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// Reels & content · from what you already said

One recording.Many posts.

You already teach, talk and record: classes, podcasts, talks, voice notes. Send us one and we turn it into reels in your look, captions and a newsletter in your own words, and a carousel. You approve everything before it goes out.

✓ Only your words on screen✓ Your look, not a template✓ Nothing posts without your yes

// [ 01 ] What one recording becomes

In

One recording

A class, a talk, a podcast episode, a live, or a voice note on your phone. Audio is enough; video gives us more.

01

Reels

The strongest moments, cut to 20–40 seconds, in one of the looks below.

02

Captions

A caption for each reel, built from your sentences.

03

Newsletter

Your next email, drafted from the same recording, in your voice.

04

Carousel

The idea in slides, for people who read rather than watch.

05

Quote cards

Single lines worth keeping, set in your type.

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Track visuals

For musicians: the short clip that plays behind a song on Spotify.

// [ 02 ] One recording, one week: a demo

Say you start a class by reading Kahlil Gibran’s “On Joy and Sorrow” aloud. That’s 97 seconds. Below is everything that comes back from it. Each piece waits for your yes, and the dashed boxes are the parts only you can add.

In

The recording

1 min 37 s of audio. Nothing else.

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”

Gibran, The Prophet (1923) · read by a LibriVox volunteer

Out 01

Two reels

The same 34 seconds in two looks, so you pick.

→ Instagram, TikTok
Out 02

A carousel

Six slides for people who read rather than watch, in the same look as the reels.

→ Instagram, LinkedIn
Slide 1: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. Slide 2: The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Slide 3: an old cup, and the line about the cup burned in the potter’s oven. Slide 4: a lute player woodcut, and the line about the lute hollowed with knives. Slide 5: They are inseparable. Slide 6: Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.

Swipe →

Out 03

Quote cards

Single lines worth keeping, for the feed or stories.

→ Instagram, stories
Quote card: And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. Quote card: And how else can it be?
Out 04

Captions

One for each post, built from the recording’s own sentences.

→ with each post
For the reel

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. Kahlil Gibran, “On Joy and Sorrow”

+ You add: one line of yours
For the carousel

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” Swipe for his answer.

+ You add: where to find you
For the quote card

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

+ You add: your next class
Out 05

Your newsletter

Drafted from the same recording. You correct it and add what only you know.

→ your email tool, as a draft
Subject Your joy is your sorrow unmasked
Preview This week’s reading, in under two minutes

Hi {first name},

+ You add: your opening line

This week we read Kahlil Gibran’s “On Joy and Sorrow” aloud. A woman asks him to speak of joy and sorrow, and he answers:

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Then he gives two pictures: the cup that holds your wine was burned in the potter’s oven, and the lute that soothes your spirit was hollowed with knives.

To anyone asking which is greater, he says they can’t be separated:

when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
▸ Listen to the reading · 1:37 + You add: your next class or offer + You add: your sign-off
The reading: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), public domain. Recording: LibriVox.

// [ 03 ] The looks

Open the reel studio → Pick any of 20 styles and watch it play live.

Every reel here was made by our own tools from public-domain recordings (old books read aloud by LibriVox volunteers), so you see the method without seeing anyone's client work. Tap one to watch with sound.

Look 01

Words

The sentences are the picture. Each word lands as it's spoken; the key words get a card of their own.

Look 02

Words + pictures

The same, with an old engraving popping up on the words you can see: a cup, a lute, a heart.

Look 03

Art

Your own artwork or photos, full frame, with clean captions. Quiet, and closest to your feed.

Look 04

You, talking

When you're on camera: your video cut for the phone, with your words as captions, in your colours.

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Your words only

Everything on screen is something you said or wrote. We pick the moments; we don't put words in your mouth.

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Pictures you may use

Your own photos and art first. Anything else is public domain or free to use, and we keep the list of where it came from.

03

You say yes first

We draft, you approve. Nothing is posted or sent without your yes on that piece.

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Tell us where you post and what you're working on. We'll show you what one of your recordings can become.

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Sources. Audio: LibriVox recordings, public domain: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923); Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854); Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946); Swami Vivekananda, "The Ideal of a Universal Religion" (1896). Video: astronaut Nicole Stott in NASA's Down to Earth: A Work of Art (2020), a US government work in the public domain; the music was taken out and only her voice kept. NASA does not endorse Astral Studio. Pictures, public domain or CC0: Asher B. Durand, The Catskills (1859); East Indian lotus and Megata Morikaga's Hasu plates; anatomical heart and lung engravings (1686 and later); a lute woodcut from Ripa's Iconologia; a gilt-bronze cup; a 19th-century magnet engraving. Typefaces: Anton, Alfa Slab One, DM Serif Display, Space Mono, Inter. librivox.org