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Edit a video by editing its transcript Select words in the transcript and cut them, and the video, audio and captions are cut at the same moment.
Where to find it Editor → Words tab → Edit by text
How to do it 1 Transcribe the recording first, from the Text track card.
2 Open the Words tab. Edit by text shows the transcript as paragraphs.
3 Click a word to jump there, then Shift-click another word to select the passage between.
4 Press Play to hear it, then Cut from video to remove it from every track.
5 Click a ⏸ pause chip to shorten that pause to a natural gap.
Good to know Words that Smart cleanup plans to remove are struck through in red. Undo restores a cut in one step. Words with estimated timing may cut slightly off; transcribing again gives exact timing.
Who can use it Free; needs macOS 26 on Mac
Where it works Mac · iPhone · Web This guide answers Can I edit my video like a document? How do I cut a sentence out by selecting the text? How do I remove a long pause from the transcript? Is text-based editing like Descript? How do I find a moment by searching the words? Related guides Remove silences, ums and repeated words
Smart cleanup finds long pauses, ums and uhs, repeats and restarted sentences, then cuts or speeds them up in one step you can undo.
Transcribe a video to text
Turn the speech in a recording into text on the Text track, on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded and it costs nothing.
Add captions to a video and burn them in
Transcribe the speech onto the CC row, check the words, and export. The captions are drawn into the picture so they play anywhere.
Remove ums and long pauses on iPhone
Smart cleanup finds long pauses, ums, repeated words, and restarts in your recording. Review the edits, then apply them in one step.
Still stuck? Support covers install, permissions and how to send feedback from the app.
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