Editing basics
This is part one of the ten-minute editor tour. The other parts cover cut, clean, sound and pace, visuals, text, emoji and transitions, and layout, crop and tracking.
Find your way around the editor
- Left rail: opens one panel at a time (Hook, Captions, Cut & Clean, Sound, Pace, Visuals, Text, Emoji, Motion, Layout, Brand).
- Preview: plays your clip with every edit applied.
- Storyline: the transcript. Select words here to edit them.
- Timeline: every section and added item, laid out in time.
- Top bar: undo, redo, save status and Export.
Every panel has a ? button with short steps. The first time you open a panel, it shows one tip.
Edit from the transcript
Select words in the Storyline, then choose an action:
- Delete: removes the video and audio for those words.
- Edit: changes the caption text only.
- Highlight: colours those words in the captions.
- Adjust timing: changes when one word's caption appears (see Captions).
- Add: puts AI B-Roll, Stock B-Roll, an emoji or an AI hook on the selected words.
Work on the timeline
Keyboard shortcuts on the timeline:
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| S | Split the section at the playhead |
| Delete | Delete the selected item, or the section under the playhead |
| Alt (hold) | Turn snapping on or off while dragging |
| + / − | Zoom in or out around the playhead |
| 0 | Zoom to fit the whole clip |
| ⌘ or Ctrl + scroll | Zoom around the cursor |
| Esc | Clear the selection |
| ? | Show or hide the shortcut list |
You can't split exactly on the edge of a section. Move the playhead a little away from the edge first.
Undo and redo
Use the undo and redo arrows in the top bar. A bulk action, like applying several cleanup suggestions at once, undoes in one step.
Saving
There is no Save button. Every edit saves itself a couple of seconds after you make it. The top bar shows Saving…, then All changes saved once your edits are safely stored. If you leave the editor while a save is still waiting, it saves first; you're only asked before leaving if that save fails. Reopening the clip always shows your latest saved edits.
Saving doesn't make a new video file, so the editor stays fast. Export or Download makes the file from your latest saved version. Until then, My Videos keeps showing your last exported video with Changes since last export.
If a save fails, the top bar says so; click Try again. If the clip was changed somewhere else, for example in another tab, you'll see "This clip changed somewhere else." Click Reload clip to get the latest version.
Add a hook
A hook is short text shown at the start of your clip.
- Click Hook in the left rail and turn on Show hook text.
- Type your hook.
- Set Show from and Show until in milliseconds (1000 = 1 second).
- Pick a style preset, background and Entrance and Exit animations.
Under Spoken hook you can confirm the text for an AI voice. The AI voice audio isn't generated in the editor yet. See Known limitations.