Not for: Not a generator that invents a mandap from stills, and not a tool that labels the pheras on its own.
Story beats for this day
- Baraat and the door. Movement, crowd, the walk up. The energetic stretch of the song belongs here; do not spend it on the fire.
- Jaimala. A short, readable exchange. If both families’ cameras rolled, swap angles after the cut; the reel is ordinary clips.
- Pheras. Circuits around the fire are slow on purpose. Cinematic Story or Documentary keeps them in order; shuffling them into the sangeet is how the film falls apart.
- Vidaai. Faces leaving, not decoration. Emotional favours this beat. If the cut skipped it, put it back before you send the film.
- The night’s entries. The reception or the last party of the weekend. A second, shorter song is a second reel with its own quote; do not stretch one song across two days.
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 weekend into one project, or the ceremony day on its own, and turn on AI analysis. Speech is understood in 22 Indian languages and English, so the pandit, the vows and the speeches count as moments. Choose a song as long as the film you sold, pick Cinematic Story or Documentary, and when Auto-Edit asks who matters, tell it. Then check that the pheras still follow the baraat on the timeline.
The music
Pick a song that can hold both the fire and the door. If the couple asked for a separate sangeet reel, that is another song and another Auto-Edit run, not a longer version of this one.
The light
Daylight baraat, a mixed mandap, then LED stage light at night. White balance will jump, and Auto Balance Colour is for that. Stage magenta at a sangeet may still need a hand on the colour page.
Theme
Start with Documentary. 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
Can one run cover the sangeet and the pheras?
Only if you sold one film to one song. Separate reels need separate songs and separate runs, and each run pays for its own reel’s minutes.
Does it understand Hindu rituals?
It watches for the best moments and hears speech in 22 Indian languages, but it is not a ritual detector. Answer its questions about who matters and what to leave out, then judge the cut on the timeline.
How long a song for a full Hindu wedding film?
As long as the film you promised. The song’s length is the reel’s length, so trim it first, or join songs with a cut, crossfade or gap.
Get the editor
Windows and Linux now; macOS is coming. The editor is free; create your account when it first opens.