The video editor for Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code · MCP

Edit videos by chatting with Claude.

Cut Express is a video editing MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: you send your clips in the chat, Claude decides every cut, caption, color grade and sound, and Cut Express renders the MP4. No timeline to drag, no templates.

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14 days free, then $19/mo. Cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing. · 9:16 and 16:9, up to 2K · works in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and ChatGPT

you> a 15-second motion video explaining how Cut Express works

What you can make

From a quick trim to a full edit.

Ask for the job in your own words. Claude looks at the footage first, so the same chat handles a two-minute fix and a finished reel.

Long videos into Shorts

Gameplay, streams, podcasts and vlogs. Cut Express finds the moments where something happens and ranks them as highlights, so Claude cuts the plays and lines worth posting.

you> find the 5 best plays in this stream and cut each into a 30s Short

Gameplay highlights

Quick, simple edits

Trim a clip, drop the pauses, join takes, turn a horizontal video vertical, fix a clip shot sideways or just add music. Small jobs take one sentence.

you> remove the silences and make it vertical

Remove silences with jump cuts

Captions on any video

Word-by-word captions timed to the speech, on a video you already finished or a new edit, so people follow with the sound off.

you> add bold yellow captions, nothing else

AI caption generator

Motion graphics and ads

Animated titles, kinetic text, charts, counters, price tags, checklists and end cards, written for your video and rendered with it. Twenty ready recipes to start from.

you> a 15s ad: title card, three benefits as a checklist, price tag, end card

Claude video editor

Recreate a reel you like

Drop the reel next to your clips. Claude breaks it down shot by shot and rebuilds it with your footage, on the same pace.

you> make my clips look like this reel

How to edit videos with Claude

YouTube videos in 16:9

Longer edits with b-roll, lower thirds, split screens, picture-in-picture and a progress bar, in 1080p or 2K on Ultra.

you> cut this into a 10-minute YouTube video with lower thirds

Faceless YouTube editing

01The problem

You have the footage. Editing is the bottleneck.

A 30-second reel is an afternoon in a timeline. A weekly YouTube video is a weekend. So the clips sit in your camera roll, or the edit goes to someone else and comes back in a week.

The timeline tax

Scrub, split, trim, nudge, render, notice the caption is off by a frame, render again. The tool is powerful; the hours are yours.

Templates all look the same

One-click editors pick the cuts for you, on a beat, from a template everyone else uses too. Your story doesn't fit a template.

Five apps for one video

Captions in one app, a voice-over somewhere else, music from a library, then back to the editor to put it together.

02How it works

How editing videos with Claude works

Cut Express connects to Claude through MCP, the standard it already supports. Claude does the thinking: it looks at your clips, reads what's said in them and decides every edit. Cut Express gives it eyes on the footage, the tools, and a render farm.

01

Send your clips

Connect Cut Express once, then drop videos, photos and music into the upload panel right in the chat. In Claude Code, it uploads local files for you.

02

Describe the edit

"A 30-second reel, hook first, bold captions, warm look." Claude scans the contact sheets and the transcript, finds the moments, adds a voice-over or sound effects, and writes the timeline.

03

Get the MP4, then iterate

The video renders while you watch the player in the chat. "Shorter intro, captions yellow, music lower" makes version 2. Every version stays in your account, ready to download.

03What's in the box

A full AI video editor, driven by Claude

No presets deciding for you. Every cut, word and sound is chosen for your footage, and every choice is in a timeline you can ask to change.

Cuts that follow the story

Claude reads contact sheets of every clip and a timestamped transcript. It cuts on the sentence that lands and drops the pauses and false starts, so you get the part you asked for. Speed ramps, reverse, boomerang, freeze frames, punch-in zooms and 21 transitions are there when the edit needs them.

Captions people read

Word-by-word captions timed to the speech: pop, karaoke, boxed, bold, clean or minimal, in any font, color, size and position, so people follow with the sound off. Text boxes for titles, labels and calls to action.

Looks and color

73 cinematic looks (teal and orange, golden hour, noir, film, pastel and more) with an intensity, plus color sliders: temperature, contrast, highlights, shadows, vibrance, vignette, grain. Per scene or for the whole video, so you get a finished grade without opening a color tool.

Recreate any video

Drop a reel you love next to your own clips. Claude breaks it down shot by shot: every cut, its length, the camera movement, the beat it lands on, the text on screen. Then it rebuilds it with your footage, so you get the same pace with your video.

Voice, sound and clean audio

A natural voice-over from any script, with captions that follow it word for word. 63 built-in sound effects cost nothing, and new ones come from a description. Background noise comes out, voices get an EQ, and music ducks under the voice by itself, so you never mix levels.

Motion graphics

Animated titles, kinetic text, charts, counters, lower thirds and end cards, as a full scene or over your footage. Split screens, picture-in-picture, green screen and a progress bar too. Reels, Shorts and TikTok in 9:16, YouTube in 16:9, 1080p on Pro and 2K on Ultra.

The edit is a timeline. Ask for any change.

Every video comes from a small JSON timeline: scenes with their in and out points, texts, captions, sound tracks and color. Claude writes it, Cut Express renders it. "Make the intro tighter" or "now a 16:9 version for YouTube" edits the same timeline and renders the next version, in seconds of your time.

Nothing is locked inside a template. Download the timeline from any version, or ask Claude to start a new video from it.

{
  "format": "9:16", "quality": "2k",
  "scenes": [
    { "media": "m_a1B2c3D4e5", "in": 12.4, "out": 15.1,
      "transition": { "type": "zoomin", "duration": 0.3 } },
    { "media": "m_k3v9q2xw7d", "in": 2, "out": 4.5, "speed": 0.5 }
  ],
  "captions": { "source": "auto", "style": { "preset": "pop" } },
  "audio": [
    { "media": "m_voice0001x", "role": "voice" },
    { "media": "m_music0001x", "role": "music", "duck": 0.25 }
  ],
  "grade": { "looks": [{ "key": "golden_hour", "intensity": 0.6 }] }
}

Made with Cut Express

Real renders, and the prompt behind each.

Every example was made by asking Claude in the chat. No timeline, no template: open one to watch it and read exactly what was asked.

Gameplay highlights

you> a 20-second skate edit from 4 minutes of gameplay and a phone clip, ending on the bail in slow motion

Stock footage, music and motion

you> a 25-second 16:9 trip around the world, made only from stock footage and music

Narrated tour with a chat overlay

you> a 20-second narrated tour of cut.express from a screen recording, with a chat overlay and captions

Word-by-word captions

you> a 12-second motion video showing the six caption looks on one sentence

Recreate any video

you> a 15-second motion video explaining how a reference reel gets rebuilt with your clips

Motion graphics by chatting

you> a 15-second motion video built from the chart, counter, checklist and price tag recipes

Every version kept

you> a 12-second motion video about versions, then the same timeline again in 16:9

04Works with

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code

Nothing to install. Cut Express is a remote connector: Claude does the editing on your Claude plan, and Cut Express does the rendering on its own servers.

Claude.ai and Desktop

Add a custom connector and sign in. The upload panel and the video player show right in the chat.

Can Claude edit videos?

Claude Code

One command with a key from your account. It uploads local files and folders for you.

Claude Code video editing

ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code

A custom connector or one block in your MCP settings. Uploads go through the upload panel on the web or Claude Code.

Can ChatGPT edit videos?

Anything with MCP

Other AIs that support remote MCP servers connect the same way.

Video editing MCP servers

05What you get

Everything in the edit, on both plans.

Cuts chosen from your footage:
Claude reads contact sheets and the transcript, so it keeps the sentence that lands and drops pauses and false starts.
Word-by-word captions:
pop, karaoke, boxed, bold, clean or minimal, timed to the speech.
73 looks plus color sliders:
a finished grade without opening a color tool.
AI voice-over and sound effects:
music ducks under the voice by itself.
Recreate any video:
a reel you like, rebuilt shot by shot with your clips.
Every version kept:
"now a 16:9 version for YouTube" renders the next version from the same timeline.

06Pricing

Two plans. 14 days free, then monthly.

Plans count render minutes: the length of the videos you render each month, re-renders included, failed ones never. Credits pay for the audio AI (voices, sound effects, transcripts). Looks, captions and transitions are included.

ProTo start
$19/ month

Edit by chatting. Ship every week.

  • 60 minutes of rendered video a month
  • 200 credits a month for voices, sound effects and transcripts
  • 1080p in 9:16 and 16:9
  • 50 stock videos, music tracks and photos a month
  • Captions with word highlight, text overlays, looks and colour
  • Videos up to 10 minutes, 25 GB of media
Start your 14-day free trial

14 days free, then $19/mo. Cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing.

UltraFor weekly creators
$49/ month

More minutes, more voice, 2K masters.

  • 180 minutes of rendered video a month
  • 500 credits a month for voices, sound effects and transcripts
  • 2K output (1440×2560 and 2560×1440), or 1080p
  • 150 stock videos, music tracks and photos a month
  • Everything in Pro
  • Videos up to 30 minutes, 100 GB of media
  • Three renders at once
Start your 14-day free trial

14 days free, then $49/mo. Cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing.

Credits

Voices and sound, paid as you use them.

A voice-over spends 1 credit per 1,000 characters (about a minute of speech), a sound effect 0.1 per second, a transcript 0.1 per minute of audio. Pro gets 200 a month, Ultra 500; unused ones roll over for three months. Members can add packs that never expire: 50 for $4 or 200 for $12.

07FAQ

Can Claude edit videos?

Claude can edit videos once a video editing MCP server is connected: it can't render video by itself. With Cut Express it watches your clips through contact sheets and a transcript, writes the edit, and Cut Express renders the MP4.

Can Claude edit videos?

Can ChatGPT edit videos?

ChatGPT can edit videos by driving Cut Express as a custom MCP connector. Uploads go through the Cut Express upload panel on the web, and ChatGPT writes the edit the same way Claude does.

Can ChatGPT edit videos?

Does it work in Claude Code?

Cut Express works in Claude Code with one command and a key from your account. Claude Code then uploads local files and folders for you, so you never open an upload page.

Claude Code video editing

Do I need Remotion or FFmpeg?

You don't need Remotion, FFmpeg or any code: Cut Express renders on its own servers. There's nothing to install on your computer.

Remotion with Claude vs Cut Express

How is it different from CapCut, Premiere or Descript?

CapCut, Premiere and Descript are editors you operate yourself. With Cut Express you describe the edit and Claude makes every decision, so you give notes instead of dragging clips.

CapCut alternative · Premiere Pro alternative · Descript alternative

Can it cut a long video or a gameplay into Shorts?

Cut Express cuts long videos into Shorts: it finds the stretches where something happens in a gameplay, stream, podcast or vlog and ranks them as highlights. Claude zooms into the best ones, picks the in and out points, and renders each Short with captions.

Gameplay highlights · Shorts from long videos

Can it do simple edits like trimming or adding captions?

Simple edits take one sentence: trim a clip, remove the silences, join takes, turn a horizontal video vertical or add captions to a finished video. You don't need a full edit to use it.

Remove silences · Horizontal to vertical

What is an MCP server?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is how AI assistants use outside tools. Once Cut Express is connected, Claude calls it by itself when you ask for an edit, the same way it searches the web or reads a file. You never leave the chat, and there is nothing to install.

Who does the editing, Claude or Cut Express?

Claude decides: which moments to keep, where to cut, what the captions say, which look and music fit. Cut Express gives it what it needs to decide well (contact sheets of your clips, transcripts, voices, sound effects) and renders the result. No AI runs on our side to second-guess your instructions.

How do I send my videos?

In Claude.ai and Claude Desktop, ask Claude to open the Cut Express upload panel and drop your files into it. Several files go at once, up to 2 GB each on Pro and 4 GB on Ultra. In Claude Code, Claude uploads files from your computer itself.

Uploading footage

Is it template-based?

Cut Express doesn't use templates or beat-matching: every timeline is written for your footage. Caption styles and looks are starting points Claude can change in any detail.

Which formats and quality?

Cut Express renders 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, and 16:9 for YouTube. Pro renders 1080p; Ultra also renders 2K (1440×2560 or 2560×1440). MP4, H.264, ready to post.

What are render minutes?

Render minutes are the length of the videos you render each month. A 45-second reel spends 45 seconds; rendering it again in another format spends another 45. Failed renders never count. Pro has 60 minutes a month and Ultra 180; they reset on the 1st.

How do credits work?

Credits pay for the audio AI: voice-overs, sound effects and transcripts. A voice-over spends 1 credit per 1,000 characters (2 with the Advanced voice), a sound effect 0.1 per second, and a transcript 0.1 per minute of audio, once per file. Pro gets 200 a month and Ultra 500, and unused ones roll over for three months. Packs of 50 for $4 or 200 for $12 never expire.

How long does a render take?

A render usually takes less than the video's own length at 1080p: a 30-second reel is ready in well under a minute. The player in the chat follows it, and the video page shows the progress.

Can I change a video after it renders?

Every video keeps its timeline, so you can change it after it renders. "Make the captions yellow" or "now a 16:9 cut for YouTube" renders the next version without starting over, and every version stays in your account.

Is there a free trial or a yearly plan?

Both plans start with 14 days free, then $19/mo for Pro or $49/mo for Ultra; cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing. There's no yearly plan, and you can cancel any time from your account.

What happens to my files?

Your files are stored privately for your account and used only to render your videos. Remove any file from the Media page or by asking Claude; deleting a video deletes its files.

Who builds Cut Express

Built by people who were tired of editing.

Cut Express is built by nxcturnez, the studio behind Valta, Karou, Klevo, Copix and Nexin. We made it because we were tired of editing video by hand and wanted to work with motion and vector video instead. Now we edit our own reels, demos and YouTube cuts with it.

If something breaks or a render looks wrong, write to support@cut.express. We usually reply within one business day.

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