AI tools for video editors (2026)

Assistant-editor agents, rough-cut and multicam tools, subtitles, color, upscaling, VFX and dialogue cleanup that fit into Premiere, Resolve, Avid and Final Cut. We picked the top tools for 6 jobs video editors do every day: 30 tools in all, 19 of them free or with a free tier.

Jump to: Rough cuts · Video post-production · Subtitles and captions · VFX and compositing · Dialogue cleanup · Dubbing and lip sync

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How we picked: each section takes the tools matched to that task in our directory, putting tools whose category and stated use cases fit the task first, then ordering by tracked GitHub stars. No paid placements.

Rough cuts

Assistant editors that log footage, pick selects, remove bad takes and silences and assemble a first cut you can finish in your editor. All 10 tools →

• Adobe Premiere AI Assistant Paid
  Chat panel inside Adobe Premiere (public beta). Ask it in plain words to sort footage into bins, transcribe, find slates, add markers and build stringouts or rough assemblies. Every step can be undone.
• AutoPod Paid
  Premiere Pro plugin for automatic multicam editing, jump cuts and social exports of podcasts and talk shows.
• Cleanvoice Freemium
  AI that removes filler words, mouth sounds, silences and background noise from speech recordings.
• Cutback Paid
  Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates.
• Descript Freemium
  Video and audio editor you edit like a doc. Its Underlord co-editor can cut filler words, build rough cuts, add captions, clean up audio and write show notes when you ask it to.
• Eddie AI Usage-based
  AI assistant editor for interviews and documentary footage. Chat with it, or connect it to ChatGPT or Claude over MCP, to get rough cuts you can export to Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut.

Video post-production

Picture post in one place: editing and assistant-editor agents, subtitles, color, VFX, upscaling and visual dubbing, grouped by stage. All 62 tools →

• OpenMontage Open source
  Open-source agentic video production system with ready pipelines and tools that agents use to edit and assemble videos. · ★ 68,893
• Hypit Freemium
  An open-source agent workflow that takes a viral short video and rebuilds it as an editable template, letting you swap the presenter, script, voice and B-roll to produce many new variants with your own API keys. · ★ 24,265
• Palmier Pro Freemium
  macOS video editor built around AI, where an assistant can search footage, assemble cuts and edit the timeline for you. · ★ 14,600
• YuE Open source
  Open song-generation model (YuE2) with lyrics-to-song, zero-shot covers and agentic music editing. · ★ 12,143
• Concat Open source
  Concat is a free, open-source video editor meant as a CapCut replacement that runs entirely on your own machine. It covers auto-captions, text-to-speech voices, background removal, keyframes, titles, effects, filters and transitions with multi-track editing up to 4K, with no watermark, account or subscription. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and it can be scripted through a documented JSON-RPC and gRPC API, so scripts and AI agents can drive edits. · ★ 10,303
• ACE-Step Open source
  Open music generation foundation model for fast full-song generation and editing. · ★ 4,953

Subtitles and captions

Transcription, captioning and translated subtitles for film, TV and online video, from editor plugins to live broadcast captions. All 20 tools →

• Concat Open source
  Concat is a free, open-source video editor meant as a CapCut replacement that runs entirely on your own machine. It covers auto-captions, text-to-speech voices, background removal, keyframes, titles, effects, filters and transitions with multi-track editing up to 4K, with no watermark, account or subscription. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and it can be scripted through a documented JSON-RPC and gRPC API, so scripts and AI agents can drive edits. · ★ 10,303
• OpenChatCut Open source + cloud
  A local-first AI video editor with a multi-track timeline that you drive by chatting with an agent; the AGPL edition is free, and a Pro desktop app adds transcription-based editing. · ★ 2,557
• BaoCut See site
  An AI video agent for macOS and Windows that transcribes, subtitles, translates, dubs, cuts and animates your footage from plain instructions, with every result landing in an editable timeline instead of a one-shot export. · ★ 1,113
• Adobe Podcast Freemium
  Adobe's web app with Enhance Speech, which makes voice recordings sound studio-clean, plus recording and transcript editing.
• Adobe Premiere AI Assistant Paid
  Chat panel inside Adobe Premiere (public beta). Ask it in plain words to sort footage into bins, transcribe, find slates, add markers and build stringouts or rough assemblies. Every step can be undone.
• CapCut Freemium
  ByteDance's video editor for desktop, mobile and web with AI captions, background removal, effects and templates.

VFX and compositing

AI for visual effects: rotoscoping and masks, relighting, compositing, tracking, markerless mocap and virtual production. All 14 tools →

• AIVA Freemium
  AI composition assistant for soundtrack and score music in many styles, with MIDI export and editing.
• Autodesk Flow Studio Freemium
  Autodesk's cloud AI VFX tool, formerly Wonder Studio. Turn live-action footage into editable CG scenes with markerless mocap, camera tracking, clean plates and masks for Maya, Blender or Unreal.
• Beeble Paid
  AI VFX for filmmakers. Relight footage after the shoot by pulling normal, depth and other passes from ordinary video.
• Boris FX Mocha Pro Paid
  Academy Award-winning planar tracking, roto and object removal plugin, with ML-based masking, for After Effects, Premiere, Resolve, Nuke and more.
• Cuebric See site
  Generative AI tool for virtual production. Make layered 2.5D backgrounds for LED volumes and greenscreen from concept to camera in minutes.
• DaVinci Resolve Freemium
  Blackmagic's editing, color, VFX and audio post app. Its AI tools include IntelliSearch, Magic Mask, voice isolation, speed warp and dialogue leveling.

Dialogue cleanup

Plugins and apps that remove noise, reverb, hum and clicks from dialogue and rebalance voice against background, for film, TV and podcasts. All 25 tools →

• Accentize See site
  AI dialogue restoration plugins for post-production: speech enhancement, de-reverb, noise reduction and reverb matching for ADR.
• Acon Digital Extract:Dialogue Paid
  AI dialogue cleaning plugin with real-time reverb reduction and simple mixer controls.
• Antinode Clear Paid
  AI plugin that separates voice, reverb and noise in real time so you can rebalance dialogue (formerly Supertone Clear).
• AudioShake See site
  AI audio separation. Split dialogue, music and effects (DME) or music stems for dubbing, remixes and clean-up.
• Auphonic Freemium
  Automatic audio post-production web service: leveling, loudness normalization, noise and reverb reduction for speech.
• Autodesk Flow Studio Freemium
  Autodesk's cloud AI VFX tool, formerly Wonder Studio. Turn live-action footage into editable CG scenes with markerless mocap, camera tracking, clean plates and masks for Maya, Blender or Unreal.

Dubbing and lip sync

AI dubbing: translated voices that keep the actor's sound, and visual dubbing that matches lip movement to the new language. All 23 tools →

• BaoCut See site
  An AI video agent for macOS and Windows that transcribes, subtitles, translates, dubs, cuts and animates your footage from plain instructions, with every result landing in an editable timeline instead of a one-shot export. · ★ 1,113
• AudioShake See site
  AI audio separation. Split dialogue, music and effects (DME) or music stems for dubbing, remixes and clean-up.
• CAMB.AI Freemium
  AI dubbing, live translation and lifelike voices in 150+ languages for films, broadcasts and sport.
• Captions Paid
  AI video editor and generator for creators, with auto captions, eye contact, dubbing and AI edits.
• Cutback Paid
  Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates.
• Deepdub Enterprise
  AI dubbing for studios and streamers, with emotional voice cloning and localization in many languages.

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