We've redesigned the Vocal Video editor from the ground up. It's the biggest improvement we've ever made to how you edit video in Vocal Video, and we’re so excited to have it live for all users.
Editing a video should feel as easy as editing a document, even if you've never touched video production. Now it does: select a word or sentence in the transcript, click "cut", and the footage is gone. Meanwhile, one-click AI tools — filler-word removal, silence shortening, and Studio Sound — handle the parts that used to need an editor. And when you need maximum precision, our new timeline makes sophisticated edits a breeze. It's all wrapped up in an interface that's even cleaner & simpler than our first-generation video editor, with unlimited undo & redo, and improved collaboration tools.
Read on for more on what’s included in this major release. For the full tour, see the complete guide to the new editor in our Help Center.
Transcript-first video editing
The transcript is now the primary way you interact with your video. Select a sentence, cut it, and that section is automatically removed. You can also fix punctuation and transcription errors, as well as mute words from the video.
Find & Replace across the transcript
Need to fix a company name, swap out a product term, or correct a repeated typo? Find & Replace now works across the captions and transcript for the whole video.
One-click AI polish
Three new toggles do the cleanup work that used to take a real editor.
One-click filler-word removal
Every "um" and "uh" in your video can now be removed in an instant.
Shorten word gaps with a threshold you control
The new silence shortener lets you compress those pauses with an adjustable threshold. Slide it to your comfort level: tighten things up for a snappy social clip, or leave more breathing room for a longer-form piece.
Studio Sound — AI audio cleanup, on by default
Studio Sound is our new AI-powered audio processing that replaces the old loudness-normalization pass. It does three things automatically: removes room noise and echo, evens out volume levels across speakers, and enhances voice clarity.
A new – and completely optional – timeline includes filmstrip thumbnails on every segment so you can visually scan your video, live audio waveforms, and zoom controls to make precise edits possible. You can also add scenes right from the timeline.
A simplified layout with more WYSIWYG editing
We reduced the number of panels in the video editor, simplified navigation, and made every control easier to find. We want you to have a clutter-free space to put the finishing touches on your videos.
Movable captions with per-word highlighting
Subtitles and captions can now be nudged up or down on the video to fit your layout, and lower-third titles will automatically move so they don't overlap.
Editors and reviewers can leave comments pinned to the exact frame they're referencing. Click a comment, and the playhead jumps right there. As before, @-mention a colleague to bring them into the conversation.
Zoom effects to add visual interest
Zoom effects, borrowed from the editing playbook of YouTubers and documentarians, give your video the visual motion that holds a viewer's attention. Three flavors, three jobs:
Punch in or out — to hide a cut. Every time you trim a filler word, the speaker's head jumps a few pixels in the frame. An instant cut to a tighter crop covers the seam, making jump cuts read as intentional rather than messy. It's the YouTube vlog move.
Quick zoom in or out — for emphasis. A fast, deliberate zoom is a visual exclamation point. Use it on a key number, a surprise, or the line you most want
to land. One or two per video is usually plenty.
Slow zoom in or out — the "Ken Burns" effect. Named after the documentarian who used it to bring still photographs to life, a slow drift adds gravity to emotional beats without ever calling attention to itself. Pair it with the customer's "and that's when everything changed" sentence and let the camera quietly pull the viewer in.
Strength and focal-point controls dial each effect from subtle to dramatic.
And much, much more...
Full undo/redo across the editor
Undo and redo now work across every action in the editor — not just transcript edits, but soundtrack changes, thumbnail selections, and everything else. Made a change you don't like? Cmd/Ctrl+Z your way back.
See who else is editing — and never overwrite each other
You can now see who else is in the editor at the same time, with live avatars. And if two people are editing simultaneously, the editor protects against one person silently overwriting another's changes.
SRT caption download
You can now download your captions as SRT files for use on social platforms, in your LMS, or for compliance uploads. The captions are generated from the same transcript you've already edited, so they're accurate and ready to go.
New-scene dropdown and smoother video uploads
Adding new scenes is faster with the new dropdown menu, and both uploading video clips and adding image scenes have their own streamlined flows. It's a smoother experience whether you're inserting a title card, a photo, or a new video segment.
Video-details popover
The old title dropdown has been replaced with a cleaner video-details popover. It gives you more room to see and edit your video's metadata without feeling cramped.
Faster preview playback
Editor media now loads from our CDN, which means preview playback is noticeably faster. You'll feel the difference especially on longer videos or when jumping between segments.
A first-class Reviewer experience
Reviewers — the people you invite to approve or give feedback on a video before it's published — now get a dedicated view built on the same editor shell. They get timestamped comments, sharing controls, and can see who else has the video open, without the complexity of the full editing interface.
What's next
This release represents months of work from our product team, and we're really proud of how it turned out. But we're not done. The rebuilt editor gives us a much stronger foundation to ship new features faster going forward.
We'd love to hear what you think. If you have questions, feedback, or just want to say hi, reach out to us at support@vocalvideo.com. For a full list of all the new features and how to use them, see the complete guide in our Help Center.