Cut & Trim

Mistakes happen when you record — a pause while a page loads, a wrong click, a false start. Instead of recording again, remove those parts in Clips. Cut footage stays in your project, greyed out on the timeline, so you can adjust or restore it at any time.

Tip

Clips is available on all paid plans.

Opening Clips

Click Clips in the toolbar above the video preview. Your recording opens on a timeline, where you can cut, trim, and review every edit. New to Clips? Start with the overview.

Smart Auto-Cut when you create a project

When the AI Script Writer generates your script, Smart Auto-Cut removes long pauses from each recording automatically. It’s on by default.

Removing idle moments with Auto-cut

Auto-cut in the Clips toolbar detects idle moments — stretches with no mouse or keyboard activity, such as waiting for a page to load — and cuts them. Hover over Auto-cut to preview the spans it would remove; nothing changes until you click.

Treat automatic cuts as suggestions: keep the ones that tighten the pacing, and adjust or undo any that remove something viewers need to see.

• Auto-cut only affects the clip you’re on. Other clips are unchanged.
• Your own cuts take priority over automatic ones.
• Auto-cut isn’t available for mobile recordings.

Zooming the timeline

Drag the zoom slider, or pinch on your trackpad, to zoom in for precise edits and back out to review the whole recording.

To see more of the picture while you cut, click Hide padding above the timeline. It only changes your view — the final video keeps its padding.

Cutting a segment

1. Move the playhead to where the cut should start.

2. Click Cut a segment in the toolbar. The playhead position becomes the start of the cut.

   

3. The step bar reads Cut a segment · Click the end. Click the end point on the timeline — before or after the start both work.

   

The removed span turns greyed out. To stop without cutting, click Cancel or press Escape.

Shortcut: Shift + Click on the timeline to add a cut.

You can also right-click a clip on the timeline and choose Cut a segment.

Adjusting or undoing a cut

Drag a cut’s start or end edge to make it shorter or longer. To restore a cut completely, hover over it and click Undo cut.

To restore everything that was cut — manual and automatic — click Remove cuts in the toolbar.

Trimming the start or end

A trim is a cut that touches the start or end of a clip. Drag the handle at either edge of the clip inward to remove opening or closing footage.

A cut always stays inside one clip. If you click past the edge of a clip while cutting, the cut stops at the clip’s edge and becomes a trim.

Previewing your edits

Press Space or click play to watch the result. Cut footage is skipped, so you can check that every transition feels natural and nothing important was removed.

Note

Nearby cuts merge. Cuts in the same clip that overlap, touch, or sit very close together combine into one cut. Very short cuts aren’t allowed, and a cut can’t start inside another cut.

Next steps

Split & Remove Clips Split a recording into clips and remove outdated parts

Update or Replace Footage Replace an outdated section or add a missing step

Slides Add intro, outro, and chapter slides

Blur Hide sensitive data you don't want to cut

Editor Overview Back to the editor tour