ClipsPal: AI video editor that edits your talking-head videos

Desktop video editor for Mac and Windows. Drop in raw clips: ClipsPal cuts failed takes and silences, adds zoom-ins, subtitles, visuals and sound, then turns the video into shorts and articles. Runs on your Claude Code or Codex. Pay once, no subscription.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 Dan here.

I record a video for every app I launch, and editing was the part I kept putting off: cutting failed takes and silences, adding zooms and subtitles, then cutting shorts.

So I built ClipsPal. A desktop app that:

• cuts failed takes and silences on its own (my last video: 15:35 of footage down to 5:40)

• adds zoom-ins, subtitles, visuals, motion slides and sound

• turns the video into vertical shorts and an article

• takes plain-word requests through Director, or lets your agent edit through MCP

Your footage stays on your computer and transcription runs locally. It runs on the AI you already pay for (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Ollama), and you can open the edit as a timeline in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

Pay once, no subscription.

What should it do next?

@kronop Congratulations on the launch! i'm currently using descript but i love that it already runs on ai platform i alread use. descript's underlord is so expensive!

@kronop Opening the edit as a timeline in Premiere or Resolve is a smart escape hatch. Creators trust an AI edit a lot more when they know they can take over the last 10% themselves!