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Guide on Employing Smart Edit and Scene Selection

Streamline your video editing process with Kapwing's Smart Cut feature, which eliminates dead or silent segments for a more engaging video experience.

Mastering Smart Editing: Tips for Using Smart Cut & Find Scenes Features
Mastering Smart Editing: Tips for Using Smart Cut & Find Scenes Features

Guide on Employing Smart Edit and Scene Selection

Fed up with those silence-filled, dull videos? Tired of digging through your long videos to find content for social media? Say goodbye to the struggles with Kapwing's Smart Cut and Find Scene tools – making video editing a breeze!

Smart Cut vs Find Scenes

Kapwing's latest AI-powered addition to its video editing suite makes editing a piece of cake. Smart Cut zoom-ahead in the video editing process, automatically spotting and nixing silences from your videos, making it a cinch in a matter of seconds. Find Scenes is on the ground, instantly identifying scene changes, making it a snap to resize your videos or find snippets for social media. You can wave goodbye to downloading software because these bad boys work seamlessly in your browser on any device!

How to use Smart Cut

  1. Upload your video file to the site and add it to the Timeline.
  2. Select the video, click "Smart Cut" in the Edit menu, and watch the AI magic happen.
  3. Control the threshold for silence detection using the "Silence Sensitivity" slider. The more you slide towards the right, the more silence that gets yanked.
  4. Zoom in and modify or keep your favorite silences – just click on them to select, de-select, or re-include.
  5. Find yourself making a mistake? Hit "Reset" and start over.
  6. Once you're ready, click "Done" and watch as it automatically cuts the silences from your video.
  7. Dress it up using Kapwing's other features, like automatically generated subtitles, images, text, GIFs, and more, then export and share.

How to Use Find Scenes

  1. Upload your video, add it to the Timeline, and click "Find Scenes" in the Edit menu.
  2. Adjust the split sensitivity slider to your preference. The further you slide towards the right, the more scene splits you’ll get.
  3. Allow the AI to detect the scenes, then zoom in on the Timeline and modify or keep your favorite cuts.
  4. Use the handles to adjust splits or drag them across the timeline.
  5. Make a boo-boo? Hit "Reset" and start again.
  6. Click "Done" when you are satisfied, and watch as your video gets sliced into manageable clips.
  7. Dress it up using Kapwing's other features, then export and share.

We hope you find these tools as innovative and helpful as we do!

Extra Tips for Editing Videos

Use Smart Cut with conversational or tutorial content to auto-trim silences and filler, shaving off hours of manual work.Apply Find Scenes to lengthy or multi-scene footage to quickly divide videos for editing or rearranging.Combine both tools to make your editing workflow slick: first, use Find Scenes to segment your video, followed by Smart Cut on each segment to tighten things up.After AI processing, fine-tune your edits manually to ensure cuts and transitions are smooth and flow well.Leverage Kapwing’s drag-and-drop interface alongside these tools for layering, cropping, and adding subtitles or enhancements to finish your video.

By integrating Smart Cut and Find Scenes, Kapwing propels you into a new realm of faster, easier video editing – particularly helpful for creators tackling long or complex projects. These tools hand you the reins for creative decisions by automating repetitive and technical tasks.

With Smart Cut, you can now effortlessly eliminate silences from your videos, making video editing a breeze. Find Scenes, on the other hand, instantly identifies scene changes, helping you to quickly resize your videos or find snippets for social media. Both these AI-driven tools are accessible through your browser on any device, streamlining your video editing experience significantly.

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