Trimming, Reordering, and Editing Your Mini Before Posting
Before you share a Mini, Whistlr gives you a simple set of in-app editing tools to fine-tune your clips — trimming length, reordering multiple clips, adjusting playback speed, and previewing the whole thing before it goes live. You don't need any outside editing experience to use them. This guide walks through the basics of cleaning up a Mini before you post it.
Trimming Clip Length
After recording, open the editing screen and tap on any clip in your timeline to select it. Drag the handles at either end of the clip inward to trim off unwanted footage from the beginning or end, watching the preview update as you adjust. Trimming is useful for cutting a shaky start, removing dead air before the action begins, or simply tightening a clip so your Mini gets to the point faster.
If your Mini is made up of several clips stitched together, each one can be trimmed individually without affecting the others. This makes it easy to record a little extra footage on each take and trim away the rough edges afterward, rather than trying to time every recording perfectly in the moment.
Reordering Multiple Clips
When you've recorded more than one clip for a single Mini, the editing timeline shows them in a row in the order they were captured. Press and hold any clip thumbnail and drag it to a new position in the row to change the sequence. This is helpful when you want to lead with your strongest moment, build up to a punchline, or simply realize a later clip works better as your opener.
- Trim: Drag the start or end handle on a selected clip to shorten it
- Reorder: Press, hold, and drag a clip thumbnail to a new spot in the sequence
- Adjust speed: Select a clip and choose a speed option to slow it down or speed it up for effect or timing
- Undo and redo: Use the undo arrow to step back through recent changes, or redo to bring a change back
- Delete a clip: Select an unwanted clip and remove it from the sequence entirely without affecting the others
Editing isn't about perfection — it's about giving yourself permission to record more than you need, knowing you can trim it down to exactly what matters.
Adjusting Speed and Using Undo: Selecting a clip and opening its speed options lets you slow down a moment for emphasis or speed one up to keep energy high, both of which can change the entire feel of a Mini without re-recording anything. If a change doesn't look right, the undo button steps backward through your recent edits one at a time, and redo brings a change back if you change your mind again. Because none of these adjustments are permanent until you post, it's worth previewing your Mini in full after each significant change.
Previewing Before You Share
Once you're happy with the trim, order, and speed of your clips, tap preview to watch the Mini exactly as your audience will see it, start to finish, with any filters, captions, or sound already applied. Use this preview to catch anything that feels off — pacing that drags, a transition that's too abrupt, or a clip that no longer fits — before moving on to add a caption and sharing it to your profile.