Clean
Straight cuts on the bar
Straight cuts on the bar, with the footage left free of effects.
Auto mode
Choose a song and clips. Auto mode cuts them to the music, leaving every clip editable on the timeline.
How it works
- 1
Pick a song
Use any audio file or a beat from the Library. DriftEdit analyses the tempo, bars, song sections and drop.
- 2
Pick a style and a length
30 to 60 seconds, from the drop or from the start, vertical by default.
- 3
Make the edit
DriftEdit checks clips and photos for sharpness, motion and subject position, then places the strongest moments on the hits.
- 4
Change anything
Every shot is an editable clip. Another take reshuffles the edit. Remake keeps edited shots and rebuilds the rest around them.
Seven styles
Each style below shows four bars of a drop, using the same cut pattern as the editor.
Cinematic
Long holds, slow push-ins
Holds shots across several bars, with slower playback in calm passages. Uses dissolves and a film grade.
Smooth
Transitions between shots
Cuts on the bar with dissolves, zooms, blurs and slides between shots.
Hype
Cuts on kicks, punch-ins on the drop
Cuts on every kick of the drop, with a bounce on each cut. Adds punch-ins at new sections and whip-pan transitions.
Velocity
Speed ramps into every hit
Speed ramps slow the footage on each kick of the drop and speed it up between kicks. Uses slower playback in calm passages, with zoom transitions and a vivid grade.
Chaos
Glitch and shake on the hits
Cuts on every kick, with short bursts of glitch, RGB split and shake on the hits.
Reverse
Reverse shots on the beat
Cuts on kicks, with reverse shots that zoom as they play. Adds rewinds on the beat and into the drop.
Hatched clips play in reverse. A notch marks a transition.
How the music shapes the edit
Cuts on the kicks
Cuts align with each kick's attack rather than a fixed tempo grid. Bars without a kick still get a cut.
Sections and the drop
Auto mode identifies the intro, build, drop, break and outro. Quieter sections hold shots for a bar with softer transitions; the strongest footage goes at the drop.
Speed, pulses and rewinds
Depending on the style, the edit adds zoom pulses on every kick of a drop, speed changes into hits and rewinds on the beat.
Adjust the beat and reuse analysis
When the beat is off
Some songs start with a pickup or are detected at half or double tempo. Adjust the tempo or first bar in the Auto panel before making the edit.
On your device
Song and footage analysis runs in the browser tab. Results are saved with each file, so later edits can reuse them.