AI Editor Chat

What Is AI Editor Chat?

AI Editor Chat is a conversational assistant built into the video editor. It understands your timeline and can search, add, modify, and arrange elements using natural language — no manual dragging required.

Opening the Chat

Select AI editor in the editor toolbar. On a small screen, hover over or focus its icon to read Open AI editor. Close the panel with Close AI editor.

Review an edit plan

When the AI proposes a plan, read its clip names and timeline changes before you select Apply plan. Select Revise to request a change, or Dismiss to leave the plan unused. A clip link selects that item and moves the playhead to it.

After an edit, Undo is available while the timeline still matches that edit. Later timeline changes can remove this option.

Recent chat and unsent text are saved per draft in the same browser when browser storage is available. They do not transfer to another browser. A plan left open from an earlier visit must be requested again so it matches the current timeline. Use New chat to start over.

Read earlier AI edits

In AI editor, open Earlier AI edits on this draft when it appears. The list shows saved edits from earlier visits, other browsers, or teammates. It shows who made each request and what changed. Select Undo if it is available. Undo needs an earlier version of the edit and the affected parts of the timeline must still match.

What You Can Ask

The AI can perform over 25 actions on your timeline:

• Continue Auto-edit drafts — "Clean up the retakes and tighten this into a 30-second ad"
• Search and add project clips — "Add my product demo clip"
• Search and add stock media — "Find stock footage of someone running outdoors" (powered by Pexels)
• Add text overlays — "Add a hook that says 'Stop scrolling'"
• Add voiceovers with captions — "Add my voiceover about the new feature"
• Generate captions — "Add captions to the first clip"
• Modify overlays — "Move the text to the top", "Make the font bigger"
• Trim and crop clips — "Trim the first 2 seconds off clip 1"
• Reorder clips — "Swap the first two clips"
• Adjust audio — "Fade in the music over 2 seconds"
• Change canvas settings — "Switch to 9:16 for Reels"

Smart Suggestions

When the chat is empty, suggestions appear based on your timeline. Select a suggestion to add it to the message field. You can edit it before you send it.

• Empty timeline: "Add video clips", "Use my saved CTA text", "Add a voiceover"
• Has video but no audio: "Add background music"
• Has video but no text: "Use text from my library"
• Multiple clips: "Swap the first two clips", "Duplicate the last clip"

Auto-edit Drafts

When Auto-edit builds a draft, it opens in the video editor with the AI editor chat ready to continue the work. Ask it to remove silences, filler words, and retakes; tighten the hook, body, and CTA structure; regenerate captions; or make follow-up timeline edits without rebuilding from scratch.

Stock Media

The AI searches Pexels for free stock video and images. Describe what you need — "cinematic sunset over ocean" or "woman using laptop in office" — and the AI adds matching results directly to your timeline.

Tips for Best Results

• Be specific: "Add a 3-second text overlay saying 'Limited Time Offer' at the top" works better than "add some text."
• Reference overlay numbers when modifying: "Change overlay #2 to bold."
• Chain requests naturally: "Add my product clip, then add captions to it."
• The AI sees your full timeline state, so it can reference what is already there.