AI tools for video editors (2026)
Assistant-editor agents, rough-cut and multicam tools, subtitles, color, upscaling, VFX and dialogue cleanup that fit into Premiere, Resolve, Avid and Final Cut. We picked the top tools for 6 jobs video editors do every day: 27 tools in all, 13 of them free or with a free tier.
Jump to: Rough cuts · Video post-production · Subtitles and captions · VFX and compositing · Dialogue cleanup · Dubbing and lip sync
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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.
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 →
Adobe 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.
AutoPod Paid
Premiere Pro plugin for automatic multicam editing, jump cuts and social exports of podcasts and talk shows.
Cleanvoice Freemium
AI that removes filler words, mouth sounds, silences and background noise from speech recordings.
Cutback Paid
Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates.
Descript 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.
Eddie 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.
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 →
OpenMontage Open source
Open-source agentic video production system with ready pipelines and tools that agents use to edit and assemble videos. · ★ 68,893
YuE Open source
Open song-generation model (YuE2) with lyrics-to-song, zero-shot covers and agentic music editing. · ★ 12,143
ACE-Step Open source
Open music generation foundation model for fast full-song generation and editing. · ★ 4,953
VideoDB 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
Accentize See site
AI dialogue restoration plugins for post-production: speech enhancement, de-reverb, noise reduction and reverb matching for ADR.
Adobe Podcast See site
Adobe's web app with Enhance Speech, which makes voice recordings sound studio-clean, plus recording and transcript editing.
Subtitles and captions
Transcription, captioning and translated subtitles for film, TV and online video, from editor plugins to live broadcast captions. All 16 tools →
- Adobe Podcast See site
Adobe's web app with Enhance Speech, which makes voice recordings sound studio-clean, plus recording and transcript editing. - Adobe 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. 
CapCut Freemium
ByteDance's video editor for desktop, mobile and web with AI captions, background removal, effects and templates.
Captions Paid
AI video editor and generator for creators, with auto captions, eye contact, dubbing and AI edits.- Cutback Paid
Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates. - Descript 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.
VFX and compositing
AI for visual effects: rotoscoping and masks, relighting, compositing, tracking, markerless mocap and virtual production. All 14 tools →
AIVA Freemium
AI composition assistant for soundtrack and score music in many styles, with MIDI export and editing.
Autodesk 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.
Beeble Paid
AI VFX for filmmakers. Relight footage after the shoot by pulling normal, depth and other passes from ordinary video.
Boris 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.
Cuebric See site
Generative AI tool for virtual production. Make layered 2.5D backgrounds for LED volumes and greenscreen from concept to camera in minutes.
DaVinci 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.
Dialogue cleanup
Plugins and apps that remove noise, reverb, hum and clicks from dialogue and rebalance voice against background, for film, TV and podcasts. All 25 tools →
- Accentize See site
AI dialogue restoration plugins for post-production: speech enhancement, de-reverb, noise reduction and reverb matching for ADR. 
Acon Digital Extract:Dialogue Paid
AI dialogue cleaning plugin with real-time reverb reduction and simple mixer controls.
Antinode Clear Paid
AI plugin that separates voice, reverb and noise in real time so you can rebalance dialogue (formerly Supertone Clear).
AudioShake See site
AI audio separation. Split dialogue, music and effects (DME) or music stems for dubbing, remixes and clean-up.
Auphonic See site
Automatic audio post-production web service: leveling, loudness normalization, noise and reverb reduction for speech.- Autodesk 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.
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 →
- AudioShake See site
AI audio separation. Split dialogue, music and effects (DME) or music stems for dubbing, remixes and clean-up. 
CAMB.AI Freemium
AI dubbing, live translation and lifelike voices in 150+ languages for films, broadcasts and sport.- Captions Paid
AI video editor and generator for creators, with auto captions, eye contact, dubbing and AI edits. - Cutback Paid
Premiere Pro assistant that auto-edits raw footage and multicam: picks selects, cuts silences, transcribes and translates. 
Deepdub Enterprise
AI dubbing for studios and streamers, with emotional voice cloning and localization in many languages.
Dubformer See site
AI dubbing and voiceover for media companies. Create a voice, direct how it sounds and export.
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