Auto Edit from Footage: steps, progress and speed

Applies to 0.11Updated 5 Nov 20262 min read

AI 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.

Open AI Edit › From Footage. The basics are in Auto Edit from Footage.

The three steps

• 1 What to use: Footage and Music. The heading says how many clips.
• 2 What to make: Kind, Style, Shape and Length, summed up in the heading, for example "Montage · Energetic · 16:9 (YouTube)".
• 3 More options: folded away. It holds the transitions, cutaways, the AI and split-screen switches, and your text.

Which footage

The Footage menu has three choices:

• Selected in the Project panel, else all.
• Clips on this timeline.
• All video in the project.

When only one clip is selected, the line under it turns orange and suggests one of the other choices.

The action bar

The bar under the steps never scrolls away. Before a look it shows Look at the Footage. After it: Create Timeline, Another Version and Look Again.

While it looks, the bar shows a progress bar, "Looked at 5 of 16 clips — “name”", the time left and Stop. A stopped look keeps what it saw. The list below is headed "Planned edit — 20 shots, 0:30".

Speed

Each file is read once, three clips at a time, and what was seen is kept. 16 clips on a network share took about 96 seconds, and looking again at the same clips is instant. For big 4K files, proxies make it much faster still.