Editing
The Edit sub-mode is Kitly's timeline: a player, a media bin, and multi-track lanes for video and audio. It's the same document Storyboard, Assistant Editor, and Redub all work on, so a shot generated in Storyboard or a cut drafted by the Assistant Editor lands here as real clips.
The player
The player has no single video element sitting behind it. Two hidden video elements swap under the playhead as playback crosses from one source clip to another, so intercutting footage from different files never black-flashes between cuts. Audio plays through its own mix graph, not the video elements directly. A one-line subtitle shows the current clip's transcript, resolved from whichever analyzed sequence that footage originally came from, so subtitles keep working even for a clip dragged in from another sequence.
Media Bin
The left panel lists every video and audio asset in the project, with a search box and all / video / audio filter tabs. Import brings a file in from disk. Double-click an asset to append it to the end of the first lane that accepts its kind.
Tools
Three mutually exclusive tools, shown as buttons on the toolbar:
- Select (V): move clips, or drag an edge to trim within the media's own bounds.
- Blade (B or C): click a clip to cut it at that point.
- Roll (N): drag the cut between two adjacent clips; both sides adjust up to their own media limits.
Split (S) cuts every clip under the playhead at once, on whichever tool you're using. Delete removes the selection; select a gap instead of a clip and the button becomes a ripple delete, closing that gap and pulling everything after it earlier.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| V | Select tool |
| B / C | Blade tool |
| N | Roll tool |
| S | Split every clip at the playhead |
| Space | Play or pause |
| K | Pause |
| L | Play |
| Q / W | Trim the selected clip's start / end to the playhead |
| [ / ] | Nudge the selected clip's start (Shift for ×10) |
| , / . | Jump to the previous / next cut |
| Home / End | Jump to the start / end of the timeline |
| Del / Backspace | Delete the selection, or ripple-delete a selected gap |
These are scoped to Edit and are disabled while you're typing in a field.
Export
Export ▾ Media… renders the whole timeline to one video file. If a track has an effect from a plugin (no ffmpeg filter can stand in for it), that track's audio is pre-rendered through an offline audio engine before the render starts, since a plugin effect can only run there. Sequences using only Kitly's built-in effects skip that step and go straight through.
Export ▾ FCP XML… writes a Final Cut Pro 7 interchange file (the format Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut 7 all read), probing each distinct source file first, then asks where to save it.
Package
Package ▾ As Directory… and As Zip… bundle the FCP XML together with a copy of every media file the timeline references. A bare XML export points at absolute paths on your machine, which becomes a relinking problem the moment you hand it off. Package fixes that by carrying the media along. You pick the destination first; the copy runs as a job, since real footage can take a while.