What video editing means here
Editing in this workspace is not trimming or colour grading on a timeline. It is prompt-led transformation: you give the model a clip you already have and describe what should be different, and it generates a new version that aims to keep the original movement and composition while applying the change. Results vary, so expect to iterate.
That makes it useful in the situations where a reshoot is expensive and a plain filter is not enough: a product video that needs a different setting, footage that should look like it was filmed at another time of day, or a rough take that needs to be pushed toward a specific visual style.
Edits that work well
The best edits change the look or the setting while leaving the motion alone. Examples that fit that pattern:
- Restage a scene: move the same action from a daytime street to a night street, or from summer to winter.
- Restyle: take the same shot and render it as an animated illustration, a film-stock look or a clean commercial grade.
- Change the lighting or mood: warm to cold, soft to dramatic, dawn to dusk.
- Reference-guided swaps: use an image to steer a costume, a colour palette or a character look so it matches your brief.
Prepare your source clip
Start from a clean, short source. The editing mode takes one MP4, MOV or WebM file of up to 100 MB. A clip with a single clear subject and steady camera gives the model the most to hold on to; busy footage with many cuts is harder to follow, so edit shot by shot rather than uploading a full sequence.
Only upload footage you own or are allowed to edit, and do not upload recognisable people without their consent. The same rule applies to reference images. Respecting rights keeps your result usable for commercial work.
How to write the edit prompt
Describe the change, not the whole scene. The source clip already carries the subject and the motion, so spend your words on what is different: "same shot, but at night with blue neon light and wet streets" tells the model exactly what to alter. Restating everything that stays the same only adds noise.
Keep it to one change per run. If you want a new setting and a new style and a new costume, do them in order, using each result as the next source. This is slower on paper and faster in practice, because you can see which step went wrong and rerun only that step.
When wording is not enough, add up to five reference images. A single image of the target palette or costume is a stronger instruction than a paragraph of adjectives.
What an edit costs
An edit that includes a source video costs 240 credits at 720p or 1080p and 360 credits at 4K. The price does not change with the clip length setting, so it is calculated from the same configuration the generator charges from rather than guessed. A new account starts with 300 credits, which covers 1 edit at 1080p.
Because an edit costs more than a short draft, make sure the source and the prompt are right before you run it. A good habit is to try the look on a 4-second generated draft first, then apply the final version to your real footage.
Iterating on a result
The first result is rarely final. Look at what was kept and what drifted, then adjust one thing. If the subject changed too much, make the prompt less aggressive or add a reference. If the style did not land, name it more concretely. If the result is close, keep the seed fixed so you can compare two wordings fairly. Failed generations are refunded automatically, so you only pay for runs that complete.