What is an edit?

1 · WHAT IS AN EDIT

Thirty seconds of a movie, a show or a game, recut to a song, with every cut locked to the beat. Not a trailer, not a recap: one emotion, isolated and concentrated. The genre was born on Vine and Tumblr in the early 2010s, grew up on YouTube and blew up on TikTok, where thousands of anonymous editors reinvent it every week.

2 · WHAT IT DOES TO YOU

The rush of a scene you love, without rewatching the movie. Nostalgia in thirty seconds. A song that fits the picture so well you can't hear it again without thinking of it. A good edit doesn't tell, it makes you feel: it's concentrated memory, of a character, an era or a mood you sometimes never even lived.

3 · THE GENRES

CHARACTER EDITThe character edit puts one character at the center: the looks, the lines.VELOCITY EDITThe velocity edit syncs speed-ups and slow-downs to the bass.AESTHETIC EDITThe aesthetic edit tells no story, it sets a mood: rain, neon, gold.4K EDITThe 4K edit is a race for sharpness: Blu-ray sources, regraded colors.SLOWED + REVERBSlowed + reverb drags the song down and pushes the sound away, like hearing it from another room.TRIBUTEThe tribute pays homage, often to someone who's gone.

4 · WHAT MAKES A GOOD EDIT

The song comes before the footage, never the other way around. One cut per big beat, not one per second. A silence right before the drop. Clean sources, no logos, no subtitles. An edit that knows to stop at thirty seconds, and a last frame that stays with you.

5 · THE TOOLS

On a phone: CapCut and Alight Motion, behind most of the edits on TikTok. On a computer: After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere. Sources come from Blu-rays or 4K releases, never a YouTube rip. The community lives on TikTok, YouTube and Discord, where editors share projects, presets and songs.

6 · EDITS TV

Why this TV exists: my favorite edits were scattered across three apps, impossible to find again, never sorted by mood. So I plugged an old TV back in. Everything that airs here is hand-picked, credited, and one click away from its creator. You can suggest an edit, suggest a channel, or describe an edit you can't find anymore and the Edits TV agents go looking for it. It's free, and a coin in the slot keeps the TV on.

Behind the TV: Zak, a young French builder. I build all kinds of things with AI agents by day, and watch edits at night to recharge.