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AI Video Editor

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A 5-step wizard that covers 80% of quick video-editing jobs — upload, trim, add text, add music, export. Full timeline editor coming soon; for now this ships the edits people actually do on TikTok / Reels without firing up CapCut or Premiere.
1 Upload
2 Trim
3 Text overlay
4 Music
5 Export

Upload your video

Drag a video here or click to upload

MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV up to 200MB

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Trim — pick the segment you want to keep

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Add a text overlay

One text overlay shown for the full trimmed clip. Leave blank (or skip) to move on without adding any.

Add a background music track

Upload an MP3/WAV or leave blank to keep the original audio. Replace fully wipes the source audio; Mix blends the two.

Need a track? Generate one with /music/generate/ and upload it back here.

Review & export

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    What this covers (and what it doesn't)

    Good fit

    • Trim a clip to the best 20 seconds for social.
    • Slap a hook headline on top before posting.
    • Swap the audio for a licensed / generated music track.
    • One-off edits where opening CapCut / Premiere is overkill.

    Not a full timeline editor (yet)

    • Multi-clip stitching — use /video/maker/ or cut each clip here then merge.
    • Keyframe animations — for that you need an actual timeline.
    • Green-screen chromakey — try /video/background-remover/.
    • Full timeline editor is on the roadmap — this wizard covers 80% of quick edits.

    How the 5-step wizard works

    1. Upload your source video. We read duration + dimensions + size.
    2. Trim — scrub the preview player, set start/end seconds. Skip if you want the full clip.
    3. Text overlay — one label (headline / caption / tag) rendered for the full duration.
    4. Music — upload a track; Replace or Mix with the existing audio.
    5. Review the plan, confirm cost, export. Each step is a separate ffmpeg pass chained server-side.

    vs. CapCut, Descript, Runway, Clipchamp

    CapCut is free, full-featured, and excellent — install it if you're editing daily. Descript is $12-24/mo for text-based editing (its killer feature is deleting words from the transcript). Runway is $15+/mo and shines at AI generation. Clipchamp is bundled in Windows 11 but feels slow. This wizard skips the install / account setup step — you drop a file, pick the 3 edits that matter, export. The underlying ffmpeg chain is the same one Clipchamp + CapCut call for trim/overlay/mix. For quick clips, there's nothing to install or learn.

    Full timeline editor coming soon

    A browser-based multi-track timeline is on the roadmap — drag clips onto tracks, keyframe opacity, add transitions. In the meantime this wizard gives you the 3-4 edits people actually do, with no learning curve.

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    Browser video editor: upload, trim, add text overlay, add music, export. Free inside your token pool, no install. Covers 80% of quick social edits.

    How to Use AI Video Editor

    1
    Enter your input

    Type text, upload a file, or describe what you want. No account needed.

    2
    Click generate

    Our AI processes your request in seconds using the best open-source models.

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    Download & share

    Download, copy, or share your result. Free for personal and commercial use.

    Use this tool via API

    Automate this tool from your own code. OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint, Bearer-token auth, no extra SDK required. Token costs match the web interface.

    API Documentation Get API Key 
    curl -X POST https://api.free.ai/v1/video/generate/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-free-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "A cat playing piano", "duration": 4}'

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    AI Video Editor — FAQ

    A 5-step browser wizard that covers the edits most people actually do on social clips — upload, trim, add a text overlay, add a music track, export. Not a full multi-track timeline (yet). Ships the 80% of use cases without the learning curve of Premiere or DaVinci.

    Yes, inside your token pool. Cost depends on which edits you enable — roughly 100 tokens for trim (scales with trimmed duration), 300 for a text overlay, 300 for adding a music track. A full three-step edit on a 30-second clip runs 700-1,000 tokens. Free users have a daily pool.

    No. Multi-clip merge, keyframe animation, and per-layer effects are not in scope here — a proper multi-track timeline is on the roadmap. For now this wizard handles the fast one-off edits you would otherwise open CapCut or iMovie for.

    Five panes: Upload (drag-drop), Trim (start/end seconds, skippable), Text overlay (headline caption with font/color/size/position, skippable), Music (upload audio, Replace or Mix mode, skippable), Review (plan + token quote), Export. Each step is a separate ffmpeg pass chained server-side.

    Yes — every step after Upload has a "Skip" checkbox. You can go straight from Upload to Export, though that defeats the purpose. Most users use 2 of the 3 edit steps (typically Trim + Music or Trim + Text).

    Replace wipes the original audio and uses only the uploaded track. Mix blends the two at equal volume (ffmpeg amix=inputs=2:duration=shortest). If you have dialogue you want to keep, use Mix. If the clip is silent B-roll, Replace is cleaner.

    Yes. Head to /music/generate/ first, download the generated track, then upload it back in step 4 of this wizard. The two tools are not auto-linked yet but the hand-off takes seconds.

    CapCut is free, excellent, and installable on every platform — if you are editing daily, install it. This wizard is for the in-between: someone who opens an editor once a week for a 30-second social clip and would rather not wait for CapCut to launch. The underlying ffmpeg operations are the same.

    Descript ($12-24/mo) is the text-based editor — you edit the transcript and the clips follow. Runway ($15+) is the AI generation powerhouse. Clipchamp is bundled in Windows 11 but slower than CapCut. All four outclass this wizard on advanced edits. This wizard wins on zero-install speed for simple jobs.

    Each step is an ffmpeg pass — trim takes 2-5 seconds, text-overlay 10-20 seconds, audio-merge 5-15 seconds. A three-step edit on a 30-second clip exports in under a minute. Longer clips scale linearly.

    Intermediate per-step files are deleted as each ffmpeg pass finishes. The final exported MP4 lives on our CDN for 24 hours (7 days for paid users). Source files are never retained beyond the export.

    The wizard composes /v1/video/trim/, /v1/video/text-overlay/, and /v1/video/add-audio/ server-side. For programmatic multi-step edits, call those endpoints directly in sequence — the full chain is in the template script for reference. Snippets at /api/.

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