Hey everyone!
Three major features just landed in OpenCut AI and they all run locally on your machine.
1. AI Co-Pilot Agent

This is the big one. Tell the editor what you want in plain English and it creates a step-by-step plan, then executes it.

Examples:

- "Make this a 60-second vertical reel with captions and trending music"

The problem at MindPal was pretty simple: we have hundreds of AI templates to share. We know videos of these templates work - some have gotten us tens of thousands of views. But actually making them was a total nightmare.
We tried everything. At one point, we even hired a freelancer, but the feedback loop was exhausting. It actually took longer to give feedback and wait for revisions than it did to just make the video ourselves. It was slow, expensive, and impossible to scale.
When we did it ourselves, it was a massive grind:
Record the screen of the behind-the-scene agent builder
Record a demo of the agent working
Write a script that didn't sound like a robot
Record a voiceover or an avatar
Spend hours editing everything together
If my co-founder or I were tired or busy, the videos just didn't happen. I assumed this was just the "manual tax" you had to pay for quality.
Last weekend, I got fed up and asked Claude if I could just automate the whole damn thing.
Turns out, I can.
So I spent the weekend cooking something - an internal AI SOP to turn any workflow URL (yes, from just a single URL) into a publish-ready use case video that passes all quality standards in ONE GO.
Here is the new setup:
Playwright: Records the screen and even moves the mouse like a human
@Claude by Anthropic: Writes the narrative based on our actual product info
@HeyGen: Creates the avatar and voiceover
@Remotion: Programs the entire edit - syncing everything into a final file
@Zernio + @Railway: Automatically publishes the video and saves the assets.
Now, I just give the system a URL and a finished video comes out. I don't even have to click "upload."
I just wrote a post sharing the full behind-the-scenes build, the architecture, and the logic behind of this AI video agent. Check it out here if you think this could be helpful for your company: https://mindpal.space/article/ai...

P/s: This is what I wake up to every day now

Let s be honest most AI video tools are still too complicated or just don t live up to the hype. Why is it still so tough for creators and marketers to make quick, simple edits? Most tools are built for pros, and AI videos often feel a bit off. We kept hearing: Why can t I just make a fast explainer or a talking avatar without a studio?

That s what we want to change:

• Instantly create videos from text prompts

• Bring blogs, courses, and social posts to life with talking avatars

• Experiment and storyboard easily not just edit

Built for the folks who work with photos and videos on a daily basis, Studio is the workflow-agnostic media workspace; It doesn t just analyze the media you upload to it, it builds an agentic visual memory and runs workflows to understand and act on your team s photos and videos.

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In the last few days, I have seen many AI tools for creating audio-visual, and even people in my feed shared short movies created by AI (Hollywood will probably cut costs quite a bit in the next few years).

What is your experience with AI video generators, and which ones do you find the best?
(In terms of which AI tools have given you the best video results.)

A few weeks ago, @Veo emerged.

A few days ago, I tried @Higgsfield. The output is here.

Yesterday, Chris hunted @Midjourney Midjourney V1 Video Model.

And today I read that @Perplexity has a video generation available on Ask Perplexity!

If you had to make image or video with sound to publish what tools would you use? What type of content do you (or would you) produce with those tools?

Some tools I'm thinking of are

• @Sora by OpenAI for video

• @Suno.ai for music gen

• @ChatGPT by OpenAI for image gen

• and maybe something like @ReelFarm for UCG-esque automated content.

I don't want to sound bad, but I feel like Adobe is asking quite a lot of money for something that other tools do the same (if not better) with a better user experience and sometimes even cheaper.

For example, Adobe XD vs. Figma

Adobe Premiere vs. DaVinci Resolve, etc.

Video has always been one of our biggest customer acquisition channels at my company. But for 2 years, our video making process was a mess. Not the recording - the everything else. Finding editors who understood our specific AI context was hard, so we ended up doing it ourselves. It was draining. It was inconsistent. It was a bottleneck.

Over the last 10 days, I built an autonomous AI video agent (powered by Hermes - or OpenClaw - both work) to kill the drudgery for good.

New from @andrewmason: agentive video editing coming to Descript.

A smart, versatile, tireless AI co-editor with all the tools it needs to make any video you want because it s built right into Descript.

The short video format originated primarily on TikTok as "TikToks." Of course, it was then picked up by Instagram ("Reels"), YouTube ("Shorts"), and later other platforms began to embrace this trend of short, vertical videos (LinkedIn, X).

For these purposes, TikTok created a mobile video editing app and later a desktop version, CapCut. (2019)
And guess what...

I've been making short films for as long as I can remember. 

My first short was back in middle school, where my brother and I pretended we were in Star Wars, dueling with dowel rod lightsabers. By the time I met my co-founders, Spencer and Charlie, in college, my storytelling had (I hope) evolved well past my VFX-obsessed origin story.

We met on the set of a feel-good student short I directed last fall. But this wasn t backyard filmmaking anymore. We quickly got stuck in a hellish landscape of spreadsheets. Nobody s availability lined up, everyone was overwhelmed, and it took forever to finish the film.

I've been making short films for as long as I can remember. 

My first short was back in middle school, where my brother and I pretended we were in Star Wars, dueling with dowel rod lightsabers. By the time I met my co-founders, Spencer and Charlie, in college, my storytelling had (I hope) evolved well past my VFX-obsessed origin story.

We met on the set of a feel-good student short I directed last fall. But this wasn t backyard filmmaking anymore. We quickly got stuck in a hellish landscape of spreadsheets. Nobody s availability lined up, everyone was overwhelmed, and it took forever to finish the film.

We ve talked a lot about the pain points in video creation, but what about the parts you actually enjoy?

Is it scripting? Storyboarding? Editing? That final moment when everything just clicks?

Curious to hear what parts of the process make it worth the effort for you. Drop your favorite bit below would love to see what others vibe with too.

I can safely say that the video is one of the most important things on launch day.

Sometimes even more important than your images.

Hey Product Hunters!

I ve been thinking about a new project idea and I d love to hear your thoughts.

Face swaps are everywhere but surprisingly, there s still no easy, user-friendly tool to instantly put your face into iconic movie scenes, straight from the browser. No downloads, no complicated setup just pick a scene, upload your photo, and watch yourself become the hero (or villain!) in seconds.

How it would work:

I was recently talking with a group of founders, and we went around sharing tools we're using now. Posting my notes for our community here - would love to know what else people are using!

Voice AI toolkit:

- Vapi

Creating demo videos sounds simple... until you re 10 takes in, stuck editing ums, or re-recording because the UI changed again.

Whether you re a founder, marketer, or part of a product team we ve all been there.