How to Use Video Edit by Chat in MyEdit

Q: Should Audio be set to Original or Auto?

Original keeps the sound your camera recorded exactly as it was, which is what you want when only the picture is changing. Auto regenerates the audio from the sound details in your prompt, so it earns its place when your sentence describes something that was never on the recording. When you are unsure, run Original first, because the picture is the expensive half to get right and you can always send the same clip through again.

One sentence in, a new cut of the same clip out, in a browser tab that works as well on a phone as on a laptop.

Updated Aug. 17, 2026 · 9 min read

In a hurry? Use the Video Edit by Chat quick guide instead.

MyEdit's Video Edit by Chat rebuilds a video around a sentence you type, and it does the whole job in a browser tab, so a borrowed laptop and the phone in your pocket are both good enough to edit on. A written description can restyle the entire clip, and attaching a photo tagged @image1 puts a specific person or object into the shot instead.

⚡ Quick Answer: How to Use Video Edit by Chat in 8 Steps

Open Video Tools in MyEdit, choose Video Edit by Chat, and add your clip under Upload your video.
Describe the change you want in the prompt box beside it.
Click images to attach a photo, then type @ in your sentence to tag it as @image1.
Open the model list and choose based on the description under each name.
Set Resolution to 720p or 1080p, and Audio to Original or Auto.
Click Generate, then start something else while it renders.
Play the finished clip next to Original, then save it with the download icon.
Open Replace Video to change the source clip and run the next edit.

Steps to Use Video Edit by Chat

Step 1: Get Your Clip Into the Browser

The machine in front of you does not have to be the one with your editing software on it. That is the whole reason this lives in a browser.

Open Video Tools in the top menu and choose Video Edit by Chat, then click the Upload your video box on the left and pick your file. Ours is a five second phone clip of a girl standing under a clear umbrella in the rain.

MyEdit's Video Edit by Chat screen with the Video Tools menu, the Upload your video box, and the Explore video editing ideas heading highlighted — Video Tools is how you get here. The clip goes in on the left, and the ideas wall sits underneath.

The first frame takes the place of the empty box as soon as the upload finishes, so you can confirm you grabbed the right take before you do anything else.

No idea what to ask for yet? The Explore video editing ideas wall underneath flips every tile between a real before and after: a man aged up a few decades, an autumn walk turned to deep winter, a filmed scene redrawn as animation.

Step 2: Spell Out the Look You Want

This box is the whole of your direction, so be generous with it. Describe the change the way you would describe it to a person who is about to draw it for you.

Ours asked for hand-drawn animation and then kept going: soft hand-painted watercolour backgrounds, clean cel-animation lines, a palette of lush greens and sky blues, painterly layered clouds, and the character's own movements and expressions preserved exactly.

The description box filled with a hand-drawn animation brief, highlighted, with an arrow leading to the highlighted blue send arrow — A paragraph of description on the right, and the send arrow going solid once the clip and the words are both there.

That last clause is doing more work than any of the adjectives. Naming what has to survive is what stops a restyle from turning into a different performance.

The counter under the box runs to 2,400 characters. The arrow at the end of the row stays pale until there is both a clip and a sentence in place.

Leave it alone for a moment, there are two chips to set first.

Step 3: Attach a Photo and Tag It as @image1

Words run out the moment the change is a specific face, a specific product or a specific room. Hand MyEdit the actual picture instead.

Click the images tile under the box and add up to five photos. Then type @ anywhere in your sentence and a small Select a reference image picker opens with your attachments in it.

The images tile holding one attached photo, highlighted, next to the highlighted Select a reference image picker showing the same photo tagged image1 — Attach the photo on the left, then type @ and pick it out of the list on the right.

Choose one and it drops into the sentence as @image1, tinted so you can see it is a real pointer rather than plain text.

Ours came out as: Replace the girl in video with @image1 and keep all the other scene. Short, specific, and it still names what to leave alone.

Step 4: Match the Model to the Kind of Edit

This is the one setting that changes the character of the result rather than its size, and MyEdit makes it easy by telling you what each option is for. Open the model list and each engine drops down with a line of explanation under its name. Read those lines rather than the version numbers: the list changes as engines are added, but the descriptions always say what each one is built for.

The model list open and highlighted, each engine showing a one-line description under its name — Each engine comes with a line saying what it is good at.

Step 5: Choose the Resolution and What Happens to the Sound

Two small decisions sit in the panel beside the model, and the second one is the one people miss. Resolution is a straight choice between 720p and 1080p. Audio is more interesting: Original keeps the source video's sound unchanged, while Auto lets MyEdit regenerate the audio from the sound details in your prompt, and the small info icon next to the label spells out both. If you are restyling a scene and want to keep the rain you actually recorded, stay on Original. If your sentence describes a soundscape that was never on the tape, Auto is what makes it turn up.

The output settings panel highlighted, showing Resolution set to 1080p and Audio set to Original, with an info icon beside the Audio label — Resolution on top, audio underneath, and an info icon that explains the difference between Original and Auto.

Step 6: Send It and Go Do Something Else

Sending turns the page into a conversation. Your clip and your words move to the right as a request card, and a Generating video tile takes their place on the left with a countdown printed on it. Ours said six minutes remaining for five seconds of footage, which is long enough to be irritating if you sit and watch it. MyEdit evidently knows that, because the line under the panel offers to open a new Video Edit by Chat tab so you can get the next edit started while this one renders. Take it up on that: the waiting is the only slow part of this, and it is the part you can spend on something else.

The Generating video tile highlighted with six minutes remaining, and the line offering a new Video Edit by Chat tab highlighted at the bottom of the page — A countdown on the left, your request on the right, and an open invitation to start the next one.

Step 7: Watch Original and Result Side by Side, Then Save

When the render lands, the tile becomes your finished clip with its length on the corner and a download icon sitting on it. Open the clip before you save it, because MyEdit plays both versions at once, labeled Original and Result, sharing one scrubber and one play button. That shared timeline is the quickest honest check of the half you asked it to keep. Ours holds up: the tilt of her head, the angle of the umbrella and the timing of all five seconds are where they were, and only the drawing has changed. Then click the download icon and the file is yours.

The finished animated clip in the conversation with its download icon highlighted — Length on one corner, the download icon on the other.

MyEdit playing the uploaded take labeled Original beside the animated version labeled Result, under one shared set of playback controls — Both versions run together on one scrubber, so you are comparing the same moment rather than your memory of it.

Step 8: Swap the Source Clip and Run Another Edit

Look at the panel at the bottom of the page after a render and you'll notice it is holding your new clip rather than the one you uploaded. MyEdit passes the result straight back as the source for whatever you type next, which is how one small change stacks onto another. To go the other way, back to the take you started from, open Replace Video. + Import at the top brings in a fresh file, and under Generated Videos it keeps everything from this session as Video set 1: the Original and every version you have made from it, ready to pick up again.

The Replace Video dialog with the Import button highlighted and the Video set 1 row highlighted, holding the original clip and the animated version — Import something new at the top, or carry on from anything this session has already produced.

We went back to the Original for the second edit, attached the photo, and asked for the girl to be replaced. The new request lands underneath the first one and the tile starts counting down again, with both rounds still sitting in the same conversation. That is worth more than it sounds: a week later you can scroll back and read exactly which sentence produced which clip.

The conversation holding two rounds, with the second request card and its Synthesizing the video tile both highlighted — The second request, its two thumbnails, and a countdown starting over underneath.

The Result

Here is the second edit, the one that began as a photograph and a single line of text. Same rain, same clear umbrella, same five seconds along the same green path, with somebody else underneath it. Set it next to the animation at the top of this page and you have two completely unrelated films cut from one phone clip, and no editor was opened to make either of them.

One clip, two sentences, one browser tab. Edit a Clip by Chat →

FAQ About Video Edit by Chat

1. Can I do this on a phone, or do I need a desktop?

A browser is the only requirement, so a phone is fine. There is nothing to install, nothing to keep updated, and the clip you upload can come straight from your camera roll. You do need to be signed in to MyEdit, since each render draws on your credits, and the per-second rate is printed under the panel before you send anything.

2. How long does one render take?

Ours quoted six minutes remaining for a five second clip, and that estimate sits on the tile the whole way through. The useful answer is that you should not be waiting for it: the line under the panel opens a new Video Edit by Chat tab, so the sensible rhythm is to send one job, start writing the next, and come back to both.

3. How do I choose a model?

Read the line under each name rather than the version number. MyEdit describes what every engine is built for, and those descriptions are kept current as engines are added or updated. If a result is not what you wanted, the fastest fix is usually to run the same sentence again on a different engine.

4. Should Audio be set to Original or Auto?

Original keeps the sound your camera recorded exactly as it was, which is what you want when only the picture is changing. Auto regenerates the audio from the sound details in your prompt, so it earns its place when your sentence describes something that was never on the recording. When you are unsure, run Original first, because the picture is the expensive half to get right and you can always send the same clip through again.