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Editing capabilities

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

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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.Backgrounder: give Eddie contextA workspace library of scripts, briefs, dictionaries and labelled faces that grounds every edit in your context.Brand kits: logo, fonts and colorsLogo, fonts, colors and a brand dictionary per client — titles and motion graphics render in your typography.Cinematic motion: the automatic push, drift and zoomEddie applies a subtle automatic camera motion (push, drift, and zoom) 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 — previewed live and carried into every export.Crop and reframe for socialTurn a horizontal shoot into a vertical or square cut — Eddie crops each shot to keep the subject in frame.How to prompt Eddie wellBrief Eddie like an editor: describe the outcome, give length, platform and tone, then refine in small steps.Motion graphics: kinetic titles, lower-thirds and stat calloutsAnimated overlays by prompt: kinetic titles, sliding lower-thirds and count-up stat callouts — in your brand type.Multicam: sync cameras across importsCameras not grouped at import — or added later? Tell Eddie which files are the same take and it groups and syncs them into switchable angles.Multicam: syncing and switching anglesEddie syncs angles from the same shoot by their audio and switches between them by prompt.Music, voice-over and audioGenerate a soundtrack that auto-ducks under speech, add AI voice-over clips, and know how source audio travels.Pauses, gaps and pacingSilent gaps show as teal Pause segments on the timeline — tighten for punch or keep a beat for breathing room.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.Stabilizing shaky footageEddie doesn't currently have a stabilization or warp-stabilizer tool for shaky or handheld footage.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.What you can ask Eddie to doA quick tour of Eddie's toolbox — cutting, layers, look and framing, grounding — all combinable in one prompt.