Meta adds speed curves and audio balancing to Edits
Meta has added speed curves, automatic audio balancing and text-animation controls to Edits, its video-editing app for creators. The update also gives users more control over the topics shown in the app’s Inspiration tab, which surfaces clips intended to inform their own content creation.
The new editing tools address several steps in short-form video production: varying the pace of footage, balancing sound across elements and setting how long animated text remains visible. Meta has not specified in the announcement how broadly the features are rolling out.
More control over video pacing and sound
Speed curves let creators change playback speed at different points within a clip, rather than applying a single speed throughout. Edits offers preset curve options, and users can also build their own. That gives creators a way to accelerate or slow footage at selected moments for emphasis or pacing, while retaining control over where those changes occur.
The app’s updated audio tools can automatically balance levels across video elements. For creators combining multiple audio components, the feature is intended to make levels more consistent without requiring each element to be adjusted separately. The announcement does not detail the underlying processing or identify which audio types are supported.
Text animation duration controls give users the ability to determine how long text is active in a video, as well as adjust the timing of its appearance, disappearance and animation loops. Together, the changes add finer timing controls to editing work that often has to coordinate footage, sound and on-screen text.
Creator recommendations become more adjustable
Meta is also adding topic preferences to the Inspiration tab. Users can indicate subjects they want to see more or less of, shaping the clips surfaced there as references for their own work. This is distinct from editing controls: it changes the content recommendations presented in Edits rather than the composition of a video already in progress.
The preference mechanism is comparable in broad approach to Meta’s Your Algorithm tool, which lets users signal topics of interest or disinterest to refine their feed. In Edits, the stated focus is narrower: inspiration clips for creators. The update gives users a manual way to steer those suggestions, though Meta has not described how the selections affect recommendations in detail.
The additions extend a series of Edits updates that Meta has been releasing frequently. Recent changes cited by the company include new audio and font features. The app is also coming to desktop PCs, a move that could make its editing tools available in a larger-screen environment; the announcement did not provide further details on desktop availability.
For creators, the latest features combine practical timeline adjustments with a way to tune discovery inside the editing app. Speed curves and text timing support more deliberate sequencing, while automatic audio balancing addresses consistency across video elements. Topic preferences, meanwhile, are aimed at the material creators encounter before they begin editing, helping them shape the inspiration pool within Edits.
