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🚀Getting Started

Workspace Overview & Layout

Get to know the Tool Dock, the preview, the timeline and the tool buttons.

Beginner Getting Started
Space (Play/Pause)Home / EndCtrl + S (Save)

  1. Tool Dock (Left)

    Media (your files), Create (Text, Captions, Stickers, Audio, Adjust), Motion (Transitions, Effects, Visuals), Templates (Intros, Outros) and Canvas. The panel next to it shows what you picked.

  2. Preview (Center)

    Plays your timeline with transitions, effects and colour. The bar below it has Play, the current time and the project shape (16:9, 9:16 and more).

    Shortcut Spacebar
    Tip Drag text, stickers and overlays directly on the preview to move them.

  3. Timeline (Bottom)

    The bottom video track is your main story; tracks above it play on top (picture-in-picture, titles, overlays). Every track accepts any clip type. Zoom with the Zoom slider or its - / + buttons.

  4. Tool Buttons (Above the Timeline)

    Split, Freeze, Add Marker, Delete, Undo and Redo, plus Transform, Crop, Adjust, Zoom/Pan, Camera Zoom, Track Object and Speed for the selected clip. Right-click a clip for even more options.

Good to know

  • Hover over buttons throughout Vivideo Studio to view instant shortcut tooltips.
  • Auto-save writes your progress in the background every few seconds to prevent data loss.

Importing Videos, Photos & Audio

Add videos (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM, WMV and more), photos (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, TIFF) and sound (MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, FLAC, OGG, WMA) to your project.

Beginner Getting Started
Ctrl + O (Import Media)

  1. Add Files to the Media Box

    Click "Import Media" in the Media panel and choose one or more files, or drag them straight from Windows Explorer into the Media Box.

    Tip Select several files at once with Shift + Click or Ctrl + Click.

  2. Place on the Timeline

    Drag a clip from the Media Box onto a track: the bottom track for your main story, a track above it for picture-in-picture or B-roll.

  3. Set Project Aspect Ratio

    Switch between 16:9 (YouTube / Widescreen), 9:16 (TikTok / Reels / Shorts), 1:1 (Square), 4:5, or 21:9 (Cinematic UltraWide) via the aspect ratio button in the player transport bar.

Good to know

  • Vivideo Studio uses hardware-accelerated video decoding to keep playback smooth, including with high-resolution source footage.

Record Your Screen

Record your screen, webcam and sound, then edit the recording right away.

Beginner Getting Started

  1. Open the Recorder

    Click Record screen in the Media Box. The recorder opens in its own window.

  2. Choose What to Record

    Record the full display, a preset size or your own region. You can add a webcam overlay.

  3. Choose the Sound

    Record system sound, your microphone, or both. A red or yellow mouse highlight helps viewers follow the cursor.

  4. Record

    Start, pause and resume as you need. When you stop, the recording plays in the built-in player.

  5. Edit It

    Click "Edit with Vivideo Studio" to add the recording to the Media Box, or use Save as to keep the file somewhere else.

Good to know

  • Photo mode takes a still screenshot instead of a video.

🎬Timeline & Cuts

Splitting, Trimming & Cutting Clips

Learn precision split cuts, trimming edges, ripple deleting gaps, and reordering clips.

Beginner Timeline & Cuts
S (Split at Playhead)Delete / BackspaceCtrl + Z (Undo)Ctrl + Y (Redo)

  1. Position the Playhead

    Click anywhere along the timeline or scrub the player to position the playhead where you want to make a cut.

    Shortcut Left / Right Arrow (Frame step)

  2. Split the Clip

    Press S, or click Split above the timeline. With the Razor tool (C) you can also click straight on a clip to cut it there.

    Shortcut S

  3. Trim Clip Boundaries

    Hover your cursor over the left or right edge of any clip until the resize handle appears, then drag inwards or outwards to trim.

  4. Delete Unwanted Segments

    Select the unwanted piece and press Delete: it is removed and the gap closes. Press Shift + Delete instead to remove it and keep the gap.

    Shortcut Delete

Good to know

  • Hold Ctrl while dragging to temporarily invert snapping, or press N to toggle snapping globally.
  • Use Ctrl + Z to immediately undo any accidental cut or trim.

Clip Speed, Fast Motion & Freeze Frames

Create cinematic slow motion, speed up to 4x, or pause on a dramatic freeze frame.

Intermediate Timeline & Cuts
Ctrl + R (Speed Controls)

  1. Open Speed Inspector

    Select the clip and click Speed above the timeline (or press Ctrl + R).

  2. Set Speed Multiplier

    Choose a preset (0.1x, 0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 4x) or drag the speed slider for anything in between.

    Tip Pitch preservation is enabled automatically so voices stay natural during speed adjustments.

  3. Insert a Freeze Frame

    Put the playhead on the frame you want to hold, then click Freeze. A 2-second still of that frame is added there; drag its edge to make it longer or shorter.

Good to know

  • Combine slow-motion (0.5x) with a visual glow or camera blur transition for epic cinematic moments.

Duplicating Clips & Layer Stacking

Quickly duplicate video clips, text titles, stickers, and sound effects with instant keyboard shortcuts.

Beginner Timeline & Cuts
Ctrl + D (Duplicate Selected)

  1. Select Any Layer or Clip

    Click to select the clip, text title, sticker, or audio track you want to duplicate.

  2. Press Ctrl + D

    Press Ctrl + D (or choose Duplicate from the clip's right-click menu). An exact clone with all styling, filters, and animation parameters is created immediately.

    Shortcut Ctrl + D

Good to know

  • Duplicating a text layer is the fastest way to maintain consistent font styling and colors throughout your video.

Compound Clips: Group, Reuse & Templates

Turn several clips into one clip that moves, resizes, fades and exports as one piece - and reuse it as linked copies or as a template in any project.

Intermediate Timeline & Cuts

  1. Make a Compound Clip

    Select clips on one or more tracks (Ctrl + Click), right-click and choose "Make Compound Clip". They become one purple clip; detached audio, captions and transitions between the selected clips come along.

    Tip Right-click a compound and choose "Break Apart" to get the clips back where they were.

  2. Edit Inside

    Double-click the compound (or right-click > Open Compound Clip). The timeline shows only its clips and the purple bar shows where you are. Edit as usual, then press "Save & Close". The compound then renders its new content once.

  3. Use It Like One Clip

    Move, resize, trim, split, change speed, colour or opacity, add keyframes or a transition: everything applies to the whole group at once.

  4. Background, Name & Sound

    Right-click > "Compound Settings". Transparent (default) shows the canvas and clips underneath around the content; Solid colour fills empty areas. Here you also rename it and set its volume and sound fade in / out.

  5. Linked Copies from the Media Box

    Every compound is also stored in the Media Box. Drag it out again to place linked copies: edit inside one copy and all copies update, while each keeps its own position, size and effects. Right-click > "Make Independent" unlinks one copy.

  6. Templates for Any Project

    Right-click > "Save as Template". In any project open Media Box > "Compound Templates" and press Add, then drag it onto the timeline.

    Tip Templates use your original media files - keep them where they are.

Good to know

  • Great for intros, lower thirds, logos and picture-in-picture of a finished sequence.
  • Transparent compounds take about twice as long to render as ones with a solid background.

✨Keyframe Animation

Keyframe Animation

Make clips, text and stickers move, grow, turn and fade - and sound get louder or softer - over time.

Intermediate Keyframe Animation

  1. What You Can Animate

    Video clips: position, size, rotation, opacity and the shape mask. Text and stickers: position, size, rotation, opacity and colours. Sound: volume.

  2. Your First Animation

    1. Select a clip and click Transform (text and stickers: their settings).
    2. Turn on "Animate with keyframes".
    3. At the start, set a value, for example a small size. A diamond (◆) appears on the clip.
    4. Move the playhead later and set the new value. A second diamond appears.
    5. Press Space to watch it move.

    Tip Size plus opacity together (small and invisible to full size) makes a clean entrance.

  3. Keyframe Buttons & Easing

    Next to each value: ◀ jumps to the previous keyframe, ◆ adds or removes one at the playhead, ▶ jumps to the next. The easing button chooses how it moves (11 curves, from Linear to Bounce and Elastic).

  4. Motion Path on the Preview

    With two or more position keyframes and "Motion Path on Canvas" on, the path shows on the preview. Drag its points to change where the clip goes.

  5. Curves, Lanes & Presets

    Curves shows how a value changes (speed and easing). Lanes shows every keyframe as diamonds you can drag in time. Presets gives you ready-made animations such as Pop In & Settle, Whip Pan, Bounce Drop or Zoom & Twist.

  6. Volume Keyframes (Ducking)

    In the audio settings, use the same ◀ ◆ ▶ buttons next to Volume: keep music at 100%, lower it to about 25% while someone speaks, then raise it again.

  7. Animated Shape Masks

    In Transform, choose a mask shape (Circle, Rectangle, Star, Split, Filmstrip, Text, Pen or Heart) and keyframe it for spotlight reveals.

Good to know

  • Entrances of about half a second feel snappy and modern.
  • Drag a diamond left or right on the clip to change its timing.
  • The export uses the same curves as the preview, so what you see is what you get.

The 11 Easing Curves & Mathematical Momentum

Deep dive into easing curves: Linear, Quad, Cubic, Overshoot, Bounce Out, Elastic Out, and Hold Step.

Pro / Advanced Keyframe Animation
[ 🌊 Smooth ▾ ] Easing Menu

  1. 1. Why Linear Motion Feels Robotic

    In the real world, objects have mass and inertia — they do not instantly start and stop at maximum speed. Easing curves simulate real-world physics, weight, and elasticity.

  2. 2. Entrance Curves (Ease Out)

    • Ease Out (Quad): Smooth, gentle deceleration to a stop.
    • Ease Out (Cubic): Snappy high-speed entry with smooth braking (ideal for modern title reveals and cards).
    • Overshoot / Back Out: Pops past 100% scale before snapping back for high-energy creator graphics.

  3. 3. Physics & Dynamic Curves (Bounce & Elastic)

    • Bounce Out: Simulates physical gravity drops and floor bounces (great for falling titles and badges).
    • Elastic Out: Springy oscillation like a rubber band.

  4. 4. Continuous & Exit Curves

    • Ease In-Out (Smooth): Gentle S-curve acceleration and deceleration for natural camera pans.
    • Ease In (Cubic): Rapid exponential acceleration for high-speed exits and drops.
    • Hold / Step: Freezes the value until the next keyframe for retro 8-bit motion and blink text.

Good to know

  • For fast-paced social media reels, Ease Out (Cubic) and Overshoot deliver the punchiest viewer engagement.

Curves vs. Keyframe Lanes (Dope Sheet)

Master the difference between Curves (how it moves) and Lanes (when it moves), how to retime animations, and why lanes start empty.

Beginner Keyframe Animation
Lanes (Dope Sheet)Curves (Value Graph)Drag Diamond (Retime)[ ◀ ] / [ ▶ ] (Snap KF)

  1. 1. The Core Difference: Curves vs. Lanes

    • Curves (Graph Editor): Focuses on DYNAMICS & EASING ("How does it move?"). Use this to sculpt bezier curves, overshoot, bounces, and velocity spikes.
    • Lanes (Dope Sheet): Focuses on TIMING & SYNCHRONIZATION ("When does it happen?"). Use this to slide keyframes along time, retime animations, and coordinate multiple properties.

    Tip Think of Curves as the "Feel & Dynamics" editor, and Lanes as the "Master Clock & Timing" editor.

  2. 2. Why Do Lanes Look Empty at First?

    If you have not recorded any keyframes on the selected clip yet, all lanes will show simple flat lines with no diamonds. This is completely normal!

    To bring Lanes to life:
    1. Position the playhead where you want motion to start.
    2. In the Lanes view, click the Diamond icon (◇) on any property header (Position, Scale, Rotation, Opacity, etc.).
    3. Move the playhead forward and change the value on the canvas or inspector.
    4. Glowing diamonds (◆) will immediately appear in that lane!

    Tip Clicking the diamond icon on any lane header toggles a keyframe at the exact playhead position without leaving the Lanes view.

  3. 3. Retiming Animations by Dragging Diamonds (◆)

    Once diamonds appear in a lane:
    • Drag a diamond left: Moves the keyframe earlier, making that phase of the animation FASTER.
    • Drag a diamond right: Moves the keyframe later, making that phase SLOWER.
    • No need to zoom or pan complex 2D curves — just slide diamonds horizontally along the time ruler.

  4. 4. Synchronizing Multiple Properties at a Glance

    Professional motion design often combines multiple properties simultaneously (e.g. an overlay that moves Position, pops Scale, and fades Opacity).
    • In Curves, you can usually only inspect one property graph at a time.
    • In Lanes, all channels are stacked vertically. You can instantly see whether your Position arrival, Scale pop, and Opacity peak land on the exact same frame.

  5. 5. The Master "All Keyframes" Lane

    At the very top of the Lanes view is the "All Keyframes" master lane:
    • It displays cyan diamonds representing every point in time where ANY property has a keyframe.
    • Dragging a diamond in the Master Lane shifts all properties at that timestamp together in lockstep!
    • This lets you delay or advance an entire complex animation without desynchronizing individual channels.

  6. 6. Rapid Keyframe Stepping (◀ / ▶)

    Each lane header features Jump Previous (◀) and Jump Next (▶) buttons:
    • Click them to snap the playhead directly to the exact millisecond of adjacent keyframes.
    • Essential for inspecting or fine-tuning numerical values at exact keyframe moments.

Good to know

  • Quick rule of thumb: Use Curves to change the motion shape (smooth, bounce, overshoot). Use Lanes to retime or synchronize multiple properties.
  • Drag in the top Master Lane to retime your entire multi-channel animation in a single gesture.
  • Hover over any diamond marker in a lane to see its timestamp, exact value, and easing type in a tooltip.

🔀Transitions

Applying Transitions

41 transitions in two groups: 3D & Perspective (23) and Classic & Effects (18).

Beginner Transitions
Drag & Drop on Cut

  1. Open the Transitions Panel

    Click Motion > Transitions in the Tool Dock. Hover a tile to see it move.

  2. Drop It on a Cut

    Drag a transition onto the cut between two photos or video clips on the same track. To use one transition everywhere, click Apply to All Cuts.

    Tip A transition needs two clips that touch on one track; on an empty or separate track it does nothing.

  3. Duration & Alignment

    Click the transition on the timeline. Set its Duration (0.3 to 5 s) and Cut Alignment: Center on Cut, Start on Cut or End on Cut.

  4. Direction, Curve & Sound

    Many transitions have a Direction. Every one has a Timing Velocity Curve (Smooth Ease, Impact Snap, Elastic Whip and more) and can play a sound effect.

Good to know

  • Click Save as Custom Preset to keep your settings; they appear under My Presets.

🪄Visual Effects

Visual Shader Effects & 3D Filters

25 effects such as 3D Squircle, Neon Glow, Glitch, VHS Retro, Film Grain and Duotone, in five groups: Premium, 3D, Distortion, Motion and Stylize.

Intermediate Visual Effects

  1. Open the Effects Panel

    Click Motion > Effects in the Tool Dock and pick a group, or All.

  2. Place It Over Your Video

    Drag an effect onto the timeline above your video. It works on the video under it for as long as the effect clip lasts: drag its edges to choose when it starts and ends.

  3. Fine-Tune It

    Click the effect clip to change Intensity, Speed, Scale, Blur and its other settings, with a live preview.

Good to know

  • Layer Cinematic Duotone or Film Grain & 16mm over warm travel footage to give it an instant golden-hour cinematic aesthetic.

Visuals: Rain, Sparkles & More

Lay animated overlays like rain, embers, hearts or bokeh over your video.

Beginner Visual Effects

  1. Pick a Visual

    Click Motion > Visuals. Choose one, for example Heavy Rain & Splash, Thunderstorm & Flash, Rising Embers & Ash, Floating Hearts, Golden Bokeh Lights, Laser Beam Sweep, Money & Gold Shower, Starfield Warp Drift or Twinkling Sparkles.

  2. Adjust It

    Change density, speed, particle size, turbulence, direction, colour and opacity. Turn its sound and looping on or off.

  3. Blend It

    Use the Normal, Screen or Add blend mode. Screen and Add make light effects glow.

Canvas & Backgrounds

Fill the empty space around your video with a colour, an image or a moving background.

Beginner Visual Effects

  1. Open Canvas

    Click the Canvas button, or Canvas in the Tool Dock.

  2. Choose a Background

    Pick a solid colour, your own image, a Static preset (Green Hills, Marble White, Ocean Horizon, Sky with Clouds, Soft Studio, Sunset Gradient, Warm Beach, Watercolor and more) or an Animated one (Aurora Lights, Confetti, Floating Bokeh, Moving Gradient, Neon City and more).

  3. Remove or Reset

    Click Remove background image to drop the image, or Reset to go back to the default.

Good to know

  • A background is useful when a portrait clip sits in a wide video, or when you make the video smaller.

🎨Color Grading

Color Wheels, Creative LUT Looks & RGB Curves

Correct and style your colours in the Adjust window: tone sliders, HSL, curves, 3-way colour wheels, LUTs and ready-made looks.

Pro / Advanced Color Grading

  1. Open the Adjust Window

    Select a clip and click Adjust above the timeline (or Create > Adjust). Drag the divider in the preview to compare before and after.

  2. Basic: Tone & White Balance

    Temp and Tint for white balance, then Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Vibrance, Fade and Sharpness.

  3. HSL and Curves

    HSL changes the Hue, Saturation and Luminance of one colour range. Curves (RGB, R, G or B): click to add points, double-click a point to remove it.

  4. 3-Way Colour Wheels

    The Wheel tab has Shadows (Lift), Midtones (Gamma) and Highlights (Gain). Double-click a wheel to reset it.

  5. LUTs, Looks & Applying

    Pick a LUT (Cinematic, Teal & Orange, B&W) or a ready-made look such as Moody Noir or Dreamy Warmth, and save your own. Apply to this clip, or to all video clips at once.

Good to know

  • The Mask tab limits the grade to one area of the picture.

🎯Motion Tracking

Motion Tracking & Pinning Overlays

Follow a moving face, car, player or object and pin a marker, a label or a blur to it.

Pro / Advanced Motion Tracking

  1. Open Track Object

    Select a video clip and click Track Object above the timeline.

  2. Draw the Region

    Click Select ROI and draw a box around the person, face, number plate or object in the preview.

  3. Start Tracking

    Click Start Tracking. The box follows the target through the clip; the path is smoothed so it does not shake.

  4. Choose What Follows It

    Pick an Overlay Type: Arrow, Circle, Wheel, Radar, Tracker, Rectangle, Highlight, Text, Blur, Hide, Pixelate, Spotlight or an emoji. Set its colour, size and opacity.

Good to know

  • One clip can have several tracks: click Add Track for the next person or object.
  • Text and stickers can follow a track too: pick it under "Attach to Tracker" in their settings.

💬Text & Captions

Animated Captions

Add caption text that animates itself — typewriter, karaoke, highlight marker and more — then edit every part of it.

Beginner Text & Captions

  1. Open the Captions panel

    In the left tool dock, expand Create and click Captions. The gallery filters by All, Reveal, Impact and Motion - hover any tile to watch that animation play.

    Tip Captions are separate from Text. Use Text for titles and lower thirds; use Captions when you want the words themselves to animate.

  2. Add one to the timeline

    Click a tile to drop the caption at the playhead, or drag it onto any track. Captions look for a free caption lane of their own, so they never land on top of your video clips.

  3. Type your words

    With the caption selected, edit the text in the inspector on the right. The animation re-times itself to whatever you type — a long line speeds up on its own so the reveal always finishes inside the clip.

  4. Change the animation any time

    The Animation dropdown at the top of the inspector swaps between all 15 caption styles, each shown with its category. Your text, colours and timing are kept — only the movement changes.

  5. Set the pace

    Animation speed is a multiplier from 0.25x to 3.00x: higher is faster. For Karaoke and Highlight Marker the sweep is paced across the whole clip, so trimming the caption shorter also tightens the sweep.

  6. Style it

    Font, size, colour, outline and text effect all work exactly as they do for Text overlays. Karaoke and Highlight Marker add a row of six Highlight colour swatches for the emphasis.

    Tip On Highlight Marker the words automatically flip to a readable colour on top of the block — you only pick the marker colour.

  7. Place it

    Drag the caption in the preview, or use Position, Center Screen and Reset Scale in the inspector. Trim the clip edges on the timeline to change when it appears and how long it stays.

Good to know

  • Typewriter, Reveal Wipe and Fade In are the calm ones — good for tutorials where the words should not fight the screen recording.
  • Word Pop, Bounce and Glitch are the loud ones — good for short-form social video.
  • Karaoke and Highlight Marker keep the whole line readable and sweep emphasis across it, which suits captions timed to speech.
  • Captions do not use the keyframe animation panel — the style already carries the movement. Position and scale controls are still there.

Turn Auto Subtitles into Animated Captions

Transcribe speech automatically, then apply any caption animation to the whole transcript in one click.

Intermediate Text & Captions

  1. Generate the subtitles

    Right-click a video or audio clip and choose Auto Subtitles, then pick a language. English is transcribed on your own machine; other languages are translated online after transcription. The result appears as a subtitle block on the timeline.

    Tip If you detached the audio earlier, run Auto Subtitles on the audio clip rather than the video.

  2. Check the wording first

    Select the subtitle block and read through the lines in the inspector. Fixing obvious mistranscriptions now is quicker than fixing them afterwards.

  3. Apply a caption style

    Right-click the video clip or the subtitle block and choose Apply Caption Style. Pick any animation and confirm.

  4. What you get

    Every spoken line becomes its own animated caption clip, timed to the speech, on a free lane. Each one can be re-worded, re-timed, restyled or deleted on its own.

    Tip Leave "Remove the original subtitle block" ticked. Turning it off keeps the plain subtitles as a backup, but then both render at once.

  5. Change your mind later

    Right-click the video clip again — the menu now reads Change Caption Style. Restyling keeps your text, timing and edits and changes only the animation, unless you tick "Also reset speed to 1.0x".

  6. Remove them in one go

    Right-click the video clip and choose Delete Generated Captions, or right-click any generated caption and choose Delete All Captions from This Clip. One undo brings the whole set back.

Good to know

  • Captions you placed by hand are never touched by the group restyle or the group delete — only the generated set is.
  • Very short lines (under a quarter of a second) are skipped, because a caption that brief cannot be read.
  • Animated captions are rendered frame by frame on export, so they take a little longer than plain subtitles - budget some extra time on a long transcript.
  • If a clip has subtitles in more than one language, the original language is converted so two languages do not stack on top of each other.

Text & Titles

Add titles and text, style them and animate them in and out.

Beginner Text & Captions

  1. Add Text

    Click Create > Text and pick a preset: Default Title, Lower Third, Subtitles / Caption, Glitch Cyber Title, Knockout Split Gate or Tactical HUD Box.

  2. Edit It

    Double-click the text clip. Change the words, font, size and colours, and add a shadow, glow, outline or neon effect.

  3. Animate It

    Choose an entrance (Pop, Bounce, Fade In, Slide Left/Right, Zoom In, Shake, Pulse, Float In, Split Gate Reveal) and an exit (Fade Out, Shrink, Slide Away, Zoom Out).

  4. Put Text Behind a Person

    Turn on "Behind speaker" to place the text behind the person in the video.

  5. Follow a Moving Object

    Use "Attach to Tracker" to make the text follow something you tracked with Track Object.

Stickers

Add arrows, emoji, labels, bubbles and fun effects on top of your video.

Beginner Text & Captions

  1. Find a Sticker

    Click Create > Stickers. Browse Recent, Favorites, Arrows, Labels & Titles, Reactions, Emoji, Face (Hats, Funny Masks, Sunglasses), Highlights, Communication bubbles, Stamps, Explosion Blast, Fireball and Subscribe.

  2. Add and Place It

    Add it to the timeline, then move and resize it in the preview.

  3. Make It Move

    Give it an idle motion (Pulse, Shake or Float) and an outline if you want.

  4. Follow a Face or Object

    Use "Attach to Tracker" so the sticker follows something you tracked.

Good to know

  • For fire and explosion stickers try the Screen or Add blend mode, so the dark parts disappear.

🗺️Intros, Outros & Maps

Travel Map: Animated Routes

Draw a trip on a map and turn it into an animated video clip.

Intermediate Intros, Outros & Maps

  1. Open Travel Map

    Click the Travel Map button in the Media panel.

  2. Pick a Map

    Choose one of 8 built-in maps in 4 looks (Dark, Light, Vintage paper, Satellite), the 3D globe, an OpenStreetMap street map (search for a place), or your own image.

  3. Add Your Stops

    Click on the map to add stops. For each leg choose a car, plane, train, ferry or a simple dot, and a trail style.

  4. Add Pins

    Mark places with pins: 15 icons in 8 colours, or use a photo as a pin.

  5. Create the Clip

    The clip matches your project shape. Choose 720p to 4K at 30 or 60 fps. The finished clip goes into the Media Box.

Good to know

  • Your routes are saved, so you can open one later, change it and create a new clip.
  • In the free version the map clip has the same small watermark as normal exports.

Preview Intro: Show the Best Parts First

Make a short split-screen intro from clips of your video.

Beginner Intros, Outros & Maps

  1. Open It

    Right-click a clip on the timeline and choose Create Preview Intro.

  2. Choose Clips and Length

    Use 2 to 9 clips. Set the duration from 2 to 10 seconds. Turn on "Expand the first tile" to let it grow to full screen at the end.

  3. Adjust Each Tile

    For each tile set the Source start, crop left/right and up/down, and move it with Earlier / Later.

  4. Check and Use It

    Click Play preview. Then click Use intro: it goes to the start of the video and the rest moves back.

Good to know

  • The intro is muted. Add music or a sound under it if you like.
  • Right-click the intro and choose Edit Preview Intro to change it later.

Intros & Outros

Start and end your video with a ready template, or build your own intro.

Beginner Intros, Outros & Maps

  1. Pick a Template

    Open Templates > Intros (37 templates) or Templates > Outros (12 templates). Star the ones you like to find them fast.

  2. Build Your Own Intro

    Open the Intro Builder (Intro Studio). Type a Main Title, a Subtitle / Tagline and add a Logo / Channel Badge.

  3. Style It

    Choose a background (Solid Color, Linear Gradient, Aurora and more), particles (Snow, Rain, Confetti Burst, Bokeh Lights, Sparks & Embers, Smoke & Fog) and an animation style (Cinematic Fade, Kinetic Pop, Glitch Split, Mask Reveal, Light Sweep and more).

  4. Length and Sound

    Set the Intro Duration and add an audio stinger if you want.

  5. Use It

    Click "Insert Intro to Video". Click "Save for Future Reuse" to keep your design for next time.

🧠AI Background Removal

Remove BG: Cut Out a Person

Remove the background behind a person with AI - no green screen needed - and replace it, blur it or keep it.

Intermediate AI Background Removal

  1. Open Remove BG

    Select a video clip, click AI Tools and choose Remove Background. Mode Auto (AI) finds the person by itself.

  2. Pick the Right Person

    With several people in the shot, use "Select and track person" and click the one you want.

  3. Clean Up the Edges

    Edge shrink and Edge softness tidy the outline, Flicker reduction calms it, and "Erase / restore areas" lets you paint parts out or back in. "Show mask" shows exactly what is kept.

  4. Replace the Background

    Choose Transparent (shows the tracks below), Solid color, Image, Scene / motion (a library scene or your own video or GIF), Blur, or Original (keep). Then click Apply Replace Background.

Good to know

  • Transparent plus a video on the track below puts the person in front of any background.
  • Original (keep) keeps the scene as filmed, so text can go behind the person (see "Text Behind a Person").

Text Behind a Person (Keep the Original Background)

Put a title between the background and the person in front of it - with one clip, while the original background stays exactly as filmed.

Intermediate AI Background Removal

  1. Remove BG with "Original (keep)"

    Select the video clip, click AI Tools > Remove Background and choose the background option "Original (keep)". The person is cut out and put back on their own, unchanged frame - so nothing looks different yet.

  2. Add Your Text Over the Clip

    Add a text on a track above the clip and place it where the person walks or stands.

  3. Send the Text Behind the Person

    Select the text and turn on "Behind speaker" in its settings (the switch appears when the text is over a Remove BG clip). The text now sits between the background and the person, in the preview and in the export.

    Tip Works with every Remove BG background: Original, Colour, Image, Scene or Blur.

Good to know

  • No duplicate clip is needed: one clip does the whole effect.
  • To move the person, the text and more as one piece, group them into a Compound Clip.

🖼️Cover Designer

YouTube & TikTok Cover Designer

Design viral thumbnails with templates, typography, high-impact stickers, creator cutout borders, and social safe-zones.

Beginner Cover Designer
Ctrl + D (Duplicate Layer)Nudge (Arrow Keys)Esc (Close / Deselect)

  1. Open Cover Designer

    Click the "Cover" thumbnail tile in the track headers, in the spare lane just above your timeline tracks.

  2. Step 1: Pick the Perfect Frame

    Scrub through the entire project timeline with frame-accurate step buttons (-1s, -1 frame, +1 frame, +1s) to select your thumbnail frame, then click "NEXT >>".

  3. Step 2: Apply Creator Templates & Styles

    Choose from 8 creator templates (YouTube Click-Magnet, Gaming & Stream, Vlog & Lifestyle, Podcast & Interview, Breaking News, Top 10, Cinematic Minimal, Special Promo) or design from scratch.

  4. Add Typography & 3D Styling

    Pick a bold display font such as Impact, then add outlines, shadows and glow so the title stands out at small sizes.

  5. Add Badges, Stickers & Cutout Borders

    Place curved arrows, "SUBSCRIBE", "LIVE", "VIP", and "WARNING" badges. Import creator cutout PNGs and dial in white sticker borders and outer glow.

  6. Check Social Safe-Zones & Export the Image

    Toggle the YouTube (16:9) or TikTok (9:16) safe zones, or the Instagram 1:1 feed crop, so text is never blocked by UI buttons or timestamps. Click "Export Image..." and pick a size to save it as PNG or JPG.

Good to know

  • Magnetic Snapping locks titles and badges onto the exact center or the rule-of-thirds lines, with glowing guides as you drag.
  • Click "Save Cover" to automatically save your thumbnail right beside your video project.

🎵Audio & Sounds

Sound: Mixing, Effects & Voice Over

Add sounds and music, set volume and fades, clean up and shape the sound, and record your own voice.

Beginner Audio & Sounds

  1. Sound Library

    Click Create > Audio for 32 ready sounds: Stingers & Intros, Transitions, UI & FX, Sci-Fi & Arcade, and short Music & Ambient beds. Drag one onto a track.

  2. Volume & Fades

    Select an audio clip: set Volume (up to 400%), Fade In and Fade Out. Keyframe the volume to lower music while someone talks.

  3. Shape & Clean the Sound

    Change Pitch, Reverse, Normalize or use Noise Reduction, and stack effects such as Reverb, Echo, Bass Boost, Treble Boost or Compressor.

  4. Edit Part of a Clip

    Use Set Start and Set End to mark a section, then mute it, delete it or replace it.

  5. Record a Voice Over

    Click Voice Over, choose your microphone and press Record. After a short countdown it records straight onto the timeline; keep the take or retake it.

Good to know

  • Add a "Swoosh" or "Pop" sound effect simultaneously with a Whip Pan transition to make visual cuts feel tactile and punchy.

Clip Sound: Detach, Mute, Join & Translate

Work with the sound inside your video clips, join clips and translate subtitles.

Intermediate Audio & Sounds

  1. Detach the Sound

    Right-click a video clip and choose Detach Audio. The sound moves to its own track, so you can move or cut it on its own. Link Audio & Video joins them again.

  2. Mute a Clip

    Right-click a video clip and choose Mute Clip Audio to silence it. Unmute Clip Audio brings it back.

  3. Edit the Sound

    Right-click a video clip and choose Edit Audio. The sound is detached (it stays linked) and the audio tools open.

  4. Join Clips

    Select two or more video clips (or two or more audio clips), right-click and choose Join into One Clip.

    Tip Freeze frames and compound clips cannot be joined.

  5. Translate Subtitles

    After Auto Subtitles, right-click the clip and choose Translate Subtitles. Pick a language. The translation goes on a new track. This needs an internet connection.

📤Export & Sharing

Exporting Your Video

Export in 720p, 1080p Full HD, 1440p QHD or 4K, at 30 or 60 FPS, with GPU-accelerated encoding.

Beginner Export & Sharing
Ctrl + E (Export Video)

  1. Click "Export Video" (Top Right)

    Click the teal "Export Video" button in the top header toolbar or press Ctrl + E.

    Shortcut Ctrl + E

  2. Select Resolution & Frame Rate

    Choose 1080p Full HD for the best balance, or 720p for a smaller, faster export. 1440p QHD and 4K Ultra HD give the sharpest result (YouTube also streams them at higher quality) but make larger files and take longer to export. The exact pixel size follows your project's aspect ratio (1920x1080 for 16:9, 1080x1920 for 9:16; 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 for 1440p and 4K). Then pick 30 FPS or 60 FPS.

  3. Name the File & Choose a Folder

    Give the export a file name and pick where it should be saved. Video is written as MP4, which plays everywhere and uploads to every platform without conversion.

  4. Hardware Acceleration

    Vivideo Studio auto-detects NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync, or AMD AMF GPU encoding for much faster exports, and falls back to optimized CPU encoding when no supported GPU is found.

Good to know

  • Free exports carry a small "Made with VivideoStudio.com" watermark in the corner. Premium exports have no watermark.

⌨️Shortcuts Sheet

Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

Boost your editing speed with the essential hotkeys for timeline navigation, playback, tools, and layering.

Beginner Shortcuts Sheet
SpaceSCtrl+DCtrl+ZCtrl+SDeleteF1Esc

  1. Playback & Playhead Navigation

    • Space: Play / Pause preview
    • Left / Right Arrow: Step 1 frame backward / forward
    • Shift + Left / Right: Jump 1 second
    • Home / End: Jump to start / end of timeline

    Shortcut Space / Arrows

  2. Timeline Editing Commands

    • S: Split selected clip at playhead
    • Delete / Backspace: Delete the selected clip and close the gap
    • Ctrl + D: Duplicate selected clip, text, or layer
    • Ctrl + R: Open Speed & Time Remapping dialog
    • Ctrl + Z: Undo last edit
    • Ctrl + Y: Redo last edit

    Shortcut S / Ctrl+D

  3. Project & File Actions

    • Ctrl + S: Save project
    • Ctrl + O: Import media files (video, audio, images)
    • Ctrl + E: Open Export Video dialog
    • F1: Toggle the User Guide & Tutorials Center
    • Esc: Close the User Guide / Deselect the active clip or track

    Shortcut Ctrl+S / F1

  4. Tools, Clipboard & Nudging

    • V or A: Select tool
    • C or B: Razor / Blade tool
    • U: Slide tool
    • N: Toggle timeline snapping
    • Ctrl + C / X / V: Copy / Cut / Paste at playhead
    • Ctrl + A: Select all clips on the track
    • Alt + Left / Right: Nudge selected clip 1 frame (Shift = 5 frames)
    • Ctrl + Shift + Z: Redo
    • Shift + Delete: Delete and keep the gap

    Shortcut V / C / N

Good to know

  • Mastering just Space, S (Split), Delete, and Ctrl+D can double your editing workflow speed!