Editing your video

This page is the working manual for the editor. Editor overview maps the screen and the shortcuts.

How editing works

Your video is already put together when the editor opens. Play it, find what you want to change, fix it, then render. Every edit saves as you go. Nothing reaches the final video until you click Render video.

Footage

Open the Media panel, or right-click a clip on the footage track and pick Replace footage. Choose the scene, then use one of three tabs:

• Suggested shows the other clips the pipeline found for that scene.
• Search runs a new search with your own words, in the same archival and stock library the pipeline uses for your niche.
• Upload replaces the scene's footage with your own image.

Pick a clip to preview the swap. Fresh footage asks the pipeline to pick new footage for the scene, free.

Narration

The narration's words live in the captions. To change what the narrator says, open the Captions panel and edit the sentence. The panel then tells you the spoken narration does not match until you re-voice. Click Re-voice to voice that scene again with the new words. A re-voice costs 26 credits.

To change how a scene sounds without changing the words, select its voiceover clip. The inspector's Voice tab has delivery presets (Match video, Calm, Energetic, Authoritative, Storytelling) and an Advanced section for stability, expression and pace. Preview plays a sample, free. Re-voice applies it for 26 credits.

Your own narration. The Voice tab also takes an MP3 or WAV upload, and the timeline then uses your recording as the voiceover track. Custom voiceover has the details.

Critic findings

The script critic works before voiceover, not in the editor, and the editor does not show its findings. Rendering and troubleshooting explains what the critic does.

Captions

The Captions panel has two tabs.

• Content lists every caption sentence. Click one to jump to it, edit its words, or find and replace across the video.
• Appearance turns captions on or off and sets their style: a preset, or your own font, size, colour, background, outline and position. A style can apply to all scenes or to one scene.

Titles, overlays and transitions

• Text adds a styled title at the playhead. Type your words, then pick a style.
• Animations adds an animated overlay, such as a chapter card or a headline, at the playhead.
• Transitions sets a style and a length for a cut between two footage clips. You can also click a ⇄ marker on the footage track. Back to a clean cut removes a transition.

Music and sound

The Audio panel swaps the music track (filter by mood) and adds sound effects at the playhead. The Audio mixer in the timeline toolbar sets the voice, music and sound effect levels. Auto-duck under narration makes the music and sound effects dip while the narrator speaks.

Your own files

The Uploads panel keeps the images and audio you upload. Search and filter them, then add one or several to the timeline.

Timeline edits

Select a clip to split it at the playhead, duplicate it, hide it or delete it. The same actions are in the right-click menu and in the shortcut sheet. Shift + H hides a whole scene. Undo and redo cover every edit.

History and Magic Reset

The History panel keeps checkpoints of your edit. The editor makes them as you work, and you can save a named one. Before a restore, it shows what the restore changes back. The state from just before the restore is kept as its own checkpoint, so you never lose work.

Magic Reset takes the whole edit back to the AI original. Your edits from before the reset are kept as a checkpoint.

Saving

The editor saves as you edit. The top bar shows Saved, Edited while a save waits, or Couldn't save with a Retry button.

Rendering

The preview is free. When you are happy, click Render video. The first render is part of the video you already paid for. After the video is done, your first re-render with edits is free, and each re-render after that costs 50 credits. The editor shows the cost before the render starts.

Export and thumbnail

The Export menu downloads the video, the captions (.vtt) and the script (.txt). Save as look template keeps this video's look under a name, as a brand profile. Pick it under Brand profile when you start your next video, and its look applies when that video renders. After a render, a thumbnail card shows on the preview with a Download thumbnail button.

What's next

When the video is done, Open publish kit on the video page gives you the video, the thumbnail, the captions and the metadata to paste into YouTube Studio.

Rendering and troubleshooting covers render states and what to do when a job is stuck.

Custom voiceover covers bringing your own audio.

Cheers,
Carl