Edit a Gaming Highlight Reel With Slow Motion and Impacts

A highlight reel is a list of payoffs. Each one needs a short setup, a moment that gets room to breathe, and a hit that tells the viewer it mattered. This recipe cuts that structure out of long recordings and repeats it for every play.

Find and trim the play

1. Create a project. Open Aspect ratio in the left panel and choose Widescreen · 16:9.
2. Open Media, press Upload and add your recordings.
3. Press Space to play and pause just before the play begins. While paused, the Left arrow and Right arrow step one frame at a time. Hold Shift to step one second.
4. Press Split and drop the left side at the start of the setup. Move to just after the payoff and press Split and drop the right side.
5. Repeat for each highlight, then put the best one last.

Slow the key moment

1. Keep the pointer off the timeline. Park the playhead a beat before the key moment and press S. Park it just after the moment and press S again.
2. Click the middle piece on the main track and open Speed in the right panel.
3. Under Speed curve press Hero. The graph dips so the moment plays slowly, and the clip keeps its length. Bullet suits a sudden snap: it runs fast, drops to a crawl, then runs fast again.
4. Fine-tune the graph if you like. Drag a point to change the speed there, click the graph to add a point, and double-click a point to remove it. Clear curve returns to normal.

Hit it

1. Park the playhead on the frame of impact.
2. Open Effects in the left panel, stay on Moving and drag Shake onto the clip. A new effect covers the whole clip it lands on.
3. Drag the effect's left edge to the playhead, where it snaps. Then drag the right edge back so the shake lasts a fraction of a second.
4. Open Sound FX, stay on Library, and type "hit" in Search sound FX. Preview a few rows, then drag one onto an empty audio row, then drag its bar until its left edge snaps to the playhead.

Link the highlights

1. Open Transitions in the left panel, which clears any clip selection, then click the round button between two highlights.
2. In the Transitions tab, scroll to the Glitch heading and click RGB split.
3. Use the Duration slider at the top of the tab to keep it brief. The range is 0.1 to 2 seconds.
4. Each transition overlaps the clips on either side, so the reel gets shorter and everything after it, effects and sounds included, moves earlier with the picture.

Mix and send

1. Put the playhead at the start. Open AI Gen, choose Audio, then Music. In the Sample library pick Electronic and drag a card onto an empty audio row below the hit sounds, then drag its bar left until it snaps to the start.
2. Select the music clip, open Volume in the right panel and lower it so the game's own audio and your hits stay clear.
3. Click the music, park the playhead where the last clip ends and press Split and drop the right side. A hit sound that runs past the picture needs the same trim.
4. Press Export, choose a preset and press Export video.

Next clip

Every highlight in the reel follows the same three beats. Open DepCut and cut your best play first.