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Title: Video Editor
Description: Turn recordings and source clips into finished social videos.
Canonical: https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor
Source: [https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor](https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor)

# Video Editor

Open Video Editor in a current desktop version of Chrome or Edge. Choose a format, add your clips, edit on the timeline, then export the finished file. OpenPost does not add a watermark.

![Video Editor with project media, a preview, properties, and a multitrack timeline](https://docs.openpo.st/assets/screenshots/video-editor-light.webp)

Project media is on the left, the preview is in the center, properties are on the right, and the timeline is below. Screenshot uses example media.

## Choose the right tool

- **Video Editor** changes the picture, sound, timing, captions, motion, or effects.
- **Quick Cut** keeps selected ranges without changing their picture or mix. It can avoid re-encoding when the source allows it.
- **Recorder** captures your screen, camera, and microphone as synchronized files for an edit.

## Follow the editing flow

1. [Start a project](https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor/start) and choose where it will be saved.
2. [Import media and edit the timeline](https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor/timeline).
3. Adjust [color, motion, and effects](https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor/color-motion-and-effects).
4. Clean up [speech, captions, and audio](https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor/transcript-and-audio).
5. [Export the video and use it in a post](https://docs.openpo.st/video-editor/export-and-publish).

Editing and rendering run on your device. A project saved to OpenPost syncs its authored edit and required original Project Assets to the current Workspace. A local-only project stays in a folder you choose.
