Make the edit yours

1. Choose New video, then Import files, Record audio or, on Mac, Record screen. You can import camera clips, audio or a folder of clips.
2. Choose the spoken language, video format and AI for this video. Add direction if you want the automatic edit to follow a particular style or focus.
3. Choose how much automatic motion, visual support, camera emphasis and sound you want. These settings control the automatic pass. You can add and remove individual items later.
4. ClipsPal prepares and transcribes the clips, removes verified pauses and failed takes, then runs the whole-video edit. Follow the stages in Director.

If a stage fails, open its details in Director. Retry continues unfinished work; a retry note can give the AI a specific correction. Optional stages also offer Skip. Your prepared clips and saved edit remain available.

1. On Mac, choose Record screen. Select the display, window or area, microphone, and camera. Choose No camera for a screen-only take.
2. Grant the requested permissions using the setup controls. Check the live picture and microphone level before starting. Listen lets you monitor the microphone.
3. Start recording. The editor hides and floating controls let you pause, resume, stop or discard the take. With a camera selected, a floating camera preview lets you check your framing; use the camera button to hide or show it.
4. Stop to review the take, then add it to your video. Record more takes if you need them.

The floating camera preview is a monitor. Moving it changes where you see yourself while recording. Screen capture excludes ClipsPal's floating controls and monitor windows.

Recording a visual is different: the Record button beside Import in an image/video slot captures a silent screen clip, without camera or microphone, and fills that visual slot.

1. In screen recording setup, open Teleprompter, turn on Use teleprompter, and paste your text into Script.
2. Set Speed in words per minute and Text size. Position the floating teleprompter close to your camera so you can read comfortably.
3. Scrolling starts after the recording countdown. Use Read or Pause to control it, and Restart to return to the beginning. The recording controls let you hide and show the teleprompter.

Pausing the recording suspends scrolling too. You can pause the script independently when you want to improvise. The script window is excluded from the screen recording.

For a separate browser setup, use the online teleprompter, which also offers mirror mode for a glass rig.

1. Use the subtitles selector directly above the video preview. Choose Sentence, Word by word or Subtitles off. The preview changes immediately and saves the choice with this video.
2. Click the Subtitles track name to open font, text size, color, position and style controls. Choose Plain, Outline, Shadow or Background box. The background box has its own color.
3. Click a subtitle word in the preview or timeline to edit that word in the transcript. You can also double-click a transcript word to correct it. Double-click the space beside a word to insert omitted speech.
4. Use Fix for an instruction such as “Spell this name consistently.” The dictionary stores spellings you want recognition and correction to respect.

Caption mode changes grouping, while transcript corrections change the text. Select words to cut or restore speech; correcting their spelling does not change the original audio. The Cuts control reveals removed words in the transcript.

Exported burned captions use the same appearance as the editor. You can choose a different grouping for a separate SRT file.

1. Seek to the moment you want and use the Motion slide button in the timeline toolbar. For a precise spoken range, select transcript words and choose Motion slide there.
2. In the slide request, describe what it should show. Choose its look and AI. Add a reference image if you want the design to follow one.
3. Drag either edge of the slide slot before generating to set its duration, from 3 to 60 seconds. Moving or resizing it updates the speech context used by the designer.
4. Generate the slide. Follow progress in Director while you keep editing. When it is ready, play through the result.
5. Use the slide's revision control to describe a change, or generate it again. Its edited timing and selected reference remain attached to the slide. You can also select it and ask Director to change it.

Delete a slide or dismiss its request to remove that item; Undo restores it. Select several pending slides to choose a shared look and generate them together. Moving the playhead onto a slide makes it the target of a motion revision; say “all” when you intend to revise every slide.

Use the manual Add controls above the timeline. Additions use the current playhead position. Double-click or right-click empty space in a track to add an item there.

• Visual: choose an image or video from the shared media library, or import one. On Mac, Screenshot and Record can capture directly into the slot. Drag media from Images & videos onto the Visuals track to place it at that moment.
• Motion slide: create an animated cutaway from the speech and your direction. It stays editable after the initial automatic pass.
• Punch-in: add camera emphasis. Select it to choose the motion style, scale and focus point.
• Heading: add a separate text layer. Select it to edit its text, typography and placement. Headings and subtitles are independent.
• Sound: add an accent, audition it in the grouped picker, or import your own audio. Adjust its level and drag it to the exact moment.

Drag a timeline item to move it and its edges to trim it. Select a visual to resize, move or rotate it in the preview; use the nine-point position picker for alignment. Video visuals can fill the frame while the camera appears as a corner inset. Check At end to choose Loop or Background when the slot outlasts the media.

Sounds attached to visual arrivals follow their visual. Moving a linked sound manually detaches it. The eye buttons hide individual tracks in preview and export without deleting their items. Click Audio for voice EQ, compression and loudness controls, with On/Bypass for comparison.

1. Open Need decision to review pending cuts and listening checks in video order. Play Original and After cut before deciding.
2. Use Cut to accept a proposed cut or Dismiss to keep the passage. A listening check may instead offer Sounds fine and Adjust cut.
3. Open Removed to inspect discarded footage. Drag the actual removed block's edges, or restore the block. Edited skips removed audio; With removed includes it during playback.
4. Use Back to decisions to return to the same review. Undo and Redo apply to your manual edits.

Select a camera piece to split or trim it. The timeline follows the edited video; Removed shows source footage around the cuts. Pending listening decisions do not prevent you from continuing with the edit.

Type what you want to change in the Director panel. Choose the AI for this video there, or use the default in Settings. Local transcription and media preparation do not require a paid AI call.

• “Remove the second explanation of the same point.”
• “Change this motion slide to a simple three-step diagram.”
• “Keep the examples, but tighten the introduction.”
• “Make three shorts about the main lesson.”

Type / to see the available commands. Select a motion slide or put the playhead over it before requesting a change to “this slide.” Read Director's completed stages and replay the result. For a failed stage, open the full error and retry that stage with a concrete correction.

To work from an external AI agent, connect it in Settings → Integrations. The MCP guide covers setup, tools and examples.

Open Shorts beside Full video, choose Create shorts and request 1–5 different clips. Give a focus when you want a particular topic. Each short becomes its own tab, with inherited cuts, visuals, subtitles and sounds that you can edit independently.

Use Frame in a short to adjust its 9:16 crop. Drag the framing window, then choose Done; Use for all clips copies that framing across the short. Choose the subtitle position separately to keep text clear of platform controls.

Open Thumbnail to choose a clean camera frame and add text, arrows or media layers. Each thumbnail is a tab with its own composition. Export PNG when it is ready. Chapters and articles use the finished edit; review them again after changing the words or timing.

1. Choose Export, then Video, Editor or SRT only.
2. For video, choose 1080p or 2K · 1440p. Enable Subtitles in video → Burned in if you want captions permanently drawn into the MP4.
3. Choose whether to include an SRT, and whether its cues use Word by word or Sentence grouping. An SRT contains timed text, without the editor's font and colors.
4. Set export speed if needed. This changes that output, while the saved edit keeps its own speed.
5. Export. Open folder reveals the video's folder. Repeat exports receive numbered names so earlier files are kept.

Editor exports timeline files for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve with camera clips, visuals and sounds on separate tracks. Keep the referenced media available when opening the timeline in another editor.

Export uses the track visibility and settings you chose. Explicitly enabling burned subtitles in Export includes them even if you hid subtitles in the preview. A queued export keeps the settings selected when it was added.

Still stuck? Contact support with the video task, app version and operating system.