Intermediate Mode — Timeline Editing

Intermediate mode lets you edit on a timeline, like CapCut or KineMaster. Pick text, stickers, effects and audio from the library on the left, cut and move things on the timeline below, and fine-tune them in the properties panel in the middle. Edits you made in Beginner carry over as they are. The screenshots below are from the Somssii Shorts “How This Shine Came to Be” (이 광택이 오기까지) and “How Do You Cut 8 Hours of Work?” (8시간 일, 어떻게 줄여요?) (code-motion videos) and KTV's “Central Government Building Renovation” (중앙청 보수공사) (a footage-edit video).

Screen layout

1. Library — Media · Text · Stickers · Effects · Transitions · Audio · My presets. Click an item to insert it at the playhead, or drag it onto the track you want or onto the preview.
2. Properties — settings for the selected item (text, clip, scene, audio). With nothing selected, it shows “Project” (Lower music during speech, Voice clarity).
3. Preview — drag on-screen text and stickers directly to move them.
4. Toolbar — ✂ Cut (S) · Q/W trim before/after · ⧉ Duplicate · 🗑 Delete · 🧲 Snap (N, snaps to words and beats) · +Marker (M) · Detect beats · ✨ Auto hyper-edit · Check · 💬 Separate into layers.
5. Timeline — tracks for Video (scenes/clips) · Code text · Captions · Effects · Text/Stickers · Voice · Music · Sound effects.
6. Zoom — −/＋, ↔ Fit (view all), ⇥ Follow. You can also zoom with Ctrl+wheel. Adjust the timeline height with ⇕.

Cutting · splitting

1. Place the playhead (the red vertical line) where you want to cut. Click the timeline ruler, or move it with ← → (1 frame) or Shift+←/→ (1 second).
2. Press S or ✂ Cut, and the clip splits in two at that point. Shift+S splits all tracks at once.
3. Select the part you don't need and press Delete. The following clips close the gap automatically (ripple).

Before splitting — a clip in a footage-edit video After pressing S — split in two at 12 seconds

• Q — trim the part before the playhead · W — trim the part after it
• Drag the handles at either end of a block to change its length (trim), drag its middle to move it, and drag it along the video track to reorder (a bar marks where it will be inserted)
• ⛓ Linked items move together (“Linked — click to unlink”).
• In code-motion videos, a scene can't be shortened further once it would cut off a voice line (“Voice {n} would be cut — minimum {min}s”).

Clip properties — range · speed · volume · scale · color

Select a clip on the video track, and the properties panel shows the Main clip settings: range, Speed (0.5× · 1× · 1.5× · 2× · custom 0.25–4), insert freeze frame, Volume◆, Fit · Scale◆ · Position · Rotation · Opacity · Flip · Crop, Color (Brightness · Contrast · Saturation · Temperature · Tint · Look), audio fade, blurred background fill, and transition in.

Speed editing — curves · reverse

Click Speed editing on a video clip to choose from presets (constant speed ×0.5 · ×2, ease in · ease out, slow middle, freeze section, reverse, reset) and speed curves. The original audio is muted in sections where the speed changes.

Adding and styling text

1. Place the playhead where the text should appear.
2. On the library's Text tab, click a preset; the text is inserted at that point and its properties open.
3. Type the Text ([highlight] appears in the highlight color). Choose a style preset, font, weight, size, color, outline, box, shadow, alignment and letter spacing.
4. Drag the text in the preview to position it, and drag the end of its timeline block to set its length. Click Snap to speech to align it with the moment the nearest word is spoken.

Library · text presets Properties after adding text and editing it

Animation and effects

For text, sticker, photo and video items, the properties are split into Basic / Animation / Effects tabs. On the Animation tab, choose In · Out · Loop animations and their duration (Auto vary); on the Effects tab, use Add effect to attach up to 8 effects, such as glow or shake.

Animation tab — In · Out · Loop Effects tab — attached effects · Add effect

Keyframes ◆ — change values over time

1. Click the ◆ next to a value to set a keyframe at the current time.
2. Move the playhead and change the value; a second keyframe is created, and the value changes smoothly in between.
3. Use the easing curve next to ◆ (Linear · Ease in · Ease out · Smooth · Bounce · Spring …) to choose how the change feels. Use ‹ › to jump to the previous / next keyframe (Alt+[ / Alt+]).

Effects · transitions

The library's Effects tab is grouped into Emphasis · Light · Camera · Screen · Text · Numbers · Graphics. Click an effect to insert it at the playhead, or drag it to where you want it. Clicking a transition on the Transitions tab inserts it at the cut point nearest the playhead.

Library · Effects Library · Transitions

Click a cut point ◇ on the timeline to open the Transition properties: type (including a straight cut), duration (0.1–2 seconds), and Apply to all cuts.

Scenes (code-motion videos)

In code-motion videos, the video track is made of scene blocks (S1 … End). Select a scene to change its Scene length, how it's extended (Hold · Slow down), Scene speed, transition in, Scene color tone, or to Remove this scene.

Voice · audio

Select a block on the voice track (N1, N2 …) to see the Narration properties: sentence, tone, start time, volume, mute, Re-record, revert, Adjust scene to match, and word timings.

The library's Audio tab has 10 sound effects (Pop · Ding · Ding-dong · Whoosh · Click · Tension riser · Thud · Sparkle · Drumroll · Ta-da) and background music (▶ Preview). Select an audio block, then drag its top corners to fade, drag the middle band up or down to change the volume, and Ctrl+click to set volume keyframes.

Stickers · photos · your files

The Stickers tab has text stickers and emoji, and the Media tab has the files you've uploaded. Upload photos (30MB), videos (300MB) and audio (100MB) with ⤒ Upload files, drag and drop, or paste. If an upload is interrupted, it resumes where it left off. Save text and effects you use often with ＋ Save selection as my preset on the My presets tab (stored on this device only).

Stickers Media · Upload files My presets

In the properties of photo and video items, you can use Replace, Crop, Flip, Shape, Border, Shadow, Blend (Normal · Screen · Multiply · Add), Chroma key and Shape crop (Rectangle · Circle).

Caption list — fixing caption text

Select the captions track and click Open list in its properties to open the caption list.

• Click a sentence to edit it directly. Enter splits a caption; Ctrl+Backspace at the very beginning merges it with the previous caption.
• Fix typos all at once with Find / Replace with → Replace all.
• Select a word to Highlight it; set the highlight color and characters per line, nudge start and end times by 0.1 seconds, or hide a caption.
• Rebuild from voice regenerates the captions to match the voice.

Change the caption style (Impact · Pill · Pop · Karaoke · Minimal · Box), display mode (Line · Chunk · Single word), vertical position, size and color in the captions track properties.

Separate into layers — burned-in captions in footage-edit videos

In footage-edit videos, the captions come burned into the video. Click 💬 Separate into layers to re-run the editing script (2–10 minutes) and split it into a caption-free video and caption groups. If it has been separated before, use Use last result to apply that right away.

1. 💬 Separate into layers → Separate again (or Use last result).
2. “Separated into {n} caption groups” — the video track becomes the caption-free video, and an In-video captions track appears above it.
3. Select a caption group, and a separate text field appears for each differently colored part. Edited text is redrawn in its original look, and you can drag it in the preview to move it.

Auto hyper-edit

✨ Auto hyper-edit in the toolbar adds highlights, captions, scene transitions and number counters timed to the speech, all at once. Choose an intensity (Calm · Normal · Intense) plus captions and number counters, then click ⚡ Instant (free, immediate) or ✨ Refine (about 1 minute, uses 1 request) to get suggestion cards and a beat sheet (word · effect · entrance · color · position). Only what you select is applied.

Auto hyper-edit panel Instant edit plan and beat sheet

Right-click menu · command palette

Right-click a block for Cut · Duplicate · Copy style · Paste style · Properties · Delete. Ctrl+K (or F1) opens the command palette — find and run commands by name, such as Save, Make MP4, Save snapshot, Toggle overlay caution zone, Thorough review and Style match.

Right-clicking a block Command palette (Ctrl+K)

Intermediate shortcuts

On a phone

On a phone, the playhead stays fixed in the center; drag with one finger to move, and pinch with two fingers to zoom. With nothing selected, the bottom toolbar shows Split · Text · Stickers · Effects · Audio · Captions · Filters · Media; once you select something, it changes to Split · Speed · Animation · Keyframe · Duplicate · Delete. Open the library with ☰.

Want to polish color, audio and captions in more detail? → Advanced mode