ChatCut

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?

Hey @alimastrickland - this is so cool! Lately, I find myself constantly “collecting” and integrating more capabilities for my agents… running 90-100 MCP servers on each!

With that said - I am a true D1 hater of ChatGPT, for a number of reasons I hold to be valid!

Will ChatCut work with any agents that supports MCP, for example?

Great work!

This tool is very efficient.

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.

The editable timeline + XML export is what stands out to me — most AI editors hand you a locked render and you're stuck. As a music producer, my one question: when I drop a track in, can it actually cut to the beat / align B-roll transitions to the transients, or is the music just a background layer? That's usually where these fall short for visualizer and promo content.

"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.

The biggest bottleneck in content creation isn't generating ideas anymore—it's editing.ChatCut is tackling exactly that problem by making professional video editing accessible to everyone, not just editors. The editable timeline and XML export are especially impressive because they fit into real production workflows.Huge congratulations to the team. This deserves attention today! 👏

Love AI tools that let humans be still in charge

I cut a lot of product demos and the part that eats my afternoon is trimming dead air and lining up captions. When I tell ChatCut to "cut the pauses," is it working off the transcript timing or actually detecting silence in the audio? Those two go wrong in really different ways once a clip runs long.

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?

Super excited to see the ChatCut launch today! I've been a quite early user of ChatCut and I really like the idea of bringing the power of coding agents to content creation.As a video creator myself I still remember the days I tried hard to learn After Effects 15 years ago. If you're also into old school video editing, the experience with getting over all of the motion graphics stuff by interacting with an LLM agent is just magical. And what's more, if you have tried to build you own agent or maintained production agentic systems, you'd realize that the amount of challenges to make text to code to motion graphics is truly incredible. The new Codex plugin feature also represents a fascinating direction where future creative tools will be built for humans and agents alike. Congratulations and looking forward to what are yet to come for ChatCut!

Tried it on a messy interview clip and the auto-cuts actually matched the pacing I wanted, which I did not expect. Liked that the timeline stayed editable after instead of locking me into AI choices.

Congratulations on the Launch @ChatCut ! Super exciting to see such a powerful tool that's also so convenient! Does this mean that I can have ChatGpt do additional contextual research on my videos and provide more depth in the motion graphics?

Is API available?

What kind of videos does your users make or edit?