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04

Cut

All of this is the free layer: instant, reversible, no credits, no upload.

Arranging

Trim from either end, split at the playhead, slip what’s inside a clip, drag to reorder. Ripple delete closes the gap behind a removed clip; clone duplicates one in place.

Cutting to the beat

Once a music track is on the timeline, its beat grid is live in the editor — clips snap to beats as you trim and move them. The grid comes from on-device analysis, so it’s there whether the track was imported, extracted, or produced by Cuts. More in Music.

Timeline mid-trim — a clip edge snapping onto a beat marker of the music track

Speed

Each clip has a speed control — slow a moment down or push through the boring part. For motion-aware slow motion — real frames, not a stretched clip — see Polish.

Looks

A project-wide look sets the color mood: warm, cool, film, mono, vivid. Clip-level filter effects are there too. One look for the whole piece beats five per clip — but that’s your call.

Looks — the same frame in warm, film, and mono, side by side

On every clip

Every clip has its own volume and mute, its own size and position on the canvas, and a Denoise toggle for cleaning up noisy audio — see Speech & captions.

Text and stickers

Text cards come in two kinds: plain, and animated motion titles. Stickers go anywhere. Captions — the word-timed kind — are their own thing; see Speech & captions.

Text — a plain card and an animated motion title on the same frame

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