# Cut everything from one line to another

Canonical URL: https://getvidiyo.app/prompts/cut-from-one-line-to-another
Last updated: 2026-10-08

> TL;DR: Type "Cut everything from 'so anyway' to 'back to the point'" and Vidiyo searches your transcript for both phrases, removes every word between them with a ripple cut, and keeps a natural breath at the join. Captions, graphics and sound effects anchored to later words move with the edit.

## What to say

> Cut everything from 'so anyway' to 'back to the point'

Category: Cuts

## What Vidiyo does

1. Searches the transcript for the first and last phrase you quoted.
2. Deletes every word from the first to the last with a ripple cut.
3. Keeps a natural breath at the join so the cut doesn't clip speech.
4. Re-times captions and graphics anchored to later words so they stay on their lines.
5. Reports the length removed and asks if a phrase appears more than once.

Sometimes you know exactly what has to go: a tangent, a story that didn't land, a section you rewrote. Quoting where it starts and ends is the fastest way to say so, and Vidiyo cuts by the words, not by guesswork.

## What does Vidiyo do when you say this?

Vidiyo finds both phrases in your local transcript and deletes every word from the first to the last with a ripple cut. The join keeps a natural breath. Anything anchored to later words, like captions, titles and motion graphics, re-times through the cut, so nothing drifts off its line.

Every transcript word has a short reference the assistant can cut on, so the edit lands between words rather than mid-syllable. If a phrase appears more than once, it asks which you mean.

## How do you phrase it?

Quote a few distinctive words at each end. You don't need the full sentence:

- "Cut everything from 'so anyway' to 'back to the point'"
- "Remove the story about the airport"
- "Delete from 'quick tangent' up to but not including 'here's the fix'"
- "Cut the sentence that starts with 'honestly'"
- "Cut 1:12 to 1:40"

Describing the section ("the story about the airport") also works, since the assistant reads the whole transcript. Quotes are just harder to misread.

## How would you do this by hand?

By hand, you scrub to find where the section starts, listen for the exact gap between words, blade there, do the same at the end, delete and close the gap. Then you fix any title or graphic that sat after the cut and moved out of sync. Transcript-based editors let you select text instead, which is close to this. The difference here is that graphics anchored to words follow the cut automatically.

## What should you check afterwards?

Listen to the join. A cut between two sentences usually sounds natural, while a cut mid-sentence can leave a change in tone. If it sounds abrupt, ask Vidiyo to cover it with a punch-in or a short piece of B-roll. If you went too far, say "bring back the last sentence" and it restores just that.

## Honest limits

- Words the transcriber couldn't place have estimated timing. The assistant cuts on the nearest word with real timing instead.

## Frequently asked questions

### What if the phrase appears twice in my video?

The assistant sees every match in the transcript. If it can't tell which one you mean, it asks, or you can add a timestamp.

### Do my captions and graphics break when I cut?

No. Captions come from the words, and motion graphics are anchored to transcript words, so they re-time through the cut and stay on the line they belong to.

### Can I cut by timestamp instead?

Yes. "Cut 1:12 to 1:40" works too. Quoting words is more exact, because the cut lands between words instead of mid-syllable.

## Related

- [Edit video by chatting](https://getvidiyo.app/features/chat-video-editing)
- [Transcript-based editing](https://getvidiyo.app/glossary/transcript-based-editing)
- [Timeline](https://getvidiyo.app/glossary/timeline)
- [Transcript-based vs frame-aware AI video editing](https://getvidiyo.app/blog/transcript-based-vs-frame-aware-ai-video-editing)
- [Cut this down to 60 seconds](https://getvidiyo.app/prompts/cut-it-down-to-60-seconds)

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