The reel editor

Every reel opens in one fullscreen editor. You make all your changes here, watch a free preview, and only spend render credits when you release. To open it, go to Library ▸ Reels and click a reel card.

How the reel editor is laid out

The editor has three parts: a strip of panel icons down the left (Transcript, Captions, Footage, Music, Story, Export), the active panel in the middle, and a stable video preview on the right. A timeline runs across the bottom, and the footer holds a single primary action that changes with the reel's state. Only one panel shows at a time; the preview never jumps when you switch panels.

Fixing words and cutting time in the Transcript panel

The Transcript panel shows your reel's words as clickable chips, with two modes:

• Cut — click the words you want gone (they strike through), then confirm. Removing words makes the reel shorter — and a shorter reel also renders cheaper. Cutting is free.
• Fix text — click a word to correct a mis-transcribed caption. This only changes the on-screen text; it never moves any timing.

Choosing a caption style

The Captions panel offers eight burned-in styles — including TikTok karaoke, subtitle block, minimal, word pop, and statement — as a grid of tiles. Each tile shows a small style sample, and the current style is marked. Click a style to apply it across the whole reel.

Note. The tile is a rough approximation, not the final render. Use the preview player to see exactly how captions will look.

Swapping the footage behind a scene

The Footage panel lists every scene that uses B-roll, each with a dropdown of ready clips from your brand's video library. Only clips long enough for that scene appear. Picking a new clip swaps the footage without changing the scene's length. If a panel is empty, that reel has no swappable footage or your library has no ready clips yet — see the library.

Music and sound design (off, subtle, full)

The Music panel lets you pick a track from the library (or remove music entirely) and set its volume with a slider. Below that, the sound-design toggle controls layered sound effects:

• Off — no effects.
• Subtle — sparse, quiet ticks on cuts.
• Full — denser whooshes and impacts.

Sound effects are placed automatically from your scenes' beat roles, so tagging your story (below) makes them land on the right moments.

Story arc and beat roles

In the Story panel, tag each scene with a beat role — hook, build, payoff, or resolve. These drive pacing and tell the sound designer where to put impacts and risers (a payoff gets the biggest accent).

The timeline: reorder and beat-sync

The bottom timeline shows your scenes as a filmstrip with a playhead you can drag. You can reorder scenes there, and use beat-sync to snap scene boundaries onto the music's beats — the editor reports how many cuts it moved.

Undoing an edit

Panel edits — caption text, footage, music, sound design, beat roles, and caption style — never change your reel's length, and each is reversible. When an undo is available, the Story panel shows an Undo button that reverts your last edit one step at a time.

Previewing for free before you render

The video column runs a live preview player showing the current version of your reel, with 9:16, duration, and status chips above it. Watching the preview is free and spends no render credits — use it to confirm every change before you commit.

Review before you render, then release

Reels stop at a ready-to-render checkpoint so you never pay for a render by accident. The footer shows the render cost and a Release / Render button. Clicking it spends render credits and produces the final MP4. If you edit an already-rendered reel, the footer offers a re-render instead.

Re-rendering and downloading

The Export panel gathers the finishing actions. Once a reel is rendered you can download the MP4, start a confirmed re-render, or (if a render failed) retry. It also reveals the reel's cost, anchor count, voice, and engine. From here you can move a finished reel toward publishing.

Dubbing into other languages

From the Export panel of a rendered reel, you can one-click dub it into English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese. Dubbing uses text-to-speech and spends credits (shown before it queues).

Note. Dubbing depends on your text-to-speech setup. If your workspace uses the shared pooled voice source, dubbing shows "coming soon" — bring your own ElevenLabs key (in the Voices library) to unlock it.

Next: back to the reel formats overview, or make your first reel step by step.