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The Editor

The Editor is a full video editor built into 60 Minute Creator. It opens from Editor in the sidebar, runs in your browser, and cuts the same media your workflows produce. Use it to finish a run by hand: trim the clips, fix the pacing, add text, grade the picture, and export the file.

What runs where

Editing is local. Playback, effects, color, the AI tools, and the final render all use your own computer's processor and graphics card, so nothing is queued on a server and nothing costs a run.

What does leave your machine:

  • Your projects are saved to your account, so the project list is the same on any device you sign in from.
  • Media you import from your device is added to your Media Library, so the clips follow your account too, as long as your library takes that file type and size.
  • Exports stay in your browser until you download them.

Open the Editor

  • Click Editor in the sidebar to see your projects, then open one or create a new one.
  • Or finish a workflow run in it: set an Output node's destination to Video Editor and the run creates a project for you, with the clips laid out the way the render was. The Output card then shows an Open in editor link. See Output node.

What your browser needs

Use Chrome or Edge, version 113 or newer. The editor leans on recent browser features for decoding, GPU effects, and export, and other browsers do not cover all of them yet. Keep hardware acceleration switched on and your graphics drivers current.

The editor also stores your projects, media, and finished exports in your browser's own storage. That storage is per browser and per device: it is not a folder you can open, and clearing your browser's site data for the app clears it. Your projects and your library media come back from your account when you sign in again, but anything that only lived in the browser (an export you never downloaded, a file your library could not take) does not.

The pieces of a project

  • A project holds a timeline, its settings (resolution and frame rate), and the media it uses.
  • The timeline stacks tracks. Higher tracks render over lower ones.
  • A clip on the timeline is a window into a media file. Trimming a clip changes which part plays, it never changes the file.
  • An adjustment layer is a clip with no media of its own. Its effects and grade apply to every clip below it.
  • Timing is measured in frames, at the project frame rate. Source media can run at a different rate, and the editor converts as you edit.

A sequence is a timeline inside your project, opened from its own tab. A compound clip is a section of timeline folded into a single reusable item. They are the same thing seen two ways: open a compound clip to edit its contents as a sequence, and drop a sequence into another timeline to use it as a clip.

Where to go next

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