Create · video editorIn developmentWindows build first

From a Quick Reel
to a Graded Film.

Create is Avlory's video editor. Easy is as simple as a phone editor; Pro opens the full timeline, colour, sound mix and effects, on the same project. Captions are made on your device, exports never carry a watermark, and every edit is saved as you make it in one .avvideo file. Every demo below runs in your browser; the screens are from Create itself, and every number says how it was measured.

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • iOS
  • Android
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01 · Timeline

Cut it fast. Undo it exactly.

A multi-track timeline with magnetic snapping and the full set of tools: trim and ripple trim, roll, slip, slide, razor and split, speed and ramps, keyframes, fades and transitions. Every edit is journalled as you make it, so a crash loses at most the edit being made, and every undo is exact. Drag a clip's edge to trim it, split at the playhead, or press Play.

00:00:00:00
Tools

Pick a clip on the timeline.

History
  1. No edits yet.

S and Del are Create's own keys. Trims go to the playhead. Video 1 is magnetic: when a clip there gets shorter or goes, the clips after it close the gap.

Main 16:9
Video 1
Titles
Audio 1

Click the ruler or drag the playhead; with the keyboard, focus the ruler and use the arrow keys (Shift for a second). Pick a clip, then use the tools or their keys.

4.3–4.4 msa frame while scrubbing, decoded for the first time, at viewer size (640 × 360)
1.3–1.5 msthe same frame once it's decoded
0.7–0.9 msto open a 1280 × 720 video and a WAV and read what's in them
4,000random edits in a test, each undone back to exactly where it started

Measured 30 October 2026 in Create's 4-core Linux build container, release build, on the processor (Create's viewer draws on the processor for now; a graphics-card viewer is planned for 4K). Opening was measured in the first build, scrubbing again after the parity pass, back to back with the build before it. Windows' own decoders aren't measured yet. The 4,000-edit test is tests/fuzz.rs. cargo test --workspace -- --nocapture in avlory_video_core

Create in Pro: Media with beach.mp4, city.mp4 and score.wav, the viewer at 00:00:01:15 in 16:9 at 1920 by 1080 and 30 fps, the Clip inspector with position, size, turn and opacity keyframes, and the timeline with Video 1, Video 2, Titles, Audio 1 and Music tracks and the tool bar above it.
Pro with the timeline, from Create's screen tests. The test footage is drawn gradients.
02 · Export and posting

The right file for where it's going.

Presets and AV1 export: first buildDirect posting: waiting for each platform

Presets for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, UpNext and your computer, with a pre-flight check before anything is written, and AV1 for the smallest files. No watermark is ever added. Pick a preset and a length to see the estimated file size.

    Timeline

    Sizes come from each preset's target bit rates, so they're an estimate: the real size depends on the footage.

    FootageOpened byNote
    H.264, H.265 (HEVC), AACThe operating systemPatent-pool formats are decoded only by the system, never by Create's own FFmpeg. On Windows without the HEVC extension, Create names Microsoft's free one with a button to the Store. Compiled for Windows, not run there yet; macOS and phones come later.
    AC-3, E-AC-3The operating systemThe same rule.
    AV1, VP9, OpusCreate's FFmpeg componentAn LGPL build from Avlory's own recipe, every source SHA-256-checked, loaded at run time and never linked.
    PNG, JPEG, WAV, FLAC, Y4M, MJPEG AVICreate's own readersNo component needed.
    41.5 fpsexport 1920 × 1080 with sound to AV1 and AAC (MP4)
    42.0 fpsthe same to AV1 and Opus (WebM)
    20.0 fpsthe same to Create's own MJPEG AVI, which needs no encoder

    Measured 30 October 2026 in the 4-core Linux build container, release build, with SVT-AV1 at preset 8 in Create's own FFmpeg build. The picture was a simple test pattern, so real footage will be slower. Windows' own H.264 and H.265 encoders aren't measured yet.

    Posting waits on each platform

    • Direct posting is built into the Post panel, but every destination says “Waiting for approval” until its platform approves Avlory's app. Meanwhile, Export for it makes the right file.
    • UpNext's video service, which posting to UpNext needs, isn't built yet; its limits here are proposed.
    • Sign-in keys for each platform will live only in your system's keychain, never in a file or on Avlory's servers.
    Create's home screen: Your footage stays on this computer, no account check while you edit, no watermark, no upgrade prompts. New project in Widescreen 16:9 for YouTube, Vimeo and film, Vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, Square 1:1 for feeds, or Portrait 4:5 for Instagram and Facebook, with an Easy and Pro switch.
    Start a project in the shape its destination wants, from Create's screen tests.
    03 · Colour

    Grading built in, with scopes.

    Exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature and tint; lift, gamma and gain wheels with level sliders; a master curve; .cube LUTs with a strength; and a waveform and vectorscope of the frame at the playhead. Drag a wheel's dot to tint the shadows, midtones or highlights, and watch the scope.

    Lift
    Gamma
    Gain

    Drag a dot, or focus a wheel and use the arrow keys. Double-click or press 0 to centre it.

    LUTs

    First build

    .cube, 3D up to 129 points or 1D, with a strength. A damaged LUT is refused, not half-loaded.

    Masks and keys

    First build

    Ellipse and rectangle masks, feathered and keyframed; green or blue screen with spill removal.

    Stabilise and track

    Partly

    Stabilisation shifts and zooms; a followed point carries text or a sticker. Rotation, planar tracking and subject masks come later.

    HDR

    Not yet

    HDR footage shows and exports as standard range, with a note when it comes in. Exports are tagged BT.709.

    6.3–6.8 msa scrubbed frame with a LUT, a soft mask and a green-screen key on the shot

    Measured 30 October 2026 in the 4-core Linux build container, release build, on the processor, at viewer size (640 × 360). The scopes are drawn on the processor too.

    Create in Pro with the Colour inspector: scopes at the playhead with Waveform and Vectorscope, and the basics: Exposure 0.00 EV, Contrast, Saturation 100%, Temperature and Tint.
    The Colour inspector, from Create's screen tests. The scope is empty in the test because the test engine draws no frames.
    04 · Sound

    Loud enough, everywhere it plays.

    Create mixes through the same audio engine as Avlory Sound: volume, pan, mute and solo, fades, an EQ, a compressor and a noise gate per track, and a loudness meter. Each social preset brings the export to the loudness that platform plays at. Mark the music to duck under the dialogue, then pick where it's going.

    Going to

    An example mix with example meter readings, to show what normalising does. Create's meter measures the real thing (BS.1770, EBU R128).

    Send dialogue to Voice

    First build

    A clip's sound becomes a .voice file; bring the cleaned version back and it sits under the clip, with the clip's own sound turned off.

    Music from Sound

    First build

    Sound's render or its stems come in as WAV or FLAC, a track per stem.

    Loudness per destination

    First build

    −14 LUFS with peaks under −1 dBTP for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and UpNext; −16 for Vimeo; the computer presets keep your mix. You can change it.

    Pitch kept at any speed

    First build

    Sped-up or slowed sound can keep its pitch, and playback sounds the same as the export.

    Create in Easy on a 9:16 timeline: the viewer at 1080 by 1920, a Summer in Lisbon title on the Titles track, and score.wav on Audio 1 under the clips, with the Music track below.
    Easy on a vertical timeline, a title over the clips and the score under them, from Create's screen tests.
    05 · Captions and AI

    Suggestions, never silent changes.

    Captions are made from speech on your computer, by the same Whisper model Voice uses. Silences, scene cuts and filler words come as suggestions in a review panel: nothing changes until you accept, which is one undo and a line in the project's list of AI changes. Edit by text: pick words in the transcript and cut them from every track at once.

    beach.mp4 · captions from speech

    Each word is a button: pick words to cut them yourself. Dotted words are filler-word suggestions.

    AI suggestion

    Ticked words are cut from every track and the captions; one undo puts them back.

    AI changes in this project

      On your computer

      First build

      The speech model downloads once, with your say-so and its size shown first, and is checked against Avlory's published SHA-256 before every use.

      SRT and WebVTT

      First build

      Captions in and out, on their own track, as one undoable edit.

      Quick cuts

      First build

      Remove silences, cut at scene changes, cut every 2 s, split at the playhead: each reviewed before anything changes.

      Find anything

      First build

      Ctrl+K searches about 120 commands, tools and effects, each with its shortcut.

      Create with an AI suggestion panel above the timeline: Silences, 2 found. Ticked pauses are cut from the clip and the gaps closed; one undo puts them back. Two ticked pauses at 00:00:00:15 for 1.0 s and 00:00:02:15 for 0.5 s, with Untick all, Dismiss and Accept 2.
      Silences found, waiting for review, from Create's screen tests.
      06 · Versions and editing together

      Try another cut. Keep the one you like.

      Versions: first buildEditing together: testing relay only

      Sprout, Avlory's version control, is built into Create. Footage goes into Sprout's big-file store, so a folder with gigabytes of footage stays small; a copy fetches only the clips it opens. Compare two versions on the timeline: changed clips are outlined and removed ones show as red ghosts.

      • Changed
      • Added
      • Removed
      Versions

      Pick two to compare, or compare one with now.

        Try a different cut

        First build

        On its own line: switch to it, keep it (it comes into the line you're on) or drop it. The last versions action can be undone.

        Go back safely

        First build

        Going back to a version saves what was there as a version first.

        Edit together

        Testing relay

        Faces on the clip each person is on, locks on the project, a timeline or a clip, and undo that takes back only your own edits.

        Footage on demand

        Testing relay

        Footage travels sealed through the relay's store, and each editor fetches only the clips they open. A dropped connection loses nothing.

        Editing together runs on a testing relay

        • Two people editing one project is tested through a testing relay only, and every panel says so. The real relay behind Avlory ID, with invited people checked by the server, isn't built yet.
        • Footage between versions on different computers needs Sprout hosting; a plain Git remote carries only the pointers. That hasn't been run against a Sprout server yet.
        The Versions (Sprout) dialog in Create: Save a version on main, Try a different cut with a no-music line to Switch, Keep or Drop, footage and sharing to Sprout hosting, and three versions by Ana, each 0:12 long: Music under the titles, Tighter intro and First cut, with Compare the two.
        Versions through Sprout, from Create's screen tests.
        The Edit together dialog in Create: a testing-relay-only note, Joined Ben Ode's project, an invite link, Ben Ode on beach.mp4 at 0:02, Lock the whole project and Lock this timeline, and the footage list with Fetch for beach.mp4, city.mp4 and score.wav.
        Joined someone's project on the testing relay: footage comes when you open a clip. From Create's screen tests.
        Status

        Where Create is today.

        In development. Easy and Pro, the timeline, colour, the mix, captions, export, versions and editing together are in the first build, which comes to Windows first; phones follow on the same engine, and the browser later. Downloads open through the waitlist.

        Tested

        • On a Linux build container with 4 processor cores.
        • 72 engine tests and 36 app tests, including 4,000 random edits with exact undo, the journal after a crash, damaged media and project files, and every AI tool changing nothing until accepted.
        • Create's own FFmpeg build: AV1 written and read back, and H.264 refused with the codec named.
        • The Windows engine compiled, and its C interface run under wine.

        Not tested yet

        • Windows' own decoders and its H.264 and H.265 export.
        • The Windows app build and its installer.
        • Anything at 4K, and a graphics-card viewer, which isn't built yet.
        • Direct posting, which waits on each platform's approval.
        • macOS, iOS and Android builds.

        • No feature moves up a tier

          A saved project always opens and exports, even after a plan ends.

        • Never locked out offline

          A failed licence check never stops editing or export.

        • AI never changes work silently

          Every AI change is a visible, undoable suggestion in the AI ledger.

        • Free to start

          Plans and prices are announced at launch. All the promises

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