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Make the whole video in TribeStudio

TribeStudio's new video editor: scenes, 50 original music tracks, 48 stickers, captions timed to your voice, and 1080p exports for every platform.

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Make the whole video in TribeStudio
The new TribeStudio video editor in a browser window, beside the words 'Make the whole video in TribeStudio.' The editor shows a landscape video of the Tono dam channel with a map pin sticker, a caption, and a timeline with scenes, stickers, captions, narration and music

TribeStudio now has a real video editor. Start from an idea, a script, your own footage or a recording; arrange scenes on a timeline; add titles, stickers, music and captions timed to your voice; and export a finished MP4 for TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts or YouTube — made by our own renderer, not by recording your screen.

ShippedIn TribeStudio on the web, for creators. Open Video editor in the TribeStudio menu. Projects are saved as you work, and your exports are kept for 30 days.

What is new at a glance

  • Projects that keep. Close the tab and come back: everything is where you left it.
  • Five ways to start — an idea, a script, footage, a recording or a blank project — and scenes you can plan, reorder, trim and replace.
  • A music library of 50 original instrumentals, searchable by mood, with previews.
  • 48 stickers to drag, resize, rotate and time.
  • Captions timed to your voice, in any language — including Kasem, when you supply the words.
  • Exports for every platform: vertical, square or landscape, 720p or 1080p, with a quick preview render first.
The TribeStudio video editor in a browser window. On the left, the tool rail and the Stickers panel. In the middle, the picture: the Tono dam irrigation channel with a map pin sticker, tilted and selected with its handles, and the caption below the Tono dam. On the right, the inspector for the selected sticker, with size, rotation, opacity and timing. Along the bottom, the timeline with rows for scenes (a title card, the photograph and an end card), text, stickers, captions, voice and music
The editor: tools on the left, the picture in the middle, the selected sticker's settings on the right, and every part of the video on the timeline. The photograph is the Tono dam channel by Apiu Akwojong Ezekiel (Wikimedia Commons, CC0).

Start however suits you

Choose New video and pick where to begin. From an idea: describe the video and the scenes are planned for you. From a script: paste your words and they are split into scenes exactly as you wrote them — the planner never changes them, and never invents Kasem. From footage: upload clips and pictures and each becomes a scene. From a recording: a song or a narration becomes the soundtrack, with scenes laid over it. Or start blank.

Scenes sit end to end on the timeline. Drag one to reorder it, drag its edge to trim it, split it at the playhead, and pick a transition for each cut: fade, flash, slide or wipe. Tap Replace on a scene to swap its picture without losing anything else. If you use AI video, each scene can be made or remade on its own, and the Continuity panel keeps people and places looking the same from scene to scene.

Music and stickers

Two panels from the editor side by side. On the left, Music: a search box, mood filters (Ambient, Cinematic, Educational, Playful, Promotional, Reflective, Suspenseful, Travel, Upbeat, Warm) with Travel selected, and tracks with play buttons, descriptions, length, tempo and a small waveform, each with an Add button. On the right, Stickers: a search box, categories (Arrows, Celebrations, Emphasis, Labels, Playful, Reactions, Travel) and a grid of colourful cut-out stickers. Beside them: 50 original instrumentals; Music that makes room; 48 stickers to place and time
The music library, filtered by mood, and the sticker library. Every track and sticker was made for Indigen World and checked before it was added.

The Music panel holds 50 original instrumentals in ten moods, from cinematic to warm to playful. Search by title, mood or style, press play to preview, and Add. On the timeline, drag the music to move it, trim either end, and set its volume and fades. While someone is speaking, the music dips on its own — you choose by how much in Sound.

The Stickers panel has 48 stickers: reactions, arrows, labels, celebrations, travel and more. Tap one to place it. Drag it on the picture to move it, use the corner to resize and the knob to rotate. In the inspector, set when it appears and leaves, and how: fade, pop or rise.

The music was made with Google's Lyria and the stickers with Google's image model, for Indigen World. That comes with a few conditions, shown in the editor under Conditions of use: they are AI-generated and carry an invisible watermark, they are not exclusive, and they are for videos you make in TribeStudio — so do not claim the music as your own composition or register it with a rights system such as Content ID.

Captions and lyrics, timed to the voice

Add a narration or a song, open Captions, and paste the words — a script or lyrics, in any language, Kasem included. They are timed to where the voice actually speaks. In English or French you can also leave the box empty and have the speech written down for you. Either way it is a first pass: every caption can be moved, split or retyped on the timeline, nudged by a tenth of a second, or re-timed by tapping along as it plays. Choose a style — a subtitle box, big bold words, karaoke that lights up each word as it is sung, or minimal.

Preview, then export

The export window over the dimmed editor, playing a finished landscape export at 0:06: the Tono dam channel with the map pin sticker and the caption below the Tono dam. Under the player: 4.5 MB, 1920 by 1080, 21.0 seconds, checked after rendering, with Download MP4 and Post to TribeStudio buttons. Below the window, three frames taken from the downloaded file: the title card Water for the dry season, the channel with the sticker and caption, and the closing card Thank you for watching
A finished 1080p export playing in the export window, and three frames taken from the downloaded file.

Preview render makes a quick, smaller version with the same renderer as the final export, so what you see is what you will get. When it looks right, Export: choose vertical (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, WhatsApp Status), square (feed posts) or landscape (YouTube and websites), 720p or 1080p, and standard or high quality. The sound is balanced to the loudness social platforms expect.

Exports run on our servers, so you can close the window and come back. When one is ready you can download the MP4 or post it to TribeStudio straight away. If something goes wrong, the editor says what and lets you try again.

Good to know

  • A video can be up to five minutes long.
  • Writing captions down from speech works for English and French. For Kasem, paste the words and the editor times them.
  • Each project keeps its three newest exports, and an export is removed after 30 days — download the ones you want to keep.
  • The editor works best on a computer or a tablet.
About the picturesThe screens are from the new editor, on a test project made for this post. The photograph is the Tono dam irrigation channel by Apiu Akwojong Ezekiel, from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). The narration in the test project was a generated voice. Its captions were written down and timed automatically; one misheard word ("Ton Yo" for Tono) was corrected by hand in the editor.
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