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
Launched this week
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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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 "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?
most ai video tools feel great until you want to change one tiny thing and realize you're stuck with whatever it gave you. everything staying on an editable timeline is the actual selling point for me. if i keep adjusting its cuts, does it start picking up my pacing/style, or is every project a fresh start?
Congrats on the launch! Bringing a real video editor into ChatGPT feels much more useful than treating AI as a separate generation step.
I’m curious about the workflow between ChatGPT and the full editor: if I start an edit through conversation, can I open the same project on desktop or web with the complete timeline, assets, and edit history preserved? Where do you see users doing most of the work long term — in chat or directly on the timeline?
ChatCut is the most beautifully designed editing tool I’ve ever used. It embodies the principle that control over the story and the final cut should remain in my hands, while at the same time fully showcasing the efficiency gains enabled by AI-powered editing. I used ChatCut to edit my launch video, and it was so efficient that I was able to create a large number of different versions.
This feels like the direction video editing should be going in. Less repetitive work, more time spent on the actual content.
ChatCut
@jocky Thank you. ChatCut reduces Less repetitive work, but still remain in creative control when you need it.
@kaiwenli Pretty cool product, Congrats to the launch!
ChatCut
@jocky Thanks! You can use ChatCut in the web, or inside the new ChatGPT/Codex app as a plugin. Please let us know your feedback when you get a chance to try!