How to edit a video on the timeline
- Choose your videos and photos. Each becomes a clip on the timeline, in the order you picked them.
- Tap a clip to change the part of its video it uses (start and end), its volume and its place; move the playhead and press Split at playhead to cut a clip in two.
- Add text at the playhead, open Shape, fades, quality and format for the frame, fades and format, then press Export and download the video.
What the timeline does
The top row holds the clips, played one after another without gaps; the row under it holds the texts, which sit at fixed times in the finished video. The red line is the playhead. ▶ plays the edit in the preview with its texts and fades, so you can check it before exporting.
- Trim: the start and end fields choose the part of the video a clip plays. Trimming never changes your file.
- Split, duplicate, reorder, delete: work on the selected clip. Two parts of one video can go in any order, or the same moment can play twice.
- Fades: fade in from black at the start, fade out to black at the end, and a dip to black at each cut. The sound fades with the picture.
- Volume: each video clip from 0% (muted) to 200%.
Example
A 12-second 1920×1080 phone video at 30 fps: the first clip uses 0:00–0:04, a second clip 0:10–0:12.5, and a photo follows for 3 seconds, so the edit is 4 + 2.5 + 3 = 9.5 seconds. A caption “Day 1 in Goa” from 0:01 to 0:04 at the bottom in medium size is drawn 81 pixels tall (7.5% of the frame's short side). With 0.5-second fades between clips, the picture and sound dip to black at the cut at 0:04.0 and are back to 40% at 0:04.1. Exported at Balanced quality it stays 1920×1080 at 30 fps, the picture gets 3.7 Mbit/s and the file is about 4.45 MB.
Tips
- For Reels, TikTok and Shorts, choose the 9:16 shape; landscape clips then sit on a blurred copy of themselves. To change only the shape of one video, Resize video is quicker.
- Only need to join whole files? Use the Video merger. Only need to cut one video? Trim video can do it without re-encoding.
- To add a ding, whoosh or censor bleep at a moment, use Add sound effects to video after exporting; to make the file smaller, Compress video.
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