Cut, tighten and finish a video for YouTube, social or work, free on your device or faster with text-based and AI editing.
For anyone asking: How do I edit a video if I'm not a video editor?
Each one's way of doing it, and the point where it stops.
You edit the transcript and the video follows: delete a sentence and the footage goes with it. Remove Filler Words, Remove Retakes and Studio Sound clean the talk; Create Clips cuts short clips in bulk. Where it stops: Free exports at 720p with a watermark and caps uploads at 1 GB; no editing on mobile or offline; Firefox not supported.
A browser editor with a multi-track timeline plus Edit with Script on every plan: deleting words cuts the matching video and filler words go in one click. Clips turns long speech into captioned, speaker-centered short clips. Where it stops: Free exports are 720p, watermarked and up to 10 minutes; Clips, Clean Audio and Remove Silences are a one-time try on Free; no direct publishing to YouTube or TikTok.
A multi-track timeline on phone, desktop and web with keyframes, effects, background removal and chroma key. Auto Cut trims and syncs clips to music beats, speech pauses or a text prompt. Where it stops: Pro-marked assets or a template outro watermark or block the export; no project exchange with other editors, rendered video only; no Auto Cut on Web.
Edits what you record in Riverside: delete transcript text to cut video, or ask the Co-Creator agent to trim, remove filler words, add captions and make clips. Magic Clips runs on its own for recordings over three minutes. Where it stops: Free exports at 720p with a watermark; exports are always 24 FPS; mobile editing is basic.
Transcript editing on every plan: select words or silences and delete them, with the timeline kept in sync. Remix, a chat-based agent, turns existing footage into highlight reels or social clips from one prompt. Where it stops: Remix is in beta, reuses existing footage only, needs a Wistia transcript and is limited to Account Owners and Managers; Free allows 1 user.
A browser editor with templates, clip stitching and a trimmer for videos on your Vimeo account. Text-based editing trims by transcript, and AI Sparkles bulk-removes filler words and gaps. Where it stops: Editor exports up to 1080p and 120 minutes, no 4K; text-based editing works on spoken English and not on videos over 2 hours.
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