Opus Clip: Refining and cutting AI video in an editor

OOpus Clip Try it →Watch full video →Daniel Batal · Feb 2026

Demo summary

The user demonstrates how to mark usable and unusable sections of the AI-generated footage and cut between the AI animation and original talking-head footage.

Step-by-step

Play through the AI-generated footage to identify errors
Add a red marker at the start of any problematic or unusable sections
Add a green marker at the point where the footage becomes usable again
Import the original talking-head video footage
Cut between the AI animation and the original spoken video
Add a music track underneath the edited clips

Watch out for

AI may generate incorrect visual details, such as wrong animal breeds or inconsistent object colors
AI may fail to accurately represent specific people mentioned by name

Tips

Use markers to define 'in' and 'out' points for usable sections of AI footage

Highlights

“it actually did a pretty good job through most of this”

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