Chloé

Senior Video Editor

Blog Guides

How to Trim a Video for TikTok

How to trim a video for TikTok. Cut the slow start in TikTok's own editor, why the opening seconds carry most of the recall, and how to trim without redoing the edit.

How to Trim a Video for Instagram

How to trim a video for Instagram. The length that still gets recommended, the in-app Trim slider, and where the 20-minute recording cap actually bites.

How to Split a Video for YouTube

How to split a video for YouTube. Cutting a section out of the middle with the red box in Studio, and keeping the URL, views and comments while you do it.

How to Split a Video for TikTok

How to split a video for TikTok. Cut a long take into segments in the app, or into separate parts to post, and what TikTok says about maximum post length.

How to Speed Up a Video on Mac

How to speed up a video on Mac with iMovie's Speed controls. 2x by default, speed ramps on part of a clip, and how to stop the voice going squeaky.

How to Speed Up a Video for YouTube

How to speed up a video for YouTube, where the Speed control actually lives in the Shorts camera, and why speeding a clip up is usually the wrong way to make it shorter.

How to Speed Up a Video for TikTok

How to speed up a video for TikTok with the app's own speed control, what it does to your on-screen text, and the shorter route for talking-head footage.

How to Reverse a Video on Mac

How to reverse a video on Mac with iMovie's Reverse checkbox. The one place Apple actually ships backwards playback, and what to do about the audio.

How to Reverse a Video for TikTok

How to reverse a video for TikTok. What TikTok's documented editing tools do and don't cover, what happens to reversed audio, and how to fix a flat-looking re-export.

How to Resize a Video for YouTube

How to resize a video for YouTube. The resolutions YouTube publishes, why 16:9 is the default frame, and what the player does to a vertical video on desktop.

How to Remove Silence From a Video on Mac

How to remove silence from a video on Mac. Why the built-in editors only cut at the edges, what the manual method costs, and which pauses to keep.

How to Remove Silence From a Video for YouTube

How to remove silence from a video for YouTube. What long pauses do to your automatic captions, the 25-second end screen floor, and how to keep the cuts reversible.

How to Remove Silence From a Video for TikTok

How to remove silence from a video for TikTok. Cut the dead air between sentences, why faster scene changes matter early, and which pauses are worth keeping.

How to Remove Silence From a Video for Instagram

How to remove silence from a video for Instagram. Why the in-app Trim slider can't reach the middle, and how to cut dead air without making the clip choppy.

How to Remove Background Noise From a Video on Mac

How to remove background noise from a video on Mac with iMovie's noise reduction slider and equalizer presets, and what percentage is too far.

How to Mute a Video for YouTube

How to mute a video for YouTube. The Volume control in the Shorts editor, what to do when the audio is the reason for the claim, and what carries the message once the sound is gone.

How to Merge Videos on Mac

How to merge videos on Mac in QuickTime Player. Add a clip to the end, the beginning, or after any clip you select, without opening a video editor.

How to Loop a Video on Mac

How to loop a video on Mac with QuickTime Player's View > Loop, and how to cut a clip that repeats without a visible jump when the loop has to be in the file.

How to Loop a Video for YouTube

How to loop a video for YouTube. The Loop setting built into the player, and how to build a clip whose last frame hands back to its first without a visible jump.

How to Loop a Video for TikTok

How to loop a video for TikTok. Build the repeat into the footage, cut on a matching frame, and use the transition guidance TikTok gives creators to hide the seam.

How to Flip a Video on Mac

How to flip a video on Mac in QuickTime Player or Photos. Mirror a clip horizontally, un-mirror a webcam recording, and never upload it to do so.

How to Flip a Video for TikTok

How to flip a video for TikTok. Why front-camera text reads backwards, where the mirror actually happens, and how to fix it before the clip reaches the app.

How to Crop a Video on Mac

How to crop a video on Mac in the Photos app. The Crop tool, the aspect presets, straightening a tilted shot, and how to undo it all if you change your mind.

How to Crop a Video for TikTok

How to crop a video for TikTok. The frame sizes TikTok publishes, how to zoom a clip inside the app, and what to do instead of cropping the sides off a horizontal take.

How to Crop a Video for Instagram

How to crop a video for Instagram without losing the shot. What gets cropped automatically, and why the cover photo is a second crop you only get one shot at.

How to Convert a Video for TikTok

How to convert a video for TikTok. The containers and codecs TikTok's own documentation lists, why a file gets rejected, and how to get one predictable export.

How to Add Text to a Video for TikTok

How to add text to a video for TikTok. Set each line's duration in the app, keep it out of the UI safe zone, and make it readable against white interface icons.

How to Add Text to a Video for Instagram

How to add text to a video for Instagram and keep it visible. The safe zone Meta publishes, the 35% of the bottom you can't use, and where titles actually belong.

How to Add Subtitles to a Video on Mac

How to add subtitles to a video on Mac. What the Mac transcribes on its own, where that stops short of subtitles, and how to get captions without typing.

How to Add Subtitles to a Video for Instagram

How to add subtitles to a video for Instagram. How Instagram's automatic captions work, what they can't do, and how to burn in captions that travel with the file.

How to Transcribe a Video on iPhone

How to transcribe a video on iPhone and get the text out, on your device, with nothing uploaded. Plus how to turn the transcript into editable captions.

How to Split a Video on iPhone

How to split a video on iPhone into separate clips with iMovie, cut a section out of the middle, and keep the pieces in the right order.

How to Put Two Videos Side by Side on iPhone

How to put two videos side by side on iPhone with iMovie's overlay options, and when picture-in-picture works better than a split screen.

How to Mute a Video on iPhone

How to mute a video on iPhone in the Photos app, and how to get the audio back afterwards. Plus what to do when you only want part of the sound gone.

How to Loop a Video on iPhone

How to loop a video on iPhone. The Live Photo Loop effect, and how to build a clip that repeats without a visible jump.

How to Flip a Video on iPhone

How to flip a video on iPhone with the Photos app. Mirror a clip horizontally, or un-mirror a front-camera video where the text reads backwards.

How to Add Text to a Video on iPhone

How to add text to a video on iPhone. Type a title, place it on the frame and export with no upload and no watermark. Plus how to add moving text on a real timeline.

How to Add Subtitles to a Video on iPhone

How to add subtitles to a video on iPhone. Automatically, on your device, with no upload and no watermark. Plus how to get word-by-word captions without typing.

Comparisons

CapCut vs iMovie

CapCut vs iMovie compared honestly: what Apple's free editor still does best, where CapCut pulls ahead for short-form, and what neither of them automates for you.

Alight Motion vs CapCut

Alight Motion vs CapCut compared: mobile motion design with real keyframe animation versus the short-form editor everyone already uses. Which one your edit actually needs.

Submagic vs Opus Clip

Submagic vs OpusClip compared: styling captions on a clip you already have versus letting AI find the clips inside a long recording. Which one solves your actual bottleneck.