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The Video editor is a workspace-gated preview for chat-driven editing. Start with a source video, describe the result you want, and review the cut before daoco produces the final render. The editor uses both transcript and visual evidence. It can bring still images and approved library assets into a video project, but it is not an asset-only slideshow generator: begin with source footage, a screen recording, or an existing library video.

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Enable the preview

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Open Settings

A workspace owner or admin opens Settings → Preview features.
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Enable Video editor

Turn on Video editor and save the workspace settings.
3

Open brand chat

Attach a video, select a library video, provide a source URL, or continue an existing video project in the same thread.

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What you can make

Caption and align short-form video

Burn in captions, hooks, and timed text. daoco keeps text inside platform-safe areas and avoids covering other important on-screen text.

Clip longer recordings

Find strong moments, remove pauses, tighten pacing, and reorder scenes into focused short-form cuts.

Construct clips from assets

Combine source footage with still images and approved library media. Use brand assets as image scenes, overlays, logos, or supporting panes.

Reframe people and screens

Adapt horizontal interviews and screen recordings for vertical placements with subject-aware framing, readable detail, and safe crops.

Build composed edits

Sequence video and image scenes, add image holds, zooms, music, sound effects, captions, branded text, and one- to three-pane layouts.

Create and refine variants

Compare candidate cuts, request a different direction, and iterate from the reviewed edit without rebuilding the project from scratch.

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Start an edit

Use /clip or /edit when you want to route directly to the Video editor. Plain-language video requests also route there when the preview is enabled.

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Caption and reframe a short video

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Turn a longer recording into clips

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Construct a clip with library assets

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Reframe a screen recording

Include the intended platform, target duration, audience, required moments, caption style, and any assets that must appear. If you do not specify them, daoco proposes an edit brief for review.

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Review the edit

The Video editor panel keeps the cut and its review state beside the conversation.
  • Review shows the active cut, social preview, captions, crop, duration, rationale, QA status, and cut timeline.
  • Compare shows candidate cuts so you can choose a direction or ask for another pass.
  • Render this cut creates a representative preview when the current candidate has not been rendered yet.
  • Request changes keeps the same project active for trims, new scene order, caption changes, zooms, hooks, music, or reframing.
  • Approve final render starts the final render only after you approve the reviewed cut.
Preview and final renders use the same composition plan, so the framing, panes, overlays, captions, and safe-area placement you review carry into the final output.

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Deliver the finished video

After the final render:
  • Download the MP4.
  • Ask the editor in chat to save the video to Assets for reuse.
  • Choose Create post to hand the finalized video to the social media manager with its placement context intact.
See Create posts for the post review and publishing flow, or Assets for library reuse and downloads.

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Current limits

  • Video editor must be enabled for the workspace.
  • A video source is required to start a new project. Images and library assets can support or compose the edit after the source is available.
  • One pane owns the primary audio in a multi-pane composition. Supporting panes remain muted unless the edit explicitly replaces the primary audio.
  • Subject-aware reframing can fall back to a non-destructive fit when reliable subject detection is unavailable.
  • A preview is the visual review artifact; a saved edit plan alone is not proof that captions, crops, or overlays render correctly.
  • Requests beyond the supported clip or render limits stop with an error instead of silently dropping part of the edit.
Rendering and media analysis can use premium tokens. See Understand token usage.