The Selects workspace is organized around the content you're editing. Once your footage is analyzed, you'll work in the workspace to build and refine your edit.
Left Panel: Topics, B-roll, and Audio
The left side has three tabs. Switch between them depending on what you're working on.
Topics shows the breakdown of your content. Selects identifies each topic or segment in your footage and lists them here. Click any topic to jump to it in the timeline. This view helps you restructure at a high level, rearrange sections, or see what's available before you dive into the transcript.
B-roll is where you browse and add supplementary footage. Selects surfaces relevant B-roll clips as you work through your edit. Click Auto add to let Selects insert matching B-roll automatically, or drag clips manually onto your timeline.
Audio shows your audio tracks and lets you manage them. Add, mute, or adjust levels for each track from this panel.
Preview Area
The top center is your video preview player. Hit play to watch your cut. Use standard controls to scrub, mark in/out points, or step frame by frame.
Compare with source shows a side-by-side view of your current edit versus the original footage, useful for spotting gaps or checking what was left out.
Timeline
Below the preview is your timeline. It follows NLE conventions: tracks stack vertically, clips sit on tracks horizontally. Drag clips to reorder them or move them between tracks.
Click New Draft to generate an alternative cut based on a different edit direction or prompt.
The floating toolbar sits at the bottom right of the timeline area with quick-access tools:
Selection tool is your cursor tool for picking and moving clips. You can click and shift into the Razor tool, Zoom tool, or Hand tool.
Cut tools are AI-powered auto-cutting tools. Choose between Remove silence (detects and removes silent gaps) and Cut filler words (removes hesitations, hedging, and repeated words).
Camera switch settings lets you configure speakers, camera tracks, audio tracks, and auto-camera switching logic for synced multicam footage. See: Multicam Settings: Speakers, Cameras, and Audio Tracks
See prompt shows you the AI prompt that generated the current draft. Copy it here if you want to create another draft with a modified prompt.
[Screenshot: Timeline with floating toolbar]
Right Panel: Transcript with Word-Level Navigation
Every word in your footage appears in the transcript on the right. Each line shows the speaker label and timestamp. Click any word to jump your timeline to that exact moment.
Use the transcript to find dialogue quickly, verify what was said, or navigate by content rather than by clicking through the timeline.
Top Bar: Project Controls
At the top, you see your project name along with key project controls:
Handoff settings lets you configure export preferences for your NLE of choice.
Check names and terms verifies proper nouns, technical terms, and names in the transcript for accuracy. See: Check Names and Terms
Keyboard shortcuts opens the shortcut reference and lets you switch presets.
Export
When your edit is ready, use the export options from the top bar:
Handoff sends your edit to Premiere Pro (.prproj), Final Cut Pro (FCPXML), or DaVinci Resolve (XML) as a native project file.
Export transcript saves your transcript as a text file.
Export video renders your edit as a video file.
Export project saves the full Selects project for backup or sharing.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Selects follows NLE keyboard conventions. You can set your shortcuts to match Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve in Settings. If you're coming from another editor, your muscle memory will transfer.
