When you click a dialogue in the editor, a small toolbar appears under it. This article explains each button, the icons you see on every dialogue, and the keyboard shortcuts.
What does each toolbar button do?
Some buttons only appear once a language has audio. From left to right:
Button | What it does |
Multi-select menu | Select several dialogues at once, by hand or by group (see below). |
Generate / Re-generate selected dialogue audio | Creates the voiceover for the selected dialogue, or creates it again after you edit the text, voice or speed. Uses credits. |
Split Dialogue | Splits the dialogue into two at the cursor position. |
Adjust speed | Changes how fast the voiceover plays (available once the dialogue has audio). See below. |
Spot re-translate dialogue | Translates only this dialogue again. See Spot Translate. |
Generate all dialogues audio | Before the first mix: creates the voiceover for every dialogue in this language. Uses credits. |
Crop Audio (Beta) | Trims the start or end of this dialogue's audio, for example to cut a breath or an extra sound. Click Save to keep the change. |
Adjust Volume (Beta) | Makes this dialogue louder or quieter. The slider runs from 1 to 200 (100 = unchanged). Use Preview at this volume before you click Save. |
Download dialogue audio | Downloads the audio of this dialogue only. |
Delete | Removes the dialogue. |
How do I select many dialogues at once?
Click the arrow next to the multi-select icon. Choose Manual Selection to tick dialogues yourself, or pick a group. Each group shows how many dialogues it contains:
All
Speed Ups and Slow Downs: dialogues whose audio was sped up or slowed down to fit.
Gaps: dialogues with silence around them.
Warnings and Errors: dialogues the system flagged.
Speakers: every dialogue of one speaker.
Then use the toolbar to act on all of them together, for example to regenerate them.
How does Adjust speed work?
Auto-fit audio speed to dialogue length (on by default): CAMB.AI sets the speed so the voiceover fits the dialogue's time slot.
Do not pass rate: use it together with auto-fit when a dialogue has a gap after it and you want it to play more slowly while keeping its current duration.
Current Dialogue Speed shows the speed now in use. Set your own with − / + or the presets 0.8x, 1x, 1.2x, 1.5x, 1.8x, then click Save.
Speeds well above 1.2x can sound rushed. If many lines are sped up, see How to improve your dubbed output for better fixes, such as shortening the translation.
What do the icons on each dialogue mean?
Icon | Meaning |
Crossed-out speaker | Voiceover not generated yet. |
Yellow speed badge (e.g. 1.26x) | The audio was sped up to fit the time slot. |
Clock | Hover to see when the voiceover was last generated. |
👍 / 👎 | Tell us whether this line sounds good. It helps us improve the voices. |
+ between dialogues | Adds a new dialogue at that spot. |
After the mix, a bar at the top of the list counts flagged lines (for example "15 dialogues with speedups"). Use the ▲ ▼ arrows to jump between them, the filter to change what is flagged, and the eye icon to hide the bar.
Editing basics
Edits save automatically. Click a dialogue, change the text, and click outside it. Keep a stable internet connection so nothing is lost.
One editor at a time. Two people editing the same project at once can overwrite each other's changes.
Change a line's speaker by clicking the speaker label on the dialogue and picking another speaker.
Change timing by editing the start and end times on the dialogue, or by dragging its block on the timeline. Two dialogues of the same speaker can't overlap.
Merge only works for dialogues of the same speaker.
Deleting a dialogue doesn't move the timing of the others.
With multi-select you can also apply one action to many dialogues at once: give them a different speaker, adjust their speed together, re-generate all lines of one speaker, re-translate them, or delete them.
Which keyboard shortcuts can I use?
Click the keyboard icon in the bottom-left corner of the editor to see them at any time. On a Mac, use Cmd instead of Ctrl and Option instead of Alt.
Play / pause the video | Spacebar |
Next / previous dialogue | Ctrl + Down / Ctrl + Up |
Find and replace | Ctrl + F |
Re-generate highlighted dialogue | Ctrl + Shift + V |
Regenerate all stale dialogues | Ctrl + Shift + Z |
Split dialogue at cursor | Ctrl + Alt + S |
Delete highlighted dialogue | Ctrl + Delete |
Add a dialogue after / before | Ctrl + Enter / Ctrl + Shift + Enter |
Merge with next / previous dialogue | Ctrl + Alt + M / Ctrl + Alt + Shift + M |