Editing a clip before rendering

The clip the AI hands you is a very advanced draft, not a finished result. It's worth a pass before you send it to render — what's in the editor is exactly what goes into the file.

1. Start and end

The adjustment that changes the result most. A clip that starts two words before the hook loses retention, and one that runs past the punchline feels like leftovers.

Trim tight: start on the first word that matters and end on the last.

2. The subtitle text

Edit directly in the subtitle block. The reason is nearly always the same: a name, brand, nickname or piece of slang the transcript spelled its own way.

If the same word is wrong across several clips from the same video — the channel's name, a guest's name — use the text replacement instead of fixing them one at a time.

3. Subtitle pacing

Beyond the text, you can work the timing: split a long subtitle in two, merge two that came out too choppy, adjust where each block starts and ends. That changes how the subtitles land against the speech, which is what holds attention in short video.

4. The framing

The video goes in horizontal and comes out vertical, so something has to decide which part of the screen survives. CutPro does that on its own, following whoever is speaking — in an interview, the frame follows the back-and-forth instead of sitting in the middle of the table.

Most of the time you won't need to touch it. The automatic pass struggles when the frame is ambiguous:

• several people talking at once;
• gameplay with a small facecam in one corner;
• a presentation where the slide matters more than the speaker;
• a static, distant camera.

In those cases, adjust the crop by hand: you define which region shows, and you can mark points along the clip where the framing changes.

When what matters is in two places — face on top and gameplay below, or camera and slide — a split layout works better than any single crop.

5. The look

If you already have a defined style, apply a template instead of repeating the same adjustments on every clip.

Before you export

The editor preview is the closest thing to the result, but the rendered file is what counts. If framing is critical on that clip (a face near the edge, on-screen text that can't be cropped), export one and check it before sending the whole batch to the queue.

One reassurance: re-rendering costs no credits. You pay at clipping, so fixing and exporting again costs queue time, not balance.

For the export itself, see downloading your clips.