Your camera and the video sit together on the track at the bottom. It has no gaps, it is always snapped, and it cannot be removed. That is deliberate: the one thing that must never come apart is the pairing you spent step 2 getting right.
Step 5, in full
The reaction video editor behind the automatic cut
The cut is where ReactionCut starts, not where it stops. Once the cuts are placed you are on a timeline: the camera and the video on one main track, and a lane of your own for text, shapes, images and music. Everything below is in the browser, on your machine, and none of it costs another credit.
You arrive with the cuts already made
Your microphone track decides where they go: green where you are quiet, purple from the moment you speak, yellow at the start and the end where your camera is alone. That is most of an edit, done before you touch anything.
introquietyou speakyou speakquietquietoutro
while you're quiet from the moment you speak start & end, just you optionalplaced automatically from your voice
Five kinds of lane
A lane appears the first time you drop something on it, so an edit with no titles has no text lane. Each one can be hidden, muted, locked, and told whether to snap.
Every title you add lands on the text lane. Write it, pick the font, then fill the letters with one colour, a gradient, a glow or a pattern. Put a plate behind them when the frame underneath is busy, and a drop shadow so they hold on anything.
A shape lane for boxes, bars and blocks. Set the fill, the border and how it blends into the frame. One shape at half opacity over the film is the quickest way to show less of it without losing your reaction.
A picture or a second clip laid over everything: a meme, a logo, a reaction from earlier. Crop it, shape it, give it a border.
Your own audio on its own lane, with its own volume and fades. The camera and the video keep theirs, so nothing has to be mixed before you import it.
What you can do to a clip
Click a block on the timeline, or the thing itself in the picture, and the panel on the right becomes about that one block.
Split, join, duplicate and delete, from the right-click menu or with Ctrl+B, Ctrl+J, Ctrl+D and Del. Drag an edge and the neighbour gives up exactly what this clip gains, so the total length does not move under you.
Put a transition on any cut and set how long it takes. A cut can stay a hard cut, or become a dissolve as slow as you want.
Eight ready looks (warm, cool, punch, faded film, black and white, night, dream) or brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth by hand. It lands on the clip you picked, not the whole video.
Push into a reaction or drift across a still. Set where it starts and where it ends and the editor moves between them, so a motionless shot gets motion without another take.
Volume and fades on each block, and a whole lane can be muted. The waveform is drawn under the picture, so a quiet stretch is something you see before you hear it.
Every change is reversible, sliders included. A drag is one step, not forty, so undo after a drag puts the clip back where it was rather than halfway.
And if the automatic cut is not cutting the way you want
Five sliders, and the timeline redraws under them as you move. You are not guessing at a setting and re-rendering to see the result.
Where the line sits
How loud counts as talking. Move it up on a noisy room, down if you are softly spoken.
Breaths are pauses too
How long a gap has to be before it counts as one, so a breath mid-sentence does not become a cut.
Trim pauses, or keep it all
Cut the silence out, or keep the full length and only switch look. Both are one switch.
How the video opens and closes
How much of the start and the end stays on your camera alone.
Too short to see
Clips under this length are swallowed by their neighbour, so you never get a fragment of a frame.
Every one of them is reversible, and re-cutting a video you have already generated is free.
Or take it somewhere else entirely
Nothing here locks you in. Every generation also hands you the three full-length files it was built from and a timeline you can open in a professional editor.
- EDL, read by practically every editor there is
- FCPXML for DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut, which link the media by name
- OTIO for passing a timeline between tools and scripts
- CSV, a plain cut list for a spreadsheet
The look files are ordinary MP4s at your source resolution, so this exact cut can be rebuilt frame for frame somewhere else, at no extra cost and with nothing re-encoded.
None of this needs an account
Open the editor, press Generate demo footage, and every screen on this page is in front of you in about a minute. reactioncut.com only asks for an account when you want an export without the watermark.
Try it now, free