Video Editor GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

OpenCardboard — local-first chat-to-edit AI video editor. Your footage never leaves your machine.

MCP-first AI video editor in Rust/C++. Every operation is an AI-callable tool.

A browser-based video editor powered by ffmpeg.wasm. No uploads, no servers -- all processing happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly.

Cross-platform video editing (compositing) software.

AI-native video editing built around real creative timelines, generative workflows, and local agent control.

Free, open-source AI video editor for macOS, Windows and Linux — drive the whole timeline from any MCP client.

Free, open-source AI film studio on your own PC. Recurring characters, MiniMax H3 and Seedance shots, voices, music, a short-film wizard and a real editor, on your ComfyUI or your own cloud GPU. Windows, Mac and Linux, with 214 MCP tools so Claude Code, Codex or Hermes can run it.

Native macOS video editor that coding agents can drive: everything the UI does, Claude Code and Codex can do through the bashcut CLI or MCP server. Layered timeline, captions, voiceover, plugins.

Video edits as JSON, overlays as HTML+CSS, rendered without a browser.

The free and Open-source Alight Motion and Capcut Alternative!

A free and open-source video editor for Windows and Linux, written in Rust: a track-based timeline, effects at every level, OpenFX and VST 3 hosts, studio audio and color.

Open-source Higgsfield on your own GPU: train a recurring character, turn a one-line brief into an edited reel, move the camera, re-shoot an angle, block shots in 3D, sketch to video, restore old footage. Runs on local ComfyUI, open-weights models only.

AI video editor for agents. ChatCut plugin and MCP server for Codex, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, Grok, Gemini CLI, WorkBuddy, Doubao Work and Qwen Work: edit your own footage by chatting, add captions and subtitles, remove silences and filler words, create motion graphics, and export an editable timeline.