Meta pushed a fresh batch of experimental editing tools into the Edits app's opt-in beta tab — speed ramping curves, automatic color correction, project folders, and adjustable layers on Android.
2026-08-10 · by Moe Ameen
Meta added a new set of experimental features to the beta tab of Edits, its free standalone video-editing app for short-form creators, in an update detailed in early August 2026. Edits launched in 2025 as Meta's answer to CapCut, and the beta tab — introduced earlier in the summer — is a dedicated section where in-development features ship off by default so creators can toggle them on, test them, and shake their phone to send feedback before a wider release.
The headline addition is speed curves on iOS, which let creators apply precise, dynamic speed ramping along a customizable curve rather than a single flat speed change — one of the more requested tools for the kind of ramped slow-motion and snap-fast moments that define a lot of short-form editing. The batch also includes one-tap color correction that automatically optimizes exposure, contrast, and tone across a project, and folders on both iOS and Android: long-press to enter an Organize mode, then drag-and-drop drafts into separate folders to manage multiple projects at once.
Rounding out the update, Meta is bringing adjustable layers to Android — a feature it had already added on iOS in November — so creators on both platforms can keep visual elements consistent across a project. As with earlier Edits releases, availability varies by region, platform, and app version, and because these tools live in the beta tab they can change or be pulled before any general rollout, so treat the specifics as a testing-window snapshot.
The beta tab arrived alongside Meta's broader push to make Edits a serious editing surface rather than a throwaway companion app, including work on an AI production assistant and a desktop version. The through-line is precision: speed curves, color correction, layers, and folders are power-editor controls aimed at people who edit a single clip carefully, not shortcuts for producing more content.
Read this update for what it is: Edits keeps getting better at making one clip look polished. Speed curves, color correction, and adjustable layers all sharpen a single video. For most creators, though, the bottleneck was never how good one clip looks — it's producing enough on-brand pieces, in enough formats, on enough platforms, week after week. That's a generation-and-distribution problem, and it's a different job than editing.
That's where [Kompozy](/) sits. It isn't an in-app editor competing with Edits on speed ramps; it's the engine that turns one idea into a full week of finished content and ships it. From a single source, Kompozy generates an avatar-narrated [Persona Short](/glossary/persona-shorts), brand-exact [Carousel Posts](/glossary/output-buckets) and quote graphics through [HyperFrames](/glossary/hyperframes), a blog article, and an email newsletter, then schedules and publishes the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email on [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot), behind a per-post review gate. The two tools are complementary, not rivals: polish a hero clip in Edits' beta tab, then drop it into Kompozy to reframe it per platform, burn branded captions, and fan it everywhere — plus generate the carousels, posts, and long-form the clip alone can't cover. Edits perfects the one; Kompozy produces and publishes the many.
Speed curves for dynamic speed ramping (iOS), one-tap color correction that auto-optimizes exposure, contrast, and tone, folders for organizing projects (iOS and Android), and adjustable layers (Android, previously added on iOS). They were detailed in an early August 2026 update.
It's a dedicated section of the Edits app where Meta ships in-development features for early testing. The features are off by default, so creators opt in, try them, and shake their phone to send feedback before any wider rollout. Because they're experimental, they can change or be pulled.
Yes. Edits is Meta's free standalone short-form video-editing app, launched in 2025 as an answer to CapCut. Its editing tools, including the beta-tab experiments, are available at no cost, though it is built to push finished clips into Instagram Reels first.
Edits is designed to export and post into Instagram Reels first. To publish the same clip across TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and X — and to fan one idea into carousels, a blog, and a newsletter — bring it into a content engine like Kompozy, which reframes per platform and schedules and publishes to eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue.