Clean up or restyle a recording with Polish

Polish tidies up a recording without changing what it says. There's no AI voice-over: your own voice, if you spoke, stays in the video. Choose Clean-up to cut the dead time, or Styled for sharing to keep the recording whole and frame it in your brand.

Clean-up or Styled for sharing?#

Both follow the shape of your recording (you can change the aspect ratio in the editor afterwards), and both work on one video only. Pictures, PDFs and links aren't used: if you had added some, Compose removes them with the notice "Pictures, PDFs and links were removed — this video type works on your video alone."

Polish a recording#

1. Pick Polish#

   Click Create, open the Polish family and pick Clean-up or Styled for sharing.

2. Add the recording#

   Click + and choose Record your screen, Upload a video (MP4 up to 250 MB) or Choose from library. A new video replaces the current one.

3. Give it a title (Styled for sharing)#

   Styled for sharing shows a Title field above the box, filled with your recording's name. Edit it to what viewers should see on the intro card. It takes up to 255 characters. If it's empty, Generate shows "Give the video a title."

   

4. Check the options#

   Polish has three pills: Template (background, music, intro and title cards), Language and AI rules. There's no voice, tone or captions pill because Polish never adds a voice.

5. Generate#

   Check the credit estimate beside Generate video, then click it. The generation page shows the progress; you can close the tab.

What Clean-up cuts#

The AI watches the recording, reads a transcript of what you said and splits the video into separate kept segments, usually one per thing you say. Between them it removes:

• filler ("um", "uh"), false starts and self-corrections,
• repeated attempts at the same action, keeping the cleanest take,
• dead air where you're silent and nothing changes on screen,
• off-topic asides.

Silent waits it can't cut, such as a page loading or a file uploading, are sped up. Stretches where you speak always play at normal speed, because sped-up speech sounds wrong.

No voice in the recording? Clean-up still works. It keeps each meaningful action at normal speed, plays the pauses between actions at 2×, and drops very long idle stretches and retries.

Title cards are rare: none in videos under 3 minutes, and at most one in a longer video, only at a clear change of topic.

What Styled for sharing adds#

Styled for sharing is for a recording that is already right and only needs to look finished:

• your template's background behind the recording, with its padding, corners and shadow,
• an intro card with your title, in the template's intro-card design (or its title-card design if the template has no intro card),
• the template's transitions after the intro and its logo reveal at the end,
• the template's music under your audio,
• zooms on your clicks, for recordings made with the desktop app.

Nothing is cut and no voice is written, so the automatic zoom pass is the only part that uses credits. That's why it has its own, smaller estimate beside Generate video: 1–5 credits for a recording up to 5 minutes. A longer recording scales the range with its length, and the estimate never shows more than 6 credits. Like any generation, it needs your balance to cover the low end of the estimate to start, and you're charged what the zoom pass actually uses. See Know when credits are charged.

After it's made#

Open the video in the editor to adjust it. The Script tab doesn't appear, because there's no AI voice-over. You can still change the background and captions in Style, the music and recording volume in Audio, the zooms in Zoom, and add elements. If you recorded your camera with the desktop app, set its bubble in Style → Camera overlay.

Video clips you add to a Polish video come in as voice clips that keep their original audio.

Troubleshooting#

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