ChatCut - Your AI video editor in ChatGPT, desktop, and web
ChatCut is a lightweight, professional-grade AI video editor anyone can use, even without editing experience. It’s like having a personal video editing assistant that understands your footage, intent, and timeline. Make structural edits, fine-tune cuts, add captions, B-roll, music, voiceover, motion graphics, stock footage, and AI-generated video in one place. Every edit stays editable on a real timeline, with XML export when you want to keep working elsewhere.
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V2Fun
Congrats on the launch, ChatCut team!
I first saw Kaiwen Li’s product video on Xiaohongshu earlier this year, and the concept immediately felt exciting. I also really liked his video style as a director.
I’ve been looking forward to ChatCut’s official launch and commercialization, so it’s great to see it live on Product Hunt now. Big congrats to the team!
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@tammytan516 Thank you so much!
Best of luck with the launch, team! The XML export is a great touch for flexibility. Curious, what's the ideal point for someone already using Premiere to bring ChatCut into their workflow?
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@aymi_malik We see users throwing a lot of the repetitive, tedious tasks to ChatCut like building rough cuts, making cutdowns, making different versions, captions. Also with packaging like motion graphics, title cards, music, sound effects.
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@aymi_malik think of how Photoshop users switiching to Canva when Canva became feasible. Canva makes design much easier, and you can export PNG transparent layers into Photoshop if you are a pro user.
Same with ChatCut. You can start an edit, and get edits super quickly with AI (even right inside ChatGPT/Codex app, where you might have written your script), and then XML it to Premiere.
But honestly, just like a lot of Canva users today, we expect a lot of user to be satisfied with the quality and not see the point of further refinement in Premiere.
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@mick_houle I promise it won't bite.
Editing video directly inside ChatGPT or via web is a massive time-saver for Shorts/Reels creators. Hard to beat CapCut, but the workflow integration is a huge plus.
How do you work with 4k / 8k footage streams?
How does the AI handle hour long or longer videos? I want to cut an hour long podcast for example and multi-scene / multi-angle.
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@emailtang Our desktop app supports 4k export, please stay tuned.
I cut a lot of product demos and the part that eats my afternoon is trimming dead air and lining up captions. When I tell ChatCut to "cut the pauses," is it working off the transcript timing or actually detecting silence in the audio? Those two go wrong in really different ways once a clip runs long.
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@chielephant Both.
Netlify
Love AI tools that let humans be still in charge
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@thisiskp_ Indeed!
EverTutor AI
The biggest bottleneck in content creation isn't generating ideas anymore—it's editing.
ChatCut is tackling exactly that problem by making professional video editing accessible to everyone, not just editors. The editable timeline and XML export are especially impressive because they fit into real production workflows.
Huge congratulations to the team. This deserves attention today! 👏
"Real timeline, XML export when you want to keep working elsewhere" is the detail that stands out to
me. I've spent today wrestling with a different editor that made a bunch of decisions for me I
couldn't easily undo or take elsewhere, so a tool that respects that you might outgrow it, or just want
a second opinion from another editor, is a real, underrated feature. The "understands your footage, intent, and timeline" claim is the ambitious part. Curious how it handles genuinely messy, unplanned footage, like a founder
just talking into their phone with no shot list, versus more structured content, does it need some minimum organization to work well? This would've saved me a few headaches today. Nice work.
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@melissa_capello
Actually works quite well with messy footage, since ChatCut was built to analyze footage and really edit structurally. Not just cutting out silences/ums/ahs. You can totally drop a bunch of footage in and just ask ChatCut to edit it. The agent will guide you through the edit, asking and confirming every step of the way.
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@melissa_capello A lot of AI apps want to lock people in their system. That's naive. As filmmakers, softwares are necessarily part of a whole ecosystem - editing, color grade, vfx, sound mix - and we built ChatCut to fit into that system and work for real people.
The editable timeline + XML export is what stands out to me — most AI editors hand you a locked render and you're stuck. As a music producer, my one question: when I drop a track in, can it actually cut to the beat / align B-roll transitions to the transients, or is the music just a background layer? That's usually where these fall short for visualizer and promo content.
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@lennoxbeflying Yes you can ask the agent to match the music to a beat or a scene!