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ViPlay Studio

What it does today, and what's coming next.

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Ready now90Working in the editor now (+ 10 in Beta)
Coming next0Planned, free, running on the Mac
Later (cloud AI)0Needs a cloud AI service (API key)

Editing & timeline

Cut, arrange and fine-tune clips on a multi-track timeline.

  • Multi-track timelineVideo 1 (clips join up), overlay tracks for pictures, text and picture-in-picture, audio tracks.Ready
  • Split, trim, cut, duplicate, copy and pasteWith snapping, undo / redo and keyboard shortcuts (S, Q, W, ⌘D, ⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘V, Delete).Ready
  • Timeline zoom and scrollThe scale stays put as clips are added; zoom, Fit, ⌘ + scroll.Ready
  • Light and dark themeDark (default), Light, or match your computer: the button before Export.Ready
  • Whole-timeline previewPlays every clip, overlay and sound together, exactly as it exports.Ready
  • Canvas sizes16:9, 9:16 (Reels / Shorts), 1:1 and 4:5, on a color or transparent background.Ready
  • Move and resize on the previewDrag, resize from the corners (Shift: free), stretch from the sides, snap to the middle, nudge with the arrow keys.Ready
  • Skew, perspective, pivot and blend modesSkew and Perspective modes on the preview, a movable pivot, a corner-radius dot, the Transform panel (X / Y, W / H in px, scale X / Y, skew), blend modes like Screen and Multiply; width / height and skew can be animated with keyframes.Ready
  • Projects and My AssetsEverything saves automatically; reuse uploads in any project.Ready
  • Search tools (⌘K)Type what you want to do (a tool, a panel, a text style, a project, export) and press Enter.Ready
  • Versions and switching projectsSave a named version to come back to (restoring keeps what you had, ⌘Z undoes); the ▾ by the project name duplicates it or opens another project.Ready
  • Background tasks and focus modeOne top-bar list of exports, AI work, copies, uploads and imports with their progress; focus mode (F) hides the side panels for a big preview.Ready
  • Crop, rotate and flipPer clip, on the preview.Ready
  • Speed, reverse and freeze frameSlow motion, fast forward (0.25× to 4×), play backwards, hold a frame.Ready
  • Keyframes◆ at the playhead saves a clip's place, size, angle and opacity; it glides between keyframes (Ken Burns zoom, slides, fades).Ready
  • Shape masksRounded corners, circle and the round camera bubble, with a soft edge and a ring.Ready
  • Custom masksDraw your own mask shape, star, diamond and polygon, and animate it.Ready
  • Select many clipsMove, duplicate or delete several clips at once; close all gaps.Ready
  • Detach audioSplit a video's sound onto its own track.Ready
  • MarkersMark moments on the timeline and jump between them.Ready
  • Import from the webAdd media → Import: search Pexels and Pixabay (free stock videos) and bring a clip onto the timeline; search YouTube and import your own or Creative Commons videos.Ready
  • Blank scenesA plain color scene on Video 1 (like Google Vids): + at the end, then drag it anywhere; or right-click a clip. A title card, a pause, an end screen. Start a project with one.Ready

Record

Record yourself, your screen or your voice straight onto the timeline.

  • Record camera3-2-1 countdown, pause, a read-along script (teleprompter).Ready
  • Record screenA screen, window or tab, with your voice and the computer's sound.Ready
  • Screen + cameraTwo clips: your screen and you in a movable box.Ready
  • Record voiceoverStraight onto an audio track at the playhead.Ready

Text & titles

Titles, lower thirds, news bars and captions.

  • Titles and lower thirdsTitle, lower third, breaking-news bar, caption and plain text; fonts, colors, boxes.Ready
  • Text and picture animationsFade, slide and rise, in and out.Ready

Audio & voice

Music, voiceover, sound clean-up and mixing.

  • Music and sound clipsVolume, fades, mute and lock per track.Ready
  • Quieter music under speechAutomatic ducking in the exported video.Ready
  • Remove silencesFinds the pauses in speech and cuts them in one step.Ready
  • Text to speechType a script, pick a voice (Mac voices, free and offline, or ✦ Gemini voices in 130 languages with a style you describe), add it as a voiceover.Ready
  • Remove background noiseCleans hum, hiss and room noise from a clip's sound.Ready
  • Ducking you can hear in the previewMusic goes quieter under speech while you edit, too.Ready
  • Loudness levellingOne even volume for the whole video (EBU R128 standard).Ready
  • Music libraryStarter music beds made on this Mac, plus your own music folder, by mood.Ready
  • Sound effectsWhooshes, clicks, pops, dings, applause and more.Ready

Background

Remove, blur or replace what's behind you.

  • Green / blue screen removalFinds the color by itself; spill and edge controls.Ready
  • Black background removalFire, sparks and smoke shot on black.Ready
  • AI background removalNo green screen needed: people or the main object (Apple Vision, on this Mac).Ready
  • Blur backgroundKeeps you sharp and softly blurs what's behind you.Ready
  • Replace backgroundPut yourself in front of a picture, video or studio set.Ready
  • Studio setsNews desk, office, classroom and gradient backgrounds.Ready

AI tools

Smart helpers that do the slow work for you.

  • Watermark & logo removerRemove, blur or cover a logo, a face or a number plate: draw a box over it.Ready
  • Auto Highlights & Recap✦ Gemini detects top engaging moments, viral hooks, and extracts clips from transcript.Ready
  • AI settings: your own API keysAI Tools → Settings: add, check, switch off or remove a key for Gemini (Grok and OpenAI keys can be saved; their features are coming). No key or off: those features stay off.Ready
  • Grok pictures and videosGrok Imagine with your xAI key, next to Gemini.Beta: Grok pictures are real; Grok video is a preview placeholder for now.Beta
  • Auto colorFixes color and light by itself.Ready
  • Enhance qualitySharper picture: light sharpening, and Lanczos enlarging when you export bigger.Ready
  • Stabilize videoRemoves camera shake.Ready
  • Remove video noise (grain)Cleaner dark, grainy footage.Beta: Opens Enhance (sharpening) for now; a real grain-removal filter for video is planned.Beta
  • Smart crop (auto reframe)Reframes a wide video for 9:16 Shorts / Reels, following the face it finds (runs in the browser).Ready
  • Generate video✦ Gemini Veo 3.1: a 4–8 second clip with sound from words, or starting from your picture. The price shows before you click.Ready
  • Generate image✦ Gemini Flow: high-definition visual generation and prompt remix.Ready
  • Generate background✦ Gemini Flow: describe a 3D scene, newsroom or studio set.Ready
  • Text to video✦ Gemini + Veo: transform stories and scripts into cinematic video.Ready
  • AI avatar✦ Gemini: a presenter picture for your video.Beta: Makes a still picture of a presenter. Talking, moving avatars need a paid avatar service (planned).Beta
  • Voice clone✦ Gemini voices with a speaking style you describe.Beta: Opens Text to speech with Gemini voices. Cloning your own voice is not available yet.Beta
  • Translate audio (dubbing)✦ Gemini: hears the speech, translates it and speaks it in another language on a new track, with the original ducked underneath. Hindi ↔ English and 20+ languages.Ready
  • Remove objectCovers a logo or object with a blend of the pixels around it.Beta: A blur-style cover box you can move and resize, not AI inpainting. Best for small static logos.Beta
  • Extend video✦ Gemini Veo: seamlessly extend scene duration with generative continuation.Ready
  • Upscale to HD / 4KA sharper, larger copy of the clip (1080p or 4K) made with high-quality Lanczos scaling and light sharpening on this computer.Ready
  • Generate effects✦ Gemini: a generated picture to use as an effect layer.Beta: Makes a still picture with Gemini; animated effects are not generated yet.Beta
  • Replace sky✦ Gemini: a generated sky or background picture.Beta: Generates a background picture; the sky in your video is not detected and swapped automatically yet.Beta
  • Generate B-roll✦ Gemini: cutaway pictures that match what is said.Beta: Makes still pictures. Video B-roll comes from Generate video (Veo) or stock footage.Beta

Subtitles & transcript

Automatic subtitles and editing by text.

  • Auto subtitles✦ Gemini writes what is said, with times, in 20+ languages (Hinglish too); they land as normal text on their own track. Download .srt / .vtt.Ready
  • Subtitles offlineSubtitles without sending sound to Google.Beta: Not real speech recognition yet: it places sample lines to style and time. Use ✦ Gemini subtitles for real words.Beta
  • Edit by transcriptDelete words in the text to cut the video; remove “um” and “uh”.Ready
  • Styled captionsWord-by-word highlight styles for Reels and Shorts (Bounce, Karaoke, Glow, Box).Ready
  • Translate subtitles✦ Gemini: your subtitles in another language, on a track of their own.Ready

Effects & color

Looks, color and visual effects.

  • Color correctionBrightness, contrast, saturation, temperature.Ready
  • Looks (filters)One-click vivid, warm, cool, cinematic, black & white, vintage, fade and night.Ready
  • VignetteDarker corners that pull the eye to the middle.Ready
  • Glow and film grainFinishing touches for a film feel.Ready
  • Blur and pixelateHide faces, number plates or screens.Ready

Transitions

Smooth changes from one clip to the next.

  • Crossfade and dissolveSoft blend from one clip to the next.Ready
  • None (a plain cut)Take a transition off a cut, or off every cut on Video 1.Ready
  • Slide, push and wipeDirectional moves between clips.Ready
  • Zoom and spinEnergetic transitions for social media.Ready

Elements

Shapes, stickers and ready-made graphics.

  • Shapes and linesBoxes, circles, stars, frames, numbered steps, lines, arrows, highlighters and dividers: your colors, outline and thickness.Ready
  • Stickers and emojis27 stickers drawn by the app (bursts, bubbles, tags, icons) and 400+ emoji with search.Ready
  • News graphics“LIVE”, “BREAKING” and “REC” badges, a progress bar that fills as the video plays, a scrolling ticker, and your logo in a corner.Ready

Brand kit

Your logo, colors and fonts everywhere.

  • Logo and watermarkYour logo on every video: a corner, or drag it anywhere on the preview. Drop any picture on the preview to place it like a logo.Ready
  • Brand colorsYour colors next to every text color picker.Ready
  • Your own fontsUpload your brand font.Ready
  • Intro and outroSaved opening and ending clips.Ready
  • Several brand kitsOne kit per client or channel, switched in one click.Ready

Templates

Ready-made projects to start from.

  • News templatesNews presenter, breaking news, live broadcast, headline card, interview, weather report.Ready
  • YouTube templatesIntro, countdown intro, end screen, top 5 list, vlog title.Ready
  • Social media templatesShorts / Reels, Instagram post, quote card, story, sale offer, podcast clip.Ready
  • Business templatesCompany update, product launch, event invite, we're hiring, product demo, explainer.Ready
  • More templatesGaming, weather maps, and templates you save yourself.Ready

Export & share

Files for YouTube, social media and websites.

  • MP4 video (recommended)H.264 + AAC for YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. The default format.Ready
  • More export formatsMP4 (HEVC, AV1), WebM (VP9), ProRes 422 HQ; see-through WebM (VP9 + alpha), MOV (HEVC + alpha), ProRes 4444; GIF; PNG / JPG of a frame; MP3, M4A, WAV.Ready
  • Transparent website videoWebM for Chrome, HEVC MOV for Safari, poster, embed code and a test page.Ready
  • ProRes masterHigh-quality file for other editors.Ready
  • Export presetsOne click for YouTube 16:9, Shorts / Reels 9:16 and square.Ready
  • GIF exportShort loops for chats and slides (up to 30 s, 15 fps, 640 px wide).Ready
  • Size estimate for every projectKnow the file size before you export.Ready
  • Share link and YouTube uploadSend a preview link or a website embed.Beta: YouTube upload is a simulation until Google sign-in for YouTube is set up; the share link works on this computer and network.Beta