Not for: Not a filter that turns everything yellow, and not a tool that knows which cousin started the water fight.
Story beats for this day
- The bowls before anyone is yellow. Turmeric paste, marigolds, clean outfits nobody will be wearing clean in an hour. One or two of these set up the joke; they do not need a whole verse.
- The first touch on the cheek. Parents or grandparents usually go first, and gently. This is the reel’s quiet moment, so give it room before the song picks up.
- Everyone’s turn with the paste. Cousins, friends, the couple’s siblings, and the paste goes everywhere. Keep the shots where a face still reads through the yellow; a smeared lens is not a moment.
- Water, petals and the chase. Buckets, a shower of flowers, someone pulled into the pool. Plenty of movement for the busiest stretch of the song, but check the couple are in it and not only the guests.
- Washed and laughing. The clean-up and the grin afterwards. End on a face, not a puddle.
After Vantacut Auto-Edit makes the cut, walk these beats on the timeline. A missing one is an ordinary clip; swap it in.
How Vantacut cuts it
Import the haldi cards and turn on AI analysis. Speech in 22 Indian languages and English is understood, so the teasing and the blessings count as moments. Choose the song, pick Energetic and press Create. When Auto-Edit asks who matters most, name the couple, so the reel stays about them. It shows the plan, then the reel opens as a new timeline of ordinary clips. Check the five beats above and swap in anything it missed.
The music
A playful song with a strong beat suits the hour, and the cuts land on that beat. Keep it short: a haldi rarely needs more than a couple of minutes, and the song’s length is the reel’s length.
The light
A haldi is usually a morning or midday ceremony, outdoors or in a courtyard, with hard sun and yellow on everything. Auto Balance Colour evens white balance across the cut, but here the yellow is the subject, not a mistake. Check skin and turmeric with the scopes on the colour page, and grade by hand where the pass has cooled the look you shot.
Theme
Start with Energetic. You pick it alongside the song and the brief, and if the pace is wrong you can run Auto-Edit again with another of the four.
Your footage stays on your computer
Editing, playback and export run on your computer, and your original footage and songs never leave it. To find moments, Auto-Edit shares low-quality copies of your clips, still frames and the speech, and the app asks once before anything is sent. The editor works worldwide, in English; credit packs are priced in Indian rupees.
Questions
The bride’s and groom’s haldi were filmed at two houses.
Decide whether you sold one reel or two. One reel means one song across both; two reels mean two songs and two runs, each charged for its own reel.
Will Auto Balance Colour take the yellow out of a haldi?
It is a white-balance pass, not a grade. Check the haldi on the colour page with the scopes, and grade by hand wherever the yellow should stay.
Is a haldi long enough for its own reel?
Usually, if the reel is short. A song of a minute or two makes a good haldi reel, and the song’s length is the reel’s length.
Get the editor
Windows and Linux now; macOS is coming. The editor is free; create your account when it first opens.