Refining an edit

Once you have a rough cut, you can keep shaping it just by asking. Ponder is good at changes like these:

hitting an exact length, or the length of a song,
cutting faster, even with different timing for different kinds of shots,
tightening the pacing by taking out filler words and long pauses without clipping words,
swapping the music and re-fitting the edit to the new track,
finding one particular B-roll shot and putting it in,
fixing B-roll that doesn’t match what the speaker is saying,
swapping a clip for one shot in a different orientation.

It makes these changes the way you would in an editing app, with frame-exact splits, trims and moves, working across tracks and gaps, and even across several timelines at once.

Color, sound, titles and graphics

Ponder can take your edit well past the rough cut. Ask for any of these in the chat, the same way you’d ask for any other change.

	What Ponder can do	Try asking
Color	Adjust exposure, white balance, contrast and saturation, and add looks and LUTs	”Warm up the interview shots a little and match the B-roll to them.”
Zooms and pans	Add moves without touching your original footage, and keep them adjustable	”Make the zoom on the opening shot slower.”
Speed	Speed clips up, slow them down, or ramp the speed within a clip	”Play the drone shot at half speed.”
Stabilization	Smooth out shaky handheld shots so they’re usable without a reshoot	”Stabilize the handheld shots in the kitchen, but keep the slow pan at the end.”
Transitions and effects	Add dissolves and other transitions, freeze frames, reversed clips and crops	”Add a quick dissolve between each room, and hold on the last frame.”
Audio	Set volume, add fades, duck music under dialogue, and clean up voices	”Duck the music under the interview, and fade it out at the end.”
Music and sound effects	Generate a track in the style you want, find one in a connected stock library, or add sound effects	”Find an upbeat acoustic track for this.”
Titles and captions	Add titles, lower thirds, captions and callouts	”Add a lower third for each speaker the first time they appear.”
Motion graphics	Build animated titles, callouts or overlays, matched to a reference if you send one	”Make an animated title like the one in this video: [link]“
Generated images and video	Make something you didn’t shoot, like a background plate or a missing cutaway	”Generate a wide shot of a city skyline at dusk.”

A few things worth knowing:

Got a LUT you like? Send it to Ponder and ask it to apply it. If you shot in log, add your camera’s color profile first so the grade starts from accurate color.
Motion graphics sit on their own layer above your footage, so they’re never baked into your clips and you can change or remove them whenever you like.
To use a stock music library, connect it first. See Connectors.

To see how all of this carries over to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and CapCut, see What carries over to your editing app.

Want to see options?

You can ask for a few directions before you commit to one:

Give me 3 different directions for this.

Or open a new chat for each direction and ask for a separate timeline in each, so your main cut stays untouched. See Chats and models.

Leave notes as you watch

Leave comments on the moments you want changed. See Comments.

Keep changes where you want them

If you only want one part changed, say so, and mention the timeline and the clip or moment you mean. You can also make changes yourself while the agent is working. See Edit alongside the agent.

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Refining an edit

Color, sound, titles and graphics

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Keep changes where you want them

​Color, sound, titles and graphics

​Want to see options?

​Leave notes as you watch

​Keep changes where you want them

Color, sound, titles and graphics

Want to see options?

Leave notes as you watch

Keep changes where you want them