The Editor That Picks Your Moments, Not Generic Ones

The hard part of turning a long recording into short-form is not the editing. It is the deciding. Which thirty seconds, out of forty minutes, is the one worth posting? Most tools answer that with a generic rulebook: find a hook in the first two seconds, keep it under a minute, cut the pauses. That gets you a clip. It does not get you your clip.

We just took the Script Editor out of beta and opened it to every Pro plan. The thing we care about most is not that it cuts video. Plenty of tools cut video. It is that it cuts toward what has actually worked for you.

It picks your moments, not generic ones

Point the editor at a recording in Make Shorts mode and it reads your Brand Brain before it picks anything: your best-performing hook patterns, your topic pillars, your audience. Then it pulls the three to five moments most likely to land for your channel, and it tells you why each one made the cut in plain language, referencing the patterns that have worked for you before.

This is the part a generic editor cannot do, because a generic editor does not know you. The signal is live, not a stale snapshot. Every time you grade a video in ScriptHooks, your performance profile refreshes, so the picker gets sharper as you use it. First time through, with nothing connected yet, it falls back to a clean general pass and tells you to connect a channel to unlock the personalized version.

Captions in your brand, not a template

Captions are the most-seen thing in a short, so we gave you real control over them without making you fiddle. There are ten animated styles with live preview, and now three more things:

• Your font. Pick the caption typeface independent of the style. If your brand font is one we have, it is right there in the list, marked as yours.
• Your logo. If your Brand Kit has a logo, drop it in as a corner overlay on the render, on both long-form cuts and shorts. One toggle.
• Fix it once. Click a word the transcription got wrong, correct it, and the editor remembers the fix for next time so you are not re-typing the same name every edit.

It cleans up the messy parts

The default mode is filler cleanup: the ums, the ahs, the dead air, and the false starts, removed without you scrubbing the timeline. You can teach it your own filler words too, so the things you personally overuse get caught alongside the obvious ones.

If you wrote a script first, Match to Script mode aligns your recording to it and flags where you drifted, so the cut tracks the plan instead of the ramble.

Fast, and honest about the wait

Renders run on a fast compositor, not a slow cloud queue. You get an edited video with burned-in captions in minutes, and the progress you see is the real progress, not a fake bar that sits at ninety percent.

It is live, on every Pro plan

The editor is open now to all paid plans. Upload a recording, pick a mode, and you have a captioned cut in a few minutes. The more you use ScriptHooks, the more it picks like you would, because it is reading the same signal you are building every time you grade and generate.

Per-clip speed control and a music library are next. If there is something you need it to do, the best way to get it built is to tell us.

- Wes Fleming
ScriptHooks