Real video editing in the timeline: filmstrips, split, transitions and speed

Kubrick started as a motion design tool, and footage was something you dropped in and animated. Now the timeline handles clips the way a video editor does, so you can cut a real edit and put motion on top in the same place.

What's new

• Filmstrip clips. Video clips get a taller row with thumbnails of the footage, the clip name and a speed badge, so you can see what's where without scrubbing.
• Split at the playhead. Press the scissors button or Cmd+B. It cuts the selected layers, or every clip under the playhead, and the footage stays continuous across the cut.
• Transitions. In the clip's Video panel, Transition in sets how a clip arrives from the one before: crossfade, dip to black, blur, zoom or slide. Kubrick overlaps the two clips for you where the transition needs it.
• Speed. Any clip can play from 0.25x to 4x. The clip's length changes to keep the same footage, and its waveform follows.
• Mute and audio rows. Every video row has a one-click mute and its own audio row with a waveform that follows the clip's trim and speed.
• Fold rows. The arrow next to a layer folds its keyframe, effect and audio rows into one thin strip, with its keyframes still marked.

Two days later the Video panel also got Replace clip, to swap footage without losing what you built on it, and Fit to canvas by width, height or fill.

How to use it

Drop clips onto the timeline (or start from a folder of footage on the Create page and let Kubrick cut a first edit). Then trim, split, add transitions and change speed as you would anywhere else. Your rigs, type and effects sit on the rows above.

Pairs well with

• Time remapping, for freeze frames and speed ramps inside a clip.
• Track, to put computer-vision boxes over the footage.
• Captions, made from the clip's own speech.