Studio: review, edit, and export

Studio is the last-mile editing workspace for videos created in Composer. It keeps the script, preview, timeline, captions, brand treatment, revision history, and renders in one place, so you can finish a draft without rebuilding it from scratch.

The examples below use a public demo project and neutral media. Every screenshot shows the real Composer interface at its original 2555 × 1508 capture size.

Before you edit: wait for caching

When a project opens—or after a visual change—Studio may show Caching clips. Wait until caching finishes and Play becomes available before judging playback. Editing while the preview is still caching can make a correct change look incomplete.

If a generated project has no body footage, return to the originating Produce or Long to Short job and confirm that generation has finished before reopening Studio.

Tour the workspace

#	Area	What it is for
1	Script	Seek by word, select a phrase, edit caption text, highlight words, remove captions, or cut a spoken span from the video.
2	Aspect and layout	Set the output shape and choose how footage fills each scene.
3	Preview and Crop	Check the current frame and adjust its visible crop.
4	Captions, Brand, and Renders	Style subtitles, apply reusable brand assets, and create downloadable output files.
5	Player controls	Play, scrub, mute, change speed, loop, and enter fullscreen.
6	Timeline	Review scene boundaries, caption timing, audio, and the current playhead position.
7	History and Export	Restore an earlier revision or jump directly to export settings.

Start every review with one uninterrupted play-through. Confirm that picture, audio, captions, and the playhead advance together before making changes.

Edit from the script

The Script panel is both a transcript and an edit surface. Clicking a word seeks the preview to that word; dragging across words opens the selection toolbar.

#	Control	How to use it
1	Word selection	Drag from the first word to the last word you want to change.
2	Selection toolbar	Edit the text, apply or clear a highlight, hide the selected caption words, or remove the caption and matching video span.
3	SRT	Download the current subtitles as a .srt file.
4	Synced playhead	The script selection, preview, and timeline all refer to the same point in the edit.

Edit changes the visible caption text without replacing the source audio. Remove caption hides only the selected words. Remove caption & video cuts the selected time range from every lane and closes the gap, so use it only when you want to shorten the story.

After a script edit, play from a few seconds before the change through the next scene. This catches awkward cuts and caption timing issues quickly.

Add a section from the source transcript

Use Extend a clip when the current cut is missing useful material from its source video. Choose the Extend a clip button at the point where the new section should appear, then select an unused transcript range.

#	Control	How to use it
1	View mode	Use Side by side to keep the transcript and source preview visible together, or Caption only to give the transcript more room.
2	Full transcript	Browse the source transcript and its original timestamps. Already used material is locked; Current cut marks the nearby section already in the composition.
3	Selected words	Click a word or phrase from an unused row to start the source range. The highlighted words show what will become the new caption.
4	Source preview	Play the selected source range before adding it. This preview reads directly from the source and does not move the composition playhead.
5	Range controls	Drag the two handles or use the minus and plus buttons to adjust the start and end in 200 ms steps. Check the selected duration in the center.
6	Add duration	Select Add _x.x_s to insert exactly that source range at the chosen Extend a clip position.

Composer prevents the same source material from being selected twice. Before adding, check that the first and last spoken words are complete and that the preview does not begin or end mid-action. After insertion and caching, play through the previous section, the new material, and the following section to check continuity.

Choose the output shape

Aspect ratio changes the canvas for the whole project. Choose the target platform first, then review layout and crop scene by scene.

#	Aspect	Common use
1	9:16 Vertical	Shorts, Reels, and TikTok-style feeds.
2	1:1 Square	Square social posts and embedded cards.
3	16:9 Landscape	Web players, presentations, and standard video platforms.
4	4:5 Portrait	Portrait feed posts with more horizontal room than 9:16.

Changing aspect can expose empty space or crop a subject. Review every scene after switching ratios; do not assume one crop works across all formats.

Set a scene layout

Layout controls how source footage is arranged inside the chosen aspect ratio. Select the scene in the timeline, then open Layout.

#	Layout	Result
1	Fill	Fills the canvas; some edges may be cropped.
2	Fit	Keeps the full source visible; empty space may remain.
3	Split	Places two visual regions in a split frame.
4	Three	Creates a three-region composition.
5	Four	Creates a four-region composition.
6	Gameplay	Uses a stacked layout suited to a primary view plus supporting footage.

Multi-region layouts are most useful when a scene already has enough visual sources. If a layout produces an empty region, return to Fill or Fit, or add the missing media before delivery.

Refine the crop

Use Crop when Fill keeps the right scale but frames the wrong part of the source.

#	Control	What to do
1	Aspect ratio	Keep Custom for a free crop or choose a constrained shape.
2	Crop area	Drag the box to reframe; drag its handles to resize it.
3	Reset / Apply	Reset removes the adjustment; Apply saves the new framing.

Check the first and last frames of the scene after applying a crop. A subject that is centered at the start may move out of frame later.

Style captions

The Captions tab has three levels of control:

1. Presets applies a complete starting style.
2. Font adjusts typography and readability.
3. Effects controls placement, animation, line count, and word highlighting.

Font and readability

#	Setting	What it changes
1	Font family	The typeface used for all captions.
2	Color and weight	Text color and weight, such as Regular, Bold, or Black.
3	Size and decoration	Caption scale plus italic, underline, and uppercase treatment.
4	Stroke	Outline color and width for contrast against footage.
5	Shadow	Shadow color, position, and blur.
6	AI keyword highlighter	Enables keyword emphasis and sets the available highlight colors.

Use the preview, not the settings panel alone, to judge readability. Test both a bright and a dark shot; stroke and shadow should keep the words legible without overpowering the footage.

Position and motion

#	Setting	Options and behavior
1	Position	Auto, Top, Middle, Bottom, or Custom placement.
2	Animation	Chooses how caption words enter and update.
3	Lines	Limits captions to three, two, or one line.
4	Highlighted word color	Sets the active-word color used during playback.

For vertical video, check that captions do not collide with faces or platform controls. A shorter line count is easier to scan but updates more frequently.

Apply a Brand Template

Brand Templates package repeatable visual decisions—aspect ratio, layout, caption styling, logo placement, and optional intro or outro media—into one reusable choice.

#	Control	What it does
1	Manage	Opens the Brand Templates library to create and maintain templates.
2	Template preview	Shows the template’s aspect, layout, overlay, intro, and outro treatment before use.
3	Edit	Opens the selected template’s settings.
4	Apply	Applies that template to the current project.
5	Neutral template	A no-brand option for projects that should keep only the editorial treatment.

Applying a template is a project edit, not just a preview filter. Wait for clip caching, then check the opening, one middle scene, and the ending. Confirm the logo remains inside safe areas and that any intro or outro matches the project aspect ratio.

Use History, Undo, and Redo

Studio records accepted edits as revisions. The header arrows handle the most recent undo or redo; History is safer when you need to identify a specific earlier state.

#	Revision	What it tells you
1	Current	The active revision, including its action summary, author, time, short ID, and changed-file count.
2	Earlier edit	A previous user or agent change that can be inspected before restoring.
3	Initial snapshot	The baseline created when the Studio project was initialized.

Open an earlier revision to inspect it, then restore only when it is the state you want. Restoring creates another revision, so the edit trail remains recoverable.

Review playback and the timeline

Use the transport bar for ordinary review and keyboard shortcuts for precise work.

Action	Control or shortcut
Play or pause	Play button or Space
Step one frame	Left Arrow or Right Arrow
Step ten frames	Shift + Left Arrow or Shift + Right Arrow
Shuttle backward / pause / forward	J, K, L
Mute	Speaker button or M
Playback speed	0.25×, 0.5×, 1×, 1.5×, or 2×
Loop	Loop button or Shift + L
Split a selected timeline item	S
Remove a selected timeline item	Backspace or Delete

The timeline separates layout, visual clips, captions, and audio into aligned lanes. Use Fit to show the full project, or the minus and plus controls to zoom around a transition. Before exporting, inspect every cut at normal speed and one slow pass around any complex edit.

Render and export

Open Renders in the right panel, or use Export in the header to jump to the output workflow. Wait for caching and any active agent edit to finish, then choose:

Setting	Available choices
Format	MP4, MOV (ProRes), or WebM.
Resolution	Auto, 1080p, or 4K when supported by the current composition.
Frame rate	24, 30, or 60 fps.
Quality	Draft, Standard, or High Quality for MP4 and WebM. MOV uses fixed-quality ProRes.

Select Export video once. The job appears under Recent renders and shows its progress. When it reaches Ready, download the file. You can remove an individual job or use Clear completed after you no longer need the entries.

Final delivery check

1. Play the complete video after caching finishes.
2. Verify every cut, caption, highlight, crop, logo, intro, and outro that the project actually uses.
3. Confirm picture, audio, captions, and the timeline stay synchronized.
4. Reopen the project and make sure the latest edits are still present.
5. Download the Ready render and play it outside Composer from start to finish.