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Script View is where you edit your video from a script. You can start with nothing and write one, or start with a video or an audio file that has a human voice in it, which becomes a transcript you can edit like any other text. Either way you leave this view with your script split into hooks, a body and a CTA, a voice on every line, and a preview to check it against before a single clip gets cut.

This is a tour of the layout, so you know what each part is for. Anywhere that deserves more than a sentence links out to its own article.

The top bar

Running along the top:

  • The project name, with its status next to it. Click the status to change where the project stands.
  • The three dot menu, where you can move the project to another folder, translate it, clone it or delete it.
  • Avatars of anyone working in the project right now. Hover over one to see their name and email.
  • Script, Video and Review, the three areas of your project. Script is where you are now, setting the words and the voices. Video is the timeline, where you cut and arrange the footage. Review is where you and your team leave comments on the finished cut. You can move between them at any point.
  • The share icon, for sending a review request.
  • Add Visuals, which takes you into Video View to start building the edit. If there's no footage in the project yet, it offers to help you add some with our AI ad assembler.
  • A feedback icon, for sending product feedback straight to the Solid team.

Your script, in the middle

The middle column holds the script itself, broken into segments: Hook, Body and CTA, each able to hold several variants. You can rename a segment or add new ones. Write and edit hooks, body and CTA variants covers working with them properly.

Show source and Show preview sit above the script. Each reads Hide once you've opened it.

Show source opens a panel on the left holding the transcript of any A-roll video or voiceover in your project. Add Source File brings in more material and adds its transcript alongside. If there are no source files with spoken words or a transcript, there's nothing for it to show.

Show preview puts your video in the middle. Click a line in your script and the preview plays your video. Click a line in the source transcript and it plays that line in the source file.

With both open you can build your script via drag and drop. Pull a whole line out of the transcript into your script, or select part of a sentence and drop it into a hook, the body or the CTA. Clicking a line in the source also brings up Add to shortcuts for each segment, which drop it at the bottom of whichever you choose. For the full picture, write and edit hooks, body and CTA variants goes through this properly.

Two icons sit to the right of Show preview. Copy takes the whole script out for sending elsewhere, and download gives you the full audio once your voices are generated.

The side panel

The side panel has two tabs, switched from the icons on the far right.

Chat is open when you first arrive. Ask it to rewrite a section, add hooks or variants, add a new segment, sharpen the CTA, or come up with alternatives. What Chat can do covers how far it goes.

Voice opens as soon as you click a line in your script. What it holds depends on where that line came from.

For a line that's only text:

  • Source text, editable here or directly in the script.
  • Record voice, which records you speaking and turns it into script.
  • AI Voice, always on for text-only lines because there's no recording behind them. This is where you find the right voice for your script and generate your voiceover.
  • Playback, setting the volume of that one clip and how fast the generated audio plays.
  • History, holding earlier generations of that line.

For a line that came from a video or a voiceover you recorded, AI Voice is switched off and Source voice replaces Source text, holding the actual audio. Switch AI Voice on if you'd rather replace your recording with a generated one.

The timeline at the bottom

The timeline runs along the bottom and plays your whole project.

  • Play, with a button either side for jumping between segments.
  • A dropdown beside a segment name, for switching between its variants.
  • The playhead, which you can drag to move through the video.
  • Timestamps on the right: where you are now, and the full length in grey.

If anyone has left comments, their avatars appear along the timeline at the moments they commented on.

Now that you know your way around, next up is writing and editing hooks, body and CTA variants.

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