Agentic NLE control
an AI agent that drives your editing software
EditAssist is an agentic AI that operates DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut directly. It plans multi-step edits, executes timeline commands, and recovers from errors. You describe the outcome; the agent handles the implementation.
Workflow
Describe a complex edit in plain English and the agent breaks it into a plan: search footage, build the timeline, apply effects, sync audio, and export. It executes each step inside your NLE using native APIs, checks for errors, and retries or asks for clarification when something is ambiguous.
The agent maintains project context: it knows which clips are selects, which takes are circled, and which sequences are locked. It can save repeatable workflows as skills, schedule batch jobs overnight, and report progress in chat. All execution is local; only chat text leaves your machine.
Prompts
“Build a rough cut from today's interview footage, colour-match to episode 3, and sync the external audio.”
“Prep the final timeline for online: check frame rates, retime any mixed-rate clips, and export an AAF.”
“Create a delivery package for Netflix: check resolution, codec, loudness, and colour space.”
“Batch apply the client's colour correction notes to all 30 spots.”
“The client wants the logo 10% bigger in all 23 deliverables.”
“Conform the locked picture from the Avid AAF, online in Resolve, and render the broadcast master.”
“Build a sizzle reel from the best moments across all six episodes.”
“Create a skill that automatically preps every new project with standard bins and naming.”
Features
Multi-step planning
Breaks complex edits into executable plans with dependencies, error handling, and recovery strategies.
Native NLE execution
Operates Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, and Final Cut directly via APIs: timelines, bins, effects, and exports.
Context awareness
Remembers project state, selects, locked sequences, and previous corrections across sessions.
Skill automation
Save repeatable workflows as skills that prep projects, build standard assemblies, or deliver to house spec.
Local-first
All transcription, vision analysis, semantic search, and clustering run on your own GPU. Nothing about your footage is uploaded. The only data that leaves is the text of your conversation with the agent. It's free to download, local models are free, and a new account starts with £15 of credit and no card. For long-running cloud work, pay as you go, or choose £20/mo Starter or £100/mo Pro.
FAQ
What is an agentic video editor?
An agentic video editor is an AI that plans and executes multi-step edits on your behalf rather than answering one command at a time. EditAssist breaks your plain-English instruction into steps — search footage, build the timeline, apply effects, sync audio, export — and executes each step directly inside DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Final Cut, checking for errors and asking for clarification when a step is ambiguous.
Is there an AI agent that edits video inside DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro?
Yes. EditAssist connects to DaVinci Resolve via its API and to Premiere Pro and After Effects via CEP integration, operating the project panel, timeline, colour page, and render queue directly. Unlike an AI feature inside a single app, the same agent works across all four NLEs, so one workflow covers your whole toolchain.
Which AI video editors work with footage that never leaves my machine?
EditAssist is local-first: transcription, vision analysis, semantic search, and clustering all run on your own GPU, and no footage is ever uploaded. The only data that leaves your machine is the text of your conversation with the agent.
What's the difference between an AI video editor and an AI video generator?
An AI video generator creates new footage from a text prompt. An AI video editor like EditAssist works with footage you already have: it indexes your rushes, searches them by description or transcript, assembles timelines, matches colour, syncs audio, and delivers to spec — inside your existing NLE, with you making the creative decisions.
Getting started
- 01Download EditAssist for macOS or Windows and create an account. You get £15 credit and no card is needed.
- 02Ingest your footage. The agent transcribes, indexes, and clusters automatically.
- 03Describe what you want in plain English and let the agent build the cut.
- 04Review, refine with conversational commands, and export to your delivery spec.
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