Your first edit

How to ask for a change, what happens while it works, and how to undo.

Editing happens by describing what you want. There's no timeline skill required — though the timeline is there if you want it.

Ask for something

Type into the box at the bottom of the editor. Plain sentences work better than keywords:

cut the dead air and the filler words

find the three best moments and make them into shorts

captions on, big, at the bottom

Vague is fine. "Make this tighter" is a real instruction — the editor reads your footage and decides what tighter means for this particular video.

What happens while it works

The editor doesn't just act on your words. It looks at the transcript and real frames from your video, plans what to do, makes the change, then renders frames from the result to check its own work. If a cut landed mid-word or a caption collided with someone's face, it fixes that before handing back.

That's why an edit takes a moment rather than being instant. It's watching.

Undo

Every edit writes a checkpoint.

• Undo steps back one change.
• History (the clock icon in the top bar) lists every checkpoint on the project, and you can return to any of them.

Returning to an earlier point doesn't destroy what came after — you can move forward again.

If it gets something wrong

Say so in the next message. "No, keep the intro" works; you don't need to start over. The editor has the conversation and the current state of your video, so corrections land in context.