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Cutroom's Magic Editor can change the cuts, b-roll, captions, music and ending of your video
If you mean Google Photos, its Magic Editor moves, removes and resizes people or objects in a photo. Cutroom's Magic Editor is for video: Jacob, its AI editor, edits your clip and changes it when you ask in a chat.
In short
- Cutroom's Magic Editor, a video editor, can change which words stay in, the b-roll clips, the captions, the colours, the transitions, the music and sound effects, and how your video ends, all by asking Jacob in a chat.
- Jacob makes the whole first edit from one press of "Make my video", which normally takes 10 to 15 minutes, and you get an email when it's ready. After that you ask for changes in plain words, and each one costs 40 credits, makes a new version and comes back much faster than the first edit.
- Tapping words in the text of what you said, shown next to the video, is free: you can cut them, bring them back, fix a word the captions got wrong, or show one of your screenshots while they're said.
- The Magic Editor can't move a sentence, add new speech, pick a font, make AI b-roll or remove background noise.
- Every change Jacob makes is a new version. The earlier versions stay, and going back to one is free.
What can you ask Jacob to change?
Jacob can change which words stay in, the b-roll, the captions and the music. It can also change the colours, the transitions and the ending. Type it in the chat in plain words, and Jacob makes the change as a new version for 40 credits.
Questions are free, up to 20 a day. Ask "Why did you cut what you cut?" and Jacob explains its choices without touching the video.
- Jacob looks for b-roll in your own clip library first, then on the stock sites Pexels and Pixabay, and shows each clip while you say the words it fits.
- For transitions you can ask for a straight cut, a white flash, a whip or a glitch, among 11 kinds. Type something like "Put a flash right before the ending" and Jacob places it.
- Each style adds sound effects to the edit, and you can ask Jacob to make them quieter or turn them off.
- Each style shortens long pauses. If the video feels rushed, switch on keeping your pauses under Style & settings for free, or type "Keep my pauses, it feels too rushed" in the chat.
What Jacob can change, with a request you can type
Each request is a line from the ideas list in the Magic Editor's chat.
| What changes | A request you can type |
|---|---|
| Cutting a sentence | Cut the first sentence |
| Ums, uhs and repeats | Remove all the ums and uhs |
| B-roll clips while you talk | Can you find 3 b-roll clips that fit what I'm saying? |
| How the captions look on your opening line | Change the caption style on the hook |
| Key words and the accent colour | Make the key words stand out more |
| Transitions | Put a flash right before the ending |
| Calmer music | Change the music to something calmer |
| Quieter music | Turn the music down a bit |
| Colours | Make the colours warmer |
| The call to action at the end | Change the call to action to Try it free |
| Length | Make this about 10 seconds shorter |
| Pauses | Keep my pauses, it feels too rushed |
What changes: Cutting a sentence
- A request you can type
- Cut the first sentence
What changes: Ums, uhs and repeats
- A request you can type
- Remove all the ums and uhs
What changes: B-roll clips while you talk
- A request you can type
- Can you find 3 b-roll clips that fit what I'm saying?
What changes: How the captions look on your opening line
- A request you can type
- Change the caption style on the hook
What changes: Key words and the accent colour
- A request you can type
- Make the key words stand out more
What changes: Transitions
- A request you can type
- Put a flash right before the ending
What changes: Calmer music
- A request you can type
- Change the music to something calmer
What changes: Quieter music
- A request you can type
- Turn the music down a bit
What changes: Colours
- A request you can type
- Make the colours warmer
What changes: The call to action at the end
- A request you can type
- Change the call to action to Try it free
What changes: Length
- A request you can type
- Make this about 10 seconds shorter
What changes: Pauses
- A request you can type
- Keep my pauses, it feels too rushed
What changes look like on one clip
Here is one example clip and three requests typed after it. Jacob's first edit is version 1 (v1), and each request makes the next version for 40 credits.
The example uses Skit, one of Jacob's four styles. Skit opens on your first line and cuts the music for a moment. Then it slides your screenshots over your face on a card and ends on a phone playing your screen recording.
A founder's pricing clip, changed three times
Each request makes a new version, and going back to an earlier one is free.
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 40-second phone video of a founder explaining her app's pricing
“Um, so the, the pricing is simple. You pay one price a month, and … (pause) everyone in the house gets their own account.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Skit style
“The pricing is simple. You pay one price a month, and everyone in the house gets their own account.”
- On “simple”: your opening line, then a moment where the music cuts out
- On “month”: your screenshot pricing.png on a card over your face
- On “account”: your screen recording playing on a phone to close
- Under the whole video: upbeat music under your voice
window: pricing.png
Then you ask Jacob
- “Cut the first sentence”v2the video now opens on "You pay one price a month"
- “Put a clip on the strongest sentence”v3a stock clip of a family on a sofa, playing during the last sentence
- “Make it black and white”v4the same edit, all in black and white
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.
What you can change yourself for free
Next to the video, the Magic Editor shows everything you said as text. Tapping words there and the settings under Style & settings cost nothing, and both work right away. Tap a word, or drag across a few, then pick what should happen.
- Cut the words, or bring back words that were cut.
- Take the on-screen text off those words, so they play with no captions.
- Show one of your files while those words play, such as a screenshot or a product photo.
- Fix a word the captions got wrong. If they show "prizing" where you said "pricing", tap it and use "Fix this word": the captions change and your voice stays.
- Pick another caption look. Each option is a small preview that shows your own words in that look.
- Swap the music for another track or turn it off, change the accent colour, turn the on-screen text off, or keep the pauses in your speech instead of shortening them, all for free under Style & settings. Asking Jacob for calmer or quieter music is a chat request.
What the Magic Editor cannot do
Some requests are outside what Jacob can do. Ask "Move my last sentence to the start" and Jacob tells you it can't, and you keep your credits.
- Sentences stay in the order you said them. Jacob can cut the first one instead, so the video starts on a stronger line.
- New speech and cloned voices aren't possible. Everything you hear is what you said.
- Fonts come with the style, so you can't pick one.
- The export is one vertical MP4, 1080 by 1920. There is no 16:9, square or 4K version.
- There is no captions file (SRT). The captions are part of the picture.
- Posting happens outside Cutroom, so you download the MP4 and post it to TikTok, Instagram or YouTube yourself.
- B-roll is never made by AI. It comes from your files, your clip library or the stock sites Pexels and Pixabay.
- Background noise stays in, so film in a quiet room.
How versions and undo work
Nothing you change is lost. Each change is saved as its own version, so you can always go back.
- Type "undo", "go back one" or "back to v2" in the chat, or press Undo, and that version comes back for free.
- A switch to another style rebuilds the whole edit for 120 credits and usually takes one to two minutes. The version you had stays.
- While Jacob works on a change, the edit is locked until it's done, so nothing moves under you. You can stop it, and your credits come back if you do.
- You can export any version, and exporting one you already exported is free.
Questions people ask
- What can Jacob change in my video?
- Jacob can cut words and sentences, show b-roll or your own files while the right words play, fix or restyle captions, and change the music, sound effects, colours, transitions and ending. It can also make the video shorter or keep your pauses.
- Can the Magic Editor change the order of my sentences?
- No. Sentences stay in the order you said them. Jacob can cut a sentence, so if your first one is weak, ask it to cut the first sentence and the video starts on the next one.
- Can I change the font?
- No. Each style comes with its own fonts. You can still pick another caption look, make the key words stand out more or change the accent colour.
- Can I export in 16:9 or square?
- No. The Magic Editor exports one format: a vertical MP4, 1080 by 1920. For a wide or square video, use an editor with a timeline.
- Does each change cost credits?
- Changes Jacob makes from a chat message cost 40 credits each. Changes you make yourself, by tapping words or using the settings, cost nothing, and so does undo. Questions are free up to 20 a day.
- Can Jacob remove background noise?
- No. The export evens out your volume, but it doesn't remove background noise, so film in a quiet room.
- Is this the same as the Magic Editor in Google Photos?
- No. Google's Magic Editor is a photo tool on Pixel phones and in Google Photos: it can move, remove and resize people or objects in a picture. Cutroom's Magic Editor edits videos of you talking, and Jacob, its AI editor, changes them when you ask in a chat.
Film one clip, let Jacob make the first edit, and ask for the changes you want. Your first video is free.