Edit & export / Studio editor

An editor that starts finished.

Your recording opens in Studio already framed, padded, rounded and shadowed, with zooms and a smooth cursor in place. Everything else is a timeline you’ll recognise.

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Multi-track timeline

Layer lanes for images, footage and text, the programme in the middle and as many audio lanes as you need.

A library you can see

Titles, transitions, layouts and sounds shown as pictures. Drag one onto the timeline or the canvas, or click to add it at the playhead.

The preview is the export

The editor and the exporter draw with the same renderer, so what you approve is what you get.

Everything in Studio editor

144 tools, styles and options, all included.

The editor at a glance

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Preview
Drag anything in it to move it; snaps to the middle and thirds
Timeline
Layer lanes, the programme and audio lanes
Toolbar
Three named groups, View, Edit and Timeline; in a narrow window the least-used buttons fold into a … menu
Inspector
Headed by a picture of what is selected, with only the sections that change it; every section header shows its current value
Project tab
Canvas, backdrop, branding, default layout, camera, zoom, cursor, captions and export, whatever is selected
Bar on the canvas
Fade, blur, size, colour, place, duplicate and delete, just above the selected layer; never exported
Transcript and Chapters
Tabs beside the inspector
Export⌘E
In the title bar, always reachable
Safe zones
On 9:16, shade roughly where TikTok, Reels or Shorts put their buttons and caption; editor only, never exported

Titles, transitions and split screen

Twenty title designs with their own motion, seventeen transitions and seventeen split-screen arrangements. Drag anything in the preview to place it; it snaps to the middle and the thirds.

  • Save your own title designs
  • Group overlays across lanes with ⌘G
  • Remove the background from any image
Project tab
CanvasSize and format
BackdropBehind the recording
LayoutScreen and camera
CameraSize, shape, background
CaptionsStyle and position
ExportFormat and size

Finding your way

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Every command is a few keys away, and the editor tells you what they are.

⌘K
Command boxType part of any command, library item, chapter or caption and press Return
?
Every shortcutA sheet of them all, grouped, with the mouse modifiers
H
Hover to previewSee any moment under the pointer without moving the playhead
J K L
ShuttlePlay backward, pause, play forward; again for 2× and 4×
← →
StepA frame, a second with ⇧, or to the next cut with ↑ ↓
⌘+ ⌘−
Zoom the timelineGlides, keeping the playhead in place; pinch works too

On the timeline

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Clips you can tell apart
Each layer clip shows a small picture of itself, a symbol and a colour for its kind
Stacked rows
Layers that overlap in time sit on rows inside their lane instead of covering each other
Snapping
Edges snap to the playhead, other clips, chapters and caption words, with a guide line and a trackpad tick; hold ⌘ for exact
Overview strip
Zoomed in, a strip of the whole video; drag its box to scroll
Sound while scrubbing
Drag the playhead and hear the sound under it, to find a cut by ear
Smooth motion
Reordered clips slide aside, and playback scrolls the lanes smoothly

Sound, footage and saving

Drop in music and voiceover from a sound library with waveforms. Detach sound onto its own lane, then mute or solo lanes. Edit video you didn’t record too, including phone footage, the right way up.

  • Every action is saved as you go
  • Projects reopen exactly as you left them
  • Undo everything
Shortcuts
⌘KCommand box
?Every shortcut
SSplit
J K LShuttle
⌘LLibrary
⌘EExport
MediaAudioTitlesTransitionsLayouts
OPENER
Sam RiveraProduct lead
LOOK HERE
NEON

The library

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Content first: see it, then drag it where it goes, or click to add it at the playhead.

Media
The project’s recordings, with a frame and duration
Audio
Your sound library; click to audition, drag onto a lane
Titles
Every title design, rendered, plus your saved ones
Transitions
All seventeen, each diagrammed
Layouts
Camera layouts and split-screen arrangements

Title designs

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Every design carries its own type, colour, plate, motion and placement, and keeps the words you’ve already typed.

Title
Plain
A clean centred title
OPENING TITLE
Opener
Big, bold and tracked out; pops in
Sam RiveraProduct lead
Lower third
Name and role on a dark plate with an accent bar; slides in
Subtitle text
Subtitle bar
A line of text on a dark bar near the foot of the frame
LOOK HERE
Bold callout
Yellow uppercase with a heavy outline; pops in and out
“A line worth quoting”
Quote
Italic, generously spaced, with a soft shadow
NEON
Neon
Pale text with a cyan glow
GRADIENT
Gradient
Bold type filled with a colour gradient; slides up
typed out
Typed
Monospaced and typed out letter by letter
NEW
Badge
A small yellow pill, such as "NEW"
Thanks for watchingSubscribe
End card
A closing line and a call to action
WIPED IN
Wipe
Outlined type that is wiped into view
OUTLINED
Outlined
Heavy outline; slides up in, slides down out
A short remark
Caption plate
Dark text on a white plate, for short remarks
Your AI DesignerStrategistAnalyst
Rotating words
A line that rolls through a list of words, the ones either side blurred
1,000+customers
Counter
A figure that counts up, through earlier figures if you like
best CRM for start
Search bar
Searches typed into a search box one after another, one per line
Everyone thinks it takes
Spoken words
A sentence whose words appear as they are said
1. Speed
Tab
A numbered point rising from the bottom edge of the frame
Five questions
Explainer headline
Dark type with its key word on a lime marker, for the explainer stage

Title controls

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Type
Any installed font, six weights, italic, alignment, line and letter spacing
Style
Colour or gradient, outline, shadow, plate and an accent bar
Motion in
Fade, slide from any side, pop, typewriter, wipe or blur
Motion out
Chosen separately from the entrance
Save design
Keep your own titles for every project
Highlight word
Mark a word or phrase, or type *word*; a rounded marker sweeps on behind it with the entrance, or as the word is said

Transitions

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Set on the clip after the cut. Use at every cut applies one everywhere, and tells you how much shorter the edit became.

AB
Cut
The clips abut; nothing overlaps
AB
Cross dissolve
One fades into the other
AB
Dip to black
Out to black, then in from it
AB
Dip to white
Out to white, then in from it
AB
Slide left
The new clip travels in over the old
AB
Slide right
The new clip travels in over the old
AB
Slide up
The new clip travels in over the old
AB
Slide down
The new clip travels in over the old
AB
Push left
Both move together, as though shoved along
AB
Push right
Both move together, as though shoved along
AB
Wipe left
A moving edge reveals the new clip
AB
Wipe right
A moving edge reveals the new clip
AB
Wipe up
A moving edge reveals the new clip
AB
Wipe down
A moving edge reveals the new clip
AB
Zoom in
The new clip settles back from oversized
AB
Zoom out
The old clip swells away
AB
Focus blur
The picture goes soft, changes, and comes back sharp

Split screen

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Each pane takes a recording, the camera or any file. Panes have their own zoom and pan, and Swap with next exchanges two without disturbing the shapes.

Two side by side
Two stacked
Three columns
Three rows
One left, two right
Two left, one right
One top, two below
Four grid
Four columns
One big, three small
Six grid
Wide over narrow
Vertical thirds
Two tall, one wide
Angled
Explainer
Explainer reel 9:16

Overlays

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Placed against the finished edit, so reordering clips leaves them where you put them.

Images
Logos, badges, screenshots; remove an image’s background in one click
Video
B-roll and reaction clips, on their own clock
Text
Titles and lower thirds
Web page
Cards from a pasted link
Lift out
A piece of the recording as a floating card, live, with its clicks
Image wall
Pictures that scroll past in columns or fill in as a grid
Connector lines
Curves that draw themselves from one overlay to another
On spoken words
A title, picture or app icon that appears as the words are said
3D tilt
Lean any card back in perspective; push in or drift across it
Selection box
A Figma-style box with handles and a size tag
Tag
A white pill with a logo and a name on a corner of a picture, video or card
Tag flies in
The tag pops in alone, then flies to its corner and docks as the layer arrives
Blur in and out
Pictures, videos and cards arrive from out of focus to sharp, and leave the same way
Blur and pixelate
That can follow what they cover
Every overlay
Position, size, opacity, corner radius, rotation, shadow, fade in and out, blur what’s behind
Group⌘G
Move and resize several together, across lanes

Explainer stage

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Split screen › Explainer: a plain light stage beside or above you, framed on your face. Titles land at the top of the stage, cards below.

Explainer
Stage left of the camera on wide canvases, above it on tall ones
Explainer reel 9:16
The same, and sets the canvas to 1080 × 1920
Stage share
How much of the frame the stage takes, 40–80%
Stage colour
Any colour for the stage

UI cards

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The library’s Cards tab: twenty-four cards in four groups, Interface, Social, Numbers and Graphics, that change step by step in your brand kit’s accent or lime. Hover one to watch it play.

Form
Labelled fields and a Submit button that turns to Sent
Badge
A pill such as “✓ New lead” that pops in
Steps list
Numbered rows with icons that build in one by one
Steps list looks
Light or dark, square or circled numbers, a grey line under each step, or the whole card at once
FAQ
Questions drop in, then one opens to its answer
Time picker
A day and four times; one is picked
Video
A player whose progress bar runs, with stars that pop in
Browser window
A check, a thank-you and a line that types itself
Flow diagram
Page tiles joined by moving arrows; each step moves to the next
Timer dial
A stopwatch whose arc sweeps round
Typing bubble
A speech bubble with three pulsing dots
Question marks
Question-mark bubbles that pop in and bob
Comments
A pile of comment cards that blur into place one after another
Progress bar
A percentage counts up as the bar fills, then turns to a tick and “Uploaded”
Settings toggles
Up to four switches, light or dark, each flipping on at its own step
Pricing plans
Two or three plans; one lifts with a “Most popular” pill, and its price can roll down
Notifications
Up to eight alerts stacking in near the top of the frame
Chat thread
Their messages after typing dots, yours popping in, and an optional “Read”
Review
A quote with a name, a handle and one to five stars popping in
Follow button
Follow turns to Following while the follower count rolls up
Countdown
A big number counting down over a draining ring, ending on “Go!”
Poll
Two to four options; one is ticked, then every bar fills as its figure counts up
Bar chart
Two to six bars rising one after another, the highlighted one’s figure counting up
Spinner to tick
A spinner that closes into a ring as a tick draws on
Hand-drawn mark
A circle, underline or arrow drawn on in red or your accent, fitted round any layer or a card’s button
Show cursor
An arrow glides in and clicks the part of the card each step changes
On spoken words
Right-click words in the transcript to show a card, or time a step to a word
Music
Voice
Effects
MUTESOLO

Sound

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Sound library
Import music, effects or voiceover once; use it in every project
Waveforms
Read from the file, on every lane
Sound follows picture
Or lift each clip’s sound onto its own lane
Mute and solo
Per lane; ⌥-click to solo
Drop from Finder
Audio lands on an audio lane, images and footage on a layer

Projects

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⌘S
Always savedEvery action is written straight away
⇧⌘O
Save as / openKeep projects wherever you like
✦
Open recentRecordings and imported projects in one list
✦
Moved footageShotbox names the missing file and lets you find it
⇧⌘N
Footage you didn’t recordImport any video; phone footage opens the right way up
⌘Z
Undo everythingIncluding transcript edits
⌘

For software teams

Turn one recording into the launch video, the changelog clip and the teaser.

✦

For client work

Saved projects make the third round of revisions as quick as the first.

Works well with
Auto zoom & cursorZooms follow your clicks, the cursor glidesLearn more →Captions & transcriptCaptions on-device; edit by deleting textLearn more →ExportMP4, HEVC, ProRes or GIF, 16:9 to 9:16Learn more →
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