Getting started

Open moshpit. You land on the home screen, with your projects, templates and examples.

The quickest way

Seen an edit you'd like to make? Under Make a video like this on the home screen, pick a look:

• Behind the subject: each clip's subject is cut out by itself, with handwritten words and drawn rings between it and the background.
• Kinetic lyrics: big words slam in one per beat over quick cuts.
• Pop-up collage: your clips pop up on the beat as white-bordered cards, each leaving stepped copies behind it.
• Tour poster: a magazine layout on off-white paper, blue type that types itself in, outline type and choppy 16 fps.
• Red notes: hand-drawn red boxes, arrows and notes find things in your footage and follow them, one more on every beat.

Choose your clips (and a song, so things land on the beat), type your words, and press Use my clips. Not sure yet? Try with sample footage shows what it does first, and Use my clips on the note that follows makes it again with yours.

Already have clips on the timeline? Templates (top bar, or the bottom tools on a phone) puts any of these on them in one go, and one Undo takes it off. Everything a look adds is ordinary titles, shapes and clips you can change.

The other templates set up cuts, transitions and a mosh the same way.

Or open an example. They're made from footage drawn on your device, so there's nothing to import: open one and take it apart.

From scratch

1. New project, then Import your clips, photos and music, or drop them anywhere. Clips dropped into an empty project are melted straight away so there's something to look at; Undo takes it off.
2. Cut them together. Drag clips to reorder, drag their edges to trim, S splits at the playhead, right-click a clip for more.
3. Melt a cut. Click the + on a cut and pick Melt: the next shot's movement drags the last picture around until it resolves.
4. Mosh it more. Presets has ready-made stacks; Randomize rolls a new one; Add effect puts a single effect on the timeline as a bar you can move and resize. The effects page explains each one.
5. Add things right on the picture. Right-click it (hold it on a phone) for a title, a box, an arrow, a callout or a sticker exactly there, or to cut out what's there, mark it (it is followed), or put words behind it.
6. Export when it looks right: MP4, WebM, GIF, PNG frames or the raw broken AVI. Made for sets everything up for Reels, TikTok and Shorts (or YouTube, X, Discord…), up to 4K and 60 fps.

Tips

• Moshes are strongest when the second clip has lots of movement and the first has strong colours.
• For fast-paced edits, put a song on the timeline, then press Z for a zoom punch or H for a shake on every beat, and Speed ramp › On the beat for a velocity edit.
• The Chaos dial makes everything calmer or wilder without changing your settings.
• Snapshots keep versions you like; one is taken automatically before Randomize or a preset replaces your stack.
• Everything is saved on this device as you go. The logo takes you back to your projects.

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