1. Where to find it

1. Log in to OnePass and open your NexSigns license (click Application and choose your screen).

2. In the left menu, click Video Editor Studio ^Beta (right under Design Studio).

The editor opens as a full-screen page. The Exit → button in the top bar brings you back to your NexSigns dashboard.

2. Good to know before you start

• Everything happens on your computer. Your video files are not uploaded while you edit — the editor works with them directly in your browser. That is why even large files open instantly.

• Nothing is saved in OnePass (yet). When you render, the finished MP4 is downloaded to your computer. To play it on your signage screens, upload that MP4 through the Asset Studio like any other video. If you close the page, your editing session is gone — so finish and render before leaving.

• The output has no sound. Digital signage screens are almost always muted, so the editor deliberately produces silent video.

• Mixing sizes is fine. You can combine clips and pictures of different sizes and shapes; everything is automatically fitted onto the output frame.

3. A tour of the screen

4. Quick start — your first video in five minutes

1. Import. Click + Import media and pick one or more videos or pictures — or simply drag files from your computer onto the page. (No footage handy? Click Sample clips to generate three practice clips.)

2. Put them in order. Drag the clips left or right in the timeline until the order feels right.

3. Trim. Drag the left or right edge of a clip to cut off the parts you do not want. A little label shows the exact seconds while you drag.

4. Add transitions. Click the small connector between two clips and pick a transition from the gallery — every tile shows a live moving preview using your own footage.

5. Polish. Add a title card, a text overlay, your logo as a watermark, or a fade in/out (sections 7–8).

6. Pick the output. Choose a preset in the top bar — Signage 1080p is right for most screens.

7. Render. Click ▶ Render MP4. A progress window shows how long is left (usually only seconds). When it finishes, play the result right there and click Download.

8. Put it on your screens. Upload the downloaded MP4 in Asset Studio, then add it to a playlist as usual.

5. Working in the timeline

• Select a clip by clicking it; its settings appear in the inspector.

• Trim by dragging a clip's left/right edge. Trims snap to whole seconds and to the playhead so cuts land exactly where you want; hold Alt to disable snapping for fine control. Trimming never deletes anything — drag the edge back out to restore footage.

• Reorder by dragging a clip to a new spot — drop indicators show where it will land.

• Split a clip in two: park the playhead where you want the cut and click Split (or press S). Useful for inserting something in the middle, or removing a section.

• Jump around by clicking anywhere on a clip's filmstrip — the preview seeks to that moment. Hovering over a filmstrip scrubs through it live, like a preview-on-hover.

• Remove a selected clip with the Delete key (the file on your computer is untouched).

• Undo / Redo — Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y cover every editing step.

6. Transitions

Click the connector between two clips. A gallery opens where every transition type — cross-fade, wipes, slides, zoom, and a plain hard cut — plays a live animated preview built from your actual footage. Click a tile to apply it, set the duration with the slider, or use Apply to all to give every cut in the video the same transition in one click.

7. Making clips look right

Select a clip and use the inspector:

• Framing — Fit or Fill. Fit shows the whole clip with black bars if its shape differs from the output. Fill covers the entire screen by cropping the edges — and you can drag directly on the preview to choose which part stays visible (the focal point).

• Rotate — turn a clip in 90° steps, for footage shot the wrong way around.

• Color filter — one-click looks such as black & white, warm, cool, or vivid.

• Pictures as clips — imported images become clips with an adjustable on-screen duration, and an optional Ken Burns effect (a slow, gentle zoom) so still photos feel alive.

• Title cards — click + Title card to insert a full-screen colored card with your own text — great for openings, section breaks, and closing messages. Edit the text and colors in the inspector.

8. Video polish — titles, watermark, and fades

The Video polish section in the inspector applies finishing touches to the whole video:

• Text overlays — a big title, a lower-third (name bar), or a corner tag, shown over your footage. Each overlay can cover the whole video or just one clip, and you can drag it on the preview to place it anywhere.

• Logo watermark — upload your logo once and it appears over the video; drag it on the preview to snap it to any corner, and set how transparent it is.

• Fade in / Fade out — start from black and/or end to black for a professional feel.

9. Output settings and rendering

• Presets: Signage 1080p (most screens), Signage portrait (vertical screens), Web 720p (smaller file for sharing), 4K UHD (ultra-high-definition screens). The ⚙ button opens advanced choices — exact resolution, frame rate, and quality — for special cases.

• Render: click ▶ Render MP4. The progress window shows a time-remaining estimate and a Cancel button. Rendering is fast — a typical 30-second signage video takes only a few seconds on a modern computer.

• When it finishes you can play the result immediately, Download the MP4, and also download a poster picture (a still frame) to use as a thumbnail.

10. Keyboard shortcuts

11. Text size

Open the ⋯ menu in the top bar and pick Small, Normal, or Large to make the editor's buttons and labels easier to read. Normal is the default. Your choice is remembered on this browser and also applies to the other studio pages (Screen Zoning Studio, Asset Studio, Design Studio, and the Video Encoder Studio). It never changes the video you are making.

12. Frequently asked questions