AI Edit › Full Video: build a whole video from a bin

Applies to 0.11Updated 7 Nov 20264 min read

Point 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.

Open AI Edit › Full Video.

Step 1: What to use

• Choose a bin, or Choose Folder…. The folder is imported into a bin of its own name.
• What each item is for lists every item with its role: Footage, Picture, Music, Voiceover or Not Used. You can change any role.
• A sound-only file is listened to. Speech is the voiceover (the longest one); the rest is music.
• Script: found in the folder (a .txt, .md, .rtf or .docx, with one named "script" or "сценарий" first), or pick one with Choose….

Step 2: What to make

The kind is decided by what is in the bin:

• a voiceover: Narrated Video;
• a script but no voiceover: Make the Voiceover opens Voiceover Studio with the script;
• footage only: Travel / Music Video.

Settings:

• Style: Clean, Energetic or Cinematic.
• Order, for a travel video.
• Look: None, Warm, Cool, Teal and Orange, Vintage or Black and White.
• Titles and chapters
• Captions

Build it

Press Build Full Video. Each step shows as it goes, with Stop. The result opens as a new sequence, "Full Video — <bin name>".

What a narrated build makes

• The voiceover on the "Voiceover" track, and the bin's songs one after another on "Music".
• The voiceover written down, and captions made from it.
• Footage from the bin only, for every sentence. A sentence nothing fits gets the bin's least-used clip, so there is never black. The pauses between sentences are covered too.
• The music lowered under the voice: −14 dB where it speaks.
• An opening title (the script's title), a chapter card over the video where each heading of the script is said, such as "01 CHAPTER The City Streets", and a closing card, "Thanks for watching".
• A transition at each chapter where the clips have the room, and the look on every picture clip.

What a travel build makes

• From Footage on the bin's video with its longest song, in the order you choose (Creative by default), with voices kept.
• An opening title, a card where each new day, place or folder starts, a closing card, and the look.

With the Cinematic style, the opening title and the closing card are a title on black. Clean and Energetic put them over the picture.

Day and place titles

A travel build reads when and where each clip was filmed from the file itself:

• The day is the camera's own recording date, in your time zone, not the day the file was copied.
• The place is a phone's or drone's location tag, or the GPS in a GoPro's telemetry track.

The titles:

• With places: the place name, such as "Paris", or "Day 2 · Paris" on a trip of several days.
• With no places: the folder names when the clips come from several folders, otherwise "Day 2 — August 27".
• One day, one folder and no places: no extra titles.
• Each day or place is titled once, the first time it comes. The one on screen when the opening title ends is titled right after it.

Privacy: place names come from Apple's map service. Only the coordinates are sent, once for each place about a kilometre apart, and nothing else. The names are remembered in the project, in Analysis/places.json.

Not every file carries a place. A clip with no location gets a day title, or its folder name.

More: AI Edit › From Footage: Order and Sound, Build a B-roll timeline with Automatic Video and Create a voiceover in Voiceover Studio.

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