Cardboard AI - Best way to edit videos with AI
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Cardboard is an AI video editor that turns your raw clips into stories. Think of it as a creative collaborator that understands your footage, has taste to know what makes a great edit, and brings your vision to life.
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Hey Product Hunt,
I'm Saksham, Co-Founder & CEO of Cardboard (Backed by Y Combinator).
A few months ago, we launched Cardboard to make video editing as simple as describing what you want.
Today, we're excited to bring Cardboard to your desktop :)
Introducing Cardboard for Mac!
We've always believed that making a video shouldn't mean spending hours learning editing software or manually cutting clips on a timeline.
You should be able to upload your footage, describe the video you have in mind, and get a great edit in minutes.
And that's exactly what you can do with cardboard.ai
With the new desktop app, you can now:
- Edit videos for free: Get started with a free Lite plan, no credit card needed.
- Bring your own AI agents: Connect your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription to edit videos.
- Keep your footage local: Your clips stay on your Mac instead of being uploaded to the cloud.
- Edit faster: Less uploading and waiting, with footage processed locally.
- Do more with video: Generate visuals, create motion graphics, and recreate edits from references.
Cardboard is for you if you're a creator, marketer, engineer, founder, designer, product manager, educator, a small business owner, or work in a team who need video without learning the complex timeline.
Would love for you to try the Mac app and tell us what you think!
We'll be here in the comments all day. Ask us anything :)
@saksham_aggarwal7 @ishandeveloper No timelines, local footage, and ai agents. That's a compelling combo. Great launch!
@harshyadav thanks
have been using for a month or so now, habitual to prompting it out and letting cardboard do the magic :)
@jhalakkk yay, tysm! always liked your candid feedback
Cardboard is one of the veryyy few delta 4 products I keep boasting about in my circle. Hardcore fan of the team and what they have achieved so far. If you haven't already, this is one of those gems thats bound to make your visual storytelling at least 10x better.
Cant wait for whats next. Great launch!
@saurabh_khante too kind of you!
This has become my go-to-tool for all video editing requirements, have been using it for past 2 months and it never disappoints me.
@nrg10x thanks, glad that we are an important part of your workflow now
Social media teams could benefit a lot from this. Repurposing
footage into multiple formats is still unnecessarily time consuming
@aadesh_rawat yeah, you can try clipping with Cardboard and share your feedback :)
keeping the footage on the mac removes a pretty annoying upload step
using an existing ai subscription is a useful option too
yess, one of the reasons we launched the Mac app :D
Local processing plus Ai powered editing is a combination worth exploring. Congrats on shipping!
@anjali_tiwari13 thanks, do you give us a shot and share your feedback
Now like a super vivid user of cardboard and have also recommended to my fellow creators.
As someone building Mac apps, the local-footage + bring-your-own-Claude angle is what caught me — no upload wait and no extra AI subscription to manage. Curious how it holds up on longer footage locally on Apple Silicon, that's usually where desktop editors either shine or choke.