https://sharpy.live/blog How Sharpy understands footage and edits it on your Mac: explainers, guides and comparisons, from the person building it. en Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://sharpy.live/blog/what-is-an-agentic-video-editor https://sharpy.live/blog/what-is-an-agentic-video-editor Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Explainers An agentic video editor edits your footage by itself, end to end, and gives the reason for every cut. How it works, and how it differs from AI tools. https://sharpy.live/blog/how-sharpy-decides-where-to-cut https://sharpy.live/blog/how-sharpy-decides-where-to-cut Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT How Sharpy works Most tools cut on noise, removing any silence past a threshold. Sharpy cuts on meaning and writes down the reason for every cut. This is how it decides. https://sharpy.live/blog/edit-video-with-ai-without-uploading-your-footage https://sharpy.live/blog/edit-video-with-ai-without-uploading-your-footage Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Guides Most AI video editors upload your footage to their servers. What that involves, why it matters, and how to edit with AI entirely on your own Mac. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-descript https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-descript Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons Descript edits in the cloud with monthly media hours and AI credits. Sharpy edits the whole piece itself on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-premiere-pro https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-premiere-pro Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons Premiere Pro, now Adobe Premiere, is a professional timeline with AI tools. Sharpy makes the whole edit itself on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/remove-filler-words-and-dead-air-on-mac https://sharpy.live/blog/remove-filler-words-and-dead-air-on-mac Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Guides Cut the ums, stumbles, false starts and long pauses from a video on your Mac automatically, without cutting the pauses that make speech sound human. https://sharpy.live/blog/on-device-captions-on-mac https://sharpy.live/blog/on-device-captions-on-mac Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Guides Animated karaoke captions, SRT and WebVTT files and closed captions, all made on your Mac. No upload, no minute limit, any length of video. https://sharpy.live/blog/edit-video-with-claude-or-codex-through-mcp https://sharpy.live/blog/edit-video-with-claude-or-codex-through-mcp Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Guides Connect Claude or Codex to Sharpy through MCP and direct a whole video edit in plain language. Setup, what the agent can do, and what stays on your Mac. https://sharpy.live/blog/best-ai-video-editors-for-mac https://sharpy.live/blog/best-ai-video-editors-for-mac Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons The best AI video editors for Mac, by the job you need done: the whole edit, hands-on editing, transcripts, screen recordings, shorts and YouTube rough cuts. https://sharpy.live/blog/what-is-an-edit-decision-list https://sharpy.live/blog/what-is-an-edit-decision-list Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Explainers An edit decision list records every edit in a video: where each piece comes from and where it lands. What it holds, how to read one, and why reasons matter. https://sharpy.live/blog/how-to-edit-a-talking-head-video-for-youtube https://sharpy.live/blog/how-to-edit-a-talking-head-video-for-youtube Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Guides A step-by-step guide to editing a talking-head YouTube video: picking takes, cutting stumbles and dead air, pacing, B-roll, captions, music and export. https://sharpy.live/blog/how-to-turn-a-long-video-into-shorts https://sharpy.live/blog/how-to-turn-a-long-video-into-shorts Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Guides Turn a long video into vertical shorts that hold attention: finding the moments, reframing to 9:16, a hook in the first seconds, and captions clear of the buttons. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-screen-studio https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-screen-studio Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons Screen Studio makes polished screen recordings with automatic zooms. Sharpy edits the whole video on your Mac, recorder included. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-davinci-resolve https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-davinci-resolve Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons DaVinci Resolve is a free professional editor with colour, audio and AI tools in Studio. Sharpy edits the whole piece itself on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-final-cut-pro https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-final-cut-pro Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons Final Cut Pro is Apple's fast, Mac-native editor with on-device machine learning tools. Sharpy makes the whole edit itself on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-capcut https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-capcut Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons CapCut is a free-to-start editor for phone, web and desktop with cloud AI features. Sharpy edits the whole piece itself on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-submagic https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-submagic Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons Submagic adds animated captions, zooms and B-roll to short videos in the browser. Sharpy edits videos of any length on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-opus-clip https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-opus-clip Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons OpusClip cuts long videos into many short clips in the cloud, paid in credits per minute. Sharpy edits on your Mac with no meter. A fair, dated comparison. https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-gling https://sharpy.live/blog/sharpy-vs-gling Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Comparisons Gling cuts bad takes, silences and filler words from YouTube recordings you upload. Sharpy edits the whole video on your Mac. A fair, dated comparison.