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Try the sample project in PandaStudio

PandaStudio 2.1.53 and later comes with a sample project: a one-minute talking-head video that is already edited, so you can play, change and export a finished edit before you record anything of your own.

The sample is a real project, not a demo mode. It has a transcript with the mistakes already crossed out, pauses shortened, captions, a zoom, a name graphic at the start, a screen clip on top of the speaker and a music track that lowers itself under the voice. In it the founder of PandaStudio explains each part while you watch it happen. On a new install, PandaStudio makes the sample and opens it in the editor when you finish setup, as long as you have no projects yet. If you already use PandaStudio you are not given one automatically: open it from Home with Open the sample project. The sample comes with the app (about 7 MB), so it opens in about a second and works offline. Inside the sample, a small Try it on this sample list sits in the corner with five things to try: play the video, delete a word in the transcript, change the caption style, apply a recipe and export. Each one ticks itself when you do it. Nothing is locked and nothing points at the screen: collapse the list with the arrow or hide it with the X. In Projects the sample carries a Sample label. It is yours to break: delete it like any project, and Open the sample project on Home makes a fresh one. Its name follows the app's language (Sample project, Beispielprojekt, Proyecto de ejemplo, 示例项目); the video itself is in English. Exporting the sample does not use one of your free trial exports while the footage on its main track is still the sample's own. Put your own video on the main track and it counts like any other export. Trial exports of the sample still carry the watermark and are 720p, like every trial export.

In the app

  1. 1New install: finish setup. PandaStudio opens the sample project in the editor by itself (only when you have no projects yet).
  2. 2Already using PandaStudio: on Home, click Open the sample project in the New here? Try the sample project row. The row hides once a sample is in your projects.
  3. 3Press Space to play. The first item in Try it on this sample ticks.
  4. 4Open Transcript, click a word and press Delete. The word is crossed out and the video cuts with it. Click a crossed-out word and choose Restore to bring it back.
  5. 5Open Captions and pick another style. The video updates while it plays.
  6. 6Open AI, choose Recipes, pick a recipe and run it to restyle the whole edit.
  7. 7Click Export, choose a quality and Start export. This does not use a free trial export.
  8. 8Done with it? Delete it from Projects like any project. To get a clean one again, click Open the sample project on Home.

Ask the AI

Open the AI chat in the editor and say any of these. The agent does the edits for you.

“Open the sample project.”
“Make me a fresh sample project and show me what you can do with it.”
“In the sample project, change the captions to Bold and add a zoom on the first sentence.”

CLI & MCP

Every capability is a verb, reachable from the terminal or from an MCP agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Desktop).

project.create-sample
pandastudio project.create-sample

Returns the sample already in your projects, or makes one. Add --fresh=true for a new, untouched copy.

project.open
pandastudio project.open --id=$ID

Open it in the editor.

project.delete
pandastudio project.delete --id=$ID

Remove it. It goes to the Trash.