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The Magic Editor has four styles, and you pick one per video
These are the four styles of Cutroom's Magic Editor, where Jacob, its AI editor, makes the whole edit of your clip after one press. The style decides where your screenshots go, how the captions look and how the video ends.
In short
- The Magic Editor has four styles. Steps suits tips and how-to's, Skit suits a product demo with your face on screen, Verdict suits reviews and comparisons, and Poster suits one strong point when you have nothing to show on a screen.
- You pick one style before you press "Make my video", and Jacob makes the whole edit in it, from the layout and the fonts to the music and the ending.
- Switching an edit to another style costs 120 credits. Jacob rebuilds it in the new style, and your earlier version stays.
- Steps and Verdict work best with at least two files, such as screenshots or a screen recording, and Skit with one. With fewer, Jacob uses stock clips instead, and Poster works without any files.
Which Magic Editor style fits your video?
Pick the style by the kind of video you're making, because each one is built for a different job. You choose one style per video, and each section below says how to film for it.
Jacob keeps your sentences in the order you said them and never adds words. So the shape of the video comes from how you talk, and that's why you pick the style before filming.
Which style to pick
Choose Steps if you're sharing tips or a how-to, and you have screenshots or a recording of the tool you mention.
Choose Skit if you're walking people through your product and want your face on screen while you do it.
Choose Verdict if you're reviewing something, telling people how it went when you tried it, or comparing two options.
Choose Poster if you have one strong point to make and nothing on a screen to show.
Steps: for tips and how-to's where you show an app or tool
Steps is for tips and how-to videos where you show an app or tool. Your screenshots float in windows beside you, and one big word at a time sits under them.
Steps works best if you film it as a list. Open with a question, promise the answer, then say "first", "next" and "lastly", and Jacob builds the video in that order.
- The video ends on you, with your logo as a sticker if you added one.
- Steps works best with at least two files, such as screenshots or a screen recording of your app. With fewer, Jacob uses stock clips instead.
- The music is calm and warm unless you ask Jacob for something else.
The budgeting-app line in Steps
This is one moment of a Steps video. The same line is drawn in each style below so you can compare them.
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 40-second phone video of a personal-finance creator talking about the budgeting apps she tried
“Okay, so, why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three, um, and only one, only one stuck. … (pause) It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Steps style
“Why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three and only one stuck. It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
- On “apps”: your screenshot budget.png in a floating window
- On “stuck”: one big word at a time under the window
- On “spending”: your screen recording of the app in a second window
- On “me”: the last shot on you, with your logo as a sticker
- Under the whole video: calm, warm music under your voice
window: budget.png
Then you ask Jacob
- “Put a clip on the strongest sentence”v2a b-roll clip from your library or from stock on the line Jacob finds strongest
How Cutroom's Magic Editor edits a video like this
Jacob is the AI editor inside Cutroom's Magic Editor: it edits your video for you, then changes it when you ask in a chat.
The 4 styles, as example edits
Steps
Three steps, four angles
Skit
Hook, hard stop, demo card
Verdict
The tester's verdict
Poster
Typography does the talking
Hover or tap an example to play it, without sound. These are example edits of each style; the presenters in them are generated with AI.
- Your take: one video of you talking, up to 3 minutes
- Your style: one of 4: Steps, Skit, Verdict or Poster
- Your files: screenshots, a screen recording or a logo, if you have them
- Your goal: what the video is for, in a few words, if you like
- Jacob makes it: normally 10 to 15 minutes, and you get an email
- Your edit: ask Jacob for changes in a chat, then export
Then you ask Jacob, for example
- “Make this about 10 seconds shorter”
- “Put a clip on the strongest sentence”
- “Change the music to something calmer”
Each change is a new version, and going back is free. First cut 250 credits, each change 40, questions free, export 30 credits per started minute.
Skit: for product demos with your face on screen
Skit is for walking people through your product with your face on screen. It opens on your first line over energetic music, then stops the music suddenly to grab attention. Next it slides your screenshots over your face in a card.
Skit works best if you open with a bold claim, then say who the product is for and what problem it solves. Jacob sets that problem in big red words before the demo.
- During the demo, each sentence swaps the screenshot in the card over your face.
- The video closes on a phone playing your screen recording, with your call to action.
- Skit works best with at least one file, and a screen recording gives the phone at the end something to play. With none, Jacob uses stock clips instead.
- The music is energetic and punchy by default.
The same line in Skit
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 40-second phone video of a personal-finance creator talking about the budgeting apps she tried
“Okay, so, why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three, um, and only one, only one stuck. … (pause) It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Skit style
“Why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three and only one stuck. It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
- On “stick”: your opening question, with energetic music under it
- On “tested”: a sudden stop as the music cuts out
- On “sorts”: a card with your screenshot budget.png slides over your face
- On “me”: the close on a phone playing your screen recording, with your call to action
window: budget.png
Then you ask Jacob
- “Put a flash right before the ending”v2a flash just before the phone comes in at the close
Verdict: for reviews, 'I tried it' videos and comparisons
Verdict is for reviews, videos about something you tried and comparisons. You stay full screen for your opinion, then shrink into a small card while your screenshots play on a drawn laptop.
Verdict works best if you open with your opinion and any doubts you had, then talk through the product. Your first sentences are the full-screen part, and the details go on the laptop.
- The video ends with your call to action typed out on screen. Then a small card shows your logo, your name and a Follow button.
- Verdict works best with at least two files, such as screenshots of the app or photos of the product you review. With fewer, Jacob uses stock clips instead.
- The music is calm and ambient by default.
The same line in Verdict
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 40-second phone video of a personal-finance creator talking about the budgeting apps she tried
“Okay, so, why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three, um, and only one, only one stuck. … (pause) It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Verdict style
“Why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three and only one stuck. It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
- On “tested”: you full screen while you give your verdict
- On “sorts”: you in a small card while your screenshot budget.png plays on a drawn laptop
- On “me”: your call to action typed out on screen, then a card with a Follow button
- Under the whole video: calm, ambient music under your voice
window: budget.png
Then you ask Jacob
- “Change the call to action to Try it free”v2the typed line at the end now reads Try it free
Poster: for one strong point with nothing on a screen to show
Poster is for a video with one strong point and nothing on a screen to show. Big stacked words in three fonts carry it instead of screenshots.
Poster works best if you open with a question and say a number somewhere, because the style is built around both.
- Jacob sets one word of your question in big red letters.
- The picture turns black and white for a moment, and your number shows up in neon.
- The colour comes back at your last point.
- Poster works without any files, but your logo gives the ending something to show. Without one, the video ends on your last word.
- The music is dark and cinematic by default.
The same line in Poster
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 40-second phone video of a personal-finance creator talking about the budgeting apps she tried
“Okay, so, why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three, um, and only one, only one stuck. … (pause) It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Poster style
“Why do budgeting apps never stick? I tested three and only one stuck. It's the one that sorts my spending for me.”
- On “stick”: your question in big stacked words, with stick in big red letters
- On “three”: a neon 3
- On “only”: a black-and-white moment
- On “me”: your logo on black closes the video
- Under the whole video: dark, cinematic music under your voice
Then you ask Jacob
- “Switch this to the Steps style”v2the same clip rebuilt in Steps as a new version, with the Poster version kept
What every style does the same
The styles change the layout, the captions, the music and the ending. These things happen whichever style you pick.
- Jacob cuts the ums, false starts and repeats from your clip.
- Each style shortens long pauses; ask Jacob to keep your pauses if the video feels rushed.
- Each style adds sound effects to the edit, and you can ask Jacob to make them quieter or turn them off.
- Jacob looks for b-roll in your own clip library first, then on the stock sites Pexels and Pixabay, and puts each clip on the words it belongs to. Your own files always come first, so the fewer files you add, the more stock clips you get.
- After the first edit you change it in the chat, like "Put a clip on the strongest sentence", and each change is a new version.
Questions people ask
- How many styles does the Magic Editor have?
- Four: Steps, Skit, Verdict and Poster. You pick one per video before Jacob makes the first edit.
- Which style is best for a product demo?
- Skit, if you want your face on screen while you walk through the product. Steps suits a demo told as tips, and Verdict suits a review of something you tried.
- Can I switch styles after the first edit?
- Yes. Type "Switch this to the Poster style" in the chat, or pick another style under Style & settings. A switch costs 120 credits and usually takes one to two minutes. Jacob rebuilds the edit from your clip, and the earlier version stays, but changes you asked for on it don't carry over.
- Can I get my clip in every style at once?
- No. One press of "Make my video" makes one edit in one style. To see another style, ask Jacob to switch, and each switch is kept as a new version.
- Can I change the font in a style?
- No. Each style comes with its own fonts. You can change the accent colour and the music, turn the moving text on or off and keep your pauses, and those settings are free.
- Do the styles cost different amounts?
- No. The first edit costs 250 credits in any style, and the export is 30 credits per started minute.
- Are these the styles of Google Photos' Magic Editor?
- No. Google Photos' Magic Editor uses AI to move or resize things in a photo and change the background or lighting, as of November 2026. These four styles belong to Cutroom's Magic Editor, which edits videos of you talking. Cutroom is not affiliated with Google.
Pick the style that fits your next video, film one clip and let Jacob make the first edit. Your first video is free.