AI video editing: guides to editing video with AI on a Mac

What AI can and cannot do for an edit today, how an agentic video editor makes the whole edit itself, and how to direct one from Claude, Codex or the window, with every model running on your Mac.

  1. Seen over a person's shoulder at night, a finished video of a woman talking to camera plays on a MacBook Pro, beside the camera that recorded it.

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    What is an agentic video editor?

    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.

    6 October 2026 · 5 min read