The timeline is where individual Cut results become one video. Use it to judge sequence, pacing, sound, and text together. A strong image or clip can still be the wrong choice when it interrupts the story, holds for too long, or leaves the viewer without the information the next Cut expects.
Read the timeline before changing it
Start with a complete playback. Note the exact Cut where the meaning, pace, sound, or text stops working. Then identify which layer owns the problem:
- Scenario or Cut: the story decision or action is unclear.
- Video or image: the selected visual result does not support the Cut.
- Voice or audio and music: the sound arrives at the wrong point or competes with the scene.
- Text or captions: the wording, placement, visual treatment, or animation needs adjustment.
Fixing the owning layer is usually clearer than making unrelated changes elsewhere in the project.
Make a focused timeline pass
Find the first issue
Play the sequence once without editing and mark the first place that needs attention.
Select the working position
Choose the relevant Cut or position in the timeline. Use the current placement controls to add or move work relative to the selection or playhead.
Confirm the visual version
Check that the selected image or video version is the one you intend to use.
Review sound in context
Listen to voice or audio and music in relation to the Cut, not in isolation. Check for late starts, abrupt endings, and competing elements.
Review text and captions
Check readable wording, timing, position, and the visual or animation controls currently shown in the product.
Check both Cut boundaries
Play across the boundary before and after the edited Cut. A local fix is complete only when the transition still works.
Play the complete project
Finish with one uninterrupted playback before export.
Final timeline check
Before export, confirm that:
- every Cut advances the intended story;
- the selected media is current;
- no unintended gap, overlap, or abrupt ending distracts from the sequence;
- voice or audio, music, text, and captions appear where the viewer needs them;
- the final frame and sound ending feel deliberate.
When the full playback is ready, continue to Export and download a finished video.