AI Edit › From Footage: Order and Sound

Applies to 0.11Updated 7 Nov 20262 min read

Choose 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.

Open AI Edit › From Footage. Order and Sound are in step 2, "What to make".

Order

• In Order: the footage as it was shot.
• Mix: the places shuffled. A clip never comes back within three cuts.
• Creative: the most striking shots open and end the video, with the trip in order between. The most moving shots go on the loud music, a transition comes where a new place comes in, and longer shots get slow push-ins.

Sound

• Automatic: as before.
• Off: none of the clips' own sound.
• Voices Only: only the cuts where a sentence is spoken, from the transcript.
• All, Under the Music: all the clips' sound, under the song.

When the clips' own sound is kept, Create Timeline lowers the song to −10 dB. With All, Under the Music, the clips sit at −8 dB.

How the cuts are picked

• Every clip is used at least once.
• Each clip gets its number of cuts by its length and by how good it looks, never more than it can give. A 5-minute walk gets about four times the cuts of a 20-second clip.
• A clip's cuts come from across the whole file, at least a second apart, so the same view is not used twice.
• The cuts follow the order you filmed, and neighbouring clips are mixed, so each place has its own part of the video.

True filming order

The order comes from the camera's own recording date inside each file, not the file date. Files copied later still cut in the order they were filmed.

Good to know

• The tab checks your files in the background, and again when you press Look at the Footage. Switching to it does not wait for a network share.

More: Auto Edit from Footage: a new timeline from raw clips and AI Edit › Full Video: build a whole video from a bin.

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