I'm testing my latest changes, and I added SO MUCH to the free Editor since the last time I really looked at it.
Quick reminder on what the free Editor is. It runs in your browser. No login, nothing stored, nothing uploaded to a server. You drop in your recording, it transcribes right there on your machine, and you edit straight from the transcript.
The basics were already free, and they still are:
- Cut from the transcript. Delete a word or a whole sentence and it's gone from the video.
- Remove silences in one pass.
- Remove filler words, the ums and uhs, in one pass.
Here's what's new.
You can add music and sound effects. Pick an audio file off your machine, drop it on a lane, and it mixes into your export.
You can add b-roll and images. Your MAIN video is the one with the transcript. Drop another video or an image on top of it and it plays as a cutaway, covering the frame for as long as you set while your original audio keeps rolling.
There's a notes lane now too, so you can mark spots as you go.
Under the hood, the free Editor runs the same engine as the paid Editor, so it's faster and smoother, and it handles bigger files than it used to.
Why is all of this free? Most podcasts never make a dime. Charging someone for BASIC editing on their first episode feels like taking advantage. So the cutting, the silence and filler removal, the music, the b-roll, all of it stays free.
The paid Editor is where the advanced work lives. Multi-camera, layouts, the full timeline. That's fair to charge for.
Come on in!
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