How to Use Smart Cut & Find Scenes

Kapwing Staff -

Tired of having to remove silent, dead spots from your video? Annoyed with having to find snippets in your long videos for social media content? With Kapwing's Smart Cut and Find Scene tools, we've editing so much simpler.

Smart Cut
Find Scenes

Smart Cut vs Find Scenes

We've added two AI tools to Kapwing to help you edit smarter and faster. Smart Cut makes the process of making a rough cut much easier by automatically identifying and removing the silent sections of your video, making the process 10x faster. Find Scenes automatically detects where scene changes happen in your video, then creates splits at those points so you can resize your video faster. You can now find snippets in your longer videos much faster to repurpose for social media content. There is no need to download any software because both tools works in the browser on any device.

How to use Smart Cut

  1. Upload a video file that you would like to cut silences from. Make sure to wait until the file is fully uploaded to our site - you can determine this by checking the upload status in the Media Library. Once it has finished uploading, click the "+" button in the bottom right corner of the asset to add it to the Timeline.
  2. Select the video in the Timeline and click “Smart Cut” which appears in the Edit menu.
  3. Smart Cut modal will appear and begin detecting the silences. You can control the threshold used for silence detection in the "Silence Sensitivity" slider in the bottom left corner. Moving the slider to the right will increase the amount of silence removed, while moving the slider towards the left will leave more of the silences in the video.
  4. Once the silences have been detected, you can zoom in or out of the timeline in the modal, and choose whether you’d like to modify the detected silence or keep the selected silence.
  5. To modify a detected silence, you can zoom in and use the handles on the left and right of the silence to increase or decrease the amount you want removed.
  6. To choose to keep a detected silence, you can click on the silence. This will de-select it and it will turn gray. To re-include it in the cut, click on it again and it will turn red.
  7. If you’d like to undo any of your modifications or selections, click the Reset button below done.
  8. Finalize When you’re ready to do the Smart Cut, click “Done”. This will automatically cut the video around the silences. The video will then be deposited as a set of split clips without the silences in the timeline.
  9. Spruce it up Use our other features in Kapwing to add other final edits to the video. You can add automatically generated subtitles, images, text, GIFs, and more. When you’ve created the video to your satisfaction you can finally export and share.

How to Use Find Scenes

  1. Upload a video file that you would like to cut silences from. Make sure to wait until the file is fully uploaded to our site - you can determine this by checking the upload status in the Media Library. Once it has finished uploading, click the "+" button in the bottom right corner of the asset to add it to the Timeline.
  2. Select the video in the Timeline and click “Find Scenes” which appears in the Edit menu.
  3. Adjust the split sensitivity slider as desired.
  4. Done to split the video where the detected scene changes are.
  5. Find Scenes modal will appear and begin detecting the scenes. You can control the threshold used for scene detection in the "Split Sensitivity" slider in the bottom left corner. Moving the slider to the right will increase the amount of scene splits Kapwing will detect, while moving the slider towards the left will reduce the amount of scene splits Kapwing will create.
  6. Once the scenes have been detected, you can zoom in or out of the timeline in the modal, and choose whether you’d like to modify the detected scenes.
  7. To modify a detected silence, you can zoom in and use the handles on the left and right of the silence to increase or decrease the amount you want removed.
  8. The yellow markers show where your video will be split. Drag a split to move it across the timeline. To choose to keep a scene all together, you can click on the split. This will de-select it and it will turn gray. To re-include it in the cut, click on it again and it will turn yellow.
  9. If you’d like to undo your modifications or selections, click the Reset button below done.
  10. Finalize When you’re ready to do the Find Scenes, click “Done”. This will automatically cut the video around the scenes. The video will then be deposited as a set of split clips in the timeline.
  11. Spruce it up Use our other features in Kapwing to add other final edits to the video. You can add automatically generated subtitles, images, text, GIFs, and more. When you’ve created the video to your satisfaction you can finally export and share.

We hope that you use and enjoy these innovative tools.

Additional Resources
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