Hey everyone!
We just shipped the biggest update to OpenCut AI since launch, turning it from an AI-powered text editor into a full professional video editor. All open source, all self-hosted.
Here's what's new:
AI Features
- AI Music Generation Pick a genre (15 options), mood (12 options), and tempo. Generate royalty-free background music and drop it on the timeline.
- AI Thumbnail Generator Describe what you want or let AI generate from your transcript. 5 styles, 4 platform sizes, up to 4 variations at once.
- AI Script-to-Video Write a script, AI generates voiceover, creates visuals, and builds the timeline automatically.
- AI Auto-Duck Automatically lowers background music when speech is detected. Configurable duck amount and fade curves.
- AI Auto-Color Correction 8 one-click profiles: Vibrant Pop, Film Look, Warm Sunset, Cool Blue, and more. Batch apply to all clips.
- AI Video-to-Shorts One click to auto-select the best clip, trim to target duration, set 9:16/1:1/4:5 canvas, add subtitles.
-Speaker-Labeled Captions Color-coded speaker labels, rename speakers, apply captions with speaker awareness.
Professional Editor
- 20 transitions Iris Wipe, Clock Wipe, Morph, Glitch, Film Burn, Page Peel, Cube Spin, and more. All WebGL shaders.
- 12 effects + 22 filter presets Sharpen, Chromatic Aberration, Film Grain, Motion Blur, Duotone. Presets: Sunset Glow, Cyberpunk, Film Noir, Retro VHS.
- Crop & Mask Rectangle, ellipse, polygon masks with feather and inversion.
- Multicam Editing Sync angles, switch views with one click.
- Marker System Colored markers with notes, jump between markers.
- J/K/L Shuttle Playback Variable speed reverse and forward (1x-8x).
- Ripple Trim Delete clips and close gaps automatically.
- Compound Clips Nest multiple clips into one, un-nest anytime.
Audio
- Audio Effects Chain Per-track EQ, Compressor, Noise Gate, Reverb, De-esser, Limiter with Web Audio API processing.
- Direct Recording Record audio from your mic directly to the timeline with live level metering.
- LUFS Normalization Measure loudness and normalize to platform targets (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, broadcast standards).
- Beat Detection Detect BPM, visualize beats, snap edits to the beat grid.
Workflow
- Batch Export Queue up to 8 platform presets (YouTube 1080p/4K, TikTok 9:16, Instagram, Twitter, Podcast Audio).
- Keyboard Shortcut Editor Full management UI with search, rebind, conflict detection.
- Undo History Panel Visual command history, click to jump to any point.
- Color-Coded Tracks 8 track colors + track locking.
- Filmstrip Thumbnails Cached frame thumbnails on timeline clips.
- Template Gallery 8 project templates (YouTube Intro, TikTok Vlog, Podcast Highlight, etc.).
- Share via Link Generate share links with expiration and password protection.
Why this matters
Every other AI video editor (Descript, CapCut, Runway) sends your footage to the cloud. OpenCut AI runs entirely on your machine. No subscriptions, no data leaving your server, no per-seat pricing.
Self-host on a $20/mo server or run it locally on your laptop or desktop. MIT licensed.
What feature would you want us to build next?
Free AI Video Editor OpenCutAI
Hey Product Hunt!
We're launching OpenCut AI - a fully open-source, local-first AI video editor.
We took [OpenCut](https://github.com/ekaanth/openc...), an open-source video editor, and built an entire AI suite on top of it:
- Edit by text - transcribe your video, then edit it like a Google Doc. Delete a sentence, and the video cuts itself.
- Voice cloning - clone any voice from a 6-second sample and generate voiceovers.
- AI image generation - create images from text and drop them on the timeline.
- Filler word removal - one-click removal of "um", "uh", "like", and "you know."
- Natural language commands - tell the editor "remove the intro" or "speed up the middle."
- Smart subtitles - karaoke, pill, and classic styles, generated instantly.
- Audio denoising - clean up background noise automatically.
- Podcast Clip Generator - AI finds the most viral-worthy 30–60 second moments from long podcasts.
- Word-Pop Karaoke Subs - Hormozi-style subtitles where each word pops up when spoken. 4 preset styles.
- Multi-speaker detection - auto-detect who's talking with pyannote AI. Video auto-cuts at speaker boundaries.
- Auto-Reframe 9:16 - face-tracking crop for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
- Brand Kit - define your brand once and apply intro/outro cards, lower thirds, watermarks in one click.
- Emotion detection - SpeechBrain AI detects emotional peaks to find the most impactful moments.
Everything runs locally. No cloud. No API keys. No subscriptions. No per-minute billing. Your videos never leave your machine.
Under the hood, we're standing on the shoulders of incredible open-source models like Whisper for transcription, XTTS v2 for voice cloning, Stable Diffusion for image generation, Llama 3.2 via Ollama for natural language commands, Pyannote for speaker diarization, and MediaPipe for face detection. All of it packaged in a single `docker compose up -d`.
We built this because video editing tools are either expensive, cloud-dependent, or closed-source and we wanted one that was none of those things.
Self-host it for as low as $20/mo, or just run it on your laptop.
Would love your feedback — what AI features would you want in a video editor?
Free AI Video Editor OpenCutAI
We just shipped multilingual Indian language support [see the thread](https://x.com/humblefool/status/2036125305908371528). OpenCut AI now supports 30+ languages including 22 Indian regional languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, and more) powered by [Sarvam AI](https://sarvam.ai). Transcribe, translate, and generate voiceovers with 37+ Indian voice speakers — all from within the editor. Add your Sarvam API key in Settings and you're good to go.
Would love your feedback — what AI features would you want in a video editor?