Things you can ask for
People have used Ponder for all of these on real projects:- cutting to a brief attached as a PDF,
- building a story from interviews alone, with no B-roll,
- going back and forth between speakers instead of playing one long answer after another,
- opening on a specific line as the hook,
- following a shot order you’ve written out,
- taking a whole project from import to rough cut while following several reference documents,
- matching the style of a reference video (see Matching a style).
What to check
Before you move on, watch the whole cut through. These are the things that most often need fixing:- black frames or gaps you didn’t ask for,
- a word that repeats at a cut,
- dialogue that’s cut off mid-thought or sounds rushed,
- the same clip used twice,
- empty placeholder blocks on the timeline,
- voice-over lines playing back to back when they need room to breathe,
- stretches without voice-over that have no B-roll covering them.