Overview

The ShortsNinja Video Editor gives you full creative control over how your AI-generated short is structured, styled, and finalized. Whether you’re fine-tuning voiceover timing, adjusting visuals, or preparing your thumbnail — everything happens here.

🧩 Scenes-Based Structure

Every video is made up of scenes, and each scene consists of scene items:

  • Scene Items can include:

    • 🎙️ Voiceover

    • 🖼️ Visual Assets (AI images, stock, etc.)

    • 🎵 Music or audio layers

    • Soon, we will be adding more options :)

Each scene item is fully editable and has:

  • Its own duration

  • A custom settings panel for controls (e.g., volume, pan, transitions, text overlays)

You can add, remove, or reorder items freely within each scene.

🧭 Editor Tabs

The editor is organized into 8 powerful tabs, accessible from the left sidebar.
Click each to dive into its dedicated controls (we’ll explain each in its own guide):

  1. Global Scene – Set Scene items that will be across the whole video and not ordered by scenes.

  2. Thumbnail – Customize your scroll-stopping thumbnail, including visual and text overlays

  3. Scenes – Add, edit, and manage scenes and scene items

  4. Captions – See your captions and edit them freely

  5. Subtitles – Control your video subtitles design

  6. Voiceover – Update the whole video voiceover at once.

  7. Metadata – Prepare title, description, hashtags, and tags for YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram

  8. AI Jobs – View and track all background AI tasks like AI videos generation, voice generation, or AI image creation

🧵 Timeline Navigation

The bottom timeline gives you a visual overview of the full video:

  • See scene assets, music, voiceover tracks, and image spans

  • Easily scrub through the video or jump between scenes

  • Use it to align audio to visuals for the best impact
    (Note: Timeline is visual-only — actual edits are made in the tabs)

🎛 Playback Controls

Above the timeline, you'll find editor-wide controls:

  • ▶️ Play / ⏹️ Stop

  • ⏩ Adjust playback speed (e.g., 1x, 2x for preview and actual rendering)

  • 🔍 Zoom in/out for better timeline precision

  • ⛶ Fullscreen toggle

  • 📐 Ratio control (e.g., 9:16, 16:9) — ideal for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram

📤 Export / Share

Once you’re happy with your edits, click Export / Share in the top-right:

  • Render and download the final video

  • Or publish directly to connected platforms (YouTube, TikTok, etc.) if your account is linked

  • Re-export at any time if you make edits