Rescript: Free Open-Source Descript Alternative
Rescript is a free, open-source alternative to Descript that lets you edit video and audio by editing the transcript text, running entirely in your browser with local Whisper transcription.
SynthCut: An Open-Source AI Video Editor Run via MCP
SynthCut is a free, GPL-3.0 video editor built to be operated by an AI agent, exposing itself as a Model Context Protocol server so a client like Claude Desktop can run real, frame-accurate edits locally.
Palmier Pro: Open-Source AI Video Editor With MCP
Palmier Pro is a Swift-native macOS video editor that generates media on the timeline with Kling, Seedance, and Veo, and exposes an MCP server for Claude and Codex.
How Blomkamp Solved AI Video's Continuity Problem
Neill Blomkamp's 13-minute Seedance 2.0 short Nightborne holds continuity where most AI films fall apart. A case study in the reference-locking pipeline he built, and what a solo creator can replicate.
Loova Ads Studio Turns Prompts Into AI Video Ads
Loova, an all-in-one AI creative playground, launched a dedicated Ads Studio that turns a product URL, a photo, or a text prompt into finished video and image ads.
Timeline Studio: A Local-First AI Video Editor
Timeline Studio is an open-source, local-first AI video editor that runs entirely in a browser tab, with on-device voiceovers, captions, and talking avatars.
Reelful Turns Your Camera Roll Into Reels
A new iOS app called Reelful turns the photos and clips in your camera roll into finished TikTok and Instagram Reels from a single text prompt.
How to Make Animated Infographics in Synthesia
Step-by-step workflow for turning a prompt or sketch into a branded animated infographic in Synthesia, using Motion Graphics and the new SyRen model.
Decart Lucy 2.5 Brings Real-Time AI Video Editing
Decart has launched Lucy 2.5, an upgrade to its real-time AI video model that edits live video from natural-language prompts with sub-40ms latency.
Vivijure: Self-Hosted Open-Source AI Film Studio
Vivijure is a free, open-source AI film studio you self-host, orchestrating a dozen image, video, audio, and lip-sync models behind one web interface.
ChatCut Brings a Full AI Video Editor Into Codex
ChatCut has released a Codex plugin that turns OpenAIs coding agent into a full AI video editor, letting you describe an edit in plain language and get back an editable timeline.
aftr: Drive After Effects From Claude Code via MCP
aftr is an open-source MCP server that lets AI coding agents drive Adobe After Effects, apply one-call VFX presets, and self-correct renders through an autonomous loop.
Google Photos Video Remix: AI Clip Editing
Google Photos added Video Remix on July 8, 2026, an AI editing tool that transforms ordinary clips in a few taps, powered by Google Gemini Omni.
Seedance 2.5: ByteDance 3-Minute AI Video Rolls Out
ByteDance is rolling out Seedance 2.5 this week: a 30-second continuous 4K clip, a beta long-video mode near three minutes, and up to 50 references, on Dreamina and CapCut.
Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash Launch
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, a 4-second image model at $0.034 per 1,000 images, and Gemini Omni Flash for low-cost video generation and conversational editing.
OpenArt Director Turns Chats Into Five-Minute AI Films
OpenArt has launched Director, an agentic tool that turns a plain-language conversation into a finished film up to five minutes long, with consistent characters, voices, music, and sound design.
Shumai: Open-Source AI Frame.io Alternative
Shumai is a new open-source, self-hosted Frame.io alternative for creative teams, with AI semantic video search, frame-by-frame review, and Gemini metadata tagging.
Cutback Selects: AI Rough Cuts for Long-Form Video
Cutback shipped a major Selects update on June 15, 2026 that syncs multicam footage and builds a draft rough cut from a single prompt, then exports to Premiere, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve.
Android 17 Adds Gemini Omni Video Editing for Creators
Google shipped Android 17 on June 16, 2026 with Gemini Omni conversational video editing and Screen Reactions, a built-in way to record selfie reactions over your screen.
Adobe Creative Cloud June 2026: Every New AI Tool
Adobe shipped its largest Creative Cloud AI update of the year on June 15, 2026, with new tools across Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Illustrator.
MiniMax Unveils Hub, an All-in-One AI Video Studio
MiniMax used the Shanghai International Film Festival to introduce Hub, an all-in-one AI tool that folds image, video, voiceover, music, and editing into a single agentic interface.
Manim-Studio Turns Text Prompts Into Math Animations
A new open-source tool turns plain-English prompts into rendered 3Blue1Brown-style math animations using AI.
Audio-Reactive LoRA Syncs LTX 2.3 Video to Music
A new open-source Audio-Reactive LoRA for LTX 2.3 turns a still image and an audio track into a music-driven clip, with motion synced to the beat.
VibeClip: Open-Source AI Video Editor You Direct by Chat
VibeClip is a new open-source, self-hosted tool that turns long videos into vertical captioned shorts you direct by chatting.