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Learn how to use Selects, an AI-native video editor that takes you from raw footage to a finished video.

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Find out what Selects is, who it is for, what is free, and why analysis makes its AI edits accurate.

What is Selects? A professional AI video editor anyone can use

This guide walks you through creating your first video in Selects, from adding footage to exporting the finished edit.

Quick start: create your first video in Selects

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

What Selects is, what you need to run it, 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

How to start a project in Selects and bring your footage in.

Start a Project

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 sync your camera angles and separate audio in Selects, and what you can do on a synced timeline.

Sync your files

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 editing software

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

Using proxy files in Selects

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 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

Learn how to find the shaky, blurry, and out of focus parts of your footage in Selects, and clean them up with chat.

Find shaky and blurry shots

Sync your cameras and audio, run AI analysis, and review topics, speakers, and unusable shots before you edit.

Prep Your Footage

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 Selects in chat 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

Find out which of the three ways to use AI in Selects fits your workflow, and how each one is billed.

Which AI setup should you use in Selects?

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

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

Find out how to build a draft manually from topics, the transcript, and the preview, with full access to the Selects editor from the start.

Start from scratch: creating a draft manually

Learn how to edit your draft in the transcript and on the timeline: cut and restore text, trim and rearrange clips, and add markers, color labels, and B-roll.

Transcript and timeline editing

Learn where the editing tools live in Selects and what each one does, from the floating toolbar to the one-click cleanup passes.

Editing tools in Selects

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 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 the Adjust tab changes with what you select, and how to set position, color, masks, speed, volume, and keyframes.

Adjust clips in Selects: position, color, speed, and audio

Learn how to set a Selects draft's frame size and frame rate, pick a vertical or square ratio, and carry it to your editing software.

Set your draft's frame size and frame rate

Build and refine your edit with chat, the transcript, and the timeline, then fine-tune clips in Adjust.

Edit Your Video

Learn how to search Pexels and Pixabay for stock videos and photos in the Stock media app and add them to your timeline.

Find stock videos and photos with Stock media

Learn where apps live in Selects, what each built-in app does, and what you can find in Explore.

Apps in Selects: built-in apps and Explore

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

Remove silence in Selects

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

Check names and terms before editing

Learn how to turn your transcript into styled captions in Selects, edit and translate them, and export them with your video.

Add captions to your video in Selects

Learn how to add text, stickers, transitions, zooms, filters, and sound effects to a draft with the Effects app.

Add effects, transitions, text, and sound effects in Selects

Learn how to create, edit, extend, reframe, and upscale video with AI in the Generate video app, and how credits work.

Generate video in Selects

Learn how to create an image from a prompt or edit one from references in the Generate image app, and where the result lands.

Generate images in Selects

Learn how to create a voice from a script, change the voice in a clip, or translate speech with the Generate audio app.

Generate audio in Selects: text to speech, voice change, and translation

Built-in apps for captions, effects, cleanup, and AI-generated video, images, and audio.

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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.

Export your edit to editing software, or as a transcript or video

Learn how to share a timeline or video from Selects to Instagram as a Reel, set the caption, cover and collaborators, and publish several at once.

Publish your video to Instagram from Selects

Learn how to hand off your Selects edit to Avid Media Composer as an .aaf file, which settings to choose, and how it links to your media.

Export to Avid Media Composer

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

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 DaVinci Resolve as a .drp project file, which settings to choose, and how to import it.

Export to DaVinci Resolve

Learn how to publish a timeline, video, or images from Selects to TikTok, set up your post, and publish several videos at once.

Publish your video to TikTok from Selects

Learn how to publish a timeline or video from Selects to your YouTube channel, set the title and audience, and publish several at once.

Publish your video to YouTube from Selects

Export a finished video or transcript, hand off to Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve, or publish to TikTok and YouTube.

Export & Publish

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

Selects app & editor workspace settings

Learn how to open the keyboard view, switch presets, import your shortcuts from another editor, and see the default shortcuts you will use most.

Selects keyboard shortcuts

Learn how to fully remove the Selects app from your Mac or Windows computer in a few steps.

How to uninstall Selects on Mac and Windows

Workspace settings, keyboard shortcuts, and how to uninstall Selects.

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