A cross-platform desktop editor where a built-in agent — or any external agent over MCP — edits your timeline through the exact same commands you do. Every change is visible and undoable.
Not a wrapper around a chatbot — a timeline editor whose every operation is a tool the AI can call.
Multi-track timeline: import, place, split, trim, move, transform, and delete clips.
GPU-accelerated decode and compositing in the renderer. No per-OS native engine.
Chat that edits your project directly. Pluggable provider, Claude by default.
Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex connect locally and drive the same editor.
Ships as .dmg, an NSIS installer, and AppImage / .deb from one codebase.
AI edits go through the same history as manual ones — always reversible.
The UI, the in-app agent, and the MCP server all dispatch through a single typed, validated set of commands. That is what keeps human and AI edits identical.
Run the app and point any MCP client at the local server. It exposes the editor's full command set as tools.
# Connect Claude Code to the running editor claude mcp add --transport http video-ai http://127.0.0.1:19789/mcp
Grab the installer for your platform from the latest release. The current builds are unsigned, so each OS shows a one-time warning on first launch — here's how to get past it.
Download the DMG for your chip — arm64 (Apple Silicon) or x64 (Intel) — open it and drag Video AI to Applications. Then:
1. Right-click the app → Open → Open.
2. If it says “damaged / can't be opened”, clear the download quarantine:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine \
"/Applications/Video AI.app"
Download and run Video AI-…-Setup-x64.exe.
If SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info → Run anyway, then follow the installer.
AppImage — make it executable and run:
chmod +x Video*.AppImage
./Video*.AppImage # needs libfuse2
.deb — install with apt:
sudo apt install ./Video*.deb
These warnings appear only because the binaries aren't code-signed yet — the app itself is safe and open source. Signed & notarized builds are on the roadmap.
# Requires Node 20+ and ffmpeg on your PATH git clone git@github.com:gediminasurvila/video-editor-ai-electron.git cd video-editor-ai-electron npm install npm run dev