Pacing templates for short-form creators
Turn any edit into your template.
Copy the link to an edit you love. EditDNA detects its pacing and rebuilds it with your footage.
Auto-imports: direct MP4/MOV links · Google Drive · Dropbox · OneDrive — social links save as references
Copy the link to an edit you like → paste it here → add your clips → export. No editing timeline skills required.
Your clips stay private and are automatically deleted.
Try Interactive DemoUse references for pacing inspiration. Only upload media you are authorized to process.
Reference readout
EditDNA — Fast Social · 22.4s · 14 scenes · avg 1.6s
shortest 0.5s · longest 3.2s · 37.5 cuts/min · band width is scene duration, brightness is pacing energy
Interactive demo
Read an edit like a lane.
Every band is one scene. Its width is that scene’s duration, so the strip’s silhouette is the edit’s rhythm. Play the demo, or select a band to read the scene.
Scene strip
Fast SocialScene
1 of 14
In / out
0:00.00 → 0:02.80
Duration
2.8s
Share of edit
12.5%
Scene 1 runs 2.8s, from 0:00.00 to 0:02.80. In the editor this slot is where one of your clips goes.
This is a preview built from a fixed example edit, not a live analysis. The real editor shows the same strip for the reference you upload.
How it works
Reference, template, export.
Three stages, in this order. The app uses the same three words, so what you learn here is what you will see on screen.
- 01Reference
Upload the edit you want to borrow the timing from.
EditDNA inspects the video, detects the cuts, and measures how long each scene runs. You get a pacing report and a scene strip before you commit to anything.
Video you own or have permission to use · 10–60 seconds · MP4 or MOV
- 02Template
The cuts become numbered scene slots.
Add your own clips, auto-fill the slots, then change any assignment by hand. Each slot keeps the reference’s duration, so the rhythm holds while the footage changes.
Up to 30 clips · fill, fit, reposition, loop, freeze end
- 03Export
Render a 9:16 cut built only from your footage.
EditDNA trims each of your clips to its slot length and joins them in order. The output follows the reference’s timing and nothing else travels with it.
1080×1920 · 30 fps · your audio, not the reference’s
What carries over
The pacing travels. The footage does not.
The strip below is the same in all three columns because the timing is the only thing that moves between them.
22.4s · 14 scenes
Someone else’s edit
The video you upload. EditDNA measures where its cuts land and how long each scene holds.
22.4s · 14 scenes
The timing, on its own
What is kept: scene durations, cut positions, sequence length, 9:16 framing. Nothing else is carried across.
22.4s · 14 scenes
Your footage, that rhythm
Your clips, trimmed to the same slot lengths and joined in the same order. Same silhouette, different pictures.
EditDNA does not reuse the reference’s audio, transitions, text, effects, colour, or motion graphics. It rebuilds timing with your clips.
Pacing report
What your EditDNA contains.
Every reference produces one report. It is a measurement of cut timing — not a score, and not a judgement of the edit.
Your EditDNA
Duration
22.4s
Scenes
14
Average scene
1.60s
Median scene
1.45s
Shortest scene
0.50s
Longest scene
3.20s
Cuts per minute
37.5
Rhythm consistency
0.51
1.00 is metronomic, 0.00 is wildly uneven.
Energy curve
The reference split into stretches of similar cut speed. Brighter means shorter scenes packed closer together.
- 0:00.00 → 0:04.702 scenes · avg 2.35s · energy 0.07
- 0:04.70 → 0:08.804 scenes · avg 1.02s · energy 0.86
- 0:08.80 → 0:14.102 scenes · avg 2.65s · energy 0.00
- 0:14.10 → 0:16.903 scenes · avg 0.93s · energy 1.00
- 0:16.90 → 0:22.403 scenes · avg 1.83s · energy 0.24
Scene length distribution
How many scenes fall into each length band. A tall middle means an even edit; a split means the reference alternates between holds and bursts.
- Under 1s4
- 1–2s6
- 2–3s3
- 3s and over1
Detection confidence
EditDNA reports how cleanly it found the cuts. When a reference is too dark, too noisy, or cross-dissolved throughout, detection drops to an even split and the report says so. You always see which method produced the strip.
Classification scale
- Slow Cinematic
- Storytelling
- Balanced
- Fast Social
- Montage
- Hypercut
These six names are EditDNA’s own shorthand for a band of average scene lengths. They are not scientific categories and no industry body defines them. Your example reads as Fast Social: Scenes average well under two seconds and cuts land faster than one every two seconds.
Auto-fill
Fill every slot in one pass, then change your mind.
Auto-filled using clip length and format. It is a deterministic first pass — the same clips and the same template always produce the same layout.
Before
0 / 14 slots assigned
After
Sorts by length
Your clips are ordered by duration and matched to slots of similar duration, longest to longest.
Prefers portrait
Portrait clips are placed first because the output frame is 9:16. Landscape clips still work — they get cropped.
Spreads your clips
Every clip is used once before any clip is used twice, so one file does not end up filling half the edit.
Flags what will not fit
A clip shorter than its slot is marked, and you choose whether it loops or holds its last frame.
Auto-fill does not look at what is inside the frame. There is no subject detection, no scene matching, and no judgement about which shot suits which moment — those calls are yours.
Clip fit
Five ways to seat a clip in the frame.
Your clips will not be the same shape or length as the reference’s scenes. These are the controls that resolve the difference, one slot at a time.
Fill
fitMode: fill
The clip covers the whole 9:16 frame. Whatever falls outside the frame is cropped away. This is the default.
Fit
fitMode: fit
The whole clip stays visible inside the frame, with empty bars above and below. Nothing is cropped.
Reposition
focalX / focalY
Move the crop window when the centre is the wrong place to keep. The frame size never changes, only which part you keep.
Loop
shortClipBehavior: loop
The clip is shorter than its slot, so it plays again from the start until the slot is full.
Freeze end
shortClipBehavior: freeze
The clip is shorter than its slot, so its last frame holds until the slot is full.
The default is Fill with a centre crop. Clips are never stretched or squashed — EditDNA only crops, letterboxes, repositions, repeats, or holds. Output is always 1080×1920 at 30 fps.
Built for
Anyone who posts to the same rhythm twice.
If you have ever tried to make the next video feel like the last one that worked, this is the tool for that.
01
Short-form creators
Keep a posting rhythm you already know performs.
02
Editors
Start from a client’s reference instead of guessing their taste.
03
Founders
Ship product clips without booking an editor for each one.
04
Personal brands
Keep every post cut the same way so the feed reads as one voice.
05
Musicians
Cut visualisers and teasers to a pacing you have already tested.
06
Fitness creators
Reuse a demo structure across every movement you film.
07
Real-estate creators
Run the same walkthrough rhythm on every new listing.
08
Product marketers
Turn one approved cut into a repeatable template for the team.
09
Agencies
Hand a template to junior editors so output stays consistent.
Waitlist
Tell us what you edit.
EditDNA is in alpha. Joining the waitlist gets you an invite when capacity opens, and tells us which pacing templates to build for first.
We use your answers to prioritise the roadmap. Your email is only used to send your invite and alpha updates.
Ownership and copyright
Read this before you upload anything. It is the part of EditDNA that is easiest to misunderstand.
- Upload only what is yours
- Use content you own or have permission to use. You are responsible for the rights to every file you upload, reference and clips alike.
- EditDNA is not a downloader
- It cannot fetch video from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or any other platform, and it is not a way around a platform’s terms or a creator’s copyright.
- Nothing of the reference ships in your export
- No reference audio, footage, frames, transitions, text, effects, colour grade, or motion graphics. Only measured scene timing carries over.
- A rhythm is not an identity
- EditDNA rebuilds pacing. It does not reproduce another creator’s work, style, voice, or brand, and it will not make your edit theirs.