Once your scenes have clips, the cut is where they become a video: the shots on the song’s timeline, with titles, lyrics, transitions and colour. Some of this you do on the scenes, and the rest you ask the Visual Director to do in chat.
Watch before you commit
“Watch cut” plays your clips in order over the song. It costs nothing and doesn’t render anything, so use it to catch a weak clip early. If a scene has no clip it tells you which, such as “Scene 3 has no clip yet”.
Titles on a scene
On Auto teaser and Full AI fill, open a scene and turn on Text overlay:
- Fill in Top line (artist) and Bottom line (song).
- Pick a Layout: Cover (top + bottom), Centered, Bottom bar or Top left.
- Set Font, Size % and Show for (sec), up to 60 seconds.
- Rotate, arc, curve holds the finer shaping.
- Drag the text on the preview to place it.
It saves by itself, showing Saved. Apply to all scenes copies this scene’s title and lyric settings to every scene except an intro title card. It replaces what those scenes had, and you confirm first.
On Guided phone MV, the scene’s side panel has a link to this page, “Titles, lyrics & cast”.
Lyrics on screen
If a scene has timed lyrics, its page shows Show lyrics. The lines follow the song as the clip plays, and they’re burned in when you render. Vertical moves them up or down. If the option is missing, the scene has no timed lines. See editing lyrics.
Choosing the shot
- Which clip: the “Assemble uses:” badge on the Record tab chooses between a take and an AI clip. See recorded takes.
- Which part of the clip: Use from clip on the scene page, when the clip is longer than its slot.
- Scene length: “Scene Timing” in the side panel on Guided phone MV. You can split a scene on Guided phone MV, or any scene over 10 seconds on the other paths.
Assemble
The Assemble button appears in the Scenes header once at least one scene has a clip. If some are still empty, the dialog says how many: one in the middle leaves black for its stretch, and one at the very start or end is left out. The step of the same name at the top does the same thing, and opens once every scene has a clip. Assembling is free, and it renders your video in one go. See rendering, versions and exports.
If some scenes will never get a clip, delete them first, since they hold the button back.
Edit the cut with the Visual Director
After your first render, an Edit panel appears on the project page, above the board. It has a button to ask the Visual Director to edit the video, which opens a chat with the project already in context. Say what you want in plain words. The Visual Director can:
- Add transitions into a shot: dissolve, film dissolve, dip to black or white, flash, whip, push, zoom blur, light leak or glitch. Without one, a shot starts on a hard cut.
- Set a colour look across the footage, such as golden dusk, teal with warm skin, night exterior, faded print, sepia or cold mono. A look grades the footage only, and titles keep their colours.
- Move a cut between two neighbouring shots, so a change lands on a phrase. Shots stay in the same order and keep their footage.
- Change which part of a clip plays, at the same length.
- Add, change or remove titles anywhere in the video.
- Show, hide or restyle the lyrics.
- Finer editing: speed, effects, audio levels and fades.
It can’t change which song plays, or the video’s size. It also can’t swap in new footage. New footage goes on the scenes.
What editing costs
Each edit costs 1 credit, and rendering the video is free. The panel shows the current price. The Visual Director tells you the price and waits for your yes before making a version. A version that fails to render usually isn’t charged.
Rebuilding the cut from your scenes also counts as a version. Each edit gives you a new version and preview frames, so you can judge it before rendering.
Versions
When there’s more than one version, the Edit panel lists them as v1, v2 and so on, with a star on the ones the Visual Director made. Select one to see its frames.
- Use this version makes an earlier one current again. It’s free, and it’s saved as a new version, so you don’t lose what came after it.
- Render video renders the one you’re looking at as your final video. It’s free. You see Rendering the video. You’ll get a notification when it’s ready.
When scenes change after editing
Your edits aren’t thrown away if you change a scene. Rebuilding the cut, or choosing Re-assemble, keeps your look, lyric settings, added titles, and the transitions of shots that are still there.
Scene changes don’t appear in a version until the cut is rebuilt. If you’ve swapped a clip, use Re-assemble, or ask the Visual Director to rebuild the cut.
