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Selects Big Update: August 6th, 2026

Nandita Kothari

Learn how to use Selects, an AI video editing tool that turns raw footage into a polished draft. 

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Selects is an AI video editing app that automates prep work for professional editors. Drop raw footage, get an organized, synced, and draft-ready project in minutes.

What is Selects? AI Video Editing for Professional Editors

This guide walks you through going from raw footage to your first AI-generated draft, ready to hand off to your NLE.

Quick Start: AI Video Editing from Raw Footage to First Draft

This guide walks you through every panel in the Selects editor so you know where everything is before you start.

Understanding the Selects workspace

Find out which operating systems, hardware specs, and file formats Selects supports before you get started.

Selects System Requirements and Supported Video Formats

This article covers the configuration options available in Selects: keyboard shortcuts, transcript display preferences, and account settings, including plans, language, and MCP.

Selects App & Editor Workspace Settings

Learn how to connect Claude, Codex, or OpenClaw to Selects so you can edit real footage with a simple prompt.

Connect Selects to your AI agent with the Selects MCP

What Selects does, system requirements, your first project, and a tour of the workspace.

Getting Started with Selects

Learn how to add footage to Selects and start a new project, including what happens after your files are imported.

Import Footage and Start a Project

Learn how to add more video and audio files after your project is created, and choose which ones to analyze.

Add media to an existing project

Learn how to bring synced timelines into Selects from a Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or Final Cut Pro 7 XML project file.

Import a synced timeline from your NLE

Learn how to sync your camera angles and separate audio in Selects, and how to set up more than one synced timeline in a project.

Sync your files

Find out what happens during AI analysis and what you get when it's done, including transcription, topic detection, and credit usage.

How AI analysis works in Selects

Learn how to speed up your edit by importing proxy files into Selects, then relinking to your original camera files in your NLE for the final output.

Using proxy files in Selects

Everything you need to get your footage into Selects, synced, and analyzed before you start editing.

Import & Prep Your Files

Learn how Selects breaks your footage into topics and subtopics so you can navigate and build your edit faster.

What are Topics and Subtopics

Learn how to review and correct proper nouns in your transcript before you start editing.

Check names and terms before editing

Learn how to review speaker names, camera assignments, and audio tracks in Selects so your multi-cam edit is set up correctly.

Set up speakers, cameras, and audio for multi-cam

Everything you need to review and configure after analysis before you start editing.

Review Your Analyzed Content

Find out how to build a draft manually using the topic stringout, with full access to the Selects editor from the start.

Start from Scratch: Creating a Draft Manually

Learn how to create and refine drafts by chatting with the Selects Agent, from your first draft to review comments.

Edit with chat

Learn how to brief the Selects Agent so your first draft comes back usable, with prompt examples for every stage of an edit.

How to write prompts for AI editing in Selects

Learn how to do text-based editing, rearrange, and polish your draft using the transcript, timeline, and AI tools before exporting.

Refine Your Draft

How to create a draft, refine your edit, and export your finished cut to your NLE.

Edit Your Video & Export to NLE

Learn how to find any moment in your footage by what was said or what was on screen, without scrubbing through hours of video.

Search your footage: text and scene search

Learn how to tighten the pauses in your draft with the Remove silence tool, and how to put them back.

Remove silence

Learn how to strip hesitations, hedging, and repeated phrases out of your draft, and how to put them back.

Cut filler words

Learn how to leave comments on a draft, then send them to chat so every change is applied in one pass.

Review a draft with comments

Learn how to bring cutaways and audio into a Selects draft: sort them, find them by shot, drag them in, or ask chat to place them.

Add B-roll and audio to your edit

Learn where the editing tools live in Selects, what each one does, and the keyboard shortcuts that go with them.

AI editing tools and shortcuts

Learn how to group your source files into folders, by hand or by asking chat to sort the whole pile for you.

Organize your project with folders

A reference for all the editing tools, search, and settings available in Selects.

Tools and Settings

Learn how to hand off your edit to Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, and how to export a transcript or a video straight from Selects.

Hand off to your NLE, or export a transcript or video

Learn how to hand off your Selects edit to DaVinci Resolve as a .drp project file, which settings to choose, and how to import it.

Export to DaVinci Resolve

Learn how to hand off your Selects edit to Final Cut Pro as an .fcpxml file, which settings to choose, and what to do about the audio sync warning.

Export to Final Cut Pro

Learn how to hand off your Selects edit to Adobe Premiere as a native .prproj project file, and which handoff settings to choose.

Export to Adobe Premiere

How to hand off your finished edit to Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, and export a transcript or video.

Hand off to your NLE

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