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.
One session, start to finish — adding your footage, boxing your batter, picking the moments, and the slow-mo, replays and comic FX that turn a cut into a highlight. Everything below is the same tour, written down.
Pick one clip or several at once — CricCuts treats them as one long match and builds a single reel, so a session filmed across a few recordings still comes out as one.
Most recordings have long idle stretches before and after play. Tap a clip's edit range and drag the two handles to keep just the action — it's the easiest way to speed up analysis and clean up the reel.
Pick your clip length and what each clip includes, then tell CricCuts how you filmed. Two answers matter most — Where you filmed from and Can you hear other people batting? — because both change how it reads your footage.
Drag the target-length slider and CricCuts keeps the highest-scoring moments that fit your time, skipping the weaker ones. Leave it off to keep everything it finds.
CricCuts listens for the sounds of a real moment — bat on ball, appeals, cheers — then, once you've boxed the batter, takes a second look at the video around each one. It all runs on your phone, so nothing is ever uploaded.
CricCuts jumps to your batter's stance and draws a box for you to check. Keep it tall and upright around the whole batter, then tap Confirm box — this one choice does more for your reel than any other setting.
If the phone was moved or re-aimed mid-recording, CricCuts splits the footage into steady camera angles, one box each. Those boxes are first guesses, so check the batter sits inside each one — especially if you paused and moved the phone between shots.
Three steps, in order. Check your picks plays them like the finished reel — remove any that aren't real shots. Find missed, if you like. Then Trim.
Tap Tools on the Review screen for the power features. 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 — so you can filter to just the boundaries or wickets. It runs on your phone, only when you ask.
Open Filter & pick to narrow what's shown: select or clear everything in a tap, filter by commentary category, or hide anything below a score.
Find missed opens two tabs: Find more (strong moments not yet in your reel) and Your picks (your weakest picks, to remove false shots). Tap a card to preview and trim, then Add or Remove — a few taps re-rank the rest to your taste.
Watch the whole reel back to back, then perfect it: nudge where any clip starts and ends, reorder, or drop one. Named buttons beside the video open that clip's controls — the full Animations sheet, Templates, Impact FX, Replay Mode, Compass and Sound FX.
Auto-trim fits the reel to a target length — Smart trim shortens the longest clips first, Trim equally shares the time evenly. Or tap TokTok for punchy one-second cuts with the impact dead-centre.
Pick Slow-mo to ease through the moment of contact, or Replay to play the shot live and then again slowed — on one clip from its Animations, or on every clip with Apply to all shots.
Stamp a comic-book POW! and a gust on the moment of bat-on-ball — it layers over Slow-mo and Replay too. Start from one of twenty templates — one-tap looks you can tune — or pick effects yourself from eight groups, per clip or for the whole reel.
Anime-style speed lines close into a halo around your batter's head before contact, then burst out on the strike. Their colour reads head stillness — how far the head moved from stance to contact — and there's no separate switch: turning speed lines on measures it.
The classic impact beat: everything stops dead just before contact, then releases on the strike as the speed lines burst out. Switch on Freeze on contact for the reel in the Add FX sheet, or per clip in its Animations.
Two controls above the preview decide what's in shot and when the effects fire — reach for them when the crop is off, auto-detect picked the wrong player, or the burst lands a beat off.
Pick a platform preset — Reels / Shorts / TikTok, Instagram post, Square, YouTube or Original — or set the aspect and resolution yourself. When the shape changes, you choose what gives.
Filmed landscape, posting vertical? Framing shows what gets cut — by default the crop follows your batter with no zoom, so no quality is lost.
Choose how one shot joins the next: a straight Cut, a Dip to black, or a white Flash for a punchy, sport-highlights look. It's set once on the export screen and applies across the whole reel.
Add your Instagram handle under the watermark, turn a link 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.
When it's done, CricCuts sums up your reel — clip count, original and highlight lengths, auto-trimmed length and output quality — plus a CO₂e saved estimate for cutting on your phone instead of in a cloud editor.
The FAQ covers the questions this guide doesn't — how to film, adjacent nets, fixing a bad pick, battery and privacy.
