Stanley is built for anyone who films great videos and then lets them die in their camera roll. Send Stanley raw footage and get back a finished, captioned video. No timelines, no manually tweaking captions, no spending hours hunting for the perfect song. Just tell Stanley what you want and it edits end-to-end: talking heads, vlogs, podcast cuts, UGC, whatever your niche needs. And it's free. Upload footage, get a video.
I'm Daniel. After 12 years of editing all sorts of different videos and generating 100M+ views, I've recently come to realize that I waste so much of my life in timelines.
A few things I've done, voluntarily: - Manually trimming pauses - Painfully adjusting captions - Spending hours looking for the perfect BGM
And I one day decided that enough was enough. So, @oliver_chen2, @justinbaduaa and I created Stanley Studio.
Stanley Studio edits for you. send it raw footage, tell it what you want, and it cuts the video to your liking. Stanley can edit talking head clips, vlogs, product demos, podcast cuts, day-in-the-life, ugc style, whatever your niche needs.
It edits like someone who actually understands short form, not a template machine. It's an expert on captions, pacing, hooks, and storytelling.
And it's free. I'm not gonna take your credit card or give you a BS free trial. All I ask is you upload footage + get a finished video.
Hey Daniel! Thank you for the fun experience! First of all - I really love how you presented Stanley Studio. I work with video professionally but sometimes I miss the fun of the process - crazy transitions, cartoon fonts, just pure joy. And you're right: when editing is easy and results come fast, it becomes so much more enjoyable.
So I uploaded my morning basketball video and gave Stanley Studio some hard tasks: 1) Freeze frame transitions - it couldn't do it, but we compromised on a dramatic zoom. 2) Captions - love the option of merging and splitting words, great! 3) Animated starburst every time the ball hits the ground - tricky one, and it struggled to detect those moments even when I set the timing manually. 4) Replacing the music track with an instrumental so it wouldn't conflict with my voice - did great.
Just one question: does Stanley Studio use royalty-free music? Is it safe to publish the result on Instagram?
Can I just install a mobile app that gets access to my photo library and automatically picks the best photos? I travel a lot - I've been to more than 70 countries, and I've visited some of them 10–15 times already. After every trip, I end up with hundreds of photos. Going through them and putting together, for example, an Instagram post takes forever. I just want a simple tool that does it for me. I've talked to other travelers, and they have the same problem. That's definitely something I'd install with pleasure.
I had a long (rambling) product update that I created a while ago and have been looking to cut down to be something far more punchy. Stanley did a really good job and I love the thought process that is shared. There is still work to be done in editing my video as some of the sentences no longer make sense. I also asked for a lighting improvement and I don't think it quite got that right. However, my gut feel is that it is closer to the finished article than when I started so there is clearly an opportunity for significant time saving here.
I like the idea because editing tasks me longer than filming. How well does Stanley handle awkward pauses and repeated takes. Showing a before and after example would answer that and build more trust.
Me trying this would depend on action accuracy. do captions stay reliable with different accents. A few real user samples could clear up that question quickly.
Love that Stanley skips the timeline entirely and just asks what you want instead. The caption styling looks clean too, not that generic auto-generated look you usually get. Genuinely useful for podcast clips.
I’ve made 3 reels with Studio so far that wouldn’t exist without it.
You’re creating a market that doesn’t exist yet!
Me liking simple tools helps. Can Stanley edit long podcasts too. Chapters might help.
Finally tried this with a messy vlog clip and the auto captions landed better than I expected, plus the song choice actually fit the mood. Free is wild for this.
The camera-roll graveyard is real. I've got launch footage sitting untouched right now purely because editing it feels like a second job. Free + "just upload and get a cut" is a genuinely great pitch. Curious how it does with product-demo and screen-recording footage, that's my actual use case this week.
Finally tried Stanley with a messy vlog dump and got back a clean cut with captions in under ten minutes, the song pick was actually decent too.
Sent over a messy 20 minute talking head clip and got back a tight cut with clean captions in like 10 minutes. Wish the music choices were a bit more on the nose but the overall speed and quality genuinely surprised me.
The send-raw-footage, get-a-finished-cut pitch lives or dies on how much I can fix afterward — auto-trimmed pauses and an auto-picked BGM are great until Stanley cuts a beat I wanted to keep. After it edits, do I get an editable timeline/project to nudge specific cuts and captions, or is it a one-shot rendered export I'd have to redo? And which aspect ratios/resolutions does the export cover for vertical vs 16:9?
This is painfully relatable. I have so many clips sitting in my camera roll because recording is easy, but turning them into something actually postable is where the energy disappears. captions, pacing, cuts, music... suddenly a 30-second idea becomes a two-hour task.
The “not a template machine” part is what I'd want to test most. short-form editing is very taste-driven, and bad pacing can make even good footage feel boring. Curious how much direction Stanley needs to get close to the right style. can I just say "make this feel like a founder launch update" or does it work better with more specific editing instructions?
About Stanley Studio on Product Hunt
“The AI video editor you hire that edits like a human”
Stanley Studio launched on Product Hunt on July 6th, 2026 and earned 163 upvotes and 36 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Stanley is built for anyone who films great videos and then lets them die in their camera roll. Send Stanley raw footage and get back a finished, captioned video. No timelines, no manually tweaking captions, no spending hours hunting for the perfect song. Just tell Stanley what you want and it edits end-to-end: talking heads, vlogs, podcast cuts, UGC, whatever your niche needs. And it's free. Upload footage, get a video.
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Daniel Park
Hey product hunt! 👋
I'm Daniel. After 12 years of editing all sorts of different videos and generating 100M+ views, I've recently come to realize that I waste so much of my life in timelines.
A few things I've done, voluntarily:
- Manually trimming pauses
- Painfully adjusting captions
- Spending hours looking for the perfect BGM
And I one day decided that enough was enough. So, @oliver_chen2, @justinbaduaa and I created Stanley Studio.
Stanley Studio edits for you. send it raw footage, tell it what you want, and it cuts the video to your liking. Stanley can edit talking head clips, vlogs, product demos, podcast cuts, day-in-the-life, ugc style, whatever your niche needs.
It edits like someone who actually understands short form, not a template machine. It's an expert on captions, pacing, hooks, and storytelling.
And it's free. I'm not gonna take your credit card or give you a BS free trial. All I ask is you upload footage + get a finished video.
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