Feature
Edit by transcript
The fastest edit in short-form video is deleting the bit where you fluffed the line. Doing that on a waveform is a hunt. Doing it in a transcript is a click.
Read it, strike it, done
Open a clip with speech in it and Kliplie shows you the words. Click one to strike it out; shift-click to strike a run of them. When you press Apply cuts, the clip is split around everything you struck and the pieces close up against each other.
Pauses appear as their own chips between the words — “1.8s” — so the silence is a thing you can see and click, not something you have to find by scrubbing. Double-click any word to jump the playhead to it and hear the take.
Two clicks that do most of the work
Remove filler words marks every “um”, “uh”, “erm” and friends at once. It is deliberately conservative: words like “like”, “so” and “right” are real words far more often than they are filler, and quietly deleting them from your script is a worse mistake than leaving one in. Strike those yourself if you want them gone.
Remove pauses over a threshold you set marks every silence longer than that. One second is a good default for talking-head video; drop it to half a second for a punchy hook.
Nothing is applied until you press the button, and the footer tells you exactly what will happen — how many cuts, how much time comes out, and what the clip’s new length will be.
Everything else stays in sync
This is the part that makes transcript editing usable rather than a novelty. Cutting three seconds out of the middle of a clip normally means dragging every caption, title and music cue after it three seconds to the left, by hand, without breaking anything.
Kliplie ripples the whole timeline instead: every clip that started after the one you cut moves up by exactly the amount you removed, on every track. Your captions still land on the right words and the music still hits where you put it. If you would rather it left the rest alone, one checkbox turns it off.
The whole edit is a single undo. If it is not what you wanted, Ctrl+Z puts it back exactly as it was.
What it costs
Transcribing is billed once per file, at 3 credits per started minute of audio — so a 45-second clip costs 3 credits. After that the transcript is stored with your project: every clip you cut from that file reads it for free, however many times you split, trim or re-cut.
If you have already generated captions for a clip, its transcript is already there and transcript editing costs you nothing at all.
Questions about edit by transcript
Does it re-render the video?
No. It is an ordinary timeline edit — the clip is split and the unwanted pieces are dropped. Your source footage is untouched, and you can drag the resulting clips around like any others.
What if the transcript gets a word wrong?
It only matters for finding the moment, not for the cut itself. Cuts are made on the word’s timing, so a misheard word still lands in the right place. Double-click it to hear what is actually there.
Can I cut the middle out of a sentence?
Yes. Strike any run of words anywhere. Kliplie keeps a sliver of audio either side of each cut so the surviving words keep their consonants instead of sounding clipped.
Does this work on imported footage?
Yes — anything with audible speech, whether you filmed it, recorded it, or generated the narration in Kliplie.
More of what Kliplie does
AI video editor
Describe the video you want — or the change you want — in plain English. Kliplie plans the scenes, builds the timeline, and edits what is already there instead of starting over.
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Automatic captions
Transcribe a clip’s own audio and drop timed captions onto the timeline: word-by-word for Reels and TikTok, or one line per sentence for longer cuts.
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Multi-track timeline
A real editor: unlimited video and audio tracks, split at the playhead, trim, drag, reorder, keyframes, undo and redo, and per-clip transform and filters.
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Text, titles & animations
Bold hooks and lower-thirds with pop, fade and slide animations, in fonts that render identically in the preview and in the finished file.
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Stock, voice & AI media
Pull in stock photos and video, sound effects, AI images, AI video, music, and narration in a natural voice — without leaving the timeline.
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Fast browser export
Rendering happens on your own machine, so there is no upload, no render queue and no waiting behind other customers. MP4 and WebM, up to 1080p and beyond.
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Formats & templates
One-click canvases for YouTube, Reels, TikTok, Stories, Square, Portrait, X and Pinterest — plus content structures like Hook → Tips → CTA.
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Pair it with automatic captions — caption the clip and the transcript is already paid for.
Make your first video today
New accounts start with 200 free credits — enough to plan, narrate and caption a full short. No card, no download, no install.