Cardboard - Cursor for video editing
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Cardboard is an agentic video editor that gets you from raw footage to final cut in minutes.
Think of it like an intelligent collaborator, one that understands what's in your clips, has the taste to know what a good edit looks like, and executes your vision.
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This looks really exciting! I’ve been waiting years for a product like this, but with pricing starting at $60 a month, obviously this is aimed at businesses and not at individuals. I hope you are successful and there is some path towards launching a consumer product with a much lower price point. It would also be exciting if there was a local client, something that didn’t force customers to upload gigabytes of video footage. Not everyone has a fast pipe so this could be limiting in some scenarios.
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@jasonrdunn
I hear you Jason, we don't have to upload the entire footage to get started with editing, we only upload that for collab/cloud sync so that it is accessible on all of your devices.
For our ingestion pipelines we just upload small byte sized chunks of the footage.
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One of my biggest challenges with AI editing software is that the clips end up feeling disjointed and lacks the "smooth" narrative that I'm going for. Are there ways to enter into a "plan" mode so that I can specify the style of video that I'm editing for?
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@lienchueh Great question! We don't have a dedicated plan mode right now, but the way we built the agent kind of addresses this. Wherever it's uncertain about something, instead of self-guessing, it just asks you. So the narrative stays in your control throughout.
You can also just ask it to draft a rough script or outline before you start cutting.
Curious, would a plan mode be more about setting a style upfront, or is a storyboarding experience closer to what you have in mind?
i can gather i'm obviously not the target audience, but no matter how good the product is (and i genuinely believe it very well may be), there's no way more than a few people are paying $75 for something they can't even see a demo of??? maybe it's just me
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@adam_sardo I have a different experience.
The video presentation looks quite simple. If I haven’t worked with video editors before, will it be easy for me to figure it out?
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@mykyta_semenov_ Yes you should be able to just talk to the agent and get the job done.
We used it for the usemoda.ai launch video, heavily recommend this tool
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@pranav_bedi glad that you loved it
I'm new to video editing but have recently started a podcast. Do you have any resources I can use to get started?
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@rushant_ashtputre1
This might be of help to you: https://learn.usecardboard.com/learn/talk
How does Cardboard determine "good taste" in editing decisions, and to what extent can users override or customize its creative choices?
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@mordrag
Good taste is subjective, whenever it is not sure, it'll ask you questions.
When the agent is done - you can manipulate anything you want in a traditional timeline that's much easier to use.
Hence you can override by manually adjusting things and customise by answering the questions
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All the best Saksham, rooting for you
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@nikhilsheoran
Thanks Nikhil!
Video editing is the bottleneck for every YouTube creator I talk to. The ideas and scripting part can be fast, but then you spend 6 hours cutting and trimming. If this does for video what Cursor did for coding, I want to see it in action. How does it handle multicam or footage with a lot of cuts? That's usually where AI editors fall apart.
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@aitubespark Glad the analogy resonates!
On multicam, it works really well for podcasts already. Some of our users have been producing results that honestly surprised even us. (Was literally shipping audio sync for this last week: https://x.com/ishandeveloper/status/2030957527018741892)
That said, there's a lot more we can do and we have a bunch of things on the roadmap. Curious, what are some of the use cases you have in mind? Would love to learn.
"Cursor for video editing" — okay you have my attention. As someone who uses Cursor daily for coding, the idea of an AI that actually understands what's in my footage and makes editing decisions for me sounds incredible. I've been wanting to make short demo videos for my apps but always gave up at the editing stage because it takes forever. If this can take raw screen recordings and turn them into polished product demos, I'm sold. Is that a use case you support, or is it more focused on podcast/talking-head content?
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@sparkuu
Yes, in fact this is a use case that has got good traction as well. We can do product demos with zoom-ins / transitions / captions / etc.