BEFORE YOU START
Before you start
Open the project you want to work on. If you are new, start with the first-video guide before exploring these controls.
Screenshots show actual sample projects. Your interface may vary with your plan and updates. Instructions describe desktop browser operation; this guide can also be read on a phone.
File: manage the project
Select File at the top for project management and whole-video settings.
- Action Click File to open project management.
- New
- Starts a new project. Check the current project’s saved state first.
- Edit project
- Opens project name, description and properties.
- Languages
- Opens translation, voice, screen-text and glossary settings.
- Save as template
- Opens settings to save the current composition as a template. Review the displayed scope and options before saving.
- Export settings
- Sets whole-video fades and related options, separately from individual clip fades.
- Storage
- Opens storage usage and asset management. Check which assets are in use before removing anything.
- Save / Save as
- Save preserves the current project; Save as creates a separate copy.
- Close / Help
- Close returns Home. Help provides keyboard-operation information.
Edit: undo, selection, adding and generation
Edit contains nested menus. If an item is disabled, check whether the selected clip and its state support that action.
- Action Edit contains Selection, Add and Generate submenus.
- Undo / Redo
- Undo or redo editing actions. This does not replace keeping a separate saved version.
- Selection submenu
- Opens copy, cut, paste and selection-scope actions.
- Add submenu
- Provides entry points for presenters, media, text, captions, motion and expressions.
- Generate submenu
- Generates the selected clip or pending sections. Review the target and displayed cost before proceeding.
Selection actions: work on selected clips
Select the body of a clip, then open Selection actions. Available operations differ for speech, avatars, media and multiple selections.
- Action Select the avatar video clip.
- Action Select the speech clip to edit dialogue.
- Copy / Cut / Duplicate / Delete
- Acts on the selection. Check all selected clips before applying a bulk action.
- Split into sentences
- Splits a speech clip into sentences, separately from cutting a visual clip at the playhead.
- Timing / Spatial alignment
- Distinguish aligning start times from aligning objects horizontally or vertically on screen.
- Replace avatar / Face direction
- Available for avatar selections; opens presenter replacement or face-direction settings.
View: arrange the workspace
View changes the editing workspace, not the final video dimensions.
- Action Use View to toggle the library and alignment tools.
- Library
- Opens the left asset library with type, use and keyword filters.
- Selection toolbar
- Toggles tools for selected clips.
- Object alignment
- Shows object-alignment controls.
- Compact tracks
- Reduces track height to show more rows.
- Close left area
- Closes the left panel to give more room to the preview.
Tools and Output: management and finished files
Tools opens avatar creation/management; Output handles creating and reviewing video files.
- Action Tools opens creation and management screens.
- Avatar maker
- Opens creation in another tab. Check availability and applicable review requirements.
- Manage my avatars
- Opens asset management in another tab, separately from settings for the selected clip.
- Export video
- Opens export confirmation for the selected Display language.
- Exported videos
- Opens existing exports for playback and download.
BEFORE YOU FINISH
One final check.
After editing, check the intended presenter, clip and display language. Generate and play changes that require rendering, then check the saved status.