Example-matched editing

Give it a video you already like.
It copies how that video is made.

Upload any video edited the way you want yours to feel. Studio measures it — how long the shots run, how many words sit in a caption, where the editor cut, how hard the zooms push, the grade, the switch sounds, the music level — and applies those measurements to your footage.

Start free — 30 minutes included Compare it with your own edit

Seven things measured The craft is copied, never the content No frame of the example is used On Creator and above

The same screen also takes your own edit of the same footage, and compares the Studio's cut with yours. Two different uploads, two different jobs, both optional.

Measured from your example an example account

What is measured in the example video, and what it becomes in your video
What	Your example	Applied to you
Average shot length	4.1 s	4.1 s
Words per caption	3	3
Zoom strength	0.035	subtle
Music level	−22 dB	normal
Colour	warmer	warmer

The numbers are this page's worked example, in the shape the Studio records them. Your own measurement is written into your video's decisions as “example video measured and applied”, and the measurements are kept in the job's style.json beside the video.

What is measured

Seven measurements, and every one of them is about form.

Nothing here is about what the example says. The measurement is deliberately blind to its subject, because the subject is not what is being copied.

Pace How long shots and pauses actually last — measured, not estimated from how the video feels. the pause floor follows this project's pace

Captions Style, size and how many words sit on screen at once, read against the example's own speech. size scale · words per caption

Cuts Where the editor chose to cut and how often, which is what gives an edit its rhythm. average shot length

Zooms How hard the frame pushes in on a strong line: off, subtle, normal, or strong at 1.6× the format's own size. PUNCH — prefs.py:39

Colour grade Which of the six looks the example is closest to, measured from its picture rather than guessed from its genre. LOOK — prefs.py:44-47

Switch sounds and music level Whether transitions are sounded, and how far the music sits under the voice — low at −28 dB or normal at −22 dB. MUSIC_DB — prefs.py:42

It copies the craft, never the content

No shot, no line and no claim moves from the example into your video. The example is measured and then set aside: not one of its frames is rendered, not one of its words is transcribed into your captions, and nothing it asserts becomes something your video asserts. What crosses over is a set of numbers and a colour grade.

The example is a ruler, not a source

People ask whether the example ends up inside their video. It does not. It is uploaded as a video file, measured once, and from then on it is a row of measurements attached to the job — the kind of thing the Studio can quote when you ask why a shot ran for four seconds.

That is also why the example is safe to borrow from someone else's work that you admire: you are borrowing the timing, not the material.

Two uploads, and they are not the same thing

An example is a video edited the way you want yours to feel, and it is measured. Your own edit is your cut of the same footage, and it is compared with the Studio's cut of that footage. You can give one, both or neither.

In the upload form they are two separate boxes with two separate roles — example and reference — and both must be videos. studio/web.py:859-865 · HOW-TO-USE.md:29-31

Compare with your own edit

Upload your own cut of the same footage, and read the difference.

This is the reverse of an example: instead of telling the Studio what to copy, you show it what you would have done. It runs as its own stage, with the same name in the app — “Compare with your own edit” — and produces a comparison you can watch side by side.

Your edit against the Studio's an example job

A worked comparison of one person's edit and the Studio's edit of the same footage
What	Your edit	Studio
Length	31:20	27:10
Average shot	6.2 s	5.4 s
Retakes kept in	3	0

The comparison is written into the same decisions list as everything else, so the two edits can be read against each other line by line — not just watched.

If you preferred your own pace

A comparison is not a verdict. If your edit is the one that feels right, say so and the next version is cut closer to it.

Match your pace instead Keep the Studio's pace

Showing: the Studio's pace. Every message makes a new version, and the earlier ones stay.

"example": a video edited the way you want yours to feel -> measured: pace, captions, cuts, zooms, colour, sound "reference": your own cut of the same footage -> the "Compare with your own edit" stage, and a comparison video to watch both must be a video; either may be left empty

Field names quoted from the upload API — studio/web.py:859-865. The finished comparison is served from GET /studio/api/jobs/<jid>/compare, and the stage that makes it is studio/engine/pipeline.py:31.

The comparison costs nothing extra

You are charged for the footage you uploaded, once. Watching the two edits against each other, and asking for the pace to be matched, are revisions — and revisions are free.

Which plans include it

Example-matched editing is on Creator and above.

Both halves — measuring an example, and comparing with your own edit — arrive together on the Creator tier and stay on every tier above it. They are not on Free.

Example matching and comparison by plan
Plan	Edit it like an example	Compare with your own edit
Free	not included	not included
Creator	included	included
Pro	included	included
Studio Business	included	included

Prices, minutes and the rest of the honest limits are on the pricing page. If you are on Free and want to try it, the measurement itself is the cheapest way to see what Studio would change about your edit.

Editor's note

The example is the single most useful box on the upload form, and the one people skip. If you have ever said “I want it to feel like that channel does”, the example is how you say it without describing it.

How the whole edit works See it applied to your footage type

Where it stops

An example can only teach what it contains.

When the measurement is thin, the Studio says so in the decisions rather than quietly guessing. These are the cases worth knowing before you upload one.

An example with no speech

If nothing is spoken in the example, its caption behaviour cannot be read — there is no speech to time captions against. Studio measures what it can and leaves the caption style to your own preferences, and it writes that limitation into the decisions.

A very short example

A few seconds of footage is not enough to fit a pace to, and one cut is not a cutting rhythm. The measurement is limited, the Studio says so in the decisions, and the rest of the edit falls back to your preferences.

An example whose look you do not want

The grade is copied along with everything else. If the example is graded in a way that does not suit your footage, override it — name a look, or say “natural colours” in the chat, and the next version is drawn without it.

Measurements, not effects

Studio copies measurements, so a hand-built animation in the example — a drawn title, a custom transition — has nothing to copy from. Your cards use the Studio's own layouts. That is a real difference, and it is worth knowing before you choose an example that is mostly motion design.

Bring the video you wish yours felt like.

Upload it beside your footage and the first version comes back measured against it. Your first 30 minutes are free, and every revision after that is free too.

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The two boxes on the upload form

example	a video you want yours to feel like
reference	your own cut of the same footage

Both optional, both must be a video, and neither one is ever rendered into your finished file.

Give it a video you already like. It copies how that video is made.