StudioReel Editor
Generation gets you a film. The reel editor is where you fix the three or four things it got wrong, without regenerating the whole thing.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A full regeneration costs a full run and gives you a different film — including new problems in places that were fine. Editing changes one scene and leaves everything else alone.
A reel is a sequence of scenes on a timeline. Each scene is one shot with its own content, styling, effects and narration, and each can be edited on its own.
A recording scene carries its source step, so it shows you the step title, a screenshot thumbnail and the clip length. You are never guessing which part of the capture a scene came from.
You can add a scene from three places, and they behave very differently — knowing which is which saves a lot of confused waiting.
| 📋 Guide step | One or more steps from the source guide, as recording scenes | Seconds. Awaited server-side (TTS plus recompose), comes back ready |
| 🖼️ Media | A URL you supply — image or clip, with an optional label and duration | Seconds. Same awaited path |
| 🤖 AI scene | A newly filmed scene from a voiceover line you write | Minutes. Returns immediately with status planning and films in the background |
⚠️ Guide steps and media come back ready; an AI scene does not. An AI insert answers straight away with planning and keeps filming behind the scenes. If you insert one and nothing appears, it is working, not broken.
The most useful of the three. If the film skipped a step you needed, or you set screen mode to none and then wished one screen were visible, insert that step directly. It arrives as a real recording scene with narration.
You can insert several steps at once by selecting them together.
For material that was never captured: a logo, a title card, a diagram exported from elsewhere, a clip from another tool. You supply the URL and optionally a label, a duration, and whether it carries its own audio.
You write the voiceover line, and optionally who says it and how it should be delivered. The engine films a new scene around that line.
This is the tool for a missing transition, a caveat that needs saying, or a closing line the generated story did not include.
Adjacent scenes can be merged into one, optionally with a new line to cover the join. Generated films sometimes cut where nothing changed — two short scenes in the same place doing one job. Merging them tightens the pacing without re-filming.
Each scene has its own styling and effects controls, so you can fix one shot that came out wrong without imposing that fix on the whole film.
This is where most editing time actually goes: one scene is too dark, one holds too long, one needs a different treatment to separate it from the shot before it.
Individual scenes can be re-worked with AI rather than replaced by hand. Useful when the content of a shot is right but the delivery, framing or emphasis is not.
💡 Try the scene-level AI edit before regenerating the reel. It is far cheaper, far faster, and it cannot break the scenes you were happy with.
⚠️ The last row is the one to plan around. If the underlying capture is going to change, do the re-record first and edit afterwards. Editing a reel built from a capture you are about to replace is work you will throw away.