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Video Studio

Cut, reshape, brand, caption and score a video in one pass

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Video Studio

How to use 4 steps
  1. Add Your video.
  2. Work through the steps you need: sections, shape, logo and captions. Skip any you don't.
  3. Check the preview as you go.
  4. Press Build the Video, keep this tab in front, then download the result.

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MP4, WebM and MOV. Nothing is uploaded — everything happens on your own device.

Finished Video
Loading the tool… 0 of 6 parts

Getting the tool ready. On a slow connection this can take a few seconds.

How this tool works

Six optional steps around one video: keep only the parts you want, change the shape, add a logo, burn in captions, replace or remove the sound, and put an intro, outro or thumbnail around it. Switch off anything you do not need. Nothing is uploaded — the whole job happens on your own device.

The reason to use this rather than the separate tools is not the clicking. Doing six things in six tools means the video is decoded and encoded six times, and every pass costs a little quality. Here each frame is composited once — reshaped, logo, caption — and encoded once, so the result is cleaner as well as quicker. The single-purpose tools stay, because most people want one thing and a page that does one thing is easier to find and faster to use.

Things worth knowing before you start

  • Caption timings and cutting interact: if you keep only some sections, a caption written for 01:55 of the original lands earlier in the finished video. Tell it which the timings refer to and they are shifted to match. Captions falling in parts you cut are left out rather than shown at the wrong moment.
  • Captions go on your material, not on the intro: a caption drawn over an intro logo is never what was meant, so captions are applied to the main video only. The logo, being branding, is drawn on everything.
  • Everything is matched to the main video: an intro of a different size or shape is scaled and fitted rather than refused, and silence is generated for anything without sound so the audio does not end early and drift.
  • Music replaces rather than mixes: the original sound is not written at all when music is chosen. A track longer than the video is trimmed with a short fade-out; a shorter one plays out and leaves silence rather than looping.

Full guide

3 min read

Why Video Studio composites once instead of chaining six tools

Six single-purpose tools chained together means six decode-and-encode passes and six generations of quality loss. How captions get remapped across a cut, why the logo reaches the intro but captions do not, and where the sound can go missing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Specific to the Video Studio. Broader questions about this category are answered on the category page.

You can, and for one job they are simpler. For several, each tool decodes and re-encodes the video, so six steps means six generations of quality loss and six waits. This composites every frame once and encodes once.
Because removing earlier material moves everything after it. Set the timing basis to the original video and they are shifted automatically; set it to the finished video if you wrote them against the cut result.
No. Each has a switch and starts off. Turn on only what you need — using two of the six is a perfectly ordinary way to use this.
No, this produces one video. The video splitter cuts a long video into a folder of clips, with the same shaping and logo options.
MP4 needs the AAC codec, which Firefox cannot encode on any platform and no browser can encode on desktop Linux. The page says so before you start. Chrome, Edge or Safari keeps the audio.

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