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# Combine Videos

> Combine several screen recordings into one video, or reuse clips from another project. Each one arrives with its own section of the script.

Section: Docs › Editing

A project isn't limited to one recording. In **Clips**, you can add more screen recordings — a second take, a part you recorded separately, a step you forgot — or reuse clips you've already made in another project. Each one arrives with its own section of the script.

> **Tip:** Clips is available on all paid plans.

[Video: Release highlights - Sep '26](https://embed.videoscripter.ai/video/01a1019b-c543-7193-95ec-78707ebf22d7)

## Opening the Insert menu

In Clips, hover over the timeline. A **+** appears at the start, at the end, and between every clip and slide, labelled **Insert here**. Click it where the new footage should go.

![The Clips timeline with the cursor on the + between a slide and a clip, and the Insert here tooltip](https://www.tutorial.ai/images/help/help-insert-insert-here.ca528c87.webp)

To add footage in the middle of a clip, [split the clip](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/split-and-remove-clips) first — the split creates a new **+** at that point.

## Choosing what to add

The **Insert** window asks what you'd like to add to your video:

- **Screen recording** — pick from your earlier screen recordings, including ones you've [uploaded](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/recording/uploading-videos).
- **From another project** — reuse clips you've already made.
- **Library** — insert an uploaded image or video. *Coming soon.*

![The Insert window with Screen recording, Slide, Library marked Coming soon, and From another project](https://www.tutorial.ai/images/help/help-insert-menu.0abe5b95.webp)

The same window also adds slides — see [Add Slides](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/slides#inserting-a-slide-from-clips).

### Adding a screen recording

Search or scroll to the recording you want and select it. Once you confirm the insert, the script opens at the new clip and AI writes its narration — this doesn't use AI credits. You'll see **Writing narration…** in the script while it works; you can keep editing elsewhere in the meantime.

If [Smart Auto-Cut](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/cut-and-trim#smart-auto-cut-when-you-create-a-project) is on, idle moments in the new clip are cut automatically.

If writing the narration fails, the recording stays inserted. Click **Retry**, or **Continue without script** to write it yourself.

### Reusing clips from another project

Pick a project from your workspace, then the clip you want. Use the search box, or the folder path at the bottom, to find it.

![The From another project window listing projects in the MCP folder, with search and folder navigation](https://www.tutorial.ai/images/help/help-insert-from-another-project.fc713088.webp)

A copied clip brings its footage together with its narration, sync markers, zooms, cuts, blurs, and highlights — so the timing and emphasis you already created come with it. No AI narration runs; the narration is copied as it is. The project's slides are listed separately, so pick them on their own.

## Confirming the insert

The new clip appears on the timeline as a preview first, and the step bar reads **Placed … — confirm on the clip**. Play it to see how it fits.

![An inserted clip previewed on the timeline, with the step bar reading Insert clip, Placed Clips - Claude Desktop MCP Part 1 — confirm on the clip, and an Insert video & open script button](https://www.tutorial.ai/images/help/help-insert-confirm.4185025d.webp)

- Click **Insert video & open script** to keep it.
- Click **×** to discard it. The timeline returns exactly to how it was.

After you confirm, the script opens at the new section, marked **Just inserted**.

![The script with the new section marked Just inserted, under the clip's heading](https://www.tutorial.ai/images/help/help-insert-just-inserted.5c5a4b16.webp)

Then pick how the new clip joins its neighbours — a **Direct Cut** or a **Fade** — on its heading in the script. See [choosing a transition](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/split-and-remove-clips#choosing-a-transition).

## Notes

- **One task at a time.** Finish the current edit or narration generation before adding another clip.
- **Undo works as usual.** The insert is one undo step; the AI-written narration for an inserted recording is a separate one.
- **Changing an existing section?** See [Update or Replace Footage](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/update-or-replace-footage) for step-by-step recipes.

## Next steps

  - [Update or Replace Footage](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/update-or-replace-footage): Step-by-step recipes for changing part of a video
  - [Split & Remove Clips](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/split-and-remove-clips): Split a recording and remove outdated clips
  - [Uploading Videos](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/recording/uploading-videos): Upload recordings you want to combine
  - [Add Slides](https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/slides): Add intro, agenda, and outro slides between clips

Source: https://www.tutorial.ai/docs/editing/combine-videos