How it works

Everything between the take you record and the clip you get back, in the order it happens.

1 · Recording, or bringing your own file

The recorder runs in the browser — there is nothing to install and no app store involved. It asks for your camera and microphone, records locally, and uploads when you stop. On a phone it uses the camera you are already pointing at yourself.

If you already have the footage, upload it instead: any common video file up to 500 MB. A screen recording, a webcam take, something out of your camera roll — the pipeline treats them the same.

2 · Transcription

The audio is transcribed to text with a word-level timestamp on every word. That transcript is the spine of everything after it: the cut list and the captions are both derived from it, which is why the captions land in sync rather than drifting.

3 · The cut

Silence between phrases is removed, and so are the false starts — the half-sentence you abandoned before restarting. The editor works from the word timings rather than from a volume threshold, so a quiet delivery is not mistaken for a pause, and a breath is not mistaken for a word.

What it does not do: it does not rewrite you, reorder your sentences, or generate speech. Every word in the output is a word you said.

4 · Captions and framing

Subtitles are burned into the picture word by word, timed to the audio. Burned-in means they are part of the video file, so they survive being downloaded, re-uploaded, or played by an app that ignores subtitle tracks — and they work in a feed that is scrolled with the sound off, which is most feeds.

The frame is cropped to 9:16 and the whole thing is rendered at a constant 30 fps. The constant frame rate is not cosmetic: phone cameras drop to a variable low frame rate in poor light, and a clip that arrives under about 23 fps is refused on upload by TikTok.

5 · Review

The finished clip appears on your dashboard, playable. If you only wanted the file, download it here and you are done — that is the whole product for a lot of people, and it needs no account.

If you connected TikTok, the review screen adds the posting controls: the caption, who can watch, and the comment, duet and stitch toggles. Those options are fetched live from your TikTok account, so an option your account does not allow appears greyed out rather than failing after you press post. Nothing is pre-selected. More on the integration.

6 · Delivery

Press post and the clip goes to TikTok with the caption and settings you chose. Or press download and take the file. Both paths end with the clip in your hands; neither happens on its own.

When it is slow, and why

Editing happens on one machine, not a farm. A take is transcribed and rendered in a single pass, and long takes take longer — a job is allowed up to ninety minutes before the system decides something has actually gone wrong. While you wait, the dashboard shows the honest state (queued, editing, ready) rather than an indefinite spinner.

If the editor goes offline mid-job, the job is put back in the queue and tried again, up to three times. After that it is marked failed with a reason, and it stops pretending. You are never left looking at a job that will never finish.