Notes on cutting video
How the parts of this problem actually work - clip boundaries, reframing, transcripts - written for people who have to make the same decisions, whether or not they use this.
Clipping
Why automatically cut clips start mid-sentence
Most tools cut at the scored peak and pad it by a fixed number of seconds. That is why so many auto-cut clips open three words late - and the fix is the transcript.
Reframing
Crop or letterbox, and what each one throws away
Every tool that makes a landscape video vertical picks one of two strategies, neither free. What each costs, and how to tell which one your footage survives.