Edit a clip

Every clip opens in an editor made for one short clip. A save renders the clip again from its own footage, without transcribing or selecting again, and edits never count against your plan.

In My clips, open a clip and press Open editor. The editor fills the screen, and the arrow at its top left, Back to clip, closes it again.

• The top bar holds the clip's title, Undo and Redo, the save state and Save changes.
• The video sits in the middle, with a toolbar over it for the clip's format and the framing of each scene.
• The transcript stands beside the video on a wide screen. On a smaller one it is the first tab of the rail.
• The rail of tool tabs opens a panel beside the video, or along the bottom on a phone.
• The timeline runs under the video, with playback, the clip's length and a row for each layer.

Each tab of the rail opens one tool, and each tool has a guide of its own:

• Words: correct, replace, hide or cut the words, and add emoji. Edit a clip's transcript
• Captions: the caption style, font, colours, highlight and position. Change a clip's caption style
• Text: lines of your own over the video. Add text to a clip
• Media: images, video clips of your own, your brand, and an intro and an outro. Add images and video to a clip and Add an intro and an outro
• Hook: the title card the clip opens on. Edit the opening hook
• B-roll: stock footage over one phrase of the clip. Add B-roll to a clip
• Music: a track of your own, and the volume and fades of the clip's sound. Add music to a clip

The length and the framing are worked from the timeline and the toolbar: Trim and split a clip and Reframe a clip cover them.

The timeline shows the clip's video, with its scenes, and its sound. Timeline & layers opens it to its full height, with the captions and a row for every text, image and video layer, and Hide details closes it again.

Drag along the ruler to move the playhead, or press Space to play. Fit shows the whole clip, and the zoom beside it brings a moment closer. Drag the clip's start or end to trim it, and Trim opens its exact length.

Changes wait until you press Save changes, and the line beside the button says Unsaved changes until you do. Undo and Redo step through the changes until then. The clip renders again while the editor says Rendering your clip…, then All changes saved, and the new version takes the old one's place in My clips.

If a save does not go through, Fix an edit that won't save goes through each message. Editing, rendering again and splitting are free on every plan, and the clip editor page shows the editor at work.