The new darker UI brings several quality-of-life improvements to your production workflow. This article describes the most important ones:
- Managing live monitoring and live clipping simultaneously, without losing a moment
- A more intuitive and powerful version of exclusion zones
- New capabilities for caption and subtitle editing, translation, and multi-format rendering
- A new toolkit for video scene detection, editing, and layout reformatting
- New AI-powered automatic scene reframing
- A centralized hub for livestream features, now hosting the restream feature
Switching between live monitoring and live clipping
With the legacy editor, you could monitor your live signal, then switch to work on your clip, then switch back to monitoring - so one thing at a time, and potentially lose important moments in the live signal while you were working on your clip.
With the new editor, now you can monitor your live signal and work on your clip at the same time, from the same screen.You can preview the live signal, view the ribbon below it, and create your clip selection without losing coverage.
While previewing the signal and the decorator ribbon beneath it, click the left curly-brace button (or press I) to set an IN point and start a clip. The signal keeps playing while you build your selection — you'll see the clip's duration grow in the top-right corner.
When you're ready, click the right curly-brace button (or press O) to set an OUT point. This plays back the last few seconds of your clip. Press play again to keep watching the live signal from that OUT point forward, while you continue working on the clip's metadata and template in the Publish panel.
This is the biggest quality-of-life improvement in the new editor: you can cut the IN and OUT points and fill in a clip's metadata without ever missing a moment of your live signal.
A button at the bottom right of the ribbon shows how far behind live you currently are. If you jump back earlier in the timeline, this indicator updates to reflect the gap. Click the button again to jump straight back to the live signal — or, if you want to catch every moment, jump to your OUT point, press play, and fast-forward until you're caught up. As you scrub through content, the "behind live" estimate decreases accordingly.
If you create a long clip while continuing to watch live, your clip selection will gradually scroll out of view in the ribbon. To refocus on the clip you're building without tracking the live signal, click the re-center button to fit your selection back into view.
Clip Studio's decorator ribbon
The decorator ribbon has moved. In the legacy editor it sat horizontally above the preview; in the new editor it's positioned vertically to the right hand side, giving you a larger preview canvas.
Exclusion Zones that used to appear in the ribbon, have been removed from this location, since the experience has changed significantly in the new UI (see the following section).
Working with exclusion zones
Exclusion zones now live inside the clip itself, in the player ribbon, and are tied to scene editing.
To create an exclusion zone:
- Click the scissor button (or press S) to create a cut. This creates a scene boundary.
- Repeat to add further cuts and scenes as needed.
- Above each scene, choose to either merge through the cut (undoing it) or mark the scene as an exclusion zone. Click the exclusion zone icon (eye icon) to remove that scene from your content. When the clip plays back, it will skip from one remaining scene to the next.
You can also add transitions directly from this view, so you can decide what to remove from your content without leaving the main editor. To restore a removed scene, remove the exclusion zone and merge through the cut again.
Working with captions and subtitles
Caption and subtitle editing in the new UI is built on the AI live transcription introduced earlier this year.
AI live transcriptions
Live transcription — with automatic language detection or a targeted source language — generates a running script of everything said on screen. You'll find it in the Captions tab on the right side of the editor. Text corresponding to your current clip selection appears in plain white.
From the Captions tab, you can:
- Highlight a text extract to create a new clip selection from it
- Highlight unwanted text and click the eye icon to remove it — this creates a corresponding exclusion zone on the player ribbon
Automatic caption mode
Live transcription also powers on-screen captions and subtitles automatically.
If you spot a spelling mistake, select the incorrect word or sentence, use the edit pencil, and update it — the correction is reflected in the captions automatically.
Caption reflow now adapts to different aspect ratios: switching to a portrait layout shows fewer words on screen at a time than the original landscape layout, keeping captions readable at any ratio. Animation styles are also available, including word-accurate karaoke-style highlighting.
Translation
Transcriptions and captions can now be translated. At the top of the Captions tab, select the original transcription or one of the available language translations to burn in instead.
Translations support the same editing tools as the original: excluding sentences, correcting words, and word-by-word karaoke highlighting.
Manual caption mode
Automatic paging works well for quick clips, but when caption quality is critical — for professional publishing, accessibility compliance, or branded content — manual control is available. The new clip editor still includes a manual subtitle editor, giving you full control over where each subtitle page starts and ends and precise in/out timestamps, just as in the legacy editor.
To activate manual mode, click the Edit subtitles icon in the clip editor's vertical toolbar.
Subtitle editing mode is set per clip: once you choose manual or automatic mode for a clip, all further edits to that clip use the same mode, and the other mode is disabled.
Automatic scene detection
Every instance of Clip Studio now includes an Auto button that analyzes your content and creates scene cuts wherever a shot change occurs. If a detected cut isn't right, merge through it, or add your own cuts manually with the scissor button.
Reframing to multiple formats
The process for creating alternate aspect ratios has been overhauled.
Assisted manual reframing
- Click the blue bar above your clip to open the layout options.
- Choose a layout preset — for example, a blurred background fill.
- For a split view, enable it to show the full image in one frame and a focused crop (for example, on a specific speaker) in another. You can duplicate the image across frames as needed.
This gives you full control over what appears on screen, scene by scene, so you can shape the story you want to tell.
You can also apply keyframes to reframed shots — for example, a slow zoom in on a speaker — for full control over how each frame evolves over time.
Automated reframing
For faster results, the AI add-on AutoReZone for Clips can analyze your content and suggest vertical layouts automatically.
Clicking the same Auto button that you used for automatic scene detection now both detects scene cuts and suggests a layout for each one — for example:
- A single speaker on screen results in a full-height crop
- Two speakers on screen results in a side-by-side layout
- Some scenes result in a stacked (one-above-the-other) layout
If a suggested layout places captions poorly, select the cc viewport in the scene layout editor tab and reposition them.
Every AI-generated suggestion — captions, translations, or auto-reframed layouts — can be overridden and adjusted so the final result matches the story you want to tell.
Clip safe zones
The new editor also includes a title-safe zone indicator, which shows you where content might conflict with on-screen UI elements on social platforms. Click the grid icon to display a red mask over the areas typically occupied by buttons and icons on the most popular mobile platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts).
Audio segment edition
The legacy editor's Audio Chunk Edition feature has been refreshed and offers a much better experience in the new clip editor.
To adjust the volume for the entire clip, or fade in/fade out at the clip boundaries, type Shift+E or right-click anywhere in the clip's audio waveform and select Edit audio segment to open the audio segment editor.
To split your audio track into two or more segments:
- Move the playhead to the frame where the audio track should split.
- Click the audio waveform icon in the player ribbon menu, or type Shift+S.
This splits the audio track into two segments at the playhead position. The selected segment is highlighted with a green frame. - Each individual segment can be edited with Shift+E or right-clicking anywhere in the segment's audio waveform.
Restream
Restream is available to users whose profile has the Enable live streaming permission.
With the Legacy editor, starting a restream session required the following steps:
- Open the live clipping editor and preview the live signal.
- At the bottom, choose to mark an area, create a clip, or go live. The Live button offers Restream without Edition or Restream with Edition.
- After the session, the stream recording appears in the CMS alongside your clips and reels.
There was no dedicated place to manage restream sessions across their lifecycle (created, broadcast test, streaming in progress, completed).
With the new editor, Restream now lives in the Studio Hub, alongside the other streaming features: live production and live channel management.
In the left-hand menu, click the Studio Hub icon. You'll see up to three tabs at the top: Restream, Liverooms (Live Studio), and Channels (Channel Studio) — the latter two only appear if they're included in your agreement.
From the Restream tab, you can create a restream session
- give it a name
- choose whether it runs with or without edition
- choose which signal it draws from
- Click Create to open the same restream session interface used in the legacy experience
Every session you create is saved here, so you can return to see your test broadcasts and track their status: prepared, live, or finished. The Studio Hub gives you a single place to view and configure all your restreams. All terminated restream sessions are also still visible in your Clip Studio's clip management section.