# Cut

> Trimming, arranging, speed, looks, and text — the hand-editing layer.
> Part of the Cuts Guide (en) — https://ferment.run/cuts/docs (Markdown map: https://ferment.run/cuts/docs/index.md)
> Canonical page: https://ferment.run/cuts/docs/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](/cuts/docs/music).


## 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](/cuts/docs/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.


## 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](/cuts/docs/speech-and-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](/cuts/docs/speech-and-captions).