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.
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
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.
@alimastrickland Which feature do users end up loving more than they expected?
@alimastrickland What has surprised you the most since people started using ChatCut?
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?
Huge fan of this lightweight AI video editor! ChatCut perfectly bridges the gap between beginner-friendly tools and professional timeline editing. The all-in-one workflow—auto captions, B-roll matching, voiceover, AI footage generation plus XML export—is such a game-changer for content creators who need flexible, fully editable projects without heavy software lag. Super excited to test it out for my daily short-form and long-video production!
Congrats on the launch. The combination of an agent that can make structural edits and a real timeline feels especially useful for turning one long founder recording into several genuinely different clips without losing the original story. How do you think about preserving the context of the source project when a user asks for multiple platform-specific cuts, so the edits change for the format without drifting from the speaker’s intent?
Is it available for orchestration with different models? Like Claude, Gemini also? Or only GPT?
Thanks
The real editable timeline + AI assistant approach feels much better than a one-click video generator where you’re stuck with the output. Curious about the reusable workflow/style skills: can ChatCut carry things like caption style, pacing, intro/outro structure, and brand preferences across projects?
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 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!
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! 👏
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.
About ChatCut on Product Hunt
“Your AI video editor in ChatGPT, desktop, and web”
ChatCut launched on Product Hunt on July 10th, 2026 and earned 699 upvotes and 92 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. 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