Once your draft is generated, Selects gives you several ways to refine it: edit through the transcript, adjust clips on the timeline, add B-roll, and run AI cleanup tools.

Double-click the draft's tab at the top of the timeline to rename it, or right-click the tab and choose [Rename]. Give it something recognizable so it is easy to tell apart from other versions.

The [Transcript] tab on the right shows every word in your draft, with a badge for each speaker. Click any word to jump to that moment in the preview. Edit the transcript like a script and the video follows. Editing works in drafts. On a synced timeline, the transcript is for reading.

Select the text you want to remove and press [Backspace], or right-click and choose [Cut]. The corresponding clip disappears from the timeline immediately.

To restore a cut, select the grayed-out text and press [Backspace] again, or right-click and choose [Uncut]. Cut text stays in the transcript, grayed out, so you can restore it at any time. If you don't see it, click the settings icon at the top right of the window and turn on [Show cuts (grayed out)] under Transcript.

Double-click any word to edit it directly, or press [Tab] to enter edit mode on the selected word. Useful for fixing transcription errors before you make cuts based on the text.

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

You can copy words from the transcript and paste the matching footage into another draft as a clip.

Pasting works in drafts, not in synced timelines. The words are also copied as plain text, so you can paste them into a script or document.

The draft timeline is split in two, like a synced timeline: video tracks sit in the top pane and audio tracks in the bottom one. Drag the divider between them to give either pane more room. Each timeline keeps its split and the zoom of each pane while Selects is open.

The Main track shows its picture in the video pane and its sound in the audio pane. When you drag a Main clip, it goes to a row that fits what it holds: a clip with picture to a video row, an audio-only clip to an audio row.

Trim a clip. Drag the left or right edge of a clip to cut its start or end. The part you trim away is left as an empty space on the timeline. You can also drag an edge outward to make the clip longer, up to the next clip. Images, captions, and text without an entrance or exit animation can be stretched past their original length. Trimming works in drafts, not in synced timelines.

Trim without leaving a gap. Hold [Cmd] (Mac) or [Ctrl] (Windows), then drag the edge inward. The clips after it slide over to fill the space.

Make a clip longer without leaving a gap. Hold [Cmd] (Mac) or [Ctrl] (Windows) and drag the edge outward instead. The clips after it move along to make room.

Trim several clips at once. Select the clips, then drag the start or end edge of one of them. That same edge moves on every selected clip, by the same amount, even across tracks. If one clip can't go any further, they all stop there.

Move the cut between two clips. To move the cut point where two clips meet, hold [Cmd] (Mac) or [Ctrl] (Windows) and drag the seam between them. The first clip's end and the next clip's start move together, so nothing else on the timeline shifts. While you hold [Cmd] or [Ctrl] over the seam, the pointer turns red. If one side is a gap or a transition sits on the seam, the drag trims instead.

Extend clips to the playhead. To stretch clips out to the playhead, select them and press [E] ([Shift]+[X] on the Final Cut Pro preset). Each clip grows toward the playhead into the empty space beside it, and stops at the next clip or at the end of its footage. A clip the playhead is already on stays as it is.

Move a clip. Drag the clip to a new spot, on the same track or another one. It replaces anything already in that spot.

Delete a clip without leaving a gap. To remove a clip and close up the space, select it and press [Shift]+[Backspace] (the delete key on a Mac keyboard). The clips after it move over to fill the space. This works in drafts and synced timelines. Pressing [Backspace] on its own removes the clip and leaves a gap.

Close all gaps. To remove every stretch of time that is empty on all tracks, right-click a gap on the draft timeline and choose [Close all gaps]. Everything after each gap moves over to close it. A gap with a clip over it on any other track stays, and so does a gap at the very start of the timeline.

Stretch a clip to fit with the Rate stretch tool. To change a clip's speed by dragging, press [R] to pick the [Rate stretch tool], then drag the clip's end edge. The clip keeps all of its footage, and its speed changes to fit the new length. The Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve presets have no key for it by default, so set one first in Selects keyboard shortcuts. To go back to normal editing, press [Esc] or pick the Selection tool ([V], or [A] on the Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve presets). The Rate stretch tool works in drafts.

Change a clip's speed. Right-click the clip on a draft or synced timeline and choose [Speed / Duration]. The [Adjust] tab opens at [Speed], where you can set an exact speed or an exact length. Turn on [Preserve audio pitch] so voices don't sound higher or lower. You can also ask chat to change a clip's speed.

You can adjust a clip's volume right on the timeline. Drag the line across its waveform up to make the clip louder or down to make it quieter, anywhere from -60 dB to +12 dB. This works in drafts and synced timelines.

You can also fade a clip's audio in or out. Hover over the clip to show a handle at each top corner of its waveform, then drag a handle inward. The shaded area shows how long the fade lasts. Drag the handle back to the edge to remove the fade.

Fades work in drafts, not in synced timelines. A fade stays with the clip when you move or copy it. If you split the clip, each piece keeps only the fade on its outer end.

Volume changes and fades play in the preview and in videos you export from Selects. When you hand off to Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, the volume level carries over but fades don't.

Press [M], while playing or paused, to drop a marker at the playhead. You can also click the More menu, the button with three dots, and choose [Add marker]. It needs a clip under the playhead. Use markers to flag sections to revisit, note areas that need work, or leave notes for collaborators.

Color labels help you tag clips on the timeline, and they carry over to Premiere when you hand off. Select one or more clips, right-click, hover [Color label], and pick from eleven colors. Choose [None] to clear a label. Your labels survive camera switching and prompt-based edits, so you are not redoing them after every pass.

You can also ask chat to do it, for example "color every clip from the second interview orange".

B-roll sits in the project panel with the rest of your files. Drag a clip onto the timeline to place it by hand, or ask chat to find and place cutaways for you.

To swap existing B-roll, delete the clip on the timeline and drag the replacement onto the same spot. Learn more in Add B-roll and audio to your edit.

A speaker badge appears next to each segment. To reassign a speaker, click the badge, or right-click the segment and choose [Speaker]. On the Selects and Adobe Premiere shortcut presets, you can also press [Opt + 1–9] (Mac) or [Alt + 1–9] (Windows). On the Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve presets, press [Control + 1–9] (Mac) or [Ctrl + 1–9] (Windows).

To switch which camera angle is shown for a segment, select the clip on the timeline and press [1] through [9] on the Selects and Adobe Premiere presets to switch to that camera track. On the Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve presets, press [Opt + 1–9] (Mac) or [Alt + 1–9] (Windows).