Video editing

A week of travel can produce hours of footage and only a few minutes that belong in a finished video. Editing is where most travel creators spend their time, and AI features now take over the slowest parts: finding the usable clips, writing captions, cleaning up wind noise and cutting a long vlog into short pieces for social feeds.

CapCut is where many creators start, because the phone app can produce a captioned vertical reel on the evening of the shoot. Descript takes a different route and lets you edit a talking-head video by editing its transcript, so cutting a rambling sentence is as easy as deleting it from the text. Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are the full editors for longer films, with AI help for captions, audio cleanup and masking, and Resolve's color tools are a strength when footage was shot in very different light across a trip.

OpusClip works after the main edit. Give it a long video and it suggests short clips, adds captions and reframes them for vertical screens. Runway offers AI video generation and effects. A generated shot can fill a gap or make a title sequence, but it shows a place that does not exist, so label it clearly and keep it out of anything presented as a record of the trip.

Check music and footage rights before you publish, especially for sponsored content, since licenses that cover a personal post often do not cover paid work. Review every automatic caption too: place names, local words and accents are where speech recognition tends to slip.