Open Cut Pro is a free, open-source video editor for Mac. Describe the edit you want, watch it land on a real timeline, then trim, restyle or undo any of it by hand.
Apple silicon Mac on macOS 26. AI editing uses your own Claude Code or Codex sign-in. Manual editing needs neither.
The agent edits with the same commands you do. Nothing it does is hidden, and nothing you do gets overwritten.
1. Import
Every clip gets a transcript with word timings, a shot list, faces, framing and loudness. You and the agent search the same index, by words said, by who is on screen, or by what has not been used yet.
2. Ask
The cut appears on the timeline as it is made, clip by clip. The chat lists each step as an editing action you can read, and you can stop at any point.
“Cut this down to about two minutes. Keep the part about moving the shop.”
3. Adjust
Trim a cut, swap a shot, drag a caption. These are ordinary editing tools, not a review screen. The agent's next request starts from your version of the timeline, not from its own.
4. Continue
Captions, music under the voice, a different ending. Each request is one undo step, so a change you do not like disappears in one keystroke and your own edits stay.
“Add captions and bring the music down under her voice.”
5. Export
Presets for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X and Vimeo, plus ProRes masters. Captions burn in or ship as a sidecar file. The agent checks frames and audio levels on the export before it tells you it is done.
Each example will show the brief, the footage that went in, what the agent did and what was changed by hand.
A twenty-minute conversation cut to two, with cutaways over the joins and captions from the transcript.
A fifteen-second ad from product footage, cut to the music, delivered as 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 variants that share their text.
Travel footage cut to a track, with the agent choosing shots from the index and placing cuts on the beat grid.
Blade, trim, ripple, roll, slip and slide. Speed ramps, multicam, keyframes, color, transitions, titles and captions. The agent can use all of it, and so can you.
Magnetic main track with free tracks above and below. Turn rippling off per project if you prefer Premiere-style gaps.
Word-level timing, six styles, per-aspect placement and a face-avoidance option. Edit the text without touching the timing.
Roles on every clip. Music ducks under dialogue and voiceover by rule, and exports are normalized to the destination's loudness target.
Every request is one step in the undo history, alongside your own edits. Revert the agent's change and keep yours, or the other way round.
When you change something after the agent's last edit, it reads the new state before it continues. An edit against a stale version is refused, so your work is never silently replaced.
A native Swift app on Apple's media frameworks. One pipeline renders the preview and the export, so what you see is what you get. Transcription runs on the Mac with Apple's on-device speech models.
Sign in with Claude Code or Codex through the official flow. No API keys, no middleman account, no separate bill. A terminal session can work on the same project, and its edits appear in the app's activity feed.
The agent arrives with editorial knowledge: when a pause should stay, how to cover a jump cut, how long a caption needs on screen. Six bundled skills cover the common jobs, and you can add your own.
Read how every edit is made. Skills use the public Agent Skills format, so one written for another tool works here. The editor stays free; there is no paid tier hiding features.
Export an editable timeline to the tools you already use. Before exporting, the app tells you which items arrive as editable layers and which arrive rendered. Timelines from Final Cut Pro import too.
Through FCPXML and Final Cut 7 XML. Rendered export in H.264, HEVC, ProRes 422 and 4444, or a PNG sequence.
The whole editor, with every tool on this page, under the MIT License. There is no paid version. The only cost is the AI plan you already have, if you use one.
A Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 26. For AI editing, a Claude or ChatGPT plan that includes Claude Code or Codex; the app installs the official tool if it is missing and runs its sign-in. Manual editing works without any plan.
Importing, indexing, transcription, playback and export happen on the Mac. When you ask the agent for an edit, the request and the project information it reads, including transcript text and any frames it asks to see, go to the provider you signed in with, under that provider's terms. Nothing is sent to us. The app has no accounts and no analytics.
Video and audio the Mac can play, including HDR sources, which are tone-mapped to SDR with a notice. Caption files as SRT and VTT. Editable timelines as FCPXML. Export presets for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X and Vimeo, ProRes masters, custom H.264, HEVC and ProRes, and PNG sequences. Output is SDR in the first release.
Yes. Import the FCPXML from Final Cut Pro, relink the media and keep working. Resolve can export FCPXML; Premiere timelines come across as Final Cut 7 XML. Unsupported items are listed in the import report rather than dropped silently.
The app is in development and has no release date. The first release will be a notarized download for Mac, with a Homebrew cask and in-app updates. Windows is not planned for the first release.
When the first build is ready, it will be a free download on this page for Apple silicon Macs.
