Meta’s New Video Editing App: A Comparative Review of Edits Features and Functionality

A Guide to Using Edits, Meta’s CapCut Rival for Short-Form Video Editing

Meta recently released a new video editing app called Edits, designed to compete with ByteDance-owned CapCut. The latest addition in the short-form video editing space aims to provide creators with an easy-to-use platform to create engaging content.

In this guide, we will walk you through the features of Edits and compare it to CapCut.

To get started with Edits, download and open the app on your iOS or Android device. You will be asked to log in with your Instagram account.

Upon opening the app, users are presented with five main tabs: Ideas, Inspiration, Projects, Record, and Insights. The Ideas tab allows you to jot down ideas for new videos and save reels to a collection. The Inspiration tab showcases trending audios and popular reels. You can store and revisit in-progress projects in the Projects tab, or upload videos from your phone’s camera roll. This tab also allows users to start filming video content within the app.

The Insights tab provides creators with an overview of their performance metrics, including views, reach, and follower counts.

Edits offers several tools and features for editing short-form videos. These include green screen, which enables you to replace or edit backgrounds in one tap; Timeline; Captions: Add automatic captions to your video in multiple languages; Audio library: Add music from Instagram’s library to your content; Cutouts: Isolate specific objects with precision tracking; Animate: Turn static images into videos using AI; Apply all: Apply filters, effects, transitions, and adjustments to all of your clips simultaneously; Timeline frame rate selector: Convert video to the desired frame rate for playback smoothness; Alignment guides: Ensure viewers can see important parts of the video when posted and accurately position text, emoji, or other elements; Beat markers: Add auto-detected beat markers to help align clips, text, or overlays with audio while editing.

Additionally, Edits allows users to restyle their videos using AI-powered presets. Users also have access to keyframes for animating the position, rotation, and scale of your clips. The app also enables creators to cut silences from reels automatically.

In contrast to CapCut, Edits does not currently offer a subscription option, but this could change in the future. Also, unlike CapCut, Edits is only available on mobile devices for now.

Edits may not be as robust as CapCut at present, but it’s an exciting step forward by Meta to challenge ByteDance-owned CapCut and provide creators with more choices.

Source: techcrunch.com