What is

Text-Based Editing?

Definition

Editing a video by editing its transcript — delete a word and the matching footage is removed, with no timeline scrubbing.

Related terms

The clickable preview image for a video. A strong thumbnail is one of the biggest drivers of click-through rate.

A model of your personal writing voice, learned from your past posts, used to generate content that sounds like you.

The full text of everything spoken in a video, produced by AI transcription — the foundation for captions, clips, and writing.

SubRip Subtitle file — a plain-text format that stores captions with timestamps, importable by most platforms and editors.

A predicted rating of how likely a clip is to perform well, used to rank AI-proposed clips so you edit the best ones first.

Automatically cutting long pauses and dead air from a video to improve pacing and hold attention.

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