Tell Director how you want it edited
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Speak or type what you want to change. Give a brief before the next take, work with footage you’ve already recorded, or revise a Showcase video. Director connects your instructions to the actual words, moments, sources, and selections in your project, then makes edits you can review and refine.
Select, paint, or lasso the area you mean. Target a region, a phrase, a cue, or a span of time in the actual source. Combine masks, add or erase parts, feather or invert a selection, and use tracking or keyframes to follow a changing subject. Direct zooms, highlights, masks, cuts, screenshot inserts, audio, captions, and timing. Follow up with another instruction, inspect the result, and undo a change when you want to try a different approach.
Choose one or more photos or screenshots from your Library and place them over a specific passage. Use a full-screen cutaway or cropped inset, choose a background or blur the source image behind it, and adjust the crop, focus, padding, frame, border, shadow, and motion. Gentle zooms and smooth ramps give still images presentation motion while preserving the underlying narration and duration. Still screenshots stay faithful to what they show.
Effects keeps the edit understandable. Inspect each effect’s target, timing, original direction, refinements, and current settings in the same editor. Refine or remove a border, a zoom, or an image insert without resetting unrelated work. Undo/Redo and saved history carry those changes through reopening and export.
Use cue-linked briefs and saved, versioned creator styles to carry your intent through a session. Keep, Retake, and Compare help you decide which version to share. Director also helps shape the scenes, reveals, timing, and motion in Showcase videos.
Make it feel like your work. Director remembers reusable presentation choices from explicit, successfully applied refinements—such as a slower zoom, padding, background, or border. Override a choice for one edit, pause learning, or reset your defaults. Existing videos keep the settings you used when you made them.
Director’s Cut: Pause recording to give a private instruction about earlier footage or the next take, then deliberately resume when you’re ready. Your direction stays out of the recording.
Bring in a producer when you need another perspective. Share a preview, collect notes and proposals, and let a producer help refine the brief. Permission to propose a change, edit the project, or control recording is handled separately. Editorial handoff carries supported notes, markers, and edit information into supported editors; ordinary notes stay out of the finished picture.