Edit clips

Clips are the blocks on the Timeline: a piece of video, audio, an image, text, a shape or a motion graphic. This page covers the hands-on edits you make with the mouse and keyboard in the Editor layout. The agent can do all of the same things from a prompt; see Prompting.

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Tools

The toolbar starts with two tools:

• Select tool (V): the default. Click, drag, trim and marquee-select.
• Blade tool (B): the pointer turns into a cutter. Click a clip to split it at that point. Press V to return to selecting.

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Select

• Click a clip to select it. ⇧-click adds more clips to the selection.
• Drag on an empty part of the Timeline to draw a marquee and select everything it touches.
• Click an empty area to clear the selection. The Inspector always shows the selected clip.

Clips on a locked track cannot be selected or changed; unlock the track from its right-click menu first (see Timeline basics).

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Move

Drag a clip along its track to change when it plays, or up and down to move it to another track. A clip keeps its type rules: video, images, text and shapes go on video tracks, audio on audio tracks. Drop below the last track onto + New video track or + New audio track to create a track on the way. With snapping on (N), the clip’s edges snap to other clips, the playhead and markers as you drag.

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Trim

Drag the left or right edge of a clip to shorten or lengthen it. For video and audio you can only extend as far as the source file allows. Hold ⇧ while you drag an edge for a ripple trim: every clip after it on the same track shifts to keep the cut tight, so no gap opens and no overlap appears.

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Split

• ⇧B, the split button in the toolbar, or Split at Playhead in the clip’s right-click menu cuts at the playhead.
• The Blade tool (B) cuts wherever you click.

Both halves keep the same source, effects and properties. Transitions that sat on a cut that no longer exists are removed automatically.

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Delete and ripple delete

• ⌫ / Delete, the delete button that appears in the toolbar when something is selected, or Delete in the right-click menu removes the selection and leaves a gap.
• ⇧⌫ or Ripple Delete removes the selected clip and pulls every later clip on that track left by the same length, closing the gap.

Ripple delete works on clip selections only; transitions, masks and markers are deleted the normal way whichever keys you press.

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Duplicate, copy and paste

• ⌘D or Duplicate places a copy of the selection right after the original on the same track.
• ⌘C copies the selection; ⌘V pastes it at the playhead on the same tracks. Right-click an empty spot and choose Paste Here to paste at the click position instead.

Copies keep every property, including effects, masks, animations and keyframes.

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Rename

Double-click a clip to rename it inline, or choose Rename from its right-click menu. Names only help you and the agent tell clips apart; they do not affect export. Color in the same menu tints the clip with one of eight swatches (or clears the colour) so related clips stand out on the Timeline.

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The clip menu

Right-click any clip for: Split at Playhead (⇧B in the default preset; the menu may show a different key hint), Duplicate (⌘D), Copy (⌘C), Paste (⌘V), Rename, Color, Delete (⌫) and Ripple Delete (⇧⌫). Right-clicking a transition shows a different menu; see Transitions. Right-click an empty area for Add Marker, Paste Here, Add Text, Add Shape, Clear In/Out and Zoom to Fit.

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Status badges

A clip can show a badge while something is still happening to its media: Uploading, Transcoding, Transcribing, Generating, AI processing or Error. You can keep editing around it; the badge disappears when the job finishes. When the agent is changing the Timeline, a chip reads AI editing N clips over the affected clips. See Import media and Transcribe media for what each state means.

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Undo and redo

⌘Z undoes and ⌘⇧Z redoes; the top bar has Undo and Redo buttons too. The history keeps 50 steps and includes agent edits, so you can step back through a change the agent made. For anything older, use Version history or ask the agent to /undo.

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Remove Silences

Select a video or audio clip that has sound, open Smart actions (the wand in the toolbar) and choose Remove Silences. GoFrame Editor cuts the quiet stretches out of the clip and tightens what is left. The action needs a clip with audio. For more control over how aggressive the cut is, work from the Transcript panel or ask the agent (“remove pauses longer than a second”).

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Other shortcut presets

The keys on this page belong to the goframe (Default) preset. If you switch to the Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro preset in Settings → Shortcuts, timeline keys such as split, blade, select and snapping are remapped to that editor’s habits; the right-click menu always shows the current binding next to each action. The full tables are in Keyboard shortcuts.

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Continue

• Timeline basics
• Inspector: clip properties
• Transitions
• Edit video by editing text