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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Scarlett.
Congrats on the launch! Excited to see where this goes!
This is one of the cleanest AI video editing concepts I've seen on Product Hunt this year.
Most AI editors try to replace creators. ChatCut feels like it removes the painful parts of editing while keeping creators in control. The fact that it works across ChatGPT, desktop, and web makes the workflow incredibly interesting.
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@byalexai Thank you so much, Aleksandar!
FunBlocks MindMax
This tool is very efficient.
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@peng_wood Thank you, Wood!
The autonomous agent plus a real timeline is what would pull me over from CapCut. As a solo creator the thing I'd test first: when the agent makes a cut or drops in a transition, does that land as an editable clip I can nudge frame-by-frame on the timeline, or a locked AI block I can only regenerate?
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@leo404 Every edit comes with an editable timeline that you can hand tweak or export as XML!
@alimastrickland Export as XML is the detail that sells it — means I can finish in Resolve or Premiere if I outgrow the web editor. Does that XML carry the cuts and transitions as an editable sequence, or mainly the clip in/out points so any AI-added effects flatten on import?
The "save your editing workflow as a reusable skill" feature is the most interesting part of this to me. That's basically the same pattern a lot of us are using with Claude Code / Codex for repeatable dev workflows, just applied to editing. Once you save a skill, does it generalize across very different footage types, or does it start breaking down if the new footage doesn't match the original pacing/structure it learned from?
The real editable timeline + AI assistant approach feels much better than a one-click video generator where you’re stuck with the output. Curious about the reusable workflow/style skills: can ChatCut carry things like caption style, pacing, intro/outro structure, and brand preferences across projects?
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@kryptonite_wei Yes, you can save all those preferences you mentioned as a skill and reuse it!
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@kryptonite_wei If you repeat an editing workflow, you can make it into a skill. If you repeat motion graphics style, like you have a brand kit, you can create a brand system, so all the future motion graphics you generate are on brand.
Congrats on the launch. The combination of an agent that can make structural edits and a real timeline feels especially useful for turning one long founder recording into several genuinely different clips without losing the original story. How do you think about preserving the context of the source project when a user asks for multiple platform-specific cuts, so the edits change for the format without drifting from the speaker’s intent?
Surgeflow
Huge fan of this lightweight AI video editor! ChatCut perfectly bridges the gap between beginner-friendly tools and professional timeline editing. The all-in-one workflow—auto captions, B-roll matching, voiceover, AI footage generation plus XML export—is such a game-changer for content creators who need flexible, fully editable projects without heavy software lag. Super excited to test it out for my daily short-form and long-video production!
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@eeeeeach Thanks! We believe AI tools can combine simplicity and complexity in new ways. For instance, we designed the whole timeline and tools to be agent-friendly and at the same time human-friendly. So you can use the agent for certain tasks, and finetune by hand whenever you need!
The "save your editing workflow as a reusable skill" thing is honestly the part that I think decides if this sticks. Most AI editors treat every project like day one, which is why I think the output starts feeling generic the more you use them.
I'm curious that for long unscripted interviews, does a saved "skill" hold up across takes, or does it start drifting once the footage style shifts?