OpenCut

WolfCut is a free, open-source native video editor positioned as a CapCut replacement. Its Rust engine handles cutting and encoding, while a React interface provides multi-track editing, multiple timelines per project, splitting, trimming, merging, transitions, speed control, titles, styled text, templates, and voice filters. The application includes local text-to-speech and auto-caption features; captions run on the user's machine and audio is not sent elsewhere. It is designed to run without watermarks, accounts, subscriptions, or additional downloads, and supports macOS, Windows, Linux, and Nix. The repository describes it as an alpha pre-release distributed through GitHub Releases.

OpenEdit is an open-source, agent-driven video-editing pipeline from VEED. It has no graphical interface or timeline; an agent-agnostic skill and repository guide drive it through coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. The pipeline can edit, cut, and reframe footage; create burned-in subtitles, motion graphics, charts, and visual elements; assemble slides, websites, stills, or generated media into video; capture web pages; and connect generation services or MCP servers when needed. Source footage is optional, and VEED Fabric can generate footage only with the user's approval. For captioning, the agent transcribes the video, designs the captions, renders the result, opens a video previewer, and accepts follow-up requests such as changing subtitle color, position, or emphasis. Transcription can use VEED, local offline WhisperX, or a user-supplied service; all providers must produce per-word timings, which are stored in a common transcript format. Caption styles are authored in HTML and CSS. The project includes VEED's closed-source but free-to-use HTML renderer, which does not require a headless browser; Chrome can be used as an alternative rendering backend. V1 primarily targets captions, while motion graphics, charts, and brand-book-matched styling are less exercised. OpenEdit supports Apple Silicon Macs and Windows x64 PCs. Intel Macs are unsupported, Linux support is planned, and Windows requires Git, Node, and ffmpeg. It can be installed from the repository or with `npx skills add veedstudio/open-edit`.

CapCut is a cross-platform video editing application and web service owned by ByteDance that provides tools for creating and editing videos. It offers AI-powered editing features, smart templates, effects, and export options for desktop, mobile, and web for social media content.

OpenMontage is an open-source, agent-driven video production system that turns plain-language instructions into video projects through an AI coding assistant. Its workflow covers research, scripting, production planning, asset generation, editing, and final composition, with production pipelines, approval gates, cost estimates, and post-render checks. The system can produce image-based videos as well as videos assembled from real motion footage: its agent can build a corpus from free stock footage and open archives, retrieve clips, edit them into a timeline, and render the result. It runs locally with FFmpeg and Remotion and includes 12 production pipelines, more than 100 tools, and hundreds of agent-skill and production-knowledge files.

video-use is an open-source video-editing tool for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and Openclaw. It takes raw footage in a folder and produces an edited MP4, with support for removing filler words and dead space, applying FFmpeg color-grading chains, adding short audio fades at cuts, burning customizable subtitles, and generating animation overlays through HyperFrames, Remotion, Manim, or PIL. Its pipeline transcribes each source with ElevenLabs Scribe, packing word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and audio events into a Markdown view. The agent reasons over that transcript and requests filmstrip, waveform, and word-label composites from timeline_view only at decision points, rather than processing every video frame as visual context. It then creates an edit decision list, renders the result, evaluates the rendered video at every cut boundary for visual jumps, audio pops, and subtitle problems, and can revise and re-render up to three times. The tool uses an approval-oriented workflow in which the agent inventories sources, proposes an editing strategy, waits for confirmation, executes the edit, evaluates it, and persists session memory in project.md. It requires FFmpeg and an ElevenLabs API key; yt-dlp is optional for downloading online sources. Outputs are placed in an edit directory next to the source footage.