This page covers what a profile knows about you after your videos are analyzed, how it shows up in a rough cut, and how to change it.
Change what a profile knows
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Open the profile
Click Style profiles in the top bar and select it in the list.
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Add more published videos
Pick videos that represent how you normally cut. Every import makes the profile more confident about how you work. See importing published videos.
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Let the rows finish
When a row says Analyzed, it has already been folded in. The profile updates itself after every import, so there is no rebuild step to trigger.
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Start a new project to use them
A project that has already been cut keeps the profile it was cut with, as it was then. New projects bound to this profile pick up everything it has learned since.
What the profile holds
Your habits. How you edit, read from your own published work. The more representative videos a profile holds, the more confident it is.
Those notes describe you; they do not decide anything. Every automatic cut comes from a fixed rule.
How it works
Your published videos and your raw footage are always judged by the same rules, or the two would not be comparable.
Profiles live with your account on our servers, which is what lets a job cut against them. How your footage is handled is covered in our privacy policy.
If something goes wrong
The cut is too aggressive, or too gentle. That is usually the profile, not the cut. If the project was created with No profile, everything gets cut by design. If it has a profile with only one or two videos, add a few more and start a fresh project.
A cut kept things you would have removed. Snitt keeps a filler word when your own published videos kept it. If those videos are not representative — a livestream, a re-upload, an unusually loose edit — build a new profile from the videos that do represent you.
Two very different formats in one profile. Split them. A profile describes one style, so a channel with a tightly cut tutorial format and a loose podcast format is two profiles, not one. See profiles.
One video looks like it threw the profile off. A damaged file has whatever Snitt learned from it marked approximate. Check the note on that video’s row in the profile.