Video Editing.

Edit video without Adobe complexity. Every article filed under this job, most read first, plus the pick and the one alternative worth comparing it to.

Creative · Video Editing

Editing is deleting words now

3 hours scrubbing a waveform to find the sentence where you lost your train of thought. That was video editing for creators, and it was always the wrong tool for the job.

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Video Editing: Descript or CapCut

Edit video without Adobe complexity.

The Pick

Descript↗ Edit video by editing the transcript. Covers short form and long form from one timeline.

Podcasts and talking head, edit the transcript and the video cuts with it
Killing ums, gaps and retakes in one pass, plus studio sound
Pulling captioned clips out of a long recording without touching a timeline

The Alt

CapCut↗ Free and fast, mobile plus desktop, the best raw output for short social clips.

Short-form social: trends, sounds, auto-captions, template edits
Editing on a phone as fast as on desktop, projects sync between them
Effects and caption styles that read as native on TikTok and Reels

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