Sort your footage before AI ever touches it

AI editing tools work from whatever raw material you give them, and messy, unlabeled footage produces messy suggestions no matter how good the tool is. A folder full of clips named by camera and date instead of content forces every AI tool to guess at what matters, which means weaker cuts, weaker b-roll matches, and weaker highlight suggestions across the board.

A small amount of organizing before you edit, renaming key clips, tagging good takes, separating usable footage from throwaways, pays off far more than switching to a fancier tool. I've noticed every AI suggestion gets sharper the moment my own folder structure stops being a mess. The tool can only work with what it can find.

Try this today: before your next edit, spend a few minutes renaming your best takes and moving anything unusable out of the main folder. You will notice every AI suggestion afterward gets noticeably better simply because the raw material was easier to understand.