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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ChatCut
Launching today
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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I'm Alima, co-founder of ChatCut. I’ve spent years producing ads, documentaries, and branded content, and editing was always the most painful part of the process.
When we started building ChatCut, we thought we were building for editors. But pretty quickly, we realized the pain was much bigger than that. Businesses, YouTubers, TikTokers, teachers, doctors, founders — everyone in the world is making video now, and almost no one enjoys editing.
Editing software is powerful, but it still feels stuck in another era. As video became part of every job, we felt there needed to be a different kind of editor.
We spent a lot of time thinking about where AI actually belongs in video editing. Not as a one-click generator, and not as a gimmick on the side, but as an editing assistant that understands your footage, your intent, and the timeline.
That’s what we’re building with ChatCut: a full video editor with an autonomous AI agent, a professional timeline, built-in stock footage, sound effects, transitions, and built-in generation tools like Seedance 2, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs voices.
You shouldn’t need ten different platforms to finish one video. And AI should help where it’s actually useful, while humans keep control of the story and the final cut.
AI won’t replace human creativity, but it will change how we work. We’re building ChatCut to be part of that change.
Every account comes with 20 free credits and we're giving 10% coupon to Product Hunt users: www.chatcut.io
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@alimastrickland Congratulations!
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@@patrickkavanagh Thanks Patrick!
@alimastrickland I've been editing video since the 90's and am so happy that I can finally express my edits with words instead of tedious cuts that take hours.
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@wwaldon Haha same here!
@alimastrickland 新媒体运营也真的很需要这个功能！！！之前没出来的时候已经尝试用codex剪过了，但当时和剪映不通，字幕自动生成的都很LOW，BGM需要返工自己修剪，配音的话再剪映上下载出来上传给codex。现在终于有更好使用的AI编辑器了，真的很期待真实的使用效果。
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@15639430469yuting_ctrl 欢迎尝试！
@alimastrickland congrats on the launch. exciting times!
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@gordon_tay Thank you Gordon!
@alimastrickland Congratulations on launch. This will be a game changer for influencers with not much skill of editing skill.
A lot of AI video tools feel impressive until you want to change one small thing and realize you are basically stuck with the output. ChatCut sounds much closer to how editing should work with AI: explain the intent, let the assistant do the heavy rough work, then still keep control over the story, timing, captions, B-roll, and final cut.
As someone doing more product/launch content lately, this feels very relevant. recording footage is not the hard part anymore, turning it into something polished and usable is.
Curious how well ChatCut handles taste over time. if I keep adjusting its edits, does it learn my pacing/style preferences, or is each project mostly independent?
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@andrasczeizel We’ve built a way to carry your taste and workflow across projects. After an edit, you can ask the ChatCut agent to save your editing workflow as a reusable skill. You can also save just your design style and apply it to new projects.
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@andrasczeizel Absolutely. At ChatCut, we believe AI that gets you 80% of the way there while keeping you in creative control is more valuable than AI that promises 90% but operates as a black box.
ChatCut is a true assistant editor. It works directly on a timeline you can see, adjust, and refine in real time. It feels like collaborating with an editor.
You can also save your editing workflows and motion graphics styles as reusable skills, then apply them to new footage instead of starting from scratch every time.
"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.
Love the "humans keep control of the story and the final cut" principle. In practice, after the AI does a rough cut, how much freedom do I have to fine-tune it on the timeline — is every action it takes undoable and editable step by step?
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@ryancheng
Yes, exactly. You have full control to fine-tune everything on the timeline. And you can undo changes step by step.
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@ryancheng You have 100% control the timeline, just like in traditional video editing softwares (you can literally set your short cut to Premiere, Davinci, or FCP, or custom). Even the motion graphics elements you generate inside ChatCut is fully editable. If you want to finish the project in professional softwares, you can export XML! So AI is the start and not the end. You have full control.
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@ryancheng You have 100% control the timeline, just like in traditional video editing softwares (you can literally set your short cut to Premiere, Davinci, or FCP, or custom). Even the motion graphics elements you generate inside ChatCut is fully editable. If you want to finish the project in professional softwares, you can export XML! So AI is the start and not the end. You have full control.
Congrats on the launch! Really like the idea of combining an AI editing agent with a real editable timeline.
Quick question: how predictable is the credit/token usage in a real editing workflow? Are credits consumed mostly by generation tools like video/image/voiceover, or also by agent actions such as analyzing footage and making timeline edits? Is there a cost estimate before execution?
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@huglemon Thanks! Timeline editing and generation tools, including video, image, and voiceover, all consume credits. For generation, you’ll see an estimated cost before running it. Editing costs depend on the complexity of the task, so they’re harder to estimate upfront.
If you use ChatCut through Codex, editing actions use your Codex tokens instead and don’t consume any ChatCut credits.
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@huglemon The credit/token usage is consumed mostly by generation tools - Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, music + voice generation, all have pretty clear cost structures. The agent usage is much smaller in comparison. We just launched a plugin for ChatGPT/Codex app, which opens up a full video editor inside, and lets you use your own ChatGPT/Codex to control ChatCut. Which means, apart from generative assets, editing is free (if you are already paying for ChatGPT).
Really like the philosophy that AI should assist the editing process rather than replace creative decisions. Keeping every AI edit editable on a real timeline feels like the right balance between automation and control. I'm curious what's the most surprising editing task users consistently choose to do themselves even when ChatCut can automate it? Congrats on the launch! 🎬
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@tarqiya_forgah Honestly, some videos and projects like highly visual work where cinematic language and very precise cuts matter a lot should probably still be done mostly by hand.
how does it actually figure out where to make cuts on its own, and can it handle longer interviews without me having to guide every single edit?
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@obanselim68454 Absolutely. It can handle long interviews without you guiding every edit. That’s actually one of ChatCut’s bread-and-butter use cases.
How ChatCut figures out how to edit depends on the footage. For interviews and talking-head videos, ChatCut uses transcription, and organizes sound bites into coherent structures. You can direct it like an assistant editor, asking it to try different sequences or approaches.
For visually driven footage, ChatCut analyzes visuals and edits footage into sequences that you can dictate. You can let it create a cut autonomously or give specific creative direction about what to include and how to arrange it.
If you repeat the same type of edits, you can even turn it into a skill, and repeat it every time with new footage.
Either way, the result remains on a fully editable timeline, so you retain control over every cut.