Editing with Rkive The complete, accurate, capability-focused guide (no fluff, no templates, real editing)

Rkive is not a clip cutter. It's not a template engine. It's a reasoning-driven AI editor that works like a skilled human editor — except 100× faster.

This guide explains everything Rkive can do when you edit a post.

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1. What You Can Create With Rkive

Rkive can edit and generate:

1) Video posts

• Reels
• TikToks
• Shorts
• Vertical feed videos
• Square or horizontal videos (LinkedIn, Instagram feed, YouTube, Facebook)

2) Image posts

• Single-image posts with titles, overlays, stickers, logos, etc.

3) Carousels

Internally:

• Image-only
• Video + image mix
• Video-only slides

When publishing through third-party social APIs:

• Most platforms accept image-only carousels
• Video slides or mixed carousels can always be downloaded and posted manually

4) Text-based posts

• Tweets / threads / LinkedIn text posts
• Quote cards
• Typographic slides
• Announcements, updates, statements
• Multi-slide infographics and information-dense visuals

With backgrounds, patterns, shapes, diagrams, illustrations

Clean, aesthetic, graphic-design level layouts

Rkive is extremely good at producing infographics — complex, multi-color, multi-slide designs with on-brand typography.

2. Editing Inputs: What You Can Feed Into Rkive

✔ Unlimited quality

You can upload HD, 4K, or anything else. There is no quality limitation.

✔ Unlimited file size

If it uploads, we accept it. No "too big" errors.

✔ Duration limits

• Total input duration: up to 5 minutes of footage per edit (across all files)
• Maximum final output duration: up to 3 minutes per edited video (Carousels and image posts have no time limits)

✔ Number of files

Depending on the workflow:

• Manual upload in the editor: up to 10 files
• Pull-to-refresh in the Feed: up to 20 files
• Background sync: effectively more, depending on your strategy + media sources

You can merge, clip, mix, and remix everything you select.

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3. What Rkive Can Do Visually to Your Footage

This is the real list of transformations.

3.1 Cropping, Framing & Rotation

Rkive can:

• Crop tighter or wider
• Reframe shots to keep people / products fully visible
• Adapt framing for vertical, square, or horizontal outputs
• Keep a consistent aspect ratio across carousel slides
• Allow mixed aspect ratios if you explicitly ask
• Rotate footage in any direction, including creative angled rotations
• Zoom in/out as much as you want
• Match framing across multiple clips for cohesion
• Avoid cutting off hands, faces, objects (unless you instruct otherwise)

You can reference positions naturally:

• "Place subtitles above my hands."
• "Center the product box."
• "Zoom in so my face fills most of the frame."
• "Keep my hair fully in view."

3.2 Brightness, Contrast, Saturation & Look

Per image/clip, Rkive can adjust:

• Brightness
• Exposure
• Contrast
• Saturation
• Gamma / midtones
• Color balance & temperature
• Shadow lifting
• Highlight control

You request it in plain language:

• "Brighten slightly and add more contrast."
• "Make it softer and desaturated, pastel vibes."
• "Increase vibrancy but keep skin tones natural."
• "Remove the harsh shadow on the right side."

Rkive always exports in clean, high-quality output that looks good on all major social platforms.

3.3 Upscaling & Quality Enhancement

Rkive can:

• Upscale lower-resolution footage to look sharper
• Normalize footage with mismatched resolutions
• Ensure the final result is as sharp, stable, and clean as possible across platforms
• Reduce compression junk in low-quality clips (within reasonable limits)
• Auto-denoise audio (see below)

No settings. No menus. You just get high-quality output.

4. Audio Editing (Automatic)

Rkive automatically:

• Denoises audio (reduces hiss, room noise, static)
• Smooths volume so loud/quiet parts aren't jarring
• Makes voices clearer and more consistent

You don't have to ask — it happens by default.

5. Subtitles: Fully Flexible, Fully Customizable, No Templates

Rkive subtitles are not locked to "top" or "bottom."

You can specify:

Position

• bottom
• top
• center
• left-aligned
• right-aligned
• slightly higher or lower
• relative positions:
  • "above my hands"
  • "just under my chin"
  • "avoid covering the hoodie logo"

Case

• ALL CAPS
• Sentence case
• Mixed (you decide per word)

Style

Choose any aesthetic:

• Font family (20+ options)
• Weight (light → heavy)
• Size: tiny → huge
• Color (any color — you can say "same color as my hat")
• Outline (color + thickness)
• Shadow (soft or strong)
• Background box (rounded, square, translucent, solid)
• Line spacing
• Density (subtitles on each phrase vs sparse key moments)

Emphasis

You can control emphasis rules:

• ALL CAPS for loud moments
• Color changes for key words
• Different colors when referencing brand names
• Emojis inserted in subtitles (if you want — optional)

Dual or Multi-Language Subtitles

There are no constraints:

You can ask:

• "Dual subtitles: English and Mandarin."
• "Both subtitles at the bottom."
• "One at the top and one at the bottom."
• "Both centered but stacked with spacing."
• "Translate to Korean and Spanish, both small."
• "Keep the original language AND add the translation."

Rkive handles spacing, readability, and avoids collisions.

6. Titles, Cards & On-Frame Text

You can add:

• Hook titles
• Section titles
• Slide titles
• Labels ("TIP 1", "BEFORE", "AFTER")
• Quotes
• Captions for carousels
• Callouts
• Emoji-based titles
• Minimalist micro-text
• Long-form text blocks
• Multi-paragraph text on slides

All stylable like subtitles:

• Fonts
• Sizes
• Weights
• Colors
• Outlines
• Shadows
• Boxes
• Alignment
• Placement anywhere on the frame

You can reference placement:

• "Top-left corner."
• "Centered but slightly lower."
• "Aligned with the product."
• "Tiny text bottom-right corner."

7. Infographics & Text-Based Visuals

Rkive can generate design-level slides:

• Multi-slide infographics
• Data-looking visuals (even without raw data)
• Announcements
• Quote cards
• Event posters
• Clean typographic layouts
• Multi-color, graphic-design style carousels
• Patterned or textured backgrounds
• Gradient backgrounds
• Mixed color palettes
• "Aesthetic Pinterest-style" cards
• "Clean corporate slides"
• "Gen Z chaotic slides"
• "Minimal Apple-like slides"

These can be:

• One single image
• Multi-slide carousels
• A mix of text & images
• Fully typographic
• Or mixed with your uploaded photos

You simply describe what you want:

• "Create a 5-slide infographic explaining these steps in my brand colors."
• "Make a clean announcement card, white background, centered text."
• "Make an aesthetic quote card with a subtle pattern and serif font."

8. Branding: Logos, Colors, Stickers, Images, GIFs

Logos

• Watermarks (small, subtle)
• Large intros/outros
• No-logo mode
• Brand color usage
• Automatically apply brand terminology (e.g., "Rkive AI" spelled correctly)

Colors

• Any color by name
• Any color extracted from footage ("same blue as my hoodie")
• Any brand palette color

Stickers, GIFs, Emojis

• Add animated GIFs
• Add transparent stickers
• Add emojis anywhere (titles, overlays, not subtitles if you prefer)

External Images (web search)

Rkive can overlay:

• Stock-like images
• Illustrations
• Icons
• Transparent PNGs

You can request attribution in captions:

• "Add credits at the end of the caption, simple list."
• "Minimalist credit line at bottom of caption."
• "Verbose credits with bullet points."

9. Carousels (The Real Capabilities)

Carousels can be:

• Fully images
• Fully videos (for internal use or manual posting)
• Mixed (clip + image + clip + image…)
• Any number of slides
• Any style per slide
• Fully designed infographics
• Video slides with subtitles
• Image slides with titles
• Ambient slides + information slides

You control:

• Order
• Ratio
• Layout
• Title/subtitle usage
• Branding
• Aesthetic tone
• Colors
• Text density

Example:

"Create an 8-slide vertical carousel:

Slide 1: aesthetic opener

Slides 2–7: tips, each with a big title, minimal text

Slide 8: CTA

Keep everything consistent and use my brand's purple."

10. Putting It All Together: How You Actually Edit

Step 1 – Pick media or open a draft

Step 2 – Hit Edit

Step 3 – Tell Rkive the result you want

Not the operations.

Examples:

• "Make this a clean, bright reel with big subtitles above my hands."
• "Turn these 7 files into a 5-slide infographic carousel."
• "Rotate the second clip creatively and add my logo top-right."
• "Make subtitles tiny and the title huge."

You describe the goal. Rkive figures out the steps.

Step 4 – Iterate conversationally

You can keep chatting:

• "Subtitles smaller."
• "Change title color to soft pink."
• "Remove the sticker."
• "Actually let's make a carousel out of this."
• "Undo that and go back to the previous version."
• "Duplicate this post — I want two versions."

Step 5 – Approve or schedule

Or download if you want to post manually.

11. The One True Summary of Rkive Editing Capabilities

Rkive can take up to 5 minutes of mixed footage or images (10–20 files depending on workflow), clean, upscale, denoise, crop, rotate, brighten, recolor, subtitle, translate, stylize, brand, overlay, illustrate, design, restructure, and transform them into videos, image posts, text-based visuals, or fully designed multi-slide carousels — with any layout, colors, fonts, or positions you describe — up to 3 minutes per video output, at unlimited quality, unlimited file size, and unlimited stylistic flexibility.

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Read more from Rkive AI

• Getting Started with Rkive https://rkiveai.com/resource/guides/getting-started-with-rkive
• Content Planning Masterguide (with Free Notion Template) https://rkiveai.com/resource/guides/content-planning-masterguide

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About the author

Alberto Luengo is the founder and CEO of Rkive AI, a leading expert in AI for content automation and growth. He shares real-world insights on technology, strategy, and the future of the creator economy.