Video Editor

The Video Editor makes finished videos for your brand. You describe the video in your own words, pick any files it should use, and an AI editor writes, designs, builds and renders it. You get back a finished video file in your Media Library. You can then ask for changes, and every change is saved as a new version. Open it from Video Editor in the sidebar, or press V. Every video belongs to the brand you have selected at the top of the sidebar.

The page has two parts: the New video form at the top, and Your videos below it. You can also ask for a video in the Superagent chat. Those videos show up on this page too.

Ask for a new video

Fill in the New video form. Only the first box is required. Everything else has a sensible starting value.

1. What should it be? Write the video you want, as you would brief a person. Say what it is about, how long it should be, where it will be posted, the tone, and how it should end. For example: A 20-second vertical promo for our website, bright and upbeat, ending on our logo.
2. The campaign. It starts on No campaign. Pick a campaign to file the video and every later change of it there, or choose New campaign….
3. Make it professional is ticked by default. A director first turns your words into a full agency brief: audience, story beats, pacing, type, sound and a shot list. Then the video is made from that brief. You can read the brief on the video's card. Untick it if you wrote a careful brief yourself.
4. Generate media is on by default. The Video Editor may then make music, images, video clips, voice and sound effects for this video. Each one costs credits. See Choose what it may generate.
5. Shape — Vertical 9:16 (the default), Landscape 16:9 or Square 1:1.
6. Engine — Pick for me (the default), Remotion or HyperFrames. These are the two video-building toolkits the editor can use. Leave it on Pick for me unless you have a reason to choose. An engine your workspace has switched off cannot be picked.
7. Model — the AI model that makes the video, and next to it how hard it thinks. These are the same pickers as in the Superagent chat, and the model opens on your last pick.
8. Length in seconds, up to 300. Leave it on Any to let the editor decide, or type a length. The box will not go past 300 seconds (5 minutes).
9. Clips, up to 10. Ask for several separate videos in one go, for example 5 highlights from one episode. With more than one clip, the length box becomes Each clip, in seconds, and all clips together can be up to 5 minutes. The button changes to Make 5 clips.
10. Files to use — Choose files opens your Media Library. Pick videos, images, sound or documents for the editor to use, such as footage, product photos or your logo. The button then says how many you chose.
11. The price note. Read it before you start. See What a video costs.
12. Make the video starts the job. It stays off until you write a request.

Under the button the form reminds you that a video takes several minutes, and where it will be saved.

Choose what it may generate

With Generate media on, there is one row each for Music, Images, Video clips, Voice and Sound effects. Untick a row to stop the editor from making that kind of file. For each kind you leave ticked, pick its limit:

• Usual limit — the standard amount per video: 1 music track, 6 images, 2 video clips, 12 voice files and 6 sound effects.
• Number of files — type how many, up to 20.
• Credits — type the most credits this kind may use on this video.

Switch Generate media off, and nothing will be generated. The editor then uses your files, your brand's library and what it makes itself.

Limits on a request

The form and the server check the same limits, and tell you in plain words when a request is over one:

• A video can be up to 5 minutes long.
• The videos and sound files you pick can add up to 1 hour.
• You can pick up to 100 pictures and documents.
• No single file can be over 2 GB. A very large video is used through a lighter working copy instead, and the editor takes full-quality pieces from the original.

Your plan also sets how many videos your workspace can make at the same time. If you are at that number, a new start is refused with a sentence that says so. It is not queued.

What a video costs

The note above Make the video explains how you are billed, for the model you picked:

• Nothing is held when you press Start.
• You are charged as the AI works, at the model's rate (the note shows it, in credits per million tokens).
• When the job is over, you are charged for the machine time it used.
• Pictures, clips, voice and music it generates are charged by their own tool.
• You need at least 4,000 credits to start. This is a minimum balance, not a price.

Once this brand has at least three finished videos on the same model, the note also says what your recent videos on it cost: a typical figure and a range. A video that fails or that you stop is charged only for what it used.

Follow a video while it is made

A new video appears at the top of Your videos with the Working badge. Its box already has the right shape, and inside it you see:

• the step it is on, in plain words, such as Searching your library;
• Step 3 of 7, with a bar;
• how long it has run, and, once your workspace has finished enough videos to judge, about how long is left (About 4 min left, or Taking longer than usual).

If you ticked Make it professional, the card shows Writing the director's brief… and then The director's brief. Click Read the whole brief to open all of it.

You do not need to stay on the page. When the video is done you get a notice in Updates, Your video is ready (or Your video failed). Clicking it brings you back to the Video Editor.

Before a video is handed to you, it is checked. On a new video, the editor first looks at frames of its own render and fixes what it finds. Then, on every video, a second reviewer that did not make it looks at it and sends back anything that needs fixing. This happens inside the job and is part of its cost.

A finished video

A finished card shows what you asked for, the details of the run, the cost, and the video itself.

1. The run line — whether it is an edit, the engine, the model, the thinking level, when it started and how long it took.
2. Cost — the whole cost of the video. Click What it was spent on to see the parts: AI model, Machine time, and one line for each image, clip, voice, music track or sound effect it made.
3. The video. It is a normal file from your Media Library. Click it, or its name, to open the file: play it, download it, share it, see its versions and leave comments. With Done you see its shape and length.
4. Ask for a change — type what to change, for example make the captions yellow.
5. The model for the change. It starts on the model the video was made with. Next to it are the thinking level and the campaign. Changing the campaign here moves the whole project, and its files are re-tagged where they are.
6. Professional — tick it to have the director write your change up as a note first. If you leave it off, the change keeps the original brief.
7. Edit starts the change. It is a new, shorter job on the same project, priced like any other.

When a request made several clips, each clip is its own file, and the change row adds a picker to say which clip to change.

Where your videos are saved

Every video and a poster picture for it are saved in your Media Library under Apps › Video Studio, in a folder named after the project. The project name comes from the first few words of your request. A video in a campaign is saved under Campaigns › (campaign) › Apps › Video Studio instead. A video asked for in the Superagent chat is saved inside the Apps › Chats folder.

Each change is saved as the project's next version, beside the earlier ones: Frankfurt Region Teaser.mp4, then Frankfurt Region Teaser v2.mp4. The earlier file stays. A run that fails takes no version number.

Ask for changes in the file's comments

You can pin change requests on the video itself. Open the video file, leave comments at the moment or the spot you mean, and tag @Superagent. The request then waits in the Superagent's Agent to-do list. When it is started, the Superagent makes one edit that carries every pinned request, with its time and place. When the new version is saved, the requests are marked done, and a reply on the original file links to the new version.

Stop a stuck video, continue one that stopped

• While a video is working, the card shows Stop and Stuck? Stop it — the work so far is kept and you can continue it. Stopping keeps the work. A stopped video is charged only for what it used.
• A video that Didn't finish, or that you stopped, shows a box, Anything to tell it?, and a Continue button. Continue starts a new job that picks up the kept work and finishes the same video. Your note is passed on word for word, for example The music was fine, just finish the captions. The new card says Picks up a video that didn't finish… keeping its work.

Continue is only for a video that failed or stopped. To change a finished video, use the change box.

Make videos from the chat

You can ask the Superagent for a video in plain words, such as Make a 20-second vertical video announcing our new menu, with captions. If you said nothing about generated music, images, clips, voice or sound effects, it first asks you what it may make. The job then runs in the background, and the finished video is posted into the chat when it is done. You can also ask the Superagent to change a finished video, or to continue one that stopped. Jobs started from the chat also show on the Video Editor page, because a video belongs to the brand, not to the place you asked for it.

What to read next

• Design Editor — the same way of working, for finished pictures at exact sizes.
• Media Library — where your videos are kept, commented on and shared.