Does Weftly Use AI to Generate or Change Your Video?
No. Weftly cuts, joins, and re-times the footage you upload. It does not generate video, audio, or spoken words, and every job output starts from your file.
No. Weftly does not generate video, audio, or spoken words. It cuts, joins, and re-times the footage you upload, so nothing appears in the result that was not in your file.
What does Weftly do instead of generating content?
In the video, the answer is short: “if it’s not in the video that you hand us, it’s not going to be output.” Weftly takes the video you give it and does the repetitive production work around it. That means transcribing it, finding the moments worth clipping, cutting them, and joining them. Mike and Becki describe this as taking the drudgery out of editing, which most creatives like least, so people can spend their time on the creative parts.
Where does AI come in, and where doesn’t it?
| Job | What the AI does | What ends up in your video |
|---|---|---|
| Transcribe | Turns speech into text with timestamps | Nothing is added. The transcript is a separate file. |
| Find Clips | Reads the transcript and ranks moments worth clipping | Nothing is added. You get candidates with start and end times. |
| Summarize | Writes a text summary of the recording | Nothing is added to the video. The summary is a separate text file. |
| Edit from transcript | None. It cuts at the word timestamps you kept. | Your footage, cut and joined. |
| Cut clips | None. It cuts at the times you choose. | Your footage, trimmed. |
The AI reads and describes your recording. It does not write into your video.
Can Weftly make someone say something they didn’t say?
No. Edit from transcript lets you delete words, delete sentences, and move whole sentences. You can’t add or change a word. If an edit would need a word that was never spoken, Weftly lists the lines it can’t cut before you pay. For journalists and anyone else whose credibility rests on what was actually said, that limit is intentional.
One thing does change: the audio of finished video outputs is loudness-normalized to -14 LUFS, the level YouTube and podcast apps target. That adjusts volume. It does not change what is said.
Do I stay in control?
Yes. You see the clip candidates before anything is cut. You edit the transcript yourself, and you can go back and re-edit it if the result isn’t what you wanted. Weftly does the mechanical work, and you decide what gets published.
Try it
Open chat.weftly.ai and drop in a video. Edit from transcript is $1.00 per edit with no subscription. Current promo codes are listed at weftly.ai/offers.
Common questions
- Does Weftly generate video or audio?
- No. Weftly cuts, joins, and re-times the video you upload. It does not create new footage, new voices, or new spoken words.
- Can Weftly add words that were never said?
- No. Edit from transcript can delete words, delete sentences, and move whole sentences. It cannot add or change words, because it can only use what was spoken. If an edit breaks that rule, Weftly lists the lines it can't cut before you pay.
- Where does Weftly use AI?
- In analysis. Speech-to-text turns your audio into a transcript, and an AI model reads the transcript to rank clip candidates and, if you ask for it, write a summary. Those outputs are labeled as analysis, and the video you get back contains only your footage.
- Do I stay in control of the result?
- Yes. You see clip candidates before anything is cut, you edit the transcript yourself, and you can change it and run it again if the result isn't what you wanted.
- How much does an edit cost?
- Edit from transcript is $1.00 per edit with no subscription. Current promo codes are listed at weftly.ai/offers. Enter one at checkout.
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