Clean
Cuts on bars, whole moves
Cuts on the bar with straight cuts and no effects, so the footage carries it.
Auto mode
A song and your clips become an edit cut to the music, in seconds, as ordinary clips you can change.
How it works
- 1
Pick a song
Any audio file you have, or a beat from the Library. DriftEdit reads its tempo, bars, sections and drop.
- 2
Pick a style and a length
30 to 60 seconds, from the drop or from the start, vertical by default.
- 3
Make the edit
Your clips and photos are read for sharpness, motion and where the subject is, and the best moments go where the music hits.
- 4
Change anything
Every shot is a normal clip. Another take reshuffles; Remake keeps every shot you touched and rebuilds the rest around it.
Seven styles
Each lane is what that style cuts over four bars of a drop, made by the same director the editor runs.
Cinematic
Long holds, slow push-ins
Long shots on the bar, slowed in calm passages, with dissolves and a film grade.
Smooth
Flowing transitions, no hard cuts
Every cut on the bar flows into the next shot through a dissolve, a zoom, a blur or a slide.
Hype
Cuts on kicks, punch on the drop
Cuts on the kicks of the drop, with a zoom on every one, flashes on new sections and whip pans.
Velocity
Speed ramps into every hit
Speeds up in the drops and slows down between them, with zoom transitions and a vivid grade.
Chaos
Shakes and flashes on every kick
Cuts on every kick, with glitches, colour splits, shake and strobe.
Reverse
Footage that plays back on the beat
Cuts on the kicks, with shots that play backwards, rewinds on the beat and a rewind into the drop.
Hatched shots play backwards. A notch is a soft cut, a transition.
What it reads in the song
Every kick, at its attack
Cuts land on the kick itself, not on the grid the tempo implies, and a bar where the music has no kick still gets its cut.
Sections and the drop
Intro, build, drop, break and outro: calm parts hold a bar and soften their cuts, the drop gets the strongest footage.
Speed, pulses and rewinds
Zoom pulses on every kick of a drop, speed changes into the hits, footage that plays back on the beat, by style.
When it needs a hand
When the beat is off
Some songs start with a pickup or read at half or double time. The tempo and bar one are shown in the Auto panel, and a tap corrects either before you make the edit.
On your device
The song and the footage are read in the browser tab, and the reading is kept with the file, so a second edit from the same song starts at once.