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Everything it does,written down.
Install the app, work with your agent, and learn every tool in the editor.
Start
- Install Formats StudioWhat your Mac needs, installing the app, signing in, where projects live, and staying up to date.
- Getting startedYour first video: start from Home, let your agent make the first cut, then refine and export it.
- How Formats Studio worksThe mental model: your agent and you on one timeline, local files and linked media, sequences, and frames.
- Workspaces and storageWhere your projects live on your Mac, switching workspaces, missing media and cache maintenance.
- ProjectsCreate, configure, duplicate, organize, trash, restore, and move projects.
- Editor layoutThe toolbar, the tools column with your agent, Media, Library and Transcript, the preview, the Inspector and the timeline.
Agents
Core editing
- Media libraryImport media, inspect files, and generate proxies, transcripts, captions, and AI scene data.
- Timeline basicsTracks, adding clips, selection, split and join, deleting, snapping, markers, ranges, sequences, and zoom.
- Editing toolsSelection, razor, trim and rate stretch, plus the ripple and rolling trim behaviors.
- Preview and playbackPlay, step frames, zoom the monitor, go fullscreen, save frames, and use proxy playback.
- Source monitorPreview a source, mark an in/out range, and insert or overwrite it onto the timeline.
- Clip propertiesTransform, crop, opacity and blend, and the type-specific controls for each kind of clip.
Creative tools
- Generate with AIImages, video, music, sound effects and voice from hosted models, priced before you start and added to your project.
- Text, captions and subtitlesAdd and style text clips, generate captions from a transcript, and import embedded subtitle tracks.
- Shapes and masksAdd shape items, draw custom paths with the pen tool, and use any shape as a clip mask.
- AudioAdjust clip gain, fades, pitch and per-clip EQ, record a voiceover, and clean up silence and filler words.
- Effects and looksApply quick Looks, stack GPU effects, import LUTs, and isolate corrections.
- TransitionsApply a transition to a cut and adjust its style, duration, placement, easing, and direction.
- KeyframesAnimate transform, crop, text, effect, and audio values with keyframes, easing, and the curve editor.
- Scene browser and searchAnalyze media locally to caption scenes, then search by keyword, meaning, or color.
- Local AI and speechWhat runs on your Mac and what runs hosted: Local AI for footage, transcription, and speech from text.
Output
Reference
- Keyboard shortcutsDefault shortcuts by group, plus how to search, rebind, and reset them.
- SettingsThe General, Timeline, AI, and Storage tabs, plus where language and shortcuts are set.
- Plans and creditsWhat is free, what credits pay for, what each plan adds, and how credits are granted, spent and topped up.
- TroubleshootingCommon symptoms and their fixes: install, agents, media, Local AI and export.
- ReferenceSupported formats and a glossary of the terms used across this guide.