Hey Product Hunt!
We’re launching OpenCut AI – a fully open-source, native-first AI video editor.
We took (open cut)https://github.com/ekaanth/openc…), an open-source video editor, and built an entire AI suite on top of it:
– Edit by text – Copy your video, then edit it like a Google Doc. Delete a sentence, and the video cuts itself.
– Voice Cloning – Clone any voice from a 6 second sample and create a voiceover.
– AI Image Generation – Create images from text and drop them onto the timeline.
– Remove filler words – “um”, “uh”, “like” and “you know.” One-click removal.
– Natural language commands – Tell the editor to “remove the intro” or “speed up the middle.”
– Smart subtitles – karaoke, goli, and classic styles, generated instantly.
– Audio Denoising – Clean up background noise automatically.
– Podcast Clip Generator – AI finds the most viral-worthy 30-60 seconds from long podcasts.
– Word-Pop Karaoke Subs – Harmozy-style subtitles where every word pops up when spoken. 4 preset styles
– Multi-speaker detection – Automatically detect who is talking with Pianot AI. The video automatically cuts off at speaker boundaries.
– Auto Ref 9:16 – Face Tracking Crop for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
– Brand Kit – Define your brand once and add intro/outro cards, lower third, watermarks in one click.
– Emotion Detection – SpeechBrain AI detects emotional peaks to find the most impactful moments.
Everything runs locally. No clouds. There are no API keys. There is no subscription. No per-minute billing. Your videos never leave your machine.
Under the hood, we stand on the shoulders of incredible open source models like Whisper for transcription, XTTS v2 for voice cloning, Stable Diffusion for image generation, Llama 3.2 by Ollama for natural language commands, Pyannote for speaker diarization, and MediaPipe for face detection. All of this is packaged into a single “docker composeup -d”.
We built it because video editing tools are either expensive, cloud dependent, or closed source and we wanted one that was neither of those things.
Self-host it for as little as $20/mo, or run it on your laptop.
Would love your feedback — what AI features would you like in a video editor?