A free online video editor, right in your browser.

Cut on a real multi-track timeline, add transitions, captions, voiceovers and music, then export an MP4.

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The editor start to finish, in about three minutes. Has sound.

What the editor actually looks like

Real screens from the editor, not mockups. This is the whole feature set in the order you would meet it.

The timeline works the way a desktop editor does

PandaVid video editor timeline with three clips on the main track, a title, a caption and a music track under the preview

Six lanes to start with. Video sits on Main, a second image or video layer sits on Overlay, and titles, captions, voiceover and music each get a lane of their own. Detaching the audio from a clip gives it a lane too. You trim by dragging an edge, split at the playhead, and reorder clips by dragging them. Ripple mode closes the gap behind a cut, or you switch it off and move things by hand.

Playback is the part people notice first. The preview scrubs at proper speed while you drag, so you find the cut by watching it instead of guessing at a timecode.

Captions your own machine writes for you

Auto captions panel in PandaVid showing caption style presets and a word by word caption burned over the video preview

Drop in a video or an audio file and a speech model loads into the browser and does the recognition there, on your own hardware. No per minute transcription bill, no queue. You get a caption track with the timing already set, and you can fix a line by typing over it.

Then pick how it looks. The caption styles run from a plain white subtitle to the word by word pop people expect on TikTok and Reels. If you need the text somewhere else, export the track as an .srt file.

Transcribe a file without signing in

Voiceovers from a line you type

PandaVid voiceover panel with a narration script, the selected voice and a generate audio button

Write the sentence, choose a voice, and the audio lands on the voiceover lane lined up with the clip you had selected. The speech model runs on your machine, the same as the transcription does.

There are male and female voices in American and British English, with a speed control if the read comes out slow. If you would rather use your own voice, drop the recording onto the same panel and skip the generating part.

Try text to speech on its own page

Titles that move without after effects

Text panel in PandaVid with animated title presets such as neon flicker, keyword pop and RGB glitch

Add a heading or a body line and set the font, size, fill, outline and glow. Or start from a preset that already moves: a neon flicker, a keyword pop, an RGB glitch, a gold shine, a karaoke highlight.

Nothing is baked in. Change the wording a week later and the animation still runs, because the motion is a property of the clip, not a rendered picture of your old text.

Templates for when you want a head start

Template library in PandaVid grouped into intro, promo, social, quote and event categories

The templates cover intros, promos, social hooks, photo collages, quote cards, event announcements, food, fitness, beauty, weddings, birthdays, real estate and outros. Applying one drops a finished scene onto the timeline with its text, motion and timing in place.

They are a starting point, not a cage. Swap the footage, rewrite the lines, delete the scene you do not need. Every template in the library is free, and none of them stamp anything on your export.

Transitions you can see before you commit

Transition picker in PandaVid previewing dissolve, fade to black, slide, zoom, wipe, iris and blur on the user footage

Drag a transition onto the seam where two clips meet, or click the marker that sits there. You get dissolve, fade to black, white flash, slides from any side, zoom in, zoom out, wipes, an iris and a blur.

Each card renders from your own footage rather than a stock demo, so the thumbnail is what the cut will actually look like.

Color filters that survive the export

Color filter library in PandaVid with warm, cool, night, portrait and film looks applied to sample frames

These are real lookup tables, not a CSS filter sitting on top of the preview. Golden hour, arctic, teal and orange, a 70s fade, black and white, plus a set built for skin tones and a set for night footage.

The same shader runs during the export, so the grade you approve in the preview is the grade in the file you download.

Stickers, arrows and animated elements

Element library in PandaVid with animated arrows, badges, checkmarks and holiday stickers

The library holds Lottie animations sorted into arrows and callouts, subscribe and follow prompts, checkmarks and reactions, holidays and celebrations. You can recolor them, resize them and set how long they stay on screen.

The same panel holds the full frame overlay clips, the abstract light textures you lay over a shot when the frame feels a little too clean.

Music and sound effects, cleared for use

Music library in PandaVid with upbeat, hip hop, electronic and lofi categories and the length of each track

The tracks are sorted by mood: upbeat, beats, electronic, chill, cinematic. The sound effects have their own list, sorted by type, from whooshes and impacts to notifications. The music is all ours, so no track asks you for an attribution. The sound effects we sourced are CC0 or CC BY, and where one needs a credit the line sits right next to it, ready to copy instead of hunt for.

Your own files work the same way. Drop an MP3, WAV, OGG or M4A onto the panel and it goes straight to the audio lane.

Free stock footage without leaving the tab

Stock video search results inside the PandaVid media panel with clip lengths and creator credits

Search free stock video and photos from Pexels inside the media panel. Every result shows its length and the name of the person who shot it, and one click puts the clip on the timeline at the playhead.

It saves the usual detour of opening four tabs, downloading a file, then dragging it back in, which matters when a cut just needs one filler shot.

The export is a file on your disk

Export dialog in PandaVid showing the file name, 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 aspect ratios, frame rate and resolution

Name the file, pick 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, and press export. Your machine encodes the MP4 and the browser saves it. No queue, no email when it is ready, no logo in the corner and no intro sting. 720p and 1080p are both there on a free account.

You can also export the captions on their own as an .srt, or the whole project as JSON if you want a backup you control.

More on the no watermark export

A real multi track timeline

Stacked video and audio lanes, trimming and splitting down to the frame, ripple edits, transitions and a preview that plays at proper speed while you scrub.

Captions and voiceovers on device

Speech to text and text to speech both load into your browser, so transcribing a long interview or narrating a script costs you nothing per minute.

MP4 export with no watermark

Your machine encodes the file and the browser saves it. There is no render queue to sit in and no logo dropped into the corner of your video.

Free, because your own computer does the work

PandaVid runs in your browser, on your machine. There is no render server to pay for, so the parts that usually cost money on other tools are free here. That is the whole reason for the list below.

Editing and export

Cut on a full multi-track timeline and export the finished video, free.

No watermark

Nothing is stamped on what you download. Not a logo, not an intro clip.

Voiceovers

Turn text into a voiceover right in the browser, free.

Transcription and captions

Turn speech into text and auto-caption your clips, free.

Templates

Every template in the library is free to use.

It runs on your device

Your video is put together on your own machine, not in a render queue on our servers.

How it works

Three steps, and none of them involve waiting on a render queue.

  1. 1

    Start a project

    Sign in with a free account and open a new project. Bring in video, photos, music or a voice recording straight from your computer.

  2. 2

    Cut it on the timeline

    Trim, split and reorder clips across stacked tracks. Add titles, transitions, filters, captions and a voiceover, and watch it play back as you go.

  3. 3

    Export and download

    Render the finished video on your own machine and save the file. There is no queue to wait in and nothing stamped on the result.

A real timeline, not a template filler

A lot of the free editors you find online are really a form with a preview window. You pick a layout, swap in three photos, and that is as far as it goes. PandaVid works the way desktop editors do. Video and audio sit on separate stacked tracks, you trim and split down to the frame, clips snap where you expect them to, and the preview plays at proper speed while you scrub.

The parts that normally sit behind a subscription are free here because they run on your side. Captions come from a speech model that loads into your browser, so a ten minute interview gets transcribed without a per minute bill. Voiceovers work the same way, from text you type in. The finished video is encoded by your own machine and saved straight to it.

There is a trade in that. Your computer does the work, so an old laptop will feel it on a long 4K timeline. On a machine from the last few years it holds up fine, and there is no monthly fee for the privilege.

Tools you can use without an account

Some jobs are one off. You want a transcript, or an MP4 instead of a MOV, and opening a project for that is overkill. Those live on their own pages and run without signing in.

More ways people use PandaVid

Common questions

Is PandaVid actually free?

Yes. The timeline editor, the export, captions, voiceovers and the whole template library cost nothing, and there is no watermark on what you download. The work happens in your browser on your own computer, so there is no render server for us to pay for and no reason to bill you per video. That includes the 1080p export, which is not held back for a paid tier.

Do I need to install anything?

No. PandaVid opens in a normal browser tab on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook. Chrome and Edge give the smoothest playback. The Grok automation piece is a separate Chrome extension and it is optional.

Do I need an account?

The editor needs a free account, because your projects have to be saved somewhere you can get back to them. The small tools like text to speech, transcription and the file converters run without signing in.

Is there a watermark on the export?

No. Nothing is added to the file you download. No corner logo, no intro sting, and no paid tier that takes it off later.

Do my videos get uploaded to your servers?

Playback, editing, transcription and the export all run on your device, and no server ever renders your video. Two things do leave the machine: media you save to your PandaVid storage, so you can pick a project up somewhere else, and a one-off pass our server makes over an uploaded video to move its index to the front for instant playback.

What can the editor do?

Multi track video and audio, trimming and splitting, transitions between clips, titles and text animations, word by word animated captions, color filters, stickers and Lottie animations, a built in music and sound effects library, and text to speech voiceovers. Speech to text transcription runs on your device as well.

How long does an export take?

That depends on your computer, the length of the timeline and the resolution you pick. A short clip on a recent laptop is done in well under a minute. A long 4K timeline on an older machine takes a while, because your hardware is doing the encoding instead of ours.

Which browsers does it work in?

Editing and preview work in any current browser on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. For the export, Chrome or Edge is the safest pick, because the in page video encoder PandaVid uses is furthest along there. Nothing is ever rendered on our servers. If the browser cannot handle part of an export, PandaVid finishes the file on your own machine and tells you what it had to leave out.

Can I add subtitles to a video for free?

Yes, and you do not have to type them. Open the Captions panel, drop the clip in, and the speech model transcribes it in your browser into a caption track you can edit. Pick a style for the look, then either burn the captions into the video on export or download them as an .srt file.

Can I use the music on YouTube or TikTok?

The music library is ours, so no track needs a credit line at all. The sound effects we source are CC0 or CC BY, and the license shows next to each one in the picker with the credit ready to copy into your description. Check that line before you publish, and if an effect does not show one, pick one that does or bring your own file. We would rather keep the library small and checkable than hand you a file and leave the rights question to you.

What happens to my project if I close the tab?

The project saves as you work, so reopening it puts you back where you left off, and version history keeps the earlier states in case you want to walk a change back. Your media is the separate question. Files stay on your own computer unless you save them to your PandaVid storage, so that is the step to do first if you plan to carry on from another machine.

What is the Grok automation part?

It is a Chrome extension that queues up prompt batches and drives Grok for you, so you are not sitting there pasting prompts one at a time. The clips it generates land in your PandaVid library, ready to drag onto the timeline. You can ignore it completely and use the editor on its own.