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Edit and finish AI-generated video for social formats

Assemble generated clips, voiceover, music and captions into publish-ready Reels, Shorts and ad creatives in CapCut, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve: hooks in the first three seconds, pacing, aspect ratios, subtitles, and exports that pass a brand check.

~20 focused hoursbeginner
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Market relevance

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You should be able to…

  1. Assemble AI-generated clips, voiceover and music into a Reel or Short that hooks in the first 1–3 seconds and holds retention to the end
  2. Cut to the voiceover and the beat: trim dead frames, tighten pacing, and hide generation seams with cuts, speed ramps and transitions
  3. Add burned-in captions and on-screen text in the brand's font and colours, kept inside the safe zones of Instagram and YouTube
  4. Do the sound pass: music bed under the VO, SFX on the action, levels balanced and ducked so speech is always intelligible on a phone
  5. Produce format variants of one edit — 9:16 Reel, 1:1 feed, 16:9 YouTube — and 15-second ad cutdowns without re-editing from scratch
  6. Run a brand check before export: logo placement, colour, typography, no leftover AI artifacts in the final frame, correct end card and CTA
  7. Export to platform specs (resolution, bitrate, file size, loudness) and deliver several finished pieces a day to a deadline
  8. Combine AI clips with stock, screen recordings or live footage when a generation is not good enough, and know when that is the better call

Needs first: Produce video and images with generative AI tools

Learn — free, link-checked

The few resources that matter

Read · beginner · 20 min · elevenlabs.io

ElevenLabs Text to Speech product guide

Explains voice choice, model choice, and the stability, similarity and speed settings for a natural voiceover. Practise a short passage first to judge delivery and credit use before voicing the full script. — ElevenLabs docs
Watch · beginner · 22 min · youtube.com

How to Add Text in DaVinci Resolve 21 - Easy Motion Graphics Tutorial

Titles, animated text and lower-thirds in Resolve — the typography and motion-graphics polish that separates a finished ad from a raw generation. — Casey Faris
Watch · beginner · 31 min · youtube.com

How to Make Your First AI Short Film (Full Tutorial)

One end-to-end pass from script to stills to image-to-video clips to voiceover and a cut — the exact loop Indian AI-content ads describe as 'raw script to finished output', using tools with free tiers. — ElevenLabs
Watch · beginner · 84 min · youtube.com

Making Videos in Resolve 21 - Full Course for Beginners

A single sitting that takes you from import to export in the free DaVinci Resolve — cut timing, audio, titles, delivery — taught by the most-watched Resolve educator; the pro-NLE fundamentals ads ask for beyond CapCut. — Casey Faris
Watch · beginner · 90 min · youtube.com

CapCut 101: Start Editing with Confidence

CapCut's official short lessons on captions and text, audio, transitions, colour and keyframes — the fastest path to a publishable Reel in the free editor most Indian social teams actually use; watch the caption, audio and transition episodes first. — CapCut
Course · intermediate · 120 min · blackmagicdesign.com

DaVinci Resolve official training (free books and lessons)

Blackmagic's free Beginner's Guide to DaVinci Resolve 20 PDF plus video lessons with project files (Introduction to Editing, Colour, Audio, Sound Design) and free certification exams — the deep dive when you want colour and audio to pass a brand check. — Blackmagic Design
Tools for practice

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Adobe Premiere

Video

Organise an edit and export versions for different aspect ratios and delivery needs.

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Canva

Images · Plan & explain

Create consistent visual assets and presentation layouts from a simple brand brief.

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Practice

Reels, Shorts and ad cutdowns finished from AI-generated clips

Take the clips, voiceover and brand sheet from your generative-media project (or any 8–12 clips you generate on free tiers) and finish them into a publish-ready campaign: a 30–45 second 9:16 Reel with a three-second hook, a 1:1 feed version, a 16:9 YouTube version and a 15-second ad cutdown. Do the full sound pass, burn in captions in the brand's type, and put every export through a written brand checklist before you call it done. Use CapCut or DaVinci Resolve, both free.

Start from

Your own AI-generated clips, ElevenLabs voiceover and brand sheet from the generative-media-production project — or 8–12 clips you generate today on the Google Flow, Kling or Runway free tiers

Milestones
  1. Build the 9:16 rough cut: order the shots, cut to the voiceover, and test three different first-three-second hooks · ~4h
  2. Sound pass: music bed, SFX on the action, voiceover levels and ducking so speech is clear on a phone speaker · ~3h
  3. Captions and typography: burned-in subtitles in the brand font and colours, inside Instagram and YouTube safe zones · ~3.5h
  4. Format variants: reframe to 1:1 and 16:9, then cut a 15-second ad version with a CTA end card · ~4h
  5. Brand check and export: write the checklist, export all four to platform specs, fix what the checklist catches · ~2h
Done when
  • Four exports exist — 9:16 Reel, 1:1 feed, 16:9 YouTube and a 15-second cutdown — each at correct resolution and under the platform's file-size limit
  • The Reel's first three seconds contain a hook (motion, text or question) and the edit is cut on the voiceover with no dead frames longer than a second
  • Captions are burned in, in the brand's font and colours, and stay clear of the Reels and Shorts UI safe zones in every variant
  • A brand checklist (logo, colours, typography, artifacts, end card, loudness) is filled in for every export, with at least two issues it caught and the fix
Prove it

Evidence a recruiter can check

  • The four exports side by side — 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 and the 15-second cutdown — with a frame grab of the first three seconds of each
  • A before/after of one generation seam or artifact you hid in the edit, showing the cut, speed ramp or crop that hid it
  • The filled-in brand checklist per export, including the two issues it caught and what you changed
  • A screenshot of the timeline showing the voiceover, music and SFX lanes with levels, and the caption track in the brand's type
Signal it

Finished a set of AI-generated clips into a publish-ready campaign — a captioned 9:16 Reel with a three-second hook plus 1:1, 16:9 and 15-second ad variants — every export passing a written brand checklist.

Interview

Questions you'll get asked

  1. Here are twelve AI clips and a voiceover. How would you cut them into a 30-second Reel, and what goes in the first three seconds?
  2. How do you hide the seams and glitches in AI-generated footage during the edit?
  3. What is your caption workflow in CapCut or Premiere, and how do you keep text inside the safe zones for Reels and Shorts?
  4. Walk me through your sound pass: music, SFX, voiceover levels, and what loudness you export at.
  5. You have one 16:9 master. How do you produce the 9:16, 1:1 and 15-second cutdown versions quickly?
  6. What does a brand check look like before you export, and what have you caught in one?
  7. How does editing for a paid ad differ from editing an organic Reel?
  8. Premiere or Resolve or CapCut — which would you pick for this job and why?
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