Turning a full podcast into social clips used to mean scrubbing through footage, finding the moments, and building every edit from scratch. Rio finds the clips and gives me a first cut I can refine instead of starting from zero.
Rio
Edit your footage by asking. Rio is Slate’s AI editor for social teams.
Rio is Slate’s video editing assistant for social and marketing teams. It doesn’t generate video, it edits yours: tell it what you want in plain language and a first cut lands on a real timeline, in your brand. You stay the author.
Real footageStart for free
It doesn’t generate video. It edits yours.
Rio works with the footage you actually shot. No AI avatars, no generated scenes. Just your real clips, edited with AI.
Tell Rio what you want, whether that's turning 10 clips into a 60-second Reel or finding the best moments from a shoot. Keep prompting and refining until the edit is exactly how you want it.
Real cuts, real timeline
A timeline you can take over.
Rio makes edis directly on Slate's video timeline. Every cut, clip, and caption is yours to move, adjust, or undo.
Want something different? Tell Rio. Prefer to do it yourself? Jump right in. There's no handoff between AI and manual editing. It's all the same project, and you're in conrol of every detail.
Inside your brand systemRequest a demo
Your brand, built into every edit.
Set up your fonts, colors, caption style, and approved assets once. Rio learns them and applies them as you edit, so every video looks like it came from your team, no matter who made it.
No more fixing fonts, tweaking colors, or redoing the same changes on every video.
AI for social media managers, that actually gets it right
Your first draft starts with your input
Instead of jumping straight into an edit, Rio reviews your footage and suggests the moments worth keeping. You can preview its selections, rearrange them, swap moments out, or ask it to find more. Once you're happy with the plan, Rio turns those selections into your first draft, ready for you to keep editing.
Create reusable Editing Skills for your entire team.
Teach Rio how your team likes to edit, from animated hooks and zooms to transitions, captions, and pacing. Save those preferences as Skills that anyone on your team can use, so every video follows the same creative direction without having to explain it all over again.
Follow the action. Keep it vertical.
Tell Rio to follow the ball, the speaker, or the play, and it reframes the shot to 9:16 with the action in frame the whole way. No keyframes, no manual crop. Automatic action tracking is next up for Rio.
Coming Soon
More things you can ask Rio to do for you
Cut out the bad takes
Reframe to follow the action (coming soon)
Remove filler words, gaps, silences
Add a compelling hook
Apply my brand style
Add sound effects
Add punch-ins for pace, and visual intrigue
Create animated lower thirds
Add a track from the library and set the levels
I love that it helps me with reviewing all of the footage and recommending different cuts.
Wow. Okay. I’m impressed. That was exactly what I wanted.
This tool is incredible. This is actually incredible.
Julia Stern
Social Media Lead at Amazon
That’s sick. I can just type and it tells what to do. This is amazing.
The timeline editing is really good. I prefer to use Slate instead of CapCut.
Make it together
Rio lives in the same workspace your whole team already uses. Share a project, save an editing style, leave timestamped feedback, and pick up where anyone left off.
Request a demo- Timestamped video feedback
- Frame-level comments
- Real-time project comments
- External review links
- Project status updates
More about Rio
What is Rio?
Rio is Slate’s AI video editor, built into the Slate platform: a video editing assistant for social media teams. You drop in raw footage, describe the edit in plain language, and a first cut lands on a real timeline in Slate’s full editor, in your brand’s fonts and presets.Does Rio generate video?
No. Rio edits footage you shot. It cannot create footage, b-roll, or avatars. Every edit is a real cut of real footage, and your team stays the author.Will Rio pass our AI governance review?
Rio is built for it. It is non-generative: it edits existing footage and cannot create footage, b-roll, or avatars. Every change is visible and reversible on the timeline, and a human reviews and approves before anything publishes. Enterprise customers with strict AI policies have cleared Slate for exactly this use. Share your policy with us and we’ll walk through it.Will Rio over-edit my footage?
No. Rio makes a first pass that gets you most of the way there and stops. You keep prompting, accept its suggestions, or finish by hand. It’s built to save you work, not create work you have to undo.Can I take over and edit manually?
Any time. Every edit Rio makes is a real cut on an exposed timeline in Slate’s editor. Grab it, move it, undo it, or finish the edit yourself.Do I need to learn how to prompt?
No. Talk to Rio the way you’d brief a teammate: “find the funniest hook and bring it up front,” “cut the bad takes,” “make it vertical.” Casual, imperfect asks work.How does Rio know my brand?
Rio edits inside your Slate brand system: approved fonts, caption presets, safe zones, approved assets, and Slate’s licensed music library. There’s nothing to configure per edit.How is Rio different from CapCut or Opus Clip?
Most AI clip tools hand you a rendered file: you take what you get or start over. Rio works on an editable timeline inside Slate, applies your brand system automatically, and keeps your whole team’s projects, assets, and review flow in one place.What can Rio edit?
Almost anything a social team shoots. Rio is strongest wherever people are talking: interviews, pressers, podcasts, webinars, keynotes, mini mics, customer calls, and talking-head explainers, because it reads the transcript to find the moments. It also builds multi-clip reels and recaps from the clips you hand it, cuts behind-the-scenes and skit footage for timing, and reframes any of it for vertical. If it was shot by your team, Rio can work with it.How do I get started?
Rio is available with a self-serve trial inside Slate. Usage runs on AI Credits, and each plan comes with a credit allocation.
There's even more to Slate
Video and graphics in one on-brand editor with AI built in, on desktop and mobile. Built for the pace of social.
Shared projects, external review links, frame-level comments, statuses, and approvals, all where the content gets made.
Fonts, colors, templates, presets, and licensed audio in one place, applied automatically in every project.
Media Hub
NewA shared media library, connected to your sources, one click from every project.
Auto-captions styled by your brand presets, translated for every market, exported with the video or as SRT.
