How to work with cuts and transitions

Hard cut is the direct, invisible option and usually the right default. Whoosh is the energetic one, with the scale movement short-form is known for; use it deliberately, not everywhere. Fade softens the handover. Micro pause holds a beat of breathing room. Light flash is the most visible accent; treat it like an exclamation mark.

A transition dresses the handover; it doesn't repair it. When a cut feels wrong, check the words and the take boundaries first, then reach for a transition.

Cut this piece out removes a selection inside a scene. Each scene lists its internal cuts with start and end; Remove cut lifts one, Remove cuts lifts them all while keeping your scene boundaries.

Split here (or S on the timeline) splits at the playhead, snapping to a legal word boundary. Merge with next scene joins two scenes; Delete scene removes one entirely. Each piece needs at least 0.2 seconds, and the app refuses splits that would break that.

Edit clip opens the trimmer: drag the take's start and end exactly where you want them. When there's material past the scene end, the trimmer is also how you extend it. Fine-tune gives you the same control with frame-level precision.