The Video Editor: a timeline that thinks

Video Editor Pro

A new, more capable editor, enabled for every account and opened from Content → Video Editor Pro in the sidebar.

Video Editor Pro brings AI video generation, voice-over and music, styled word-by-word captions, automatic B-roll, images and sound effects, GIPHY stickers, scene transitions and motion scenes (animated graphics written by AI) into one timeline. Projects are saved to your account and rendered to MP4 on our servers.

Short-form video needs captions, B-roll, sound effects and motion graphics on every cut, and doing that by hand takes hours. Video Editor Pro plans and places most of it for you from your captions, while keeping every piece editable on the timeline.

Generate video, voice-over & music

Create clips and audio from inside the editor and drop them onto the timeline.

The Generate video panel creates clips with Kling 2.5 Turbo, Sora 2, Seedance 2 or MiniMax Hailuo 02 from a prompt or a start frame. The credit cost is shown on the button. Jobs run in the background, keep going after a page reload, and are saved to your Media Library.

The Audio panel generates a voice-over from your script, or instrumental background music from a style prompt. Both are saved to your Media Library and added to the timeline.

Auto-captions & caption styles

Transcribe a clip into timed captions, then style and edit every word.

Auto-captions transcribe a clip into timed captions. Caption AI highlights key words in a color you choose and translates captions into 11 languages, with a one-click restore to the original.

Pick from 58 caption styles with word animations and highlight modes. Click any word to change its text, size, color, font, effect or position, or mute a line.

• Key-word highlights — emphasize chosen words in your own color.
• Translation — translate captions into 11 languages and restore the original in one click.
• 58 caption styles — word animations and highlight modes for every look.
• Per-word controls — text, size, color, font, effect and position for any word, or mute a line.

Auto B-roll, images, sounds & stickers

Plan supporting media across your video from the captions, then review and add it in one step.

From the captions AI tab, plan stock or AI B-roll, word-matched images and sound effects across your video. Review each pick, add them all in one step, and remove them later in one click.

You can also attach an AI image, stock photo, sound effect or GIPHY sticker to any caption word, so it appears exactly when the word is spoken.

• Stickers panel — browse trending or search GIPHY stickers.
• Images panel — generate AI images.
• Sounds panel — search a library of royalty-free sound effects and music.

Transitions

Add crossfade, whip pan or zoom-through transitions between clips.

Set a transition per clip, or apply one across every cut with an editor pack.

Motion scenes

Animated motion graphics written by AI from your brief and brand colors.

You can also ask the AI chat for animated text or motion graphics. It opens a new Video Editor Pro project with the motion scene brief already filled in.

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   Start from a brief or an effect

   Use the step-by-step wizard with your brief and brand colors, or start from one of six free effects: kinetic type, title reveal, scramble title, number counter, lower third, or 3D grid title.

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   Edit the storyboard

   Adjust the storyboard the wizard writes for you.

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   Tweak and refine

   Tweak text and colors for free, or request changes.

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   Add it as a clip

   Place the finished motion scene on the timeline. Overlays can be exported with a transparent background to reuse over other footage.

Projects & rendering in Video Editor Pro

Projects save automatically and render to MP4 on our servers.

Video Editor Pro projects save to your account automatically. You can rename them and reopen them from any device or from Video Library. Rendering to MP4 happens on our servers, with media links refreshed so clips never go blank.

Tracks, clips & overlays

Layer every kind of media on multi-row tracks and arrange them in time.

The timeline is multi-track: overlays sit on rows so they can stack and play together — a video clip on one row, a caption on another, music on a third. The editor supports the full range of overlay types: video clips, text, images, shapes, sound, captions (including a punchy word-by-word caption style), stickers, and camera regions for multi-camera work.

Clips carry their own in-point so you can show just part of a source video, and overlays are positioned and sized on the canvas as well as in time — so a layout and a sequence are edited together, not in separate tools.

• Multi-track rows — stack clips, text, captions, and audio on separate rows that play together.
• Every media type — video, text, image, shape, sound, captions, stickers, and camera regions.
• Clip trimming in time — each clip has its own in-point so you can use just the part you want.
• Canvas + timeline — overlays are positioned and sized on the canvas as well as placed in time.

Core editing: split, trim, duplicate & undo

The cut-room essentials — every action you expect from a real editor.

The editing operations are the ones you'd reach for in any timeline tool. Split cuts an overlay into two at the playhead, the foundation of any trim or transition; duplicate copies an overlay in place; and delete removes it. Selection drives a contextual toolbar so the controls match whatever you've clicked.

A full history stack backs all of it — undo and redo step through your edits — and a canvas zoom (from 50% to 200%) plus a playback-rate control let you work precisely on a detail or review the whole piece at speed. Local media support means you can bring your own footage into the project directly.

• Split at the playhead — cut any overlay into two for trims, cutaways, and transitions.
• Duplicate & delete — copy an overlay in place or remove it, with a contextual toolbar per selection.
• Undo / redo — a full history stack steps backward and forward through your edits.
• Zoom & speed — canvas zoom (50–200%) and a playback-rate control for precise or fast work.

Word-level captions

Animated captions with per-word timing you can edit on a waveform.

Captions are a headline feature. The editor renders captions word by word, highlighting each word as it's spoken, with a punchy social-style option for high-retention short-form. A dedicated caption timeline shows the words as blocks against a waveform, so you can see and adjust exactly when each word appears.

The transcription is fully editable: change a word's text, drag its start and end timing on the waveform (with live feedback while dragging and a save only when you release), insert and delete words, drop in emoji, and mark words for emphasis. Timing validation flags problems, and the caption editor has its own undo/redo — so you can perfect the captions without leaving the tool.

• Word-by-word — captions highlight each word as it's spoken, with a punchy social-style option.
• Waveform timeline — edit per-word timing visually against the audio waveform.
• Editable transcript — change text, retime, add or delete words, insert emoji, and emphasize words.
• Validated — timing validation catches problems, with dedicated undo/redo for captions.

Multi-camera & vertical preview

Frame multiple camera regions and preview a vertical cut alongside the main edit.

For talking-head and podcast-style content, the editor supports camera regions — overlays that frame a portion of the source so you can cut between angles or crops from a single recording. A vertical preview panel sits beside the main editor, so you can compose and check a portrait (9:16) version at the same time you edit the primary composition.

That makes repurposing a horizontal recording into vertical social cuts part of the same session, rather than a separate re-edit.

• Camera regions — frame portions of the source to cut between angles or crops from one recording.
• Vertical preview — compose and check a 9:16 portrait cut alongside the main edit.
• Repurpose in place — turn a horizontal recording into vertical social cuts in the same session.

AI generation, avatars & voiceover

Generate footage, talking-head avatars, and voiceover without leaving the timeline.

The editor has AI built in. Generate video from a prompt or from a script, with a choice of generation models, and drop the result straight onto the timeline as a clip. Create talking-head avatar clips from a selection of avatars and voices, and apply Ken Burns motion to still images so a static shot earns its place in a moving piece.

An AI assistant rides alongside the editor: it can produce media and hand it to a generic "add to timeline" channel, so anything it makes — a generated clip, a music bed, an image — lands as a real overlay that plays and persists like everything else you placed by hand.

• Generate footage — text-to-video and script-to-video with a choice of generation models.
• Avatars & voices — create talking-head avatar clips from a library of avatars and voices.
• Ken Burns motion — add pan-and-zoom motion to stills so static shots feel alive.
• AI assistant — the assistant produces media and drops it onto the timeline as a real overlay.

Rendering & export

Render the finished composition to a high-quality file from the same description you edited.

When the cut is ready, the editor renders the composition to a final video. Rendering runs as a job you can track to completion and then download, with server-side rendering and processing handling the heavy lifting so your browser isn't tied up. The aspect ratio you chose — landscape, square, or vertical — carries through to the output.

Because the render is generated from the same overlay composition you previewed, the exported file matches the timeline exactly: same timing, same captions, same layout. No surprises between preview and final.

• Job-based render — rendering runs as a trackable job you can monitor and then download.
• Server-side processing — the heavy lifting happens off your machine so the browser stays responsive.
• Aspect-aware output — landscape, square, or vertical — the chosen ratio carries into the export.
• Faithful export — the render is produced from the same composition you previewed, frame for frame.