Edit & timeline

The Edit room is a real non-linear editor. Clips sit on tracks, cuts hold, and changing a shot does not move the edit.

Tracks

V1 and above — video. Clips carry their own embedded audio on the matching A-lane.
A tracks — audio you add: generated sound effects, score, voice, or imported files.

Tracks can be muted, soloed and locked. A locked track will not accept drops, which is the usual way to protect a finished layer.

Images go on the timeline too — drag a still (an uploaded photo, a reference sheet, a generated image) onto any video track. It lands five seconds long; drag either edge to make it as long or short as you need. Images have no sound, so they add nothing to the audio lanes.

Tracks stack: whatever is on a higher track is drawn over the tracks below. Put a background image on V1 and a clip on V2, then make the clip smaller to see both. While paused, click a clip in the viewer to select it (the topmost one under the pointer wins), drag it to move it, drag a corner to resize it around its centre, and drag the handle above it to rotate — hold Shift for 15° steps. Double-click it to fit it back to the frame. With snap on, a clip you drag sticks to the frame centre, the frame edges and the centres of other layers, and a green guide shows where it landed. A clip that is shaped differently from the frame leaves transparent bars, so the track underneath shows through.

Selecting a clip opens its inspector on the Clip tab: fit (Fit / Fill / Free), a 3×3 grid to snap it to a corner or edge, X · Y · W · H in export pixels, scale, rotation, opacity and crop from each side. A clip's volume stays on its audio lane. Source and Effects are where they were. The inspector stays open down the whole right side; with nothing selected it shows the Timeline settings — the frame shape, the export size, and every clip on the timeline. Finished exports live in an Exports folder in the media pool, which appears once you have exported something.

The frame chip at the top of the viewer sets the shape of the whole timeline — Source (follow the first clip), 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 4:3. The viewer switches to that shape straight away, so you can build a vertical cut while watching it vertical, and the export uses the same frame. On a phone the viewer shows the frame and layers; moving and resizing clips is done on desktop.

Tools

| Tool | Key | What it does | | --- | --- | --- | | Select | V | Move and select clips | | Trim | T | Adjust clip edges | | Blade | C | Split a clip where you click | | Range | R | Select a span of time, for VFX and audio work | | Step one frame | ← / → | Hold Shift for five frames | | Start / end | Home / End | Jump to the first or last frame | | Zoom | + / − | ⌘-wheel also zooms, anchored under the cursor | | Fit to window | ⤢ button | Zooms out until the whole timeline is on screen |

Zooming out stops once the entire timeline fits the window, however long the timeline is, so you can always see its full shape in one view.

Snapping is toggled with S. Moving a clip or dragging its edge sticks to the playhead, markers and the cuts on every track — so a clip on V2 lines up with the clips on V1 underneath it. Hold Shift while dragging to move without snapping. Split at the playhead is ⌘K. Undo and redo are ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z, and they cover timeline edits — not generations.

Frame precision

The timeline runs at 24 frames per second, and every edit lands on a frame boundary: moves, trims, cuts, drops and markers. Timecode reads MM:SS:FF — minutes, seconds, frames — in the viewer and the toolbar. Step through a clip with ← and →; the viewer shows the exact decoded frame while paused, so what you see is the frame you are cutting on. Zoom in until the ruler shows single frames when you need to place a cut by eye.

Detached audio

A clip on V1 keeps its own audio inside the clip. Move that clip up to V2 or above and its audio is split off into an A track as a separate clip, so you can level it, trim it or replace it on its own.

The two stay linked. Moving the video moves its audio with it, and cutting one cuts the other at the same point — with Blade, with ⌘K, or with Scene detect. Cut the audio clip and the video is cut too. To move or trim just one side, drag the audio clip itself; the link only follows edits made through the video clip.

Ripple and gaps

Deleting a gap closes it and pulls the following clips back. Switching a clip to a take of a different length ripples the rest of the timeline by the difference, so you do not silently get a hole or an overlap.

Markers

Press M to drop a marker at the playhead. Markers are notes on the timeline; click one to remove it. Markers sit on frames too.

Match frame

To start the next shot on the exact frame the previous one ends on, park the playhead on that frame and press the ⎘ button in the viewer (or ⇧F). The frame is saved to the media library as a still and placed on the canvas as an image node, tagged with the clip it came from; the canvas opens with it selected. Drop it into a video model's First frame slot, or connect it to the next video node — it counts as a first-frame anchor. The clip inspector also has Last frame → canvas, which jumps to the clip's last frame and does the same.

Changing a shot without moving the edit

This is the point of the room. Select a clip and press New take to regenerate just that shot, or use the Effects tab to run VFX on it. The timeline keeps its cuts; only the pixels change.

New take is free and does not generate anything on its own: it opens an empty card at the end of the clip's take list with the current take's settings copied in. Change what you want there and press Generate. The takes you already have stay untouched, and clicking one of them swaps the clip to it.

On mobile

Phones get a touch editor built on the same timeline, so edits made on either device are the same edits.

Scroll the strip to seek. The playhead stays fixed; the clips move under it.
Pinch to zoom. Spread two fingers to zoom in, pinch them together to zoom out. The moment under the playhead stays put.
Tap a clip to select it. A white border and end handles mark the selection, and the toolbar switches to Trim, Split, Take, Duplicate and Delete. Hold a clip to drag it to a new position.
Switch timelines from the title. Tap the timeline name at the top to open the timelines sheet: open another timeline, rename the current one, Duplicate current to try a different cut while keeping this one, or start a New timeline. Each timeline keeps its own cut and exports.

Rotate the phone for a wider two-column layout with the player beside the timeline.

Last updated 2026-09-15. Prices, model specs and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalogue at build time.