Assistant Editor

The Assistant Editor turns a diarized transcript into a paper edit: describe what you want, and a model proposes which lines to keep, in what order. It's built to cut freely across several takes or interviews at once, not just trim one clip down.

Not the same thing as the Assistant

The Assistant is Kitly's chat panel, available in every mode, for setting up channels and generations. The Assistant Editor is unrelated: it's this sub-mode, and it only cuts video from a transcript.

Getting a transcript to cut from

The Assistant Editor needs an analyzed sequence to work with. If the open sequence hasn't been through Redub's import yet, you'll see a prompt to run New Redub first, since that's what splits, diarizes, and transcribes the speech this sub-mode edits against.

Sources

Your sequence's own transcript is always in the mix. Add other analyzed sequences from the Sources list to cut across them too, useful for multiple takes or a multi-camera interview. Once you've added more than a handful, a filter box appears above the list. The model sees every added source's transcript as one combined script and can pull lines from any of them.

Writing the brief

Two modes, switchable by tab:

Wizard walks you through Genre and Subgenre presets, four sliders (Comedy, Over the Top, Formality, Cut Frequency), a "never cut back-to-back to the same source clip" checkbox, an optional target duration, and a free-text "what is this about" field. Save the whole configuration as a named preset to reuse on the next video, though the free-text field is deliberately left out of a saved preset, since it's specific to one video rather than a reusable style.

Advanced is a plain-text prompt box, with an optional section for prepending or appending text around Kitly's own system prompt. These wrap Kitly's base instructions rather than replacing them, so the JSON contract the model needs to follow stays intact no matter what you add.

Generate produces a first draft. Once one exists, Revise applies your next note as a change request against it instead of starting over.

The script board

Kept lines sit in The Cut, in order, and can be dragged to reorder or removed with the × on each one. Anything not kept sits in Unused, struck through, with a + to bring it back. Each block shows its speaker, timecode, and duration, and expands to a per-word view where clicking a word moves the nearer trim handle to it, letting you tighten a line without retranscribing it.

A block pulled in from a different source sequence shows an edit source link, jumping straight to that sequence if the line itself needs fixing rather than just trimming.

Copy Script copies a clean read of the current cut. Copy Script Raw copies the full numbered listing exactly as it's sent to the model, timecodes and all, useful if you're debugging why a draft came out a certain way.

Iterations

Every draft you generate or revise stays in a strip along the top, so you can flip back to an earlier version without losing the current one. Each draft keeps the prompt that produced it.

Turning a cut into a real edit

Create Sequence materializes the current cut as a new Edit sequence, built from the kept blocks in order. The source sequence you cut from is untouched, so you can keep revising the Assistant draft and re-materialize it as many times as you like.