AI tools and Shorts

Voice, captions and AI

• Clean up an edit with AI EditOpen the AI Edit panel, pick a Quick Edit or Smart Edit, review the proposed changes, then press Apply. One Undo reverses it.
• Build a B-roll timeline with Automatic VideoOpen AI Edit › Automatic Video on a narration sequence. It chooses shots for each line from your media library and builds a B-roll timeline.
• Turn a long video into ShortsIn the Vertical / Shorts workspace, press Find Shorts, create the ones you like, then press Create and Export All.
• Select and track a subject with Object MaskClick the subject with the Object Mask tool, press Track, then choose a use such as Blur the Background.
• Choose the AI service: built-in engine or your own keyAI features run on the built-in AI engine on your Mac, with no account and no extra software. In Settings › AI Services you can add a key for an online service instead.
• Let AI agents and scripts control the editorIn Settings › AI and Automation, turn on "Allow AI agents and scripts to control VLPremiere Pro", then copy the config for your MCP client.
• Auto Edit from Footage: a new timeline from raw clipsAuto Edit from Footage looks at your raw clips, finds the best moments and makes a new timeline from them: a music video cut on the beat, a story from what people say, or a montage.
• Auto Edit from Footage: steps, progress and speedAI Edit › From Footage is laid out in three steps with the next action always in sight. You choose which footage it uses, see its progress, and can stop it.
• Put your text over a video made from your clipsGive Auto Edit from Footage your own lines, for example for a motivation video. Each line becomes a title over the shots that suit it, long enough to read.
• Tell the Assistant what to do in your own wordsIn AI Edit › Assistant you type what you want in your own words. The Assistant shows one plan, then does each step with a progress line, and one Undo takes it all back.
• Change what the Assistant just madeThe Assistant remembers your last instruction and what it made, so "make it smaller", "redo it" or "animate it" change the graphic it just placed instead of adding a new one.
• When the Assistant asks backWhen an instruction is not clear, the Assistant asks a question above the log with one button per answer. One click sends that answer.
• Colour looks and colour match by instructionAsk the Assistant for a look by name, such as Warm, Teal & Orange or Moody, or to match every clip to one clip. Each look is a normal effect you can edit.
• Speed, stabilise and blur faces by instructionAsk the Assistant for slow motion or another speed, to stabilise shaky clips, or to blur or pixelate the faces in your clips.
• Captions, translation and dubbing by instructionAsk the Assistant to make captions, translate them into another language, or dub the video. Missing steps are done first: no transcript, no captions, no translation.
• YouTube text, B-roll and an intro with your logo by instructionAsk the Assistant to write the YouTube title, description and tags, to cover the narration with B-roll, or to add an intro or outro with your logo.
• Before and after pictures, and changes to the whole projectAsk the Assistant to show the frame before and after its last change, side by side, or to make a change on every sequence of the project at once.
• AI Edit: pacing fixes, transitions at chapters and music under the voiceThree new Quick Edits: a slow push-in on long static shots, transitions at every cut or only at chapters, and music ducked under the voice. A Pro feature.
• AI Edit › From Footage: Order and SoundChoose the order of the cuts and which of the clips’ own sound is kept. Cuts come from across each whole file, in true filming order.
• AI Edit › Full Video: build a whole video from a binPoint AI Edit at a bin or a folder of footage, music, script and voiceover. It builds the whole video as a new sequence, with titles, chapters, captions and a look.