AI tools for filmmakers (2026)

AI for every stage of a film or series: script breakdowns and storyboards, previs and virtual production, rough cuts, VFX, subtitles, dubbing and sound. We picked the top tools for 7 jobs filmmakers do every day: 37 tools in all, 21 of them free or with a free tier.

Jump to: Storyboarding and previs · Rough cuts · VFX and compositing · Video post-production · Audio post-production · Dubbing and lip sync · Scoring and soundtracks

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How we picked: each section takes the tools matched to that task in our directory, putting tools whose category and stated use cases fit the task first, then ordering by tracked GitHub stars. No paid placements.

Storyboarding and previs

Tools that turn a script into storyboards, shot lists, animatics and 3D previs, plus script breakdowns and coverage for pre-production. All 7 tools →

• BBoords Paid
  Storyboard and animatic tool with an AI storyboard generator. Plan scripts and shots, share them with clients and collect feedback and sign-off in one place.
• FFilmustage Freemium
  AI pre-production platform. Upload a script to get scene breakdowns, schedules, budgets and call sheets in any language or format.
• GGreenlight Coverage Paid
  Upload a screenplay and get script coverage in minutes, with notes on plot, character, dialogue and marketability.
• IIntangible Freemium
  AI 3D studio for previs and concept work. Block out scenes in 3D, set cameras and turn them into images and video.
• LLTX Studio Freemium
  Lightricks' AI production studio. Turn a script or idea into a storyboard, shots and edited video, with consistent characters and camera control.
• PPrescene Freemium
  Screenplay analysis for writers and producers. Run script coverage, compare drafts, follow a series and create production documents grounded in the script.

Rough cuts

Assistant editors that log footage, pick selects, remove bad takes and silences and assemble a first cut you can finish in your editor. All 10 tools →

• AAdobe Premiere AI Assistant Paid
  Chat panel inside Adobe Premiere (public beta). Ask it in plain words to sort footage into bins, transcribe, find slates, add markers and build stringouts or rough assemblies. Every step can be undone.
• AAutoPod Paid
  Premiere Pro plugin for automatic multicam editing, jump cuts and social exports of podcasts and talk shows.
• CCleanvoice Freemium
  AI that removes filler words, mouth sounds, silences and background noise from speech recordings.
• CCutback Paid
  Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates.
• DDescript Freemium
  Video and audio editor you edit like a doc. Its Underlord co-editor can cut filler words, build rough cuts, add captions, clean up audio and write show notes when you ask it to.
• EEddie AI Usage-based
  AI assistant editor for interviews and documentary footage. Chat with it, or connect it to ChatGPT or Claude over MCP, to get rough cuts you can export to Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut.

VFX and compositing

AI for visual effects: rotoscoping and masks, relighting, compositing, tracking, markerless mocap and virtual production. All 14 tools →

• AAIVA Freemium
  AI composition assistant for soundtrack and score music in many styles, with MIDI export and editing.
• AAutodesk Flow Studio Freemium
  Autodesk's cloud AI VFX tool, formerly Wonder Studio. Turn live-action footage into editable CG scenes with markerless mocap, camera tracking, clean plates and masks for Maya, Blender or Unreal.
• BBeeble Paid
  AI VFX for filmmakers. Relight footage after the shoot by pulling normal, depth and other passes from ordinary video.
• BBoris FX Mocha Pro Paid
  Academy Award-winning planar tracking, roto and object removal plugin, with ML-based masking, for After Effects, Premiere, Resolve, Nuke and more.
• CCuebric See site
  Generative AI tool for virtual production. Make layered 2.5D backgrounds for LED volumes and greenscreen from concept to camera in minutes.
• DDaVinci Resolve Freemium
  Blackmagic's editing, color, VFX and audio post app. Its AI tools include IntelliSearch, Magic Mask, voice isolation, speed warp and dialogue leveling.

Video post-production

Picture post in one place: editing and assistant-editor agents, subtitles, color, VFX, upscaling and visual dubbing, grouped by stage. All 54 tools →

• OOpenMontage Open source
  Open-source agentic video production system with ready pipelines and tools that agents use to edit and assemble videos. · ★ 68,893
• YYuE Open source
  Open song-generation model (YuE2) with lyrics-to-song, zero-shot covers and agentic music editing. · ★ 12,143
• AACE-Step Open source
  Open music generation foundation model for fast full-song generation and editing. · ★ 4,953
• VVideoDB Director Open source + cloud
  Open-source framework of 20+ video agents that search, summarize, clip, edit and stream video from natural-language commands, built on VideoDB. · ★ 1,554
• AAccentize See site
  AI dialogue restoration plugins for post-production: speech enhancement, de-reverb, noise reduction and reverb matching for ADR.
• AAdobe Podcast See site
  Adobe's web app with Enhance Speech, which makes voice recordings sound studio-clean, plus recording and transcript editing.

Audio post-production

Sound for picture, grouped by stage: dialogue cleanup, ADR and dubbing voices, Foley and sound effects, and the editors and mixing tools that tie it together. All 33 tools →

• AAudioCraft Open source
  Meta's open library for audio generation, including MusicGen for music and AudioGen for sound effects. · ★ 23,744
• MMMAudio Open source
  Open model that generates synced sound effects and Foley from video, from the CVPR 2025 paper. · ★ 2,288
• HHunyuanVideo-Foley Open weights
  Tencent's open model that generates high-fidelity Foley audio matched to video. · ★ 1,074
• AAccentize See site
  AI dialogue restoration plugins for post-production: speech enhancement, de-reverb, noise reduction and reverb matching for ADR.
• AAcon Digital Extract:Dialogue Paid
  AI dialogue cleaning plugin with real-time reverb reduction and simple mixer controls.
• AAltered Studio Freemium
  Voice-changing studio. Perform a line and turn it into another voice, for voiceover, ADR and character work.

Dubbing and lip sync

AI dubbing: translated voices that keep the actor's sound, and visual dubbing that matches lip movement to the new language. All 22 tools →

• AAudioShake See site
  AI audio separation. Split dialogue, music and effects (DME) or music stems for dubbing, remixes and clean-up.
• CCAMB.AI Freemium
  AI dubbing, live translation and lifelike voices in 150+ languages for films, broadcasts and sport.
• CCaptions Paid
  AI video editor and generator for creators, with auto captions, eye contact, dubbing and AI edits.
• CCutback Paid
  Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates.
• DDeepdub Enterprise
  AI dubbing for studios and streamers, with emotional voice cloning and localization in many languages.
• DDubformer See site
  AI dubbing and voiceover for media companies. Create a voice, direct how it sounds and export.

Scoring and soundtracks

AI music for picture: generate or compose score, background tracks and songs you can license for film, TV, ads and video. All 15 tools →

• SSpleeter Open source
  Deezer's source separation library with pretrained models for splitting songs into stems. · ★ 28,499
• YYuE Open source
  Open song-generation model (YuE2) with lyrics-to-song, zero-shot covers and agentic music editing. · ★ 12,143
• AACE-Step Open source
  Open music generation foundation model for fast full-song generation and editing. · ★ 4,953
• AAIVA Freemium
  AI composition assistant for soundtrack and score music in many styles, with MIDI export and editing.
• AAudio Design Desk Paid
  Audio workstation for video editors. AI search finds sound effects from its library, it syncs sound to picture and can generate background music.
• BBeatoven.ai See site
  Royalty-free AI background music and sound effects for videos, podcasts and games, with an API.

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