Refining clips with ✨ spark

Most of the time you steer Eddie from the chat. But when you want to change one specific shot, you can prompt it right on the timeline — no need to describe which clip you mean.

The ✨ on a clip

Switch an edit to the timeline view and hover any clip. A small ✨ button appears in its top-right corner. Click it and a compact prompt box opens, scoped to just that clip. Tell Eddie what you want:

• "Zoom in on her face."
• "Punch in a bit and steady this shot."
• "Use a later take of this line."

Only that clip changes — the rest of your timeline stays exactly as it is. It's the fastest way to fix one moment without re-running the whole cut.

Refine several clips at once

Select more than one clip first — Shift-click a range or Cmd/Ctrl-click to pick clips individually — then click the ✨ on any selected clip. The button shows a count (for example ✨ 3), and your prompt applies to all the selected clips together:

"Punch in slightly on all of these."

One instruction, every selected clip updated the same way.

Cover A-roll with b-roll

You can also use ✨ to hand a stretch of talking-head footage to b-roll. Select the A-roll clips you want covered, spark them, and ask:

"Cover these with b-roll."

Eddie places cutaways over the selection while your audio keeps playing underneath — the same b-roll it adds from a chat prompt, but aimed exactly where you pointed. See Add b-roll for how b-roll works.

When it's available

The ✨ shows up on a real edit's timeline — the cut you're refining — not on raw source footage, where there's nothing yet to change. If you don't see it, open an edit and switch to the timeline view, then hover a clip.

How it fits with chat

Spark and chat edit the same cut, so mix them freely: rough out the story and big passes in chat, then use ✨ for the pinpoint fixes — "this one shot, tighter." For briefing Eddie well in either place, see How to prompt Eddie well.