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Editing capabilities·Last updated September 2, 2026

Refining clips with spark

Hover 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.


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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

Two of the chips under the prompt box don't send a prompt at all — they open the b-roll picker for that clip:

  • Cover with b-roll searches stock footage for the moment (free) and shows you playable candidates.
  • Generate AI b-roll opens the same picker with generation switched on, so you can render a few AI takes and choose between them.

Either way you see the shots before anything lands. Pick the tiles you want, press Add, and they go onto the b-roll track over exactly the clip you sparked, with your audio still playing underneath. Select several A-roll clips first to cover the whole run. See Pick b-roll from the timeline for the picker, and Add b-roll for how b-roll works.

You can still just type it — "cover this with b-roll" in the spark box hands the job to Eddie in chat, the same as before.

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.


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