The clip editor

Clicking a clip, from its project’s screen, opens the editor. Nothing there is final, and no edit uses credits: a video is billed once.

Creator and Studio plans

The clip editor is reserved for the Creator and Studio plans. On the free plan, opening a clip shows a window that says so: you can still watch and download the clip, but no edit is applied. See Plans.

The editor needs a screen at least 980 pixels wide. On a narrower screen, it only offers to download the clip.

The screen

• The top bar: Back to projects, the clip’s title, undo / redo, the More menu (apply to every clip, save to brand template, set as thumbnail, share, download), Publish and Apply.
• Clip speed, in the Cut tool: from 1.1× to 1.25×. Subtitles stay in sync, and the final length is shown.
• The length under the title is the length of the file that will come out: the clip between its bounds, minus the removed passages, divided by the speed. Silences removed by “Remove silences” and the intro and outro length are not counted: they are only known at render time.
• The tool rail, on the left: Cut, Subtitles, Hook, Branding, Reframe, Up next. The chosen tool’s settings show next to it.
• The preview, in the centre.
• The timeline, at the bottom: image, sound, sentences and layers (hook, logo, banner) over time.

Undo and Redo (Ctrl/⌘+Z, Ctrl/⌘+Shift+Z) cover every edit. ? shows the keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl/⌘+K opens the command palette. The Editor layout menu offers presets (Editing, Styling, Preview); panels can be resized, and the timeline enlarged.

To review quickly or set a cut to the exact frame: the speed selector next to the play button (0.5×, 1×, 1.5×, 2×, or < and > on the keyboard), and , / . to step back or forward one frame. Removed passages are skipped at every speed.

Your edits save themselves

Every setting is saved automatically, a moment after you make it. Reopening the clip — later, on another device — finds them as you left them. For this clip, they take precedence over the brand template.

The status line under the title shows:

• “Saving…” while it is being sent;
• “Edits saved” once it went through;
• “Saved, not yet burned into the clip” until the render is redone. Going back exactly to the file’s state — by undoing, for instance — clears this line and the dot on Apply.

If a save fails, a message says so, with Try again, and says why: an unreachable server, a server error, or a refused setting — in that last case, retrying changes nothing; change or undo that setting. If your previous edits could not be read when the clip opened, the editor saves nothing until they have been, so as not to overwrite them.

Apply

Saving does not change the clip’s file. Apply (“Apply and render again”) burns your edits in: the clip is re-composed — and reframed first if you changed the mode —, then the preview switches to the new file with “Clip updated”.

Caution

Downloads, shares and publications use the file. Edits that are saved but not yet applied are not in it. In that state, Download, Share and Publish remind you and offer to apply first (“Apply, then download”), or to go on with the previous version. Leaving the editor likewise offers Apply and leave. The footer of the More menu says whether the file carries your edits.

Apply is disabled, with the reason shown, when the clip would keep less than a second — bounds that cross, everything removed. The Edit track also refuses to delete its last segment.

Apply to every clip (More menu) copies this clip’s subtitles, hook style (position, size, look), logo, banner and grading onto the other clips of the same generation. Each clip keeps its own hook text; a clip with no suggested hook stays without one. Cuts, timings and text fixes are not copied.

Save to brand template (More menu) makes this clip’s styling your default template’s: the next generations will use it. The hook text and the template’s layout, language and post text do not change.

Cut

The bounds

The clip’s start and end. Drag the handles on the timeline, type the values, or set them at the playhead with [ and ]. Handles snap to sentences and words (Alt turns snapping off).

Removing sentences

The Cut tool lists the transcript sentence by sentence, at the top of the panel, under the final length. Untick the passages to remove: the cut follows sentences, so it never lands mid-word. Clicking a sentence block on the timeline does the same. The other cutting tools — bad takes, silences, speed, instruction, Extend — follow, under the list.

The Say what to remove field takes an instruction (“remove the parts where he hesitates”); the Suggest button below it unticks the passages it finds, and you review them before applying. This assistance has a daily quota per account; manual cutting is always available.

Silences and hesitations

Remove silences and hesitations, in the Cut tool, cuts gaps longer than 0.8 s and the “um”, “uh”, “you know”… from the whole clip when rendering, on top of your cuts. Off, only the sentences you unticked are removed. The result shows at the next Apply.

Bad takes

Detect, in the Cut tool, spots retakes, false starts and sentences said twice. Each passage offered is checked: untick what you keep, then Cut. The last take, the one that goes through, is always kept. Cut passages show as deleted segments on the Edit track, where they can be restored.

Cutting on the timeline

The Edit track lets you cut at the playhead (S key), select segments and delete them (Delete): the gap closes. Restore brings deleted segments back. The timeline reads in Edited view (the final clip) or Source view (the whole clip, cuts hatched).

During playback, the preview skips removed passages, like the final clip. Turn on Play the cuts to hear them anyway.

Extend the clip

Bounds can only remove. When the analysis cut too early, Extend the clip (Cut tool) recovers up to 10 seconds on each side:

1. set Before the start and After the end with the − and + buttons;
2. click Re-cut the clip.

The clip is re-cut from the original video then reframed: allow one to three minutes. Your unticked sentences and bounds follow, and branding already applied is redone automatically. Going back to +0 s on both sides restores the original clip.

Caution

Some clips cannot be extended — live-stream segments, for instance, or when the original video is no longer kept. The editor says so as soon as it opens; start a new generation on the part you want instead.

Subtitles

Two tabs:

• Style: look, mode, position, size, font and effects. The preview shows them with the same values as the final render. Until you touch them, All caps and the size slider show what the chosen look does by itself (Impact: caps, 43). See Subtitles.
• Text: click a word to correct it, remove it from the subtitles (the sound is not touched) or shift it by ±0.1 s. Revert this word and Revert all undo the fixes.

Speakers: when the clip has several voices, each gets a row — a name (it stays in the editor) and a colour. In word-by-word (karaoke) subtitles, each word takes its speaker’s colour; the highlight of the current word does not change.

The hook

A sentence burned in at the top of the clip, four seconds by default — its duration and position are set on the timeline (0.5 to 60 seconds). Its text can be rewritten; Font, colours and band holds the rest of its styling: font, colours, band (colour, opacity), Drop shadow (Automatic — a shadow when there is no band —, Always, Never) and Animated entrance. The preview shows the hook at an instant, without the animation.

Suggest other hooks writes three sentences from what the clip says; an optional hint (“funnier”, “as a question”) steers them. Click one to use it. Creator and Studio plans, within the daily AI-editing cap.

Note

A hook that is switched on but empty is not burned in. To remove it, switch it off.

Branding

Three parts: Logo, Banner, Grading — the same settings as in the brand template, for this clip alone. Logo and banner show for the whole clip by default; their window is set on the timeline.

Five gradings: None, Neutral, Warm, Cool, Vivid.

The banner height goes from 0.60 to 0.87 — the render’s bounds.

Under the logo, Intro and Outro add your bumpers around the clip, if they have been added in the brand template (Creator and Studio plans). With no logo installed, or no bumper added, the switch is greyed out and its note says why.

Reframing

The mode applied to the clip shows when it opens. Picking another mode saves it; the clip is reframed at the next Apply, in a few minutes, with no credit.

Streamer layout

Two modes for live streams and gaming videos, drawn once over a frame of the original video:

• Fixed frame — one area of the image fills the whole clip, without distortion.
• Split screen — webcam on top, game below: two stacked areas. A slider sets the height of the top area (35 to 65 %).

Drag an area to move it, its corner to resize it (keyboard: arrows, Shift + arrows). The vertical preview shows the result; it goes out with Apply.

On a clip from a live stream, Use for the whole channel saves the layout into the watch: every following segment is rendered with it. If the clip’s original video has expired, the layout can no longer be drawn.

Layout per section

A streamer talks to camera, then plays: cut the clip into sections with S on the Edit track, then, in the Reframe tool, pick Clip framing, Split screen or Fixed frame for each section. Each mode’s areas are drawn once, below. On Apply, only those sections are redone from the original video; the audio stays in one piece. Extending the clip removes the sections.

See Reframing.

Up next

The Up next tool appends other clips from your account after this one, in order, at the next Apply.

• Add a clip opens the list of your clips, grouped by project, with a search. Ten clips at most.
• Reorder them by drag and drop or with the arrows, remove them with ×.
• For each added clip, set the Kept portion and choose With its edits (the clip as served, subtitles and branding included) or not (the bare, reframed clip).
• Transition: Cut or Crossfade 0.3 s. The preview always plays them as cuts; the crossfade only appears in the render.
• Maximum length: 3 minutes, counting this clip in full. Beyond that, Apply is disabled: trim or remove a clip.

Each added clip keeps its own branding. Added clips also show on the timeline, in the Sequence track.

The order of the layers

Layers are burned in in this order, which cannot be changed:

Grading → Subtitles → Silence removal → Hook → Logo → Banner

On the free plan, an animated ClipHeat watermark is added last, top left. It has no setting. On paid plans, the Logo tab offers ClipHeat watermark: it follows your brand template, and changing it here only applies to this clip. The preview shows it, animated. See Plans.

Then come, if chosen, the speed-up, the clips up next, and finally the intro and outro, added around the finished result: no subtitles or hook go on them.

The preview

The preview composes the layers in your browser, on top of the clip. It is faithful — geometry, colours, timing — but the final file is rendered by ClipHeat. It shows your saved edits, even those not yet applied. When it cannot guarantee a value (a missing font, for instance), it says so.

It plays at the clip’s chosen speed. Subtitles are the size of the render, a long hook wraps as in the file, and the attribution banner is the same pill, kept between 60 and 87% of the height. One limit: with whole-sentence subtitles (“Word by word” off), the preview shows the right split, but not yet the font the render imposes on that mode.

Move the layers on the preview: the subtitles and hook handles are two round dots against the left edge of the frame, level with their text — they do not cover it, and fade while playing. Move them up or down; grab Logo and drop it near a corner, it snaps there. On the keyboard: up and down arrows (Shift to go faster), arrows to change the logo’s corner. The Branding panel follows.

On a tablet, by touch, the main buttons (Apply, Publish, More, Back, Play) are 44 px.

The Safe zones menu outlines what the TikTok, Reels or Shorts interface covers; F switches the preview to full screen.