✂️ How do I adjust scenes without losing my audio?

If Atlabs generates more scenes than you want, or you just want a tighter edit, there are three ways to bring the count down. Which one you use matters if you have a music track attached, since it affects whether that scene's slice of audio survives.

Option 1: Set your scene timestamps before generating

• When you're on the input step of your workflow (uploading your script or audio), add timestamps in the to guide how the story breaks into scenes.
• This shapes how many scenes Atlabs creates from the start, so you're not cutting them down after the fact.

Option 2: Merge a scene with its neighbor

Use this when you want fewer scenes and you have audio attached; merging preserves it.

• Open the scene you want to combine, or use its scene menu.
• Choose to merge with the scene before or scene after.
• The two scenes become one. If both scenes had a portion of your audio track attached, the audio merges too, so nothing gets cut out.

Option 2: Split a scene

Divide one scene into two sub-scenes at a chosen word - each can then be edited independently.

Split a scene

• Open the Split Scene tab; the scene's narration shows with word-level highlighting.
• Click the word where you want the split; it highlights in red.
• You can hear the selected section in the timeline right below the words.
• Click Split Scene; the scene becomes two sub-scenes (e.g., 8.1 and 8.2).
• Click Reset to undo the split-point selection.

Option 4: Delete a scene outright

Once the scenes are merged, you will find two shots in the same scene. Delete the unwanted shot; this only for a scene you don't want at all.

• Open the scene's menu and select Delete.
• The scene is removed and the story renumbers around it.

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Updated on: 10/07/2026