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02

The basics

Projects

Everything lives in a project: your footage, the timeline, the chat, the decisions you’ve made. Create as many as you like from the Projects screen; rename or delete them there too. Projects are yours alone — there’s no shared editing.

The editor

Preview on top, timeline below. The timeline has three tracks:

  • Video — your clips, in order. See Cut.
  • Music — one music clip at a time. See Music.
  • Speech — narration and voice. See Speech & captions.

The canvas is 9:16 — built for reels and shorts. Export sizes are covered in Export & share.

The editor — preview above, timeline below; video, music, and speech tracks visible with a real project open

The rules that never change

  • Editing is free. Trims, splits, reordering, captions, text cards, music slicing — mechanical work never costs credits. Only AI jobs do.
  • Everything is reversible. Undo and redo work everywhere, including anything Cuts does to your timeline.
  • Analysis runs on your phone. Transcripts, beat grids, scene boundaries, highlights — computed right on the phone, free, private, and offline. Only the chat and cloud jobs need a connection.

Snapping

The timeline is magnetic. Clips snap to edges and — once your music is analyzed — to the beat, so cuts land where the track lands. If you’d rather clips didn’t snap, turn Auto Snap off in Preferences.

Variants

Some changes — an enhanced clip, a different take — appear as variants on a rail. Tap one and the preview plays it live; commit with ✓ or step back with ✕. Nothing is destroyed by trying.

Variants rail — two takes of one clip, live preview on the selected one, ✓ and ✕ controls visible

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