Last updated on
Oct 28, 2025
Learn about Text-based editing and how you can use it to edit your video by directly interacting with the transcript.
Text-based editing makes it easier to work with videos that have a lot of dialogue, such as interviews, documentaries, or podcast content. Instead of manually scrubbing through timelines or audio waveforms, you can edit your video by directly interacting with the transcript. This means you can cut, rearrange, or refine your footage by editing the text, making the process faster.
Key features of Text-based editing
- Auto-transcribe your footage: Automatically generate a transcript of your video, with dialogue aligned to timecodes. This makes it easy to search, navigate, and select clips directly from the transcript.
- Edit Using Text: Create rough cuts by selecting and rearranging text in the transcript. As you edit the text, the matching video clips are automatically trimmed and placed in the timeline.
- Fine-tune with precision: Once your rough cut is in the timeline, you can refine it further, such as trimming the clip or rearranging it with the spoken words.
- Clean up dialogue easily: Quickly detect and remove filler words like “uh” and “umm” in bulk. You can also filter and delete dialogue from specific speakers.
