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Miaojian is an official video editing tool launched by WeChat, designed specifically for WeChat Channels and Moments. It is easy to use and focuses onAI-powered smart editingandOne-click video creation, lowering the barrier to entry for video creation.

Admittedly, it’s not as feature-rich or professional as CapCut, but it covers basically all the basic video editing functions and is completely free. Its speech-to-subtitle feature is free too—much better than CapCut, which charges for everything.

Product Features

1. AI-powered smart editing
   • One-Click Video CreationAfter importing videos or images, AI automatically analyzes the content, intelligently matches transitions, filters, and music, and directly generates a complete video.
   • Text-to-videoInput a script or recording, and AI can automatically combine the text with the video footage to generate a short video with subtitles.
2. Basic editing tools
   • Supports operations such as splitting, trimming, speed adjustment, reverse playback, and multi-segment merging.
   • Video duration can be customized—for example, by splitting the video into segments to get around WeChat Moments' 60-second limit.
3. Assets & Effects
   • A vast collection of templates: Provides scenario-based templates for life logging, food, travel, and more, suitable for various social platforms.
   • Filters / Stickers / Text: Built-in professional-grade filters, stylized captions, stickers, and intro effects.
   • Smart Music LibraryRecommend background music based on video content, with support for replacing the original audio or adding local music.
4. Social integration
   • Directly integrated with the WeChat ecosystem, finished content can be shared to WeChat Channels or Moments with one click.
5. Live Production
   • Supports importing multiple clips and combining them into a Live Photo with one tap, so you can edit Live Photos just like videos.

Reason for recommendation

If you want to post higher-definition, more polished content to WeChat Moments, Miaojian is the top choice. What’s more, Miaojian is currently completely free, and its one-click AI speech-recognition subtitle generation is also completely free. You can use it to edit relatively simple videos or to add subtitles to videos.