You shot 5 hours of interview footage. Finding and extracting the best moments usually means scrubbing through everything multiple times. Text-based editing flips that workflow. Edit the transcript like you would edit a script, and the video follows.

The right panel shows your full transcript with word-level timestamps and speaker labels. Click any word to jump to that exact moment in the video preview. This is the foundation of editing in Selects.

To remove content, select the text you want cut and press Backspace. You can also right-click and choose Cut. The corresponding video segment disappears from the timeline immediately.

To restore a cut, select the grayed-out text and press Backspace again, or right-click and choose Uncut. Nothing is permanently deleted until you export.

Double-click any word in the transcript to edit it directly. You can also press Tab to enter edit mode on the selected word. This is useful for fixing transcription errors or adjusting names and terms.

Press Enter at any point in the transcript to split a caption at that position.

Speaker labels appear next to each segment so you always know who is talking. To change the speaker assignment, right-click the segment or use the shortcut Opt+1 through 9 or Alt + 1 through 9 to assign a different speaker.

To switch which camera angle is shown for a segment, right-click or use 1 through 9 to select a different video track.

Press M at any point during playback to add a marker. Markers are useful for flagging moments you want to revisit, noting sections that need attention, or communicating with collaborators.

To add specific content to your edit, select sentences or paragraphs in the transcript and drag them onto the timeline. You can also browse topics and subtopics in the left panel and drag them to the timeline, or click the plus button to add them.

To rearrange the order of your edit, move clips directly on the timeline. The transcript updates to reflect the new sequence.

The transcript panel works alongside the visual timeline below for traditional NLE-style adjustments. You can zoom, scrub, and trim clips the familiar way. Text-based editing gives you another lever when precision matters more than visual feedback.