorcyclist rides through the water. Caption: In another clip, people keep to the edge of a flooded road beneath an overpass as a motorcyclist rides through the water.
  • 0:39. From the desk's copy: A third, filmed after dark in heavy rain, shows cars crawling through standing water with their headlights on. Caption: A third clip, filmed after dark in heavy rain, shows cars crawling through standing water with their headlights on.
  • 0:48. From the desk's copy: In a fourth, floodwater runs past a roadworks sign leaning at the edge of a grassy bank. Caption: In a fourth clip, floodwater runs past a roadworks sign leaning at the edge of a grassy bank.

Then it checks the cut.

Five checks pass. One says what the footage can't show.

  • Hooks in 3 s

    A strong moment is on screen in the first 3 seconds

  • Pays off

    It ends on the outcome

  • Front-loaded

    What, where and the key moment come in the first third

  • Enough to follow

    Nothing shows how the flooding ended or what damage it caused.

  • Works with sound off

    Every soundbite has its words on screen

  • Music clear of speech

    The music stops for speech

  • Hooks in 3 s
  • Pays off
  • Front-loaded
  • Enough to follow: Nothing shows how the flooding ended or what damage it caused.
  • Works with sound off
  • Music clear of speech

The same cut is framed for each screen.

The example desk approved three videos from it: English 16:9, English 9:16 and German 9:16.

English 16:9
English 9:16
German 9:16
  • English 16:9
  • English 9:16
  • German 9:16

A person signs off each video, and the stamp says who.

Each draft lists what its footage doesn't show. Ask for changes in plain words, like a shorter cut or no music. When it's right, approve it.

The draft says it's missing

  • Nothing shows how the flooding ended or what damage it caused.
  • Nothing says where the other contributor clips were filmed.
  • Nothing says when the rain fell.

What the example desk's editor did

  • Moved the opening to where the red car hits the water.
  • Kept Story0's first caption and retimed it to the red car.
  • Shortened captions to fit, and credited the contributors on screen.
  • Kept each part on its own clip, inside the ranges the desk kept.

Streets turn to rivers after a downpour

The example's story, approved by the example desk's editor on 1 November 2026.

Version

MP4 · 15.2 MBSRT

MP4 · 13.7 MBSRT

MP4 · 14.0 MBSRT

Each approved video downloads as an MP4, with SRT captions and a file for Premiere.

Read the captions
  1. A red car throws up a wall of spray, followed by a taxi and a motorcyclist, on a flooded Mexico City avenue.
  2. Heavy rain turned an avenue in Mexico City into a river, but drivers kept going through water that covered the road.
  3. Contributors in other places sent their own footage: in one clip, a dog wades across a flooded street as rickshaws pass.
  4. In another clip, people keep to the edge of a flooded road beneath an overpass as a motorcyclist rides through the water.
  5. A third clip, filmed after dark in heavy rain, shows cars crawling through standing water with their headlights on.
  6. In a fourth clip, floodwater runs past a roadworks sign leaning at the edge of a grassy bank.

Made for the desk between the footage and the client.

Licensing and viral video teams
Add every submission and Story0 watches each one against your brief. Your researchers make the calls, and the list keeps them.
Agency video desks
Turn a contributor's clips into captioned cuts, landscape and vertical, with soundbites kept whole and an editor's sign-off on each.
Newsroom social teams
Bring the story's copy and its footage. The captions follow your copy, and a producer approves each video.
Channels fed by creators
Add new videos from your creators and check each one against your channel's brief.
Archives and research services
Write a client's wishlist as the brief, then check the footage you add against it, clip by clip, with timecodes.

Footage in the example: Israyosoy, Kowsar, Somogro Bangladesh, Lone, Mario Obst and Aloha Photo Studio on Pexels, under the Pexels License. Floods sweep East, Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, Release 507, 29 May 1946, from the US National Archives via the Internet Archive, in the public domain. Nobody shown is connected with Story0.

All footage credits

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