Talking Head Edit is for speech-led videos such as monologues, interviews, lessons, and video podcasts. AI can choose the strongest takes, remove filler and repeated ideas, tighten long pauses, and add captions, B-roll, motion graphics, or music when requested.
What do I need before writing the prompt?
- Import one or more video or audio files with clear dialogue, then decide whether to process the whole recording or only part of it.
- For multiple takes or cameras, identify the main picture and supporting angles. Use AI multicam sync from Chapter 3 first when the recordings need automatic alignment.
- Optionally prepare B-roll, logos, brand assets, a Design Style, or a preferred caption style.
- Use Selection Mode for clips, transcript text, or a time range, or plan to
@mention the target. Also decide the target length, ideas that must remain, and what AI may remove.
Prompts you can copy
Edit @interview. Keep the clearest and most natural takes, remove filler words, repeated sentences, and obvious restarts, and shorten pauses longer than 0.8 seconds without making the delivery feel rushed.
Clean up only the first 60 seconds of the talking-head footage on @V1. Remove empty pauses and repeated ideas, then add clean captions on key phrases. Do not add music.
Turn @interview into a 45-second vertical short. Open with the strongest line, preserve the complete point, use @B-roll to cover visible jump cuts, and add a lower third when the speaker first appears.
State the target length, ideas that must remain, what AI may remove, and whether you want captions, B-roll, motion graphics, or music.
Edit manually
- Place the footage on the timeline and open Transcript. If it is hidden, use Workspace → Transcript.
- Choose the track that contains the dialogue. Clicking text moves the playhead to that moment.
- Select unwanted words or sentences and press Backspace or Delete. ChatCut removes the matching spoken range from the timeline.
- In clip view, drag transcript segments to reorder the matching clips. Use the pause controls to shorten or restore pauses that exist in the source recording.
- Open the Captions menu in the playback controls to show captions and choose a style.
- Drag B-roll, motion graphics, sound effects, or music from My Assets, Library, or Templates onto the appropriate tracks.
What happens afterward?
Both AI edits and transcript edits change the current timeline without rewriting the source media. Review speech continuity, visible jump cuts, and the active caption track. Use Undo or save a Version before another major pass.
To localize a finished speech edit, see AI Video Translation. For a presenter you do not have to film, see AI Avatars / Digital Humans.
See also Transcript and Captions, Motion Graphics, and Versions / Undo / Redo.