Video Editor

A short video is a small film. Someone has to plan the shots, decide how the video opens and ends, and keep the look the same from one clip to the next. Doing that yourself means learning tools, sketching each shot, and generating clip after clip until the pieces finally match. Most small teams do not have that time to spare.

Video Editor plans and makes the clips for you in Studio. It starts from what the video is for, such as an ad, a product demo, a reel or an explainer. It plans the whole video shot by shot before it generates anything, so you see the plan first and can change it while changing it is still cheap. It works like a good travel planner who shows you the whole itinerary before a single ticket is bought.

Think of it as a film crew with three roles. The director decides the shots. The camera operator makes each one. The editor keeps the pace strong and the ending clean. Video Editor covers all three roles, and it checks each clip before handing it over. Like a production assistant who remembers how a client likes things done, it also keeps your preferred formats, lengths and style on file for the next project.

• Turn your brief into a shot plan, with the length, the format (vertical, square or wide), the number of shots and the sound that goes under them. You read the plan before anything is generated, and you can ask for changes to it first.
• Generate each clip from a text prompt, or from a start picture you have approved. A prompt is a written description of what should happen on screen.
• Continue a scene from one clip into the next, so the shots join smoothly instead of looking like unrelated pieces cut from different films.
• Make the still image that each clip starts from, so every shot opens on the look you approved. This matters most when the look of the product has to stay exact.
• Save finished clips to the Library with clear names, ready to cut together in your own video editor. The clips are yours to arrange however you like, and each name tells you which shot it is, so you can find it later without opening every file.
• Check every clip before handing it over, and say plainly when one came out wrong. You never have to find the weak clip yourself.
• Remember your preferred formats, lengths and style for the next video, so you do not have to repeat them each time.
• Work in the Studio panel for its clips, and in the browser panel when it needs to look something up. YouTube is on its list of connected apps, for once your account is linked.

Video Editor has no skill packs of its own. It works from your brief and its tools, so you can ask in plain words, like these:

• "A 20-second vertical ad for our new app." Use it when you need a short ad sized for a phone screen. It plans the shots and the sound for that one length and shape.
• "Three 6-second shots of our mug on a kitchen counter at sunrise." Use it when you want a few short clips that cut together into one simple story.
• "Animate this product picture with a slow push-in." Use it when you already have a good still and want it to move, with one camera move that suits the picture.

This is the job the Video Editor's own description leads with. You need a short vertical ad for a new app, and you want the plan and the cost checked before any clip is made.

1. You open Studio and type: "A 20-second vertical ad for our new app." You add any picture you want the ad to start from, and you say who the ad is for.
2. Video Editor asks only what it needs: the tone you want, and the one action you want viewers to take. It does not ask anything else.
3. It writes a shot plan: how many shots, how long each one runs, the vertical format, and the sound that goes under them.
4. It shows you the plan and the expected cost. Video generation is costly, so it asks before it generates more than one clip.
5. For each shot, it makes the still that the clip will start from, when the look matters. You approve the look, and only then does it generate the clip.
6. It continues the scene from one clip into the next, so the cuts feel like one story and not a set of random moments.
7. It checks every clip before it hands it over. If one did not come out right, it says so plainly, and it does not pass it off as finished.
8. If you want a voice-over or music under the ad, it hands that part to the Audio Producer, so the sound is planned with the shots.
9. You get the finished clips in the Library, each with a clear name, ready to cut together in your own editor. It asks before it deletes or replaces any saved file.

What you get at the end is a set of finished clips, in the length and format you chose, that open on the looks you approved. They are saved in the Library under clear names. The shot plan you approved stays with the conversation, so you can check what each shot was meant to do. Nothing is deleted or replaced without your yes, so an older cut is never lost by accident.