Video EditorThe free video ad maker: one cut, every placement

Yes — free to use with no signup, and there is no watermark on what you render. You edit and preview everything in full; rendering the finished video needs a free account. Free renders cover the two shapes almost every brief starts from: 9:16 vertical (Reels, Stories, Shorts, TikTok) and 1:1 square (feed, LinkedIn). 4:5 portrait, 16:9 landscape and any custom pixel size are PRO.

No. Your clips never upload. Trimming, framing, captions, elements and the render itself all happen in your browser — the video is drawn to a canvas and recorded there, so the footage stays on your machine. Two optional features do send data, and only when you choose them: Save build (PRO) stores the project settings in your account (the settings, not the footage), and Share link uploads the finished MP4 so a client can watch it — a free account gets 5 links a month, live 3 days; PRO links last 30 days. Neither runs unless you press the button.

You bring one set of clips and set the message once. Each output size then gets its OWN framing — Fill, Fit or blurred bars, plus nudge and scale — and its own position for the headline, logo and any element you add. A shot centred for a 9:16 Reel usually needs a different crop to survive 16:9, and copy placed for a vertical frame lands in the wrong third of a landscape one. That per-size control is the whole point of the tool.

Before anything starts, the Render dialog shows each file's size and an estimated time, and it learns from your own renders. In browsers that support fast encoding (Chrome and Edge, for example) it renders faster than real time and keeps going if you switch tabs. Elsewhere it records in real time, about 20 seconds per format for a 20-second ad, with the tab kept in front, and the dialog says so. Pick several formats, or add a cover image or an .srt, and you get one ZIP.

MP4 (H.264 video, AAC audio) at the real delivery size — 1080x1920 for 9:16, 1080x1080 for 1:1 and so on. That is exactly what Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn ask for. One caveat worth knowing: Chrome, Edge and Safari record MP4; Firefox falls back to WebM, which most ad platforms will not take — so render in one of the first three if you have the choice. The tool says so on screen too.

They are the zones where each platform draws its own interface — the caption, the username, the action rail. Pick your placement (Meta Reels, TikTok, Shorts, a YouTube bumper, LinkedIn) and the tool draws those zones on the preview and checks your copy and elements against them before you render. They are preview guides only and never burned into the file. Platform UI moves, so treat them as good working guides and check a current spec before a large buy.

Yes. Add text, images, shapes or buttons onto a clip and give each an entrance and an exit — the same effect names as our HTML5 banner maker, so if you know one you know the other. An element belongs to the clip it sits on: it appears when that clip starts and leaves when it ends. When you want real motion, keyframes are there: press a diamond to animate position, scale, rotation and opacity, with easing — and nothing moves until you do. Twelve free fonts are built in (Inter, Montserrat, Poppins, Bebas Neue, Playfair Display and more, all open-licence), or, with PRO, upload your own .woff2, .woff, .ttf or .otf and use it straight away — canvas draws the glyphs into the frame, so there is no bake step and no font file to ship. The headline, captions and end card each take a font too. Shapes come as rectangles, circles, rings, polygons, stars, lines and arrows, with gradient fills, outlines, shadow or glow.

It is a focused ad editor, not a full editing suite. You can trim clips, speed them up or slow them down, add photos and freeze frames, join shots with 24 transitions (dissolves, wipes, push and whip pans, zooms, spin, glitch, light leak and more, each with its own settings), give each one a colour look, caption it automatically from the speech (in your browser — nothing is uploaded), put text, images, shapes and buttons on them with entrance and exit animation, start from a layout (product hook, sale, testimonial, event countdown, app promo), keep your logo, colours and font as a brand kit, and get every placement out of one cut with the copy and crop right for each — plus a cover image per size, an .srt, and (PRO) a 6-second YouTube bumper cut from the same edit — but there is no multi-track timeline and no sound design. For a full colour grade, sound design, motion graphics or a bespoke edit, the DigiLakshya team produces it for you.

Yes. Under Brand, keep a project's logo, colours, font, end card and caption look as a brand kit, then apply it to the next ad in one click. One kit lives in your browser free, with no account needed. PRO keeps several kits in your account, so they are there on any computer. Starter layouts in the Library (product hook, sale, testimonial, event countdown, app promo, captions first) use your kit's colours, lay their pieces inside the placement's safe area, and come back off with one Undo.

No — never. Use and preview every tool with no account. A free account downloads any single result at full size, with no daily limit. PRO adds Download all, every banner size, more share links and saving to your account. A few things keep a small free allowance: QA checks (2 a day with no account, 5 with a free one) and hosted share links (5 a month, 1 a day, live 3 days). PRO is a flat $35/month ($280/year) for unlimited use of all 38+ tools: no credit packs, no top-ups, no per-use fees. The only pay-per-use extras are optional AI work done for you, paid from the Digi Bot credit wallet: Digi Bot jobs, and AI drafts in Character Animation (PRO, 0.5 credits each). Many comparable tools bill per credit (remove.bg, CloudConvert, AdCreative.ai) — here one flat subscription covers everything. See tools pricing.