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This feature is currently in beta. If you have questions or run into an issue, please contact support. Auto layouts analyzes your clip’s transcript and video and produces a sequence of layouts — camera bubbles, screen-only beats, camera cutaways, side-by-side splits, TV-presenter compositions, and optional image B-roll — tuned to your chosen editing style.

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How to generate auto layouts

  1. Open a clip in the editor and go to the Layout section. 1 2.png
  2. Choose your editing style. Auto is selected by default and picks the right style based on the content of your clip.
    • Each style changes the pacing, composition, and edit vocabulary of your video
    • Hover over a style to see a description
    • Try Auto the first time you generate layouts
  3. Click Generate layouts. 3 1.png Layouts start streaming in and are applied to your clip as they generate. 3 2.png
  4. Wait for the generation to complete.
  5. Review the result. Give a thumbs up or thumbs down to rate it — your feedback helps tune the model. 5 2.png

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After generation

Once auto layouts finishes, you can:
  • Change the editing style and regenerate for a different approach
  • Regenerate with the same style for an alternative take
  • Delete individual layouts while keeping the rest
  • Adjust the start and end of any layout
  • Undo or redo — you’re never locked in
    • Windows: Ctrl + Z to undo, Ctrl + Y to redo
    • macOS: Cmd + Z to undo, Cmd + Y to redo
  • Rate the result with the thumbs up/down buttons

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Editing styles

Each style is tuned for a different kind of content and a different canvas. The styles available to auto layouts depend on your clip’s recording type and canvas size.
  • Auto — picks the most appropriate style based on what you say and show
  • Product demo — high-energy proof + commentary; mixes screen reveals, camera cutaways, punch-ins, and B-roll for product walkthroughs, page critiques, and feature launches
  • Tutorial — procedural, step-by-step instruction where the viewer needs to follow exact clicks, typing, and configuration
  • Presentation — speaker-led talks, pitches, recaps, and lessons; includes a hosted TV show variant on landscape canvases that frames the speaker like a presenter
  • Intro & outro — only bookends the clip with a camera-led intro and outro and leaves the middle untouched

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Image B-roll

For product demo and presentation styles, auto layouts can insert AI-generated still images as B-roll over abstract concepts, benefits, customer situations, examples, and metaphors — places where there’s nothing specific on screen to inspect.
  • B-roll appears as a generated still image (never video) sized to your canvas
  • Placeholders show the prompt while the image is generating
  • B-roll is skipped during clicks, typing, cursor work, code edits, and dense slide reading
  • The Intro & outro style doesn’t add B-roll by default

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Turn B-roll on or off

Generated B-roll is off by default. To enable it for a generation:
  1. Open the options menu next to Generate layouts.
  2. Under B-roll, toggle Generate B-roll on.
  3. Generate or regenerate layouts.
Your preference is remembered for future generations.

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Supported recordings and canvases

Auto layouts works with:
  • Landscape (16:9) — two-track (camera + screen), screen-only, and camera-only recordings
  • Portrait (9:16) — two-track, screen-only, and camera-only recordings
  • Square (1:1) and round — two-track and camera-only recordings
The available editing styles and compositions adapt to the canvas — for example, portrait clips use a presenter-forward split, and landscape presentations can use the TV-presenter framing.

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Best practices

  • Start with a clean slate — auto layouts works best on raw, unedited recordings
  • Crop first — if you need to crop your screen, do it before running auto layouts
  • One clip at a time — generate layouts per clip; layouts won’t generate across an entire video in one pass

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What to expect

  • Variability — each generation can produce slightly different results; regenerate to find the version you like
  • Pacing — overrides are used as exceptions to the base layout, so most of the clip stays on the base composition with timed accents around important moments
  • Processing time — longer clips take longer to generate

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Limitations

  • Maximum clip length: 20 minutes
  • Make all crop changes before running auto layouts — cropping afterwards affects every layout and can produce unexpected results
  • After cropping, you can’t update the generated layouts

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Actively improving

Auto layouts is still in beta. The team is fixing bugs, incorporating your feedback, and tuning the model continuously. Features and behavior may change as the feature evolves.