Watch a Valmera edit: trim and reframe

The editing brief

Keep source seconds 3–7, 12–16 and 19–23, in that order. Remove the production slates and everything outside those ranges. Make a 1:1 square crop centered on the existing text and graphics. Keep the three headings readable. Leave the sample silent; add no captions, music, transitions or generated media. Render a preview, then create the final MP4 in Studio.

This brief records the instructions implemented in the connected editing session. An external assistant selected the source ranges and called Valmera’s MCP tools. It was not submitted as one Studio chat message.

The source is an original motion graphic made for this example. Its text, moving playhead and colored blocks already exist in the upload. Valmera performed the cuts and crop; the recording is not a screen capture of the editor.

What you see in the video

Each dark scene has a heading, a short supporting line and three geometric blocks under a moving playhead. The bottom timecode shows the position in the original source, so it jumps at the two cuts.

A small Valmera mark is visible near the upper-left corner during the content. The entire file is silent. No speech, music or sound effects were added.

What changed from the source

The edit removes 13 seconds from the source: the opening slate, reset, ending slate and unused portions of the first two content scenes. A fixed center crop removes the left and right edges while retaining the headings. It does not track a moving subject.

The preview and final are different encodes. This sample’s smaller final file does not imply that higher-resolution exports are generally smaller. The five-second ending is the measured result of this export, not a promise of a fixed ending length for every project.

How the result was made and checked

1. Upload the original MP4 into a new Valmera project and wait for analysis. The source was identified as 25 seconds, 1280 × 720, with no audio or transcript.
2. Read the existing edit, then keep source ranges 3–7, 12–16 and 19–23. Set the output to a centered 1:1 crop. These operations created edit versions 3 and 4.
3. Render the current version through MCP. Check the 12-second preview against the source ranges.
4. Open the same project in Studio and use Export MP4. Download the completed file and inspect its content and branding.

The full file decoded successfully: 510 frames at 30 fps. A frame comparison checked all 360 program frames against the expected source crops at a reduced analysis resolution. Nineteen sampled frames, including cut boundaries and the ending, were visually inspected. The complete decoded audio track contained silence.

Those checks establish this simple cut’s sequence, framing and delivery. They do not measure real-world speech accuracy, subject tracking, creative quality across different footage, render speed, reliability or competitor performance.

This is one observed account session. Its export includes an overlaid mark and an end card; it does not establish current free-plan access or watermark-free delivery. Check the current plans and your account’s export entitlement for your own project.