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Editing capabilities

Directing the edit in plain language: cuts, b-roll, captions, music, multicam.

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Add a gradient overlay or scrim to your editThere's no dedicated gradient control, but you can get a soft gradient scrim — for captions, legibility, or a cinematic look — by asking Eddie to author it as a motion graphic.Add b-roll and overlaysEddie places cutaway footage as overlays exactly where you describe, keeping the speaker's audio running underneath.Add captions and subtitlesWord-level captions timed from the transcript — karaoke highlighting, styling by prompt, burned into MP4s or carried to your NLE.Audio cleanup: noise, wind, levels and loudnessEddie removes wind, hum, noise and music from under a voice, for 18 credits per minute of each source file. It plays in the editor and in MP4 renders, not in NLE exports.B-roll only? You get an editable montageImport footage with no interviews at all and Eddie builds a starter montage you can prompt, refine and export — not just a read-only shot log.Backgrounder: give Eddie contextA workspace library of scripts, briefs, references, dictionaries and faces that grounds every edit in your context.Blend modes for captions and motion graphicsMake captions or a motion graphic mix with the picture: Screen, Multiply, Overlay, Exclusion or Difference. Shown in the player and MP4 exports.Blur or hide part of your videoAsk Eddie to blur, pixelate or cover a face, a license plate, a name or a logo. It is free. It shows in the player and the MP4, not in timeline exports.Bookmarks and labels: organizing what you findBookmark standout moments with a click, or ask Eddie to label sources, multicam groups and transcript segments so you can filter and find them again.Brand kits: logo, fonts and colorsBrand kits feed your logo, fonts and colors into titles and motion graphics, and Eddie can place your logo as a corner watermark across the edit.Build a cut by hand: the paper editThe paper edit puts a transcript beside the edit you are building. Drag the lines you want into the edit column, in the order you want them.Can Eddie read a document you upload or paste in chat?Eddie can't open files dropped or attached directly in a chat conversation — reference material has to go into the Backgrounder first.Can you fix how a word is pronounced in a voice-over?AI voice-over and dubbing don't currently support pronunciation overrides, so the engine picks pronunciation from the text you give it.Change captions and speakers yourselfWhat you can change by hand on the Captions lane and in the transcript, and the one thing you ask Eddie to change: the words.Change clip metadata: camera names, scene and take, start timecode, frame rate, resolutionAsk Eddie to label your clips, correct a start timecode or frame rate, or declare the full resolution of proxies, so your exported timeline relinks. Every change can be undone.Choose Eddie's intelligence levelThe bulb in the prompt box picks how hard Eddie thinks: 1 Faster, 2 Balanced or 3 Deepest. Higher levels take longer and cost more credits.Choose a Style for your graphicsA Style gives every title card, lower third, stat and caption in an edit one designed look. See them all at heyeddie.ai/styles, then pick one.Cinematic motion: the automatic push, drift and zoomEddie applies a subtle automatic camera motion (push, drift, zoom, and a talking-head jump-cut reframe) to every project by default, and you can turn it off project-wide or on individual segments.Color gradingGrade by description: warm it up, match the cameras, go filmic. The player shows the grade and MP4 renders bake it in. Only some timeline exports carry it.Crop and reframe for socialTurn a horizontal shoot into a vertical or square cut, then fine-tune any shot's crop by hand right on the timeline.Documentary and interview workflow: multicam, B-roll and exportThe whole pipeline in order: import each camera's files, sync and group them, set your master audio, add B-roll (Eddie logs silent footage visually too), prompt the cut, and export.Dub your edit into another languageTranslate the edit's dialogue and speak it as a voice track in 90+ languages — timed from the transcript, billed on the translated script.Edit by hand: trim clips and cut words from the transcriptTrim and move clips on the timeline, split or delete a clip, delete words from an edit, and fix a misheard word, without writing a prompt.Edit in a named styleAsk for a look by name, like a clean keynote or a punchy podcast clip. Eddie plans it, shows you a short preview, then styles the whole edit.Find stock b-rollAsk Eddie to search stock footage when your project needs cutaways you didn't shoot — free clips from Pexels, plus premium Shutterstock clips if you connect your own API key.Fix a wrong speaker nameSpeaker detection is a guess and it can be wrong. Rename a speaker, move lines to the right person, or add a speaker Eddie missed.Generate AI b-rollWhen neither your footage nor stock has the shot, Eddie can generate short b-roll takes with AI. It costs credits, quotes the price before it starts, and lands on the timeline when it's ready.Generate with Eddie: motion graphics, sound effects, music and moreMotion graphics, sound effects, music, voice-over and AI b-roll: where to find each one, prompts that work, using your logo, 4K export, and what each one costs.How recipes, Styles, Backgrounders and brand kits fit togetherA Backgrounder is what Eddie knows, a brand kit is whose video it is, a Style is how the graphics look, and a recipe is the job that uses them.How to prompt Eddie wellStart from the two briefs most people write: build the interview cut, then cover it with b-roll. Always give a length, and layer changes one pass at a time.Insta360 and 360° footage: what Eddie supportsEddie accepts Insta360 .insv files but has no 360° tools: no view reframing and no fisheye correction. Export a flat video first, then reframe it to vertical or square in Eddie.Log footage, LUTs and Rec.709 conversionEddie finds camera log footage by itself and converts five common log curves to Rec.709 in MP4 renders and the player. It has no LUT support. Timeline exports keep your flat media.Make and share your own recipeSave a run as a recipe or make one on the recipes page, pin a Style, then share a link so another workspace can add its own copy.Make one clip louder, quieter or silentAsk Eddie to raise, lower or mute the sound of one clip, line or speaker, or to take a clip's sound from another synced file. You hear it in the player and your MP4.Make several short clips from one long videoTurn one long interview, podcast or webinar into several short clips for social: what to ask, vertical format, captions, length limits, exporting and cost.Motion graphics: custom animated graphics and templatesAnimated overlays by prompt: graphics Eddie designs from a description on the MG lane, plus kinetic title, lower-third and stat-callout templates.Move captions, and get captions into your editing appPut captions at the bottom, center or top, keep them off faces, and learn which export carries them to Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve.Multicam: the complete guideTwo routes into a multicam edit — import every camera and Eddie syncs them, or import a multicam you built in your NLE and Eddie keeps your alignments. There is no multicam setting to turn on.Music library: a workspace shelf, one track per projectUpload tracks on the Music page, attach one per project, and ask Eddie to add it. Generated music is filed onto the same shelf, but you generate it inside a project, not on the Music page.Music, voice-over and audioGenerate AI music, sound effects and voice-over, place your own tracks as music cues, dub the dialogue into another language — all ducked under speech automatically.One-click Generate on the timeline lanesEvery timeline lane carries a ✨ — Titles, Captions, Music and VO, plus motion graphics and sound effects — with style, mood and tempo pickers for music.Paste a link into your promptPaste a web page or a YouTube video into the prompt box and Eddie offers to save it to the project's Backgrounder, at a price it states first. What each kind of link does.Pauses, gaps and pacingSilent gaps show as teal Pause segments on the timeline — tighten for punch or keep a beat for breathing room.Pick b-roll from the timelineHover a clip, hit ✨ and choose Cover with b-roll. Eddie searches stock for free, can generate AI takes, and shows you playable tiles to pick from before anything lands on the cut.Plan a b-roll sequence as a shot listSelect several clips, hit ✨ and Eddie proposes a shot list for the stretch. Fill each slot from stock or generate it, then place the whole set so it reads as one shoot.Recipes and house style: repeat what worksSave a prompt that worked as a recipe the whole workspace can run, and keep a house style with brand kits, Styles, reference videos and dictionaries.Refining clips with sparkHover any clip on the timeline and click ✨ to change just that clip — reframe it, cover it with b-roll, or refine several selected clips at once.Remove filler words and silencesOne prompt strips ums, false starts and dead air from the transcript while speech stays intact.Shake zooms and handheld motionAdd a camera-shake impact to a punch-in, or a gentle handheld drift, for energy in a fast edit. Shown in the player and MP4 exports.Slow motion, speed-ups and speed rampsAsk Eddie to slow a shot down, speed it up, or ramp between speeds. It plays in the browser and bakes into your MP4 and NLE exports.Stabilize shaky footageEddie can smooth out shaky drone, gimbal-less handheld, or walking-shot footage — just ask. Generating a new stabilized rendition costs credits and takes a minute or two; reusing one, or reverting it, is free.Subclips and picking the best parts of a clipEddie logs the usable sections of every clip at import — and can cut your b-roll into subclips on demand, from your own guidance about what to look for.Sync cameras by pictureNo shared sound? Eddie can sync multicam cameras by what they see — motion, flashes, cuts — and proposes offsets for you to review before anything changes.The spark — Eddie implements your commentsEvery comment on your timeline — yours, your client's, a Frame.io reviewer's, or Eddie's own — carries a ✨ spark. Click it and Eddie makes the change.Titles and graphicsAdd title cards, lower-thirds and on-screen text by describing what should appear and where.Transcripts and speakersWord-level transcription and speaker detection are what let you edit, caption and search footage by its words.Transitions: fades, dissolves and quick accent cutsAdd a fade, a dissolve or an audio crossfade to your edit, and learn where each transition shows up after export.Use a recipe from the galleryPick a ready-made recipe in the gallery at heyeddie.ai/recipes, add a copy to your workspace, then run it in any project.Use your own After Effects and Premiere motion graphics templatesUpload your .mogrt, .aep or .aepx templates to a Backgrounder folder. Eddie processes them, tells you when they are ready, and places them in your edits when you ask.What frame rate does Eddie use?Eddie keeps your footage's own frame rate through editing and export rather than converting it, and you can correct what an export declares if a camera's frame rate was read wrong.What you can ask Eddie to doMost projects start with two asks: cut the interview, then cover it with b-roll. Everything else layers on top of that cut.

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