Editing

Change the script, voice, zooms, captions, music and scenes, by hand or by asking the assistant.

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Find your way around the video editorA tour of the video editor for how-to videos, product demos and Polish videos: the top bar, the Script, Style, Audio, Zoom and Elements tabs, the timeline, who can edit, and which edits use credits.10 min read Edit the script and voice-overEdit the voice-over line of any step in a how-to video or product demo and Clevera records it again in the video's voice. Add, mute or delete narration, choose what plays under each step, and see what it costs.7 min read Change the style, background and captionsUse the Style tab to change the background around your recording, the cursor's size and click sound, the captions and their look, and the camera overlay. Every setting, default and what it costs.8 min read Change voice, music and soundUse the Audio tab to switch the AI voice that reads your voice-over, pick, shape or turn off the background music, and set your microphone and system audio in Polish videos. What each change costs.7 min read Adjust zooms and camera movesTurn automatic zooms off, change their level, add your own, or draw a zoom-and-pan path in the video editor's Zoom tab. How zooms follow your cursor, every setting and its default.6 min read Add and edit elementsPut text, images, video overlays, blur, highlights, shapes, emoji, audio and sound effects on top of your video from the Elements tab. Place, time and animate them, and add full-screen scenes and transitions.12 min read Edit a social clipFind your way around the social clip editor: change words, pictures, voice-over lines, music, sound effects and captions by hand, use the timeline and shortcuts, and see what only the assistant can change.8 min read Ask the assistant to change your videoAsk the editor's assistant a question or describe a change in your own words. What it can and can't change in videos from a recording and in social clips, how to undo its edits, its limits, and how its work is charged.8 min read Translate a finished videoTranslate a finished how-to video, product demo or social clip from the editor's language menu. Each language becomes its own version with a new voice-over. Usually 3–10 credits per language.6 min read Restore an earlier version of a videoOpen a video's revision history to see every change, preview an earlier version, and restore the whole video or only its captions, music, look or layers. Restoring is free and can be undone.8 min read Use sync and pacing to match footage to narrationChoose which parts of your recording play under each narrated step, and how fast: add and trim clips, set speeds from 0.5× to 8×, hold a frame with a freeze, and read how video and narration fit.12 min read Understand the timelineWhat each lane of the video editor's timeline holds, which blocks you can move or trim and why steps can't be, hide vs mute vs delete, the music lane, splitting clips, aspect ratio and crop.9 min read Use voice tags in narrationAdd pauses, laughs, sighs and tone cues to a narration line with voice tags. Every tag, what Built-in, ElevenLabs and avatar voices do with each one, and tips for natural results.5 min read Change event speed and visibility in older recordingsIn videos made from recordings captured with an older desktop app, use Event settings to speed up, slow down or hide each recorded click, scroll or pause under a step.2 min read Draw a zoom and pan pathMake a zoom go exactly where you want: Auto vs Advanced, the Zoom & pan window, points, Smooth, Magnetic and Snap motion, limits, and a worked example.6 min read Edit scenes and cardsWhat intro cards, title cards, logo reveals, lists, text beats, video scenes, clips and the video cover are, how to add them, every field you can edit, card backgrounds including animated motion backgrounds, and how scene templates work.13 min read Understand language versions of a videoEach language of a video is its own version. What every language shares (the recording, crop, aspect ratio), what each keeps for itself, why edits after translating stay in one language, and how to update translations.6 min read