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Your own talking-head or screen recording with the ums and long pauses cut, the best moments as vertical clips, captions burned in and a YouTube pack.

8 min read21 stepsUpdated October 27, 2026

Before you start

  • Your own videoA talking-head or screen recording you made: MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 30 minutes and 2 GB, with your voice on it.
  • A few minutesThe upload, then about a minute or two per 10 minutes of video to transcribe. You can close the page while it works.
It edits your own footage. It never makes a video from nothing (no avatars, no stock footage) and it never posts anything for you.
PART 01

What it does and when to use it

Cuts the ums and the pausesEvery word is transcribed with its own start and end time. Fillers (um, uh, ah, "you know" and the rest of your list) and pauses longer than you set become a cut list on the transcript, and you untick any you want to keep.
Picks the short clipsOne AI call reads the transcript and picks the moments that stand on their own as Shorts, Reels or TikToks, each with a hook line and why it works. Code checks each one is inside the video and the right length.
ClipBuildrClipBuildr inside Video Editr finds your best moments and makes short vertical clips with captions.
Adds simple animationsCaptions word by word in your brand colour, zoom punch-ins on the emphasised lines, text pop-ups for key phrases, a lower third with your name and title, and a progress bar on clips.
Use it forTalking-head videos, tutorials, screen recordings, webinar replays and podcasts on video. Not for footage without speech: it has nothing to cut by.
PART 02

Upload your video

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  1. Open Video EditrAt videoeditr.ahastudio.net, or press Start something new on your account page and choose Edit a video.
  2. Choose your videoUnder Your video, drop it on Drop your video here, or press the box to choose it. The page reads its length, size and type, says whether it is within the limits (Choose another swaps it), and shows the estimate: transcription by the minute plus the one AI call for the clips and the YouTube pack. Pick For to file it under a client (their brand colour goes on the captions).
  3. Press Upload and transcribeThe file goes straight to the video storage in parts, each with its own bar. Pause stops it; Resume upload carries on from the parts already sent. After a reload, press Choose the same file. Cancel upload deletes the parts.
  4. If the upload stopsThe card says the upload did not finish, with what happened. Resume: send the missing parts sends only what is missing; Start the upload again sends it all. If the storage refuses the finished upload, it starts again by itself.
  5. The stepsCheck the video, transcribe every word (a part at a time on a long video), find the fillers and silences, then pick the clips, zooms and YouTube pack. A step that fails says why and has Retry; Continue nudges a video that has not moved. The bell tells you when the cut list is ready.
PART 03

Check the cut list

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  1. Read it on the transcriptEach filler is struck through in red with a box, each long pause is an amber box with its length. Untick a box to keep that part in. List shows the cuts one per line, with Fillers and Silences filters. Tick every cut and Untick every cut do all of them.
  2. Hear it firstThe Preview plays your video with the ticked cuts skipped (Skip the cuts), so you hear the edit before anything renders. Click any word to jump there.
  3. SettingsFiller words is your list (add "like" or "so" if you use them as fillers), Cut silences longer than, Trim the start and End at. Save settings finds the cuts again; the ones you unticked stay unticked. Tick Burn in captions, Zoom punch-ins, Text pop-ups, Lower third (your name and title) and Progress bar on clips.
  4. Zooms and pop-upsThe lines and phrases the AI picked from your words. Untick any you do not want.
PART 04

ClipBuildr and renders

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  1. ClipBuildrClipBuildr shows your best moments as short clips. Each clip is 30 to 180 seconds, with a Hook line you can change (Copy hook), Show the hook as a title for the first seconds, and why it works. Pick this clip for the ones you want. Each clip has buttons to open X, LinkedIn, Facebook or Threads with its hook as the post text; you post it yourself.
  2. The shapePick a Shape per clip: Vertical 9:16 (1080 x 1920) for Shorts and Reels, Landscape 16:9 (1920 x 1080, your original framing kept) for YouTube in-stream ads, or Square 1:1 (1080 x 1080). Vertical and square are cropped from the centre of your video; move Crop position left or right and Preview with the crop shows the frame on the player. Captions and animations are sized to each shape.
  3. The end cardTick Add an end card on a clip, or press End card on every clip, for a closing screen of a few seconds in your brand colour. It shows your own words from End card text in Settings ("Subscribe for more" until you change it) and your Channel name if you add one. It is off until you turn it on.
  4. Grow your YouTube channelUpload a clip to your YouTube channel (unlisted is fine) to use it in a Google Demand Gen campaign that grows your channel.
  5. RenderRender the edited video makes the full edit with short crossfades at every cut so nothing clicks. Build this clip or Build my clips make the clips. They render one at a time; you can close the page and the bell says when each is ready. A failed render shows why and has Retry.
  6. DownloadDownload saves the MP4 and Watch it plays it. Every file is kept for 14 days, then deleted, and the page shows the date.
PART 05

Your own editor, YouTube, reposts and the transcript

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  1. Use your own editorDownload FCPXML for Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, Download EDL for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Avid: import it, point it at your original file, and every cut is in place. Captions for the edit (.srt) and .vtt match the edited video; Captions for the original (.srt) is for CapCut and Descript with your uncut file.
  2. The YouTube packTitle options, a description written only from what you say, chapters on the edited video's times (YouTube's rules: the first at 00:00, at least three, each at least 10 seconds, so a short video may have none) and tags, each with Copy, or Download the YouTube pack. You post it yourself.
  3. Ask for an emailUnder Email opt-in for your video, pick Before the video or Pause part way (with Pause at, like 1:30) and press Save opt-in. Change the Headline and Button text if you like. Upload the downloaded video to your own site or video host, paste its address under Link to your video, then Copy the snippet and paste it on your page. Viewers give their email to watch on, and each one lands in your Leads inbox. Off adds nothing.
  4. The Repost kitGive a video that did well a second life. Pick the edited video or a clip under Repost (or press Repost kit for this clip), then Open the Repost kit. You get an X post with your full transcript (the fillers left out) under a hook line from what you said: Copy the long post for an X account that allows long posts, or the same words as a thread of parts of up to 280 characters (Copy the whole thread, or Send to Social Publisher to save it there as a draft with no time). For Instagram, one plain sentence as the caption (Copy caption): post it from the Instagram app as a reel and choose the Trial option when you share it, best with a video that is a few weeks old and no longer getting new views. For the music, mood words to search your editor's music library (Copy mood words) and a prompt for an AI music generator (Copy music prompt); keep the music at about 30% volume under your voice.
  5. Opening it againThe first open is one small AI call; the kit is kept, so opening it again costs nothing. Write it again writes a new one. If the AI call fails, the kit says why and has Retry. The hook and the caption only use numbers you said in the video.
  6. The transcriptWrite it in SpeedWritr opens SpeedWritr with your words as a blog post to check (a long transcript is cut at a sentence). Copy transcript and Download transcript give it all, with the fillers left out.
PART 06

Your limits

Starter allowance3videos in your first 14 days
Each month20videos and 60 renders. Transcription comes out of your included AI each month and stops at the monthly limit: your own AI key cannot do it.
Each video30 minup to 2 GB, kept 14 days with its renders
PART 07

If something looks wrong

Still stuck? Email support@anthonyhayes.me or open the help desk.
Ready to build?Choose your video, check the estimate, then press Upload and transcribe.Open Video Editr