Opus Clip: Editing clips via transcript and timeline

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Demo summary

The user demonstrates the text-based video editor, showing how to highlight or remove words from the transcript to edit the video. It also shows how to add new sections from the source video into an existing clip.

Step-by-step

Click into the clip to open the editor
Select a word in the transcript to access the highlight option
Choose to remove a word from the caption or remove that part of the video entirely
Click the 'Add Section' button to open the source video modal
Select the desired segment from the source video and adjust the timing
Click 'Add' to insert the new section into the clip

Options

Adjust the timing of a highlight
Add AI B-roll, stock B-roll, emojis, or an AI hook to a specific section
Add sections to the beginning or the end of the video via the timeline editor

Tips

Use the text editor functionality to add different sections if you feel the video needs to be more complete
Look for grayed-out filler words in the transcript to identify areas for potential removal

Highlights

“this is where Opus Clip gets really impressive... it's a text editor of sorts”

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