Is the video exported with a watermark?

No. Trimming, joining, titles, music and the full-length export at every size are free, with no watermark and no account. Extra layers, masks and the expressive transitions are part of Pro.

Is my footage uploaded anywhere?

No - the whole edit runs in your browser. Clips are read on your device, cut on your device and encoded on your device; nothing is sent to a server.

What files can I start from and end with?

MP4 and MOV files open, which covers what phones and cameras record. The finished video saves as MP4 or WebM, or as a GIF when you need a silent loop.

All formats

Short video maker

A short video is its own format, wherever it ends up - a Reel, a TikTok, a Short, a story. It runs seconds rather than minutes, fills the whole screen, plays with sound on, and has about a second and a half to earn the next one. Here is the shape to cut at, the decisions that keep people watching, and a video editor that does the whole assembly on your device.

Shape: 9:16 (1080 x 1920) for full-screen feeds, 1:1 for grids, 16:9 for widescreen - pick the output shape and every clip is fitted to it
Length: Seconds, not minutes - up to about 90 seconds plays everywhere, and the first 3 decide whether anyone stays
Audio: The footage keeps its own sound, with a music track mixed underneath
Export: MP4, WebM or GIF at full resolution, no watermark

What makes it work

Cut into the action, not before it Trim every clip so it opens inside the movement rather than ahead of it. The beat where someone settles into frame reads fine on an editing timeline and dies on a phone - by then the swipe has already happened.
Pick the shape before you cut Every clip is fitted to the output shape, cropping what overflows - so decide where the video is going first. A landscape clip in a vertical frame loses its sides; if a shot has to survive that, whatever matters in it must live in the middle third.
Keep titles in the middle of the frame Every feed lays its own interface over the edges - captions and audio lines along the bottom, buttons down one side. Titles placed in the upper middle stay readable on every platform the video lands on.
One look across every clip Footage from different cameras, times and lighting reads as a pile of clips until it is graded the same. Apply one film look across the cut and the pile becomes an edit - it is the single cheapest way to make a video feel made.
Use dissolves like punctuation A hard cut is the native rhythm of short video; a dissolve is a comma. One between scenes reads as intent, one between every clip reads as a slideshow.
Duck the music under real sound If a clip carries speech or room sound worth keeping, keep it, and lay the music underneath at a level where both survive. A music bed at full volume flattens every clip into b-roll.

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Is the video exported with a watermark?: No. Trimming, joining, titles, music and the full-length export at every size are free, with no watermark and no account. Extra layers, masks and the expressive transitions are part of Pro.
Is my footage uploaded anywhere?: No - the whole edit runs in your browser. Clips are read on your device, cut on your device and encoded on your device; nothing is sent to a server.
What files can I start from and end with?: MP4 and MOV files open, which covers what phones and cameras record. The finished video saves as MP4 or WebM, or as a GIF when you need a silent loop.