The same guide that ships inside the app, on one page. If you only read one thing, make it boxing your batter — it's the step that decides how good the rest gets.
Pick one clip or grab several at once — CricCuts treats them as one long match, in whatever order you arrange. Filmed across a few recordings? Add them all and line them up with the arrows.
Most recordings have long idle stretches before and after play. Tap a clip's edit range, then drag the two handles to mark just the part with the action — the preview jumps to wherever you're dragging, so it's easy to land on the right spot. Happy with the whole video? Just leave it.
Worth doing. Trimming out the idle stretches is the single easiest way to make analysis faster and the reel cleaner.
Step 2 of the import. Decide how long each clip runs and whether to keep the crowd's reaction or cut tight to bat-on-ball. Two are worth getting right — Where you filmed from and Who's playing nearby? — because both change how CricCuts reads your footage.
Read this one carefully. Pick "Others playing" only when people are actually batting or bowling in the next nets. Empty nets in shot still count as "Single batter".
Drag the target-length slider and CricCuts keeps the highest-scoring moments that fit your time, and skips the weaker ones. Leave it off to keep everything it finds. You can change this any time later, too.
First CricCuts listens for the tell-tale sounds of a real moment — bat on ball, the run-up, the appeals and the cheers. Then it hands over to you to box the batter, and goes back for a second look at the video around each moment. It all runs on your phone, so nothing is ever uploaded. Sit tight for a minute or two.
CricCuts jumps to your batter's stance at the first real delivery and draws a box around them for you — usually you just check it and tap Use this stance.
Keep it tall and upright, on the whole batter head to toe, with room to move in the crease. Don't let it get wide: a wide box drags in the next net and the bowler's run-up, which shrinks your batter and makes them harder to read. Snug on the sides, roomy top to bottom.
The one that matters. Tight in width, generous in height. This single choice does more for your reel than any other setting in the app.
If the phone got moved, bumped or re-aimed mid-recording, CricCuts notices and splits the footage into steady sections — you'll see "We found 3 camera angles". A box drawn on one view won't line up on another, so you get one box per angle, marked Angle 1/3 at the top.
It's quick: when the batter is still inside the box you just confirmed, it offers to reuse it and you tap Confirm box. Import several videos and they're numbered the same way.
Here's everything CricCuts found, strongest first. The best are already ticked to hit your target length — tick or untick any clip to make the reel yours. Near-identical clips of the same shot are grouped into one card. Tap any clip to preview it — the preview autoplays through your clips in order.
Tap the Tools button on the Review screen for the power features: run the video analysis again (or point out the batter, if you skipped video earlier), tag clips by the commentary, curate the selection, or set clip length and TokTok. Changing clip range or content rebuilds clips in place — your manual picks always survive.
CricCuts can listen to the commentary around your clips and tag each one by what was called — "four", "six", "out" and more — then let you filter down to just the boundaries, the wickets, or whatever you're after. It runs on your phone, only when you ask.
Open Filter & pick to narrow the list. Hide anything below a Power, Appeal, Motion or confidence level, filter by commentary category, or just "Pick top N" to grab the strongest moments in one tap. The count updates live as you slide.
Switch between Find more (add strong moments not yet in your reel) and Filter current (review your weakest picks for removal). Tap a card to preview and trim it, then Add or Remove right there — a few taps re-rank the rest to your taste. Stop whenever you like; even a few helps.
Watch the whole reel back to back, then perfect it. Nudge where any clip starts and ends, reorder them by time, score or loudness, or drop one — a "now playing" marker shows which clip is on screen so you always know what you're trimming.
Auto-trim fits the reel to a target length — Smart trim shortens the longest clips first, or Trim equally shares the time evenly. Or tap TokTok for punchy one-second cuts with the impact dead-centre — the fast-cut social reel in one tap. Reset restores the natural cut any time.
Pick a platform preset — Reels / Shorts / TikTok, Instagram post, Square, YouTube, or Original to keep your footage exactly as you shot it. Or set the aspect and resolution yourself.
Once the shape changes you choose what gives: Fit (branded bars) keeps the whole picture and fills the gaps with your logo, Fill (crop edges) fills the screen and trims the sides.
Filmed landscape, posting vertical? Something has to be cut — Framing decides what.
Auto-focus batter is on by default and keeps your batter in the picture instead of blindly cropping the middle, with no zoom at all, so you lose no quality. It only has something to do once Fill is actually cropping the edges — on Fit, or at Original shape, nothing is being cut, so it makes no difference.
Want to decide yourself? Custom crop lets you draw the keeper, per camera position. Everything inside your box is guaranteed to survive, and the dashed frame shows exactly what will be exported.
Custom crop is the only mode that zooms. The other two keep the full-size window and just decide where to put it — which is why they never cost you any quality.
Add your Instagram handle to print under the watermark, drop in a link and CricCuts turns it into a scannable QR code on the reel, and tag the ground or the players. Then export and share straight to Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp or anywhere else.
The FAQ covers the questions this guide doesn't — how to film, adjacent nets, fixing a bad pick, battery and privacy.
