Video Editing

What is Video Editing?

Video Editing is a built-in editor for the video assets in your library. It lets you trim, add styled text captions, adjust playback speed, change the aspect ratio, rotate, and control the audio, so you can prepare a clip for a specific platform without switching to a separate video tool.

The editor is non-destructive. Your changes never overwrite the original file: when you save, the edit is rendered into a brand new asset and the source video is left untouched. The render itself runs on the server (ffmpeg in a background job), so after you press Save the new asset appears once processing finishes, which can take a moment for longer clips.

How to access it

There are two ways to open the video editor:

• Media Assets grid: open the context menu (or actions) on a video asset and choose Edit to open the editor for that clip.
• Create Posts composer: when a video is attached to a post you are composing, use the attachment's Edit action to open the same editor. The edited result is saved back as a new asset.

Key functionality

The editor shows a preview of your video at the top with a filmstrip below it, and a row of tool tabs along the bottom. Each tab opens its own panel.

Trim

Drag the in and out handles on the filmstrip to set where the clip starts and ends. You can also scrub the playhead by tapping or dragging the track, then use Split to cut the window into segments and delete the parts you do not want to keep. Preview playback skips over the removed spans so you see exactly what the final clip will contain.

Speed

Change how fast the clip plays. Speed presets range from 0.5x (slower) to 2x (faster), with 1x as the unchanged default. The preview plays back at the selected speed so you can judge the result before saving.

Text

Add one or more styled text overlays on top of the video (up to 8). Each overlay can be:

• Typed in directly, or dictated by voice using the microphone (the same voice input used in the Create Posts and Brainstorm composers).
• Dragged to any position on the preview frame.
• Styled from a set of presets covering different colors, outlines, background boxes, and distinct fonts.
• Resized with a grow/shrink stepper, aligned left, center, or right, and rotated.
• Given an optional on-screen time window so the caption shows only for part of the clip.

Overlays use fonts with broad script coverage, so non-Latin text (for example Cyrillic or Armenian) is measured and wrapped in the preview the same way it is burned into the final video.

Format

Change the aspect ratio of the output. Options include Original, 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, and 16:9, which lets you retarget a clip for feeds, stories, or landscape placements. When a ratio crops the frame, you can adjust which part of the video is kept.

Rotate

Rotate the video so a clip captured in the wrong orientation is corrected before publishing.

Volume

Control the clip's audio. Mute the original audio entirely or set its level with the volume slider. You can also add overlay audio tracks (a voice-over or a music bed) that are mixed onto the video during the server render.

Undo, redo, and reset

Every edit is tracked, so you can undo and redo your changes step by step, or reset back to the original state if you want to start over. History covers the full edit, including trim, text, speed, format, rotate, and volume changes.

Availability

Video Editing is enabled for all tiers today, including free and trial accounts. No upgrade is required to use it.

Tips

• Editing always produces a new asset. If you want to keep several variants (for example a 9:16 and a 1:1 cut), save each one separately and the original stays available.
• Because the render happens on the server, you can close the editor after pressing Save and keep working. The finished asset appears when processing completes.
• Set the aspect ratio to match where you plan to publish (9:16 for stories and short-form, 1:1 or 4:5 for feed posts) before adding text, so captions stay inside the cropped frame.
• Preview a text overlay's position and timing before saving. What you see in the preview is how the caption is burned into the final video.