Comedy Reel EditorOn your computer

Drop a videoof your comedy set

Nothing gets uploaded to the internet, no AI sees this. Google Chrome processes the video on your computer using your own processor, and exports it directly to your hard drive.

Choose videos

One set or a whole night's worth: drop several at once, or . They're worked on one by one.

Set

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Framing

Drag the preview to move the shot in any direction, or use the sliders.

Left and right Up and down Needs some zoom for the whole reel first: the full-height picture has no room to move up or down. Zoom for the whole reel on top of the punchline zooms

Punch-ins

A punch-in pushes the picture in on your face for a moment, usually as the punchline lands. They're the nodes on the timeline's Punch in row: dashed ones are suggestions (click to add), solid ones are in the reel. Select one to choose how far it goes in (1.2× to 2×); drag its ends to change how long it lasts. Or move the playhead and press Punch in here.

Start with the punchline a teaser: the punchline and laugh play first in black and white, then the whole bit in colour

The app picks the punchline. Pick your own to choose exactly what plays first.

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Sound

Bleep instead of silence

Shift-click any word in the transcript to mute it (or unmute it).

Louder or quieter: the bars on the timeline's Volume row. Move the playhead and press the speaker to add one; drag its ends; select it to set its level here, or press Delete to remove it.

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How the editor works

Play: Press play or the space bar. The preview shows the reel as it will export: vertical, framed on you.
Cut words: Click a word in the transcript to cut it, again to put it back. ··· marks a pause that was cut: click it to keep it.
Play from a word: Alt-click (Option-click) a word to play from there.
Loop: ⟲ Loop (or R) plays the selected sections round and round while you trim them, or the whole reel when nothing's selected.
Fix words: Double-click a word to correct it.
Make it longer: Click a faded word before or after the reel to start or end it there.
Rearrange: Click a section to select it, then drag it to a new place. Drag the handle at either end of a section outwards to use more of the video around it, or inwards to trim it. To select several sections, drag across them (from anywhere but a selected section), Shift-click to select a run, or Cmd-click (Ctrl-click) to add one; Delete removes them all. ✂ (or X) splits the section under the playhead; select a section and press Delete to remove it; ↺ puts the original order back.
Combine clips: + Next bit under the timeline carries the reel on into what comes next in the set, with everything said in between, keeping each part's edits. ▾ Other puts any other of your clips after this one instead. Rearrange or trim their sections like any others. Separate turns it back into the clips it was made from. On the shortlist, Combine does the same.
Sound: Swear words are underlined in red. Under Adjust, mute them all in one click (silence or a bleep), or one at a time; shift-click any word to mute it. Audience members' voices are made louder automatically (8 dB, set in Settings): each shows as an Audience bar on the Volume row and a +8 dB tag in the transcript; change them all under Adjust, or one at a time like any other bar. The Volume row on the timeline makes stretches louder or quieter: press the speaker to add one at the playhead, drag its ends, and set its level under Adjust. "Boost the laughs" lifts every laugh in the reel.
Start or end it somewhere else: Play or scrub to the moment you want, then press ⟦ Start here (or I) to cut everything before it, or End here ⟧ (or O) to cut everything after. To start earlier than the clip does, click a faded word before it in the transcript, or drag the first section's left end outwards.
Undo: Cmd Z undoes the last change, Shift Cmd Z (or Cmd Y) redoes it, as many steps back as you like. The arrows under the timeline do the same.
Zoom the timeline: Cmd + and Cmd − (Ctrl on Windows) zoom in and out around the playhead; Cmd 0 fits the whole reel. Pinch on a trackpad over the timeline to zoom around the pointer.
Keys: Space plays and pauses · J back 3 s and play · K stop · L play (again: faster) · R loop the selected sections (or the whole reel) · ← → a frame (with Shift, a second) · X split at the playhead · I / O start or end here · Delete removes · Cmd Z undo · Cmd +/− zoom.
Frame by frame: ← and → step the playhead one frame (with Shift, a second). Select a section and its In and Out buttons appear above it: each press moves that end by one frame. Keys: , and . for the start, < and > for the end. Dragging a section's ends snaps to whole frames.
Framing modes: Under Adjust: Follow my face (the default), Hold still (for physical comedy or pacing that throws the tracking), Pan by hand (drag the preview at different moments to set keyframes, shown as diamonds on the timeline; it glides between them), or Whole picture (the full stage over a blurred fill; punch-ins still cut in close).
Punch-ins: The Punch in row shows where the picture pushes in on your face. Dashed nodes are the editor's suggestions (usually the punchlines): click one to add it. Select a punch-in to choose 1.2×, 1.4×, 1.6× or 2×, or ✕ to remove it; drag its ends to change how long it lasts. To add your own, move the playhead and press the magnifier (Punch in here).
Framing: It follows your face and pushes in on punchlines. On the preview: drag to move the shot, pinch on a trackpad or scroll to zoom around the pointer, double-click to zoom in on a spot (again to zoom out). With the playhead in a punch-in, zooming changes that punch-in; anywhere else, the shot for the whole clip. The bar on top of the preview says which, with − + and Reset.
Done: When a clip's finished, choose its shape (tall 9:16, 4:5 or square) and press ✓ Done: it's made into an MP4 on your computer, with the sound evened out and at the right loudness for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, and goes into Ready. Download it from there, with a captions file (.srt) timed to the edit for your captions app, and a cover image from any frame. Edit it again and Update remakes it. Under Adjust, Duplicate this reel makes a copy to try another version.