Not for: Not a trailer generator, and not a second film. It is a short cut of the footage you already shot.
Story beats for this day
- One line of the vows. A single sentence that makes people want the rest. Vantacut hears the speech, and when that line stays in the teaser, the song ducks under it.
- A glimpse of the reveal. The first look or the walk in, but only the start of it. The whole moment belongs to the film; the teaser should stop just before it lands.
- Three faces, one shot each. A parent, a best friend, a grandparent. In a teaser every face gets one shot. If the cut gave someone three, keep the best and drop the rest.
- The floor at full volume. The party, saved for the loudest stretch of the song. It tells people the day was fun without explaining anything.
- The couple, then black. End on the two of them and stop. A title with the names and the date is a clip you add on the timeline after the cut.
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
Open the wedding project and run Auto-Edit again with the shorter song. The footage is not watched again: each clip is only watched once. The teaser opens on its own timeline, so the film’s timeline is untouched, and the run pays for the teaser’s minutes only. Answer who matters the way you did for the film, then tighten it by hand: in a teaser, every shot has to earn its place.
The music
A shorter song, or the film’s song trimmed hard. Thirty to ninety seconds is the usual range, and the song’s length is the reel’s length, so the trim decides it. End on a phrase that resolves rather than a fade.
The light
A teaser borrows from every part of the day, so its shots jump from tungsten to daylight to stage light within seconds. Auto Balance Colour evens white balance across the cut. If the film is already graded, apply the same LUT on the colour page so the teaser looks like a piece of it.
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
Will it watch the footage again for the teaser?
No. Each clip is only watched once, so the teaser starts from what was already found, and the run pays for the teaser’s minutes only.
How long should a wedding teaser be?
Thirty to ninety seconds is the usual range. Trim the song to the length you want, and the teaser follows it.
Should the teaser give away the best moment?
Usually not. Show the start of the reveal and a line of the vows, then stop. The whole moment belongs in the film.
Can the teaser be vertical?
Yes. Pick 9:16 under Shape before you press Create; 1:1 and 4:5 are there too. Footage shot wide is cropped to fill the frame, centred, so check each shot and adjust the crop where someone sits off-centre.
Get the editor
Windows and Linux now; macOS is coming. The editor is free; create your account when it first opens.