vidcut
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AI-native vertical video editor · 1080×1920

AI edits your video.You keep the final cut.

Tell your AI what you want. vidcut cuts, captions and scores a real timeline you can still edit — nothing ships without your sign-off.

Start creatingfrom $8.99/moConnect your own AI (MCP)bring Claude, or any MCP agent

7-day full refund · Open source core (AGPL) · Self-host free forever

Karaoke captions · word-level

Motion graphics · name card + counter

Typewriter reveal · word by word

Every video ships with its recipe. Nothing is a black box.

Simulated demo — launch version ships with a real session recording.See how it gets made

How it gets made

One prompt. A finished edit.

Watch the ask land on a real timeline: clips trim, caption blocks grow, a name card drops in. Then it stops and waits for you.

vidcut · MCP session1080×1920 · project “founder-short”
Done — 45.0s, 12 captions, name card added. Review when ready.
Rendering… 1080×1920
Timeline1:58
Video · 4 clips
Motion graphics
NAME CARD
Captions · word-level
Audio
idle
Simulated demo — launch version ships with a real session recording.
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The numbers

The math on doing it yourself

Time

  • Rough cut by hand: ~2 hours
  • Captions, synced word by word: ~1 hour
  • Learning a pro editor's every hidden switch: weeks

vidcut: one prompt, then minutes of review.

Typical figures for a talking-head short; your mileage varies.

Money

$0.30 / one 60-second short

Hiring the same short out: $50–150 market rate ↗

vidcut Solo: $8.99/mo — cutting, captions and motion graphics, one subscription.

Math: Solo $8.99 over its 30 render minutes, one-minute shorts, one render each. On Solo the AI chat runs on your own Claude.

See the plans

Not a black box. A real timeline.

One prompt gets you a full edit — but it lands as clips, captions and tracks you can drag, trim and restyle. Change your mind mid-way, undo, or take over entirely. The AI proposes; the timeline stays yours.

Watch it land on the timeline

Structured tools, not prompt loops.

Your agent drives 36 MCP tools that return structured project state — no pasting transcripts back and forth, no burning tokens re-describing the video. BYO-Claude is billed by Anthropic directly and never touches your vidcut credits.

What “bring your own AI” means

The loop

Ask → Review → Ship

01ASK

Say it plainly

“Cut this to 45 seconds, TikTok captions, a name card on the intro.” Your AI works through 36 MCP tools on a real timeline.

02REVIEW

The gate is yours

It stops and asks. You scrub the timeline, approve — or send it back with notes it picks up from.

03SHIP

Out at 1080×1920

Render at 1080×1920. Burn captions in, embed them toggleable, or ship a sidecar .srt.

You get the final cut.

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Where it sits

Open-core, MCP-native, review-gated.

The closed platforms bring their own AI. vidcut lets you bring yours — and keeps the source open.

vidcutChatCutDescriptCapCutA human editor
Bring your own AI (open MCP)✓ any MCP agentChatGPT only✗✗—
Open source · self-host✓ AGPL, free forever✗✗✗—
Real editable timeline✓✓✓✓—
Built-in human review gate✓ approve / send back✗✗✗✓ (that's you)
Word-level captions✓ 5 presets✓✓✓extra work
AI motion graphics✓ 8 templates + HTML✓limitedtemplatescosts extra
Starts at$8.99/mo$25/mofrom $16/mofree + paid Pro$50+ per video

Competitor details from their public pages, Aug 2026. Tell us if something's out of date.

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In the box

Everything that makes it look finished.

Every card is a CSS impression of what the renderer actually does — playing on loop.

Auto captions, word-timed

one call transcribes and lays word-synced captions on the whole cut.

Word-level karaoke captions

five presets: tiktok, bold-yellow, youtube, netflix, outlined.

Typewriter reveal

captions that type themselves.

Caption in/out motion

slide, fade, pop per line.

Color emoji in captions

real color, not tofu.

Stroke, shadow, plate, spacing

per-caption stroke width, drop shadow, background plate and letter-spacing.

A style per line

mix presets line by line — the hook loud, the aside quiet.

Smart line breaks

captions wrap to a pixel budget, not a character count.

What you preview is what ships

caption cards render pixel-identical in preview and export (karaoke strokes aside — see below).

Karaoke highlighting previews with a slightly heavier stroke than it exports — the export is the correct one.

Get all of it for $8.99/mo

Skills

What your agent learns next.

Roadmap

Talking-head

hand it raw footage; get a cut, captioned, scored short.

Roadmap

Long-form → Shorts

mine an hour of video for the best 45 seconds.

Roadmap

Find your niche

position your channel before you post.

Roadmap

Trend radar

what's moving in your lane this week.

Roadmap

Hook writer

first-3-seconds variants, ready to test.

Roadmap

Auto B-roll

cutaways matched to what you're saying.

Roadmap

Podcast clipper

episodes into clip stacks.

Roadmap

Brand kit

your fonts, colors and name card on every video.

Dozens more skills on the way.

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Build your brand today.

In the AI era, publishing yourself isn't optional — it's how you're found. vidcut makes it light: you create, AI handles the video.

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You get the final cut.

Tell your AI what you want. vidcut cuts, captions and scores a real timeline you can still edit — nothing ships without your sign-off.

Start creatingConnect your own AI (MCP)bring Claude, or any MCP agent

7-day full refund · Open source core (AGPL) · Self-host free forever

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