Adjust scene length and the pace of your video

Choose the overall pace

Open Editor and find Smart Timing. With it on, the app chooses the overall pace and coordinates scene changes with the music. Turn it off to reveal the overall clip-duration setting and choose a starting pace yourself. Music can still affect the final timing.

Set the overall pace of the tourExample

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Adjust a particular scene

1. Find the scene you want viewers to spend more time on.
2. Turn on Longer duration when that option is shown. It gives the scene more time relative to the others; it is not a field for an exact number of seconds.
3. For a video clip, trim the selected portion using Start (s), End (s) or the handles on the trim bar.
4. Check the scene before and after it, then apply the changes.

Set the order, duration and captionExample

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Keep the useful part of a video clip

1. Find Start (s) and End (s) below the video preview. “s” means seconds into the original clip.
2. Set the start after any camera shake and the end before unwanted footage. For example, 1 to 5 keeps the part between those points.
3. Click outside a typed value to save it, or release the trim handle after dragging.
4. Use Reset beside the trim bar if you want to remove that trim selection. Apply the changes and watch the finished result.

Choose the portion of a clip to keepExample

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Why Longer duration may disappear

Keep audio retains a video clip’s sound. For an eligible clip with speech, Someone is speaking also tells the tour to respect the spoken portion at its natural pace. This can remove Longer duration for that scene. Check both settings when importing or changing a clip; ambience alone is different from a spoken introduction. Still photos have no Start/End trim controls, and reels have different timing controls.

Keep the sound in mind

Longer captions and spoken descriptions need time to finish. If you change timing in a narrated tour, listen to the relevant section and check voiceover alignment before applying the final changes.

Decide what deserves more time

Give a main living area or a view enough time to be understood. A repeated angle or a brief detail shot can usually be shorter. Watch the result at normal speed, with the voiceover playing, before making more adjustments.

Use one pacing change at a time

If a tour feels rushed, first give the key room more time and shorten its caption. If it feels repetitive, remove an unnecessary angle. Review the whole tour before changing several duration settings together.

Set the overall pace of the tourExample

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Set a target for the whole tour

When Video duration is offered in Editor, choose Automatic, 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes. The fixed choices are targets for the complete tour, with availability based on the footage and other parts of the video. They are not a promise that every project will end at exactly that time.

1. Open Editor and find Video duration. Choose one of the available targets.
2. Read the summary of clips and timing. Clips left out of a shorter result remain in the project. A 30-second target leaves out Split-Screen Highlights.
3. If the voiceover is too long, open Voiceover and trim it, shorten the script or choose a longer available target.
4. Apply the changes and check the complete result, including the beginning and ending.

Choose a duration for the tourExample

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