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Each guide shows a feature three ways: how to do it in the app, what to say to the built-in AI agent, and the CLI or MCP command behind it. Do it by hand, ask AI, or automate it.
Record & create
PandaStudio records your screen and camera together in one cursor-free capture, then transcribes it on-device so it is ready to edit by text immediately.
PandaStudio records remote podcasts peer-to-peer, capturing each guest's track locally in full quality so audio never degrades to internet bandwidth and nothing is uploaded to a cloud.
PandaStudio's Make clips turns one long video into scored 9:16 Shorts with captions and face-following framing, finding the moments with an AI model that runs on your own computer.
Edit by transcript
PandaStudio transcribes every recording on-device and re-cuts the video when you delete words from the transcript, so editing a video is as simple as editing text.
PandaStudio removes filler words (um, uh), repeated words, false starts, and silences longer than a threshold across the whole timeline in one click, using the on-device transcript.
Cut & pace
PandaStudio adds punch-in zooms with an optional whoosh sound effect, placed on a chosen moment and able to follow the speaker's face or the cursor.
PandaStudio speeds up or slows down any section of a video with a speed region on the timeline, so you can fast-forward setup steps or slow down a key moment.
PandaStudio crops a video and switches its aspect ratio between 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1, and can auto-reframe on the speaker's face so a landscape recording becomes a clean vertical short.
Layout
Background
Captions
Graphics & transitions
PandaStudio adds transitions between clips (light sweep, fade to black or white, flash, film burn, glitch) with an optional sound effect, placed on a cut or at the start of a new visual.
PandaStudio adds polished motion graphics (lower thirds, stat reveals, chapter cards, flowcharts, checklists, quote cards) from a template library, plus fully custom HTML graphics, with no After Effects.
PandaStudio adds a scrolling news ticker to any video: a band along the bottom with a label box like LIVE or Breaking, your stories scrolling through it, and a speed and length you set.
PandaStudio adds rolling end credits: a title followed by role and name lines that roll up the frame over the length you set, with the role line styled separately from the name.
PandaStudio's Story crawl scrolls a title and paragraphs away into the distance on a tilted plane, like a film's opening crawl, with Lean back (0 to 80 degrees) and Turn (-60 to 60 degrees) controls.
Every live text graphic in PandaStudio has its own font, size from XS to XL, text colour and opacity, a separately styled second line, colour emoji and symbols, and a start and length you can type to a tenth of a second.
Color & audio
PandaStudio color grades clips with LUT presets tuned per content type, with adjustable intensity, so footage looks produced without manual color work.
PandaStudio adds background music and sound effects from a bundled library, positioned on the timeline and auto-mixed under your voice on export.
PandaStudio denoises a clip's audio on-device, removing background noise and, optionally, room echo, so voices sound clean without sending audio to a cloud.
AI
PandaStudio can connect to any service that runs an MCP server, not just the ones it ships with, so you are never waiting on us to add the provider you want.
PandaStudio has a built-in AI agent you direct in plain language; it performs real timeline edits (cuts, captions, zooms, motion graphics) and runs on your own ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Kimi account, so there is no AI markup.
If you have Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex installed and signed in on your computer, PandaStudio's chat can use it to edit your video, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.
PandaStudio generates a YouTube thumbnail from a reaction, a subject image, and overlay text, or suggests one straight from the transcript, using your own AI account.
PandaStudio generates a YouTube title, description, and chapter timestamps from the video's transcript, using your own AI account with no per-use fee.
Publish
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