Dailies

Dailies vs Adobe ExpressThe Adobe Express alternative for shorts from client calls, in French as in English

Adobe Express is Adobe’s online design and video tool, built on templates. Among its video features, a Clip Maker takes a long talking video you upload and uses AI to pick its best moments as short clips for social networks. Dailies ends in a similar place, captioned shorts, and starts somewhere else: it records the call you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, in French, in English or in both mixed, and delivers up to eight shorts a few minutes later.

Checked against Adobe Express’s own site on October 1, 2026.

Dailies

Choose Dailies if

For people whose footage is their client calls, in French or in English, and who want them recorded and cut in one go.

  • Your calls are in French, or switch between French and English.
  • You want the call recorded and the shorts cut without uploading a file.
  • You want each short reframed on whoever speaks, with silences and filler words removed.

Adobe Express

Choose Adobe Express if

For people who work in Adobe’s tools, have talking videos in English, and want quick clips next to their social graphics.

  • Your long videos are in English and already recorded.
  • You make your social graphics in Adobe Express and want your clips in the same tool.
  • You want your videos planned and published by its Content Scheduler.

Dailies and Adobe Express, feature by feature

FeatureDailiesAdobe Express
Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itselfYesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anywayNoIt works from a video you upload, or film with your camera in its editor
Records without a bot joining the callYesFrom your browserNoIt records no call
Records your webcam on a track of its ownYesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picturePartlyYou record yourself with your camera in its editor; alongside a call is not described
Picks the passages worth posting by itselfYesUp to eight per callYesIts Clip Maker picks the best moments from the spoken words; Adobe’s page says English only for now
Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaksYesPartlyYou choose the aspect ratio; a clip that is not positioned correctly is adjusted with the crop tool
Burns in animated captionsYesFifteen stylesYesDynamic subtitles in its Clip Maker; a caption feature with styles, fonts, colours and shapes
Cuts silences, filler words and false startsYesNot stated
Blurs or replaces the room behind youYesYesIt removes a video’s background
Blurs your guests and disguises their voiceYesOne switchNot stated
Handles calls in FrenchYesFrench and English, mixed includedPartlyIts caption feature covers French; Adobe’s page says its Clip Maker supports English only for now
Writes meeting notes, summaries and action itemsNoDailies makes shorts, not minutesNo
Works on any video file you uploadNoOnly the calls it recordsYesClip Maker: a video of 1 minute to 2 hours, up to 1 GB
Posts or schedules to social networks for youNoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourselfYesIts Content Scheduler plans and publishes videos

What Adobe Express does

Adobe Express is Adobe’s online design and video tool, built on templates. Its video editor works on a video uploaded from your device or on an existing Express project, and lets you record yourself with your camera and microphone. Its Clip Maker turns a long video into short clips: it uses the spoken words to pick out the best parts, you choose the aspect ratio and switch dynamic subtitles on or off, and a clip that is not positioned correctly is adjusted with the crop tool. Adobe gives its limits: a video between 1 minute and 2 hours long, up to 1 GB, and fewer than ten clips may come out of a video shorter than 20 minutes. Its page on the feature says that the Clip Maker supports English only for now, and runs on desktop only. A separate caption feature covers 17 spoken languages, French included, with styles, fonts, colours and shapes. Adobe Express also removes a video’s background, generates video from text, offers Adobe Stock audio, and plans and publishes videos with its Content Scheduler.

Where Dailies and Adobe Express differ

The language of the call

Adobe’s page on the Clip Maker says that it supports English only for now; the separate caption feature of Adobe Express does cover French. A call held in French is therefore outside what the Clip Maker is stated to handle today. Dailies is made for calls in French, in English and in both mixed, and its interface is in French.

A video to upload, or a call to hold

The Clip Maker starts from a video on your device, between 1 minute and 2 hours long and up to 1 GB, or from an Express project. Adobe Express can film you with your camera; its pages describe no recording of a call, so a conversation on Meet, Teams or Zoom would be recorded elsewhere, then uploaded within those limits. Dailies records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam from Chrome, and the shorts follow. No bot joins the call.

Who is in the frame

In the Clip Maker you choose the aspect ratio, and Adobe explains that a clip that is not positioned correctly is selected, then adjusted with the crop tool. We found no automatic reframing on whoever speaks on the pages we read, nor any removal of silences or filler words. Dailies records your webcam on a track of its own, crops your guest’s tile on their face, and cuts silences, filler words and false starts out of each short.

What Adobe Express does that Dailies does not

Adobe Express is a design tool: templates, social graphics, Adobe Stock audio, video generated from text, and a Content Scheduler that plans and publishes for you. It works on a video you upload. Dailies does not edit a video you upload and does not post for you: it makes shorts from the calls it records, and you download each one in Full HD.

Questions people ask

Does Adobe Express’s Clip Maker work in French?

Not according to Adobe’s page on the feature, which says the Clip Maker supports English only for now and runs on desktop only. The separate caption feature of Adobe Express does cover French, among 17 spoken languages. Adobe may extend the list, so check its page. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed.

Can Adobe Express record a Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call?

Its pages describe no call recording. Adobe Express works on a video you upload or on an Express project, and its editor lets you record yourself with your camera and microphone. Dailies records the call itself in Chrome: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam.

How many clips does Adobe Express make from a video?

It depends on the video’s length. Adobe says that a video shorter than 20 minutes may yield fewer than ten clips, and that the Clip Maker takes videos between 1 minute and 2 hours long, up to 1 GB. Dailies delivers up to eight shorts per call.

Does Dailies replace Adobe Express?

Not as a design tool. Dailies makes no graphics, edits no uploaded video and posts nothing for you: it makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. If you need templates and a scheduler, Adobe Express does that, and the two can be used side by side.

Your next call already holds your next shorts.

Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.

Create my shortsAdd to Chrome

Sources

What this page says of Adobe Express comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. Adobe Express is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.

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