Edit a social clip

A social clip opens in its own version of the editor: the video in the middle, the assistant on the right and a timeline you can show when you need it. Most changes are a sentence to the assistant, and you can also change words, pictures, voice-over lines, music, sound effects and captions by hand.

Before you start#

• You need edit rights on the clip. Without them the assistant is unavailable and you can only look.
• Social clips are made by the AI director, which writes every scene as motion design. That's why scenes have no design settings of their own: you change their words by hand, and anything else through the assistant.
• Editing by hand is free. Assistant requests, a new voice-over line and captions use credits.

The clip editor at a glance#

Clip settings#

Click Clip settings on the icon rail. The Settings page shows the clip's length, shape and size (for example "1:00 · 16:9 · 1920×1080") and three sections:

Change the words on screen#

1. Click the words#

   Click the words on the video, or select the scene on the timeline. The scene's options open with its Text section, and the matching field is ready to edit.

2. Type the new words#

   Hovering a field outlines its words on the video. Press Shift Enter for a new line.

   

3. Save#

   Press Enter or click away. The scene updates at once.

If a scene has no Text section, its words are part of its design. Ask the assistant to change them, for example "Change the headline in scene 2 to 'Ship faster'".

Swap a picture or video#

1. Click the picture on the video, or its block on the timeline.
2. In its options, click Replace (or Choose an image if it's empty).
3. Pick one from your media library, or upload a new one. Images can be JPG, PNG, WebP or SVG up to 8 MB; videos MP4, MOV, WebM or AVI up to 100 MB.

A picture shown inside a scene says "Inside" and the scene's name. Its size and position there change it only inside that scene; Reset puts it back to the scene's framing.

Change a voice-over line#

1. Select the line#

   Click the voice-over line on the timeline. Its Script card opens.

2. Edit the words#

   Click Edit and change the text.

3. Regenerate#

   Click Regenerate. The line is recorded again in the clip's voice ("Generating…"). Play it with Play voiceover.

   

The voice itself belongs to the clip and can't be switched, by hand or by the assistant. A new recording can be longer or shorter than the old one; if it no longer fits, ask the assistant to adjust the timing.

Music and sound effects#

Music: open Clip settings → Sound and click the music row, or select the music on the timeline.

Sound effects: select one on the timeline. Use Effect to pick another from the library (with a preview button), Upload audio, or Remove sound. Set Volume, Loop, Fade in and Fade out. Add a new one with + (Add an element (A)) → Sound Effect.

For music or sounds picked for a reason ("Why this music?") or a different mood, ask the assistant.

Captions#

Open Clip settings → Captions, or + → Captions. Captions are made from the voice-over, so a clip without one shows "Add a voiceover to caption".

• Generate captions makes them; ⋯ → Regenerate captions… makes them again from the current voice-over, keeping their style.
• Style them with Style (the caption looks), Position (Top or Bottom), Font and Size, plus the Highlight, Layout, Text, Box, Outline and Shadow groups.

The settings are the same as in other videos; see Change the style, background and captions.

Add an element#

Press A or click + (Add an element (A)) in the timeline toolbar. New elements are "Added at the playhead".

Each element's options work as described in Add and edit elements.

Use the timeline#

There's no split tool in the clip editor.

Keyboard shortcuts#

The camera on a screen recording#

Screen recordings inside the AI's scenes get their zooms and pans planned with each scene, and they're part of the scene's design. To change them, ask the assistant: closer, wider or no zoom, focus on the click or on the result, stay longer on a moment, or show another moment. The assistant plans the camera again; single camera moves inside a scene can't be edited one by one.

A Recording Clip you add yourself (+ → Media → Recording Clip) works differently: select it, then in its options open Segments → Edit to change its cuts and camera moves (Follow cursor or Advanced, with a Zoom level).

What you can't change in a clip#

To start over completely, make a new clip from Create. The editor has no "regenerate the whole clip" button.

When a scene can't play#

If a scene shows "This layer can't play", the editor shows its last good frame (or nothing) in its place. Click Ask the assistant to fix it. A note over the video, such as "This scene couldn't be drawn", has the same Ask the assistant button.

What it costs#

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