How to Edit a Property Walkthrough Video

Open the project in the shape you actually filmed. PropertyCuts exports one format for the project: landscape at 1920 by 1080, portrait at 1080 by 1920, or square at 1080 by 1080. Clips shot in another orientation are cropped or fitted. Matching the shape at the start saves you from discovering a sliced facade after the edit is built. If you need a second shape, that is a separate project, and the framing has to be checked again. The format guide is the decision, not an afterthought.

Choose the footage that belongs in the visit

You rarely need every file from the shoot. Keep the approach, the step from one main room to the next, and a steady view of each space that would change someone’s mind. Drop the clip where the camera searches for a subject, waits in a doorway, or crosses the same room twice.

A useful walk is filmed in roughly the order it should play: exterior first, then a natural route indoors, then the outside space. If the shoot was done out of order, you can still arrange the clips on the timeline. You cannot invent a connection you never filmed. A photograph can sit between clips when a room was only shot as a still. It should be labelled as part of the edit in your own mind: viewers will accept a still in a walkthrough more readily than a jump that pretends two rooms connect.

VideoMotion’s own filming notes, shown in PropertyCuts, are worth following on the next shoot. Film in playback order. Record in the same shape as the video. Use MP4 or MOV, with each clip at or under five minutes. The tool keeps the frames and changes their speed rather than replacing the picture.

Build the route, then trim it

Put the clips on the timeline in the order of the visit before you polish anything. Watch that assembly once. You are looking for the moment the route becomes confusing: a bedroom before the viewer has seen the living room, a garden before they have seen the door that leads to it, a hallway that appears three times.

Then trim. Cut the first second if the camera is still rising into position. Cut the end if you can see the moment you decided to stop. Remove crossings of the lens, a hand in frame, and any stretch where the move reverses on itself. Trimming is available on the timeline. You do not need a separate project to shorten a clip.

Keep a straight cut between rooms unless a dissolve genuinely helps, for example from the last interior to the garden. A wipe or a zoom on every doorway makes the edit about the transition.

Change speed with a light hand

Speed is useful when a corridor or a turn between rooms is taking longer than the information in it. It is harmful when a kitchen flies past before the viewer can see the layout. VideoMotion is built for that contrast: it can slow the moments that matter and move more quickly through hallways and transitions, while keeping the frames you recorded.

In PropertyCuts you add the walkthrough clips, choose which of them to include, and apply VideoMotion. The app shows the credit cost before you confirm. Processing can take several minutes, and you can keep editing while it runs. When the clips are ready, Use VideoMotion clips on the timeline swaps them in. Use original footage puts your recording back. The processed version is a pace treatment of your material, not a new shoot.

You can also shape speed on a video clip yourself. Stay close to normal speed in any room you want understood. Faster moves belong in the joins. If a ramp makes the light flicker or the walls lean, use the original for that clip. Restraint is the point. A walkthrough that is slightly slow and clear will be watched further than one that is impressively fast and illegible.

If you are still deciding whether this footage should have been a slideshow instead, the three-way comparison will settle it. Footage of a real route should usually stay footage.

Brand it after the picture is right

Add music only once the picture edit is stable, so you are not cutting to the beat of a track you may replace. Use a track included with PropertyCuts, or upload one you have the rights to use in an advert. Keep it under any voice and let it end cleanly.

Then add the logo, the address and the facts a stranger needs if the file is forwarded without its caption. An opening logo card is optional. If you use one, keep it short. The first view of the property should arrive before the viewer assumes the file is an advert with no home in it. Contact details belong where they can be read, usually with the closing frames rather than over a busy kitchen.

A review you can repeat

Use this as a last pass, not as a separate production.

• The first frame shows the property, not a logo on its own or a dark doorway.
• A viewer could sketch the route: outside, in, through the main rooms, back outside if there is a garden.
• Hesitations, reversals and duplicate crossings are gone.
• Important rooms play slowly enough to read. Corridors do not dominate.
• Any VideoMotion clip still looks like the footage you shot. If it does not, the original is back on the timeline.
• The room count, price and address match the listing.
• Type is readable with the sound off, including on a phone.
• The music is cleared for this use, and it does not clip the end of the picture.
• You have watched it once at arm’s length, the way it will be seen in a feed or on a listing page.

Then export the MP4. If the film is for a phone placement and you filmed wide, do not assume the landscape edit can be cropped later inside this same project. Check the portrait framing in a project set up for it.

The next shoot will be easier if the route is planned before you press record. The shot list covers the rooms and the simple moves that make this edit possible. Edit what you have today. Change the capture next time, not the other way round.