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The Guide Chapter 5 of 13

The Editor

The Editor is where the studios' pieces become one video. Open it from the header, from My edits, or with Open in Editor on any studio project or Library piece.

The screen. Your media on the left (tabs: This edit, All, Brand on an Enterprise account, My uploads, and one per studio; a search box; Bring in a file from your computer at the bottom; Your whole library and Brand kit links at the top). The picture in the middle with Play, Split here, Use this frame, Undo and Redo, and Magnify (Off, 2×, 4×), a loupe that enlarges the preview about the point under the pointer for checking a caption's edge, a logo or a seam; it changes nothing in the video. The timeline under it: a Text lane, the Video lane, Narration and Music. The side panel on the right changes with what is selected: a clip's card (trim, fit, framing, volume, look, transition), the Text tab, the Sound tab, and The whole video (fades, the look, the logo, the SceneRender tag).

Putting clips in. Click a piece in the media list to add it at the end, or drag it onto the timeline where you want it. On a phone, tap once to add. A still gets four seconds; Hold and trim change that.

The track. A long clip shows a frame every four seconds along its block, to scale with the whole video. Beside the zoom, Fill or Whole frame says how those pictures sit in their tiles: filling the tile, or the entire frame with dark bars where the shapes differ, so a vertical clip in a wide tile shows its top and bottom too. It is how you look at the timeline, remembered in your browser, never part of the edit.

Transitions. Every join between two clips has a transition. The library holds five groups, all made in the render (nothing to download, no tokens): Classic (Cut, Crossfade, Dissolve, dips), Wipes, Shapes, Motion and Light. Set them two ways:

  • Between every clip on the timeline head sets one transition for every join at once, and clips added later follow it.
  • The seam between two clips on the timeline is a button: click it for that one join. The panel says which two clips it sits between, and every other join keeps its own. A clip's card has the same Transitions choice.

The library ends with AI scene change: on a seam, choose From a prompt… and the scene change box opens under it with the cursor in the prompt.

Cut is the seamless one. It puts the first frame of the next clip right after the last frame of this one, landed to the frame with sound and picture together. Use it wherever two clips were made to flow (a chain, a scene change, footage cut from one shot). The preview plays clips as separate files and is not frame-exact, so a seam seen only in the preview is not in the finished video. One transition for the whole piece reads as a style; a different one at a turning point is the accent.

The AI scene change sits under the transition library when a seam is open. It makes a clip for that join: the exact last frame of the clip before and the exact first frame of the clip after, the engine makes five seconds of travel between them (Kling 3 Pro by default; Kling 3, Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 also; a frame with a real person is routed to Kling 3 Pro), and the change is quickened to 1, 1.5 or 2 seconds so the move is brisk. Words are optional: "the camera glides through the doorway into the kitchen", "the mug becomes the laptop". It takes two to four minutes; the page places it by itself when it lands, in on a cut and out through a 0.3-second crossfade, as a muted clip named "Scene change: 2 into 3" that you can move or remove like any clip. It is priced as one five-second clip on the engine, whatever the length. Up to three can be in the making on one edit.

Framing. Fit says how a clip meets the frame's shape: the whole picture with bars, filling the frame, or the whole picture on a blurred copy of itself. Framing, under it, says where the frame looks: a Zoom slider (1× as fitted, up to 3×; zoomed in, the picture is cropped and scaled up, so a little goes a long way) and, when zoomed in or filling the frame, Look across and Look down, which choose the part that is kept, so a tall photo in a wide frame can keep its top instead of its middle. As fitted clears it. Unlike Magnify, framing is in the finished video.

Text (+ Title, + Name, + Label, callouts, steps, end cards, captions from the speech): each text has a face, a colour, a place on the frame or a spot you drag to, and a span on the timeline. Brand colours sit first in the colour choice on an Enterprise account. A text rides on the clip under it: trim the clip's head and the text moves up with the picture; trim its tail and a text on the cut stretch is held at the clip's last moment. Captions from the speech are different: they belong to the words they caption. A trim never removes one: a caption on the stretch you trimmed off keeps its place on the content, rides past the clip's end, and comes back when you trim the clip back. A caption on a piece you cut out or remove goes with its speech (Undo brings it back). Two captions are never on screen at once.

Sound. Narration from the studios or a recording of your own, placed at the playhead; each piece on the narration lane has its own volume, 0 to 200%, on the Sound tab (clicking the piece on the lane opens it there). Music under the whole edit from Music Studio or an upload, ducked under speech. Music is a bed: its volume tops out at a quarter of the track's own level under speech, so a song-led piece with the clips muted wants The music leads, which plays the track at its full level. Score it to the video composes music to the cut.

The whole video. Fade in and out, a look (grade and grain), a logo or watermark in a corner (Use the brand logo on an Enterprise account), and the SceneRender tag: on or off, which corner, and whether the Made on SceneRender card follows the last clip.

Make the video renders the finished file (no tokens). Under it: Download MP4, Post to TikTok, Share a preview, and Make the 1440p master for YouTube.