Ask the assistant to change your video
Ask 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.
The assistant is a chat panel in the editor. Ask it a question about your video, or describe a change in your own words, and it edits the video for you. Changes apply right away, and you can undo each one.
There are two assistants, one for each kind of video. They work the same way but can change different things.
| Videos from your recording (how-to, product demo) | Social clips | |
|---|---|---|
| Where to open it | Assistant button in the top bar | Assistant on the icon rail at the edge of the video. It opens by default when you open a clip. |
| What it changes | Words: the voice-over, the title, chapter headings | Almost anything in a scene: words on screen, timing, voice-over lines, sounds, music, pictures, the background |
| Placeholder | "Ask or describe a change…" | "Ask for a change to this video…" |
Videos made with Polish have no assistant.
Before you start
- You need edit rights on the video. Viewers see the button greyed out with "You don't have permission to edit".
- The assistant uses credits for each request. There's no estimate up front; see How assistant edits are charged.
- Write in any language. The assistant replies in the language you write in. Your video's language doesn't change unless you ask for a translation.
Ask for a change
Open the assistant
Click Assistant. An empty chat shows a few examples you can tap to put in the message box, for example "Make the opening line shorter" or "Change the headline in scene 2".
Point at what you mean (social clips)
To ask about one scene or item, select it on the timeline or the video and click Ask the assistant about this layer (or Ask about the selected item). It appears above the message box as About: and its name. Click the × to remove it.
Describe the change
Type what you want, up to 4,000 characters, and press Send. Be specific: "Make the headline in scene 3 bigger and yellow" works better than "make it pop".
Watch it work
While it works, the panel says what it's doing ("Thinking", "Reading the video", "Editing the video", "Recording the new lines"), and Send becomes Stop. If it takes long it says "This is taking longer than usual…". If you close the panel while it works, a message tells you when the change lands, with Undo.
Check the result
The change lands on your video at once and the player jumps to it. The reply describes what changed, with a card naming what it changed (for example "Applied to the music") and an Undo button.
Undo stays on the card until you send your next message.
What the assistant can and can't do
Videos from your recording
| It can | It can't |
|---|---|
| Rewrite, shorten or fix one or several voice-over lines | Change scene timing or trims |
| Change the whole voice-over at once: a friendlier tone, shorter lines, fixed grammar, consistent terms | Change zooms |
| Rename the video or a chapter | Add or remove title or intro cards |
| Answer questions about the video ("Which scenes have the longest lines?") and about what you said while recording | Add a voice-over to a silent scene, or remove one |
| Translate the video, or update its translations after a change | Change the voice, music, captions or the look |
Every voice-over line it changes is recorded again in the video's own voice, and the scene is re-timed to the new length. For anything it can't do, it tells you which panel of the editor to use instead.
Social clips
| It can | It can't |
|---|---|
| Change the words on screen, sizes, colors and positions | Change the video's shape (aspect ratio). It says: "I can't change the video's shape: it is chosen when a clip is created, so create a new clip in the shape you want." |
| Make a scene longer or shorter, faster or slower (by taking time from a neighbouring scene) | Change the clip's total length |
| Rewrite voice-over lines (re-recorded in the clip's voice) | Make a new screen recording |
| Make music or a sound louder or quieter, or remove it | Change what an AI avatar says once its video is made |
| Swap the music for another track from the library | Translate the clip (use Translate… in the language menu) |
| Add or swap sound effects | Write fake quotes, testimonials, prices or guarantees your video doesn't already state |
| Use other pictures from your materials, or icons | |
| Change the camera on a screen recording: closer, wider, focus on the click or on the result | |
| Change the background |
When a request is vague ("make it better", "more modern"), the assistant asks which change you want and offers two or three options. Your next message answers it ("Your next message answers this."). A card titled A question about your video can also appear with its own Your answer box.
Undo a change
- Each change's card has Undo until you send your next message. After that, use Undo in the top bar (the chat says "This change can no longer be undone from the chat."), or restore an earlier version from the revision history, where assistant changes show as "The assistant changed the video".
- If you edited the same thing by hand after the assistant's change, Undo asks first: "Undo anyway?" with Undo anyway and Keep it.
- You can also type "undo that" right after a change.
A Partly done badge means the assistant reached its limit for one request before finishing everything. Check what changed and ask again for the rest.
Translate with the assistant
In videos made from a recording, ask "Translate this into Spanish and Japanese" or "Update the translations". The assistant first shows a Translation card with the languages (update marks a language the video already has) and the credit cost. Nothing starts until you click Translate; Not now cancels. For social clips, use Translate… in the top bar.
Start a new chat
Click New chat in the panel's header. "The assistant forgets this conversation. Changes already made stay." Your chat is otherwise kept per video and language, so it's there when you come back.
How assistant edits are charged
- Each request uses credits for the work it actually does. There's no estimate before you send, because the cost depends on the request.
- Voice-over lines it re-records are part of that cost.
- A translation shows its credit cost first and runs only when you click Translate.
- A question usually costs less than an edit, and rewriting the whole voice-over usually costs more than changing one line.
- On the Usage page, assistant work shows as AI assistant edit.
- Undoing a change and starting a new chat are free.
See Understand credits and Check where your credits went.
Limits
| Limit | What you see |
|---|---|
| Daily limit per workspace | "You've reached today's Assistant limit for your workspace. It resets at midnight UTC." |
| One request at a time per video | "The assistant is still working on your last request." |
| Requests running across your workspace | "The Assistant is already working on other requests of yours. Send this again once one has finished." or "Your workspace's Assistant is already working on other requests…" |
| About 20 messages a minute | Wait a moment and send again. |
| Out of credits or a payment problem | A credits or payment message, such as "Your workspace cannot use the assistant right now." It takes new requests again once your workspace has credits or the payment is fixed. |
| A request runs very long | It's stopped after 5 minutes. |
Troubleshooting
| Message | What to do |
|---|---|
| "Couldn't reach the assistant" | Check your connection and click Try again. |
| "The assistant is off" | It isn't available for this video right now. Everything else in the editor works. |
| "No scenes yet" | The assistant works on the voice-over scenes. Wait for the video (or the translation) to finish. |
| "That didn't work, and nothing in your video changed." or "That did not work, and nothing on your video changed." | Click Retry, or rephrase the request. |
| "Stopped. Nothing on your video changed." | You clicked Stop before the change landed. Send the request again when you're ready. |
| "The picture could not be uploaded. Try again." | Check the file type and try again. |