Show HN: Vidmoat – a video editing pipeline any AI agent can operate

Vidmoat — AI Video Editor. Type a prompt, get a finished video.

AGENT-FIRST✦MCP SERVER✦AUTO-CUT✦AI CAPTIONS✦TEXT-TO-EDIT✦ONE-CLICK SHORTS✦

AGENT-FIRST✦MCP SERVER✦AUTO-CUT✦AI CAPTIONS✦TEXT-TO-EDIT✦ONE-CLICK SHORTS✦

65+

timeline commands

every edit, scriptable

11

MCP tools

plug in Claude or Cursor

33+

effects & filters

green screen included

1

prompt to edit

the agent does the rest

TIKTOK ✦ REELS ✦ YOUTUBE ✦ SHORTS

MADE FOR WHERE YOU ACTUALLY POST

Edit once. Post everywhere.

One edit gets reframed, re-timed and re-hooked for every platform. Click a format — or just watch it cycle.

TIKTOKthe CRISPIEST9:16 · hook rewritten

REELS9:16 · auto-reframed

YOUTUBE16:9 · full cut · 11:07

SHORTS×12 · hooks included

One edit in. Sixteen posts out. Your upload schedule never saw it coming.

[F1] — THE HEADLINER

Auto-Cut watches all 3 hours of your footage so you don't have to.

It finds the good takes, kills the dead air, and stitches the story — before your coffee even brews. Every cut stays editable, because we know you'll tweak it anyway.

See it in the editor →

RAW — 03:12:443h of chaos

✂ auto-cut ran (14 sec)

CUT — 00:11:0711 min of banger

[NEW] — MOAT AI AGENT

Type what you want. Watch it edit itself.

Never opened a video editor? Doesn't matter. Tell the agent "make this a punchy TikTok" and it reads your footage, writes the captions, cuts the dead air, and grades the color — step by step, out loud, until it's done.

✦Understands what’s said in your clips (word-level)

✦Plans multi-step edits & self-corrects

✦Never touches what you didn’t ask for

Try a prompt free →

MOAT AI — AGENT CONSOLElive

make this a punchy tiktok

[NEW] — BRING YOUR OWN AGENT

Your editor is now an MCP server.

The first video editor any AI agent can drive end-to-end. Connect Claude Code, Cursor, or your own agents over Model Context Protocol — they import footage, edit the timeline, look at the frames they made, and render finished MP4s. No browser. No clicks.

✦65+ timeline commands — captions, keyframes, effects, all of it

✦Agents see their work: frame previews come back as images

✦Same plan, same projects — an API key is all it takes

Get your MCP key →

claude — connected to vidmoat mcp

$ claude mcp add --transport http vidmoat api.vidmoat.com/api/mcp

> "cut my podcast into 3 shorts with karaoke captions, then render"

WORKS WITH EVERY AGENT THAT SPEAKS MCP

Claude Code✦Cursor✦Windsurf✦GitHub Copilot✦Cline✦Zed✦Continue✦Goose✦Warp✦Gemini CLI✦Claude Desktop✦OpenAI Agents SDK✦

Claude Code✦Cursor✦Windsurf✦GitHub Copilot✦Cline✦Zed✦Continue✦Goose✦Warp✦Gemini CLI✦Claude Desktop✦OpenAI Agents SDK✦

…and anything else with an MCP client. One key, one command to connect →

THE FULL KIT

Everything inside.

A full professional editor underneath the agent — open a chapter.

01Cut & polish+

✦Auto-cut silences

✦Beat-sync markers & cut-on-grid

✦Speed ramps, reverse & freeze frames

✦Transitions, masks & blend modes

✦Color grades, LUTs & adjustment layers

✦One-click video stabilization

02Captions, text & audio+

✦Word-level auto-captions

✦Karaoke & social caption styles

✦Filler-word removal from transcript

✦Auto-duck music under speech

✦Audio EQ, restore & silence trim

✦AI sticker generator & HTML titles

03The agent & automation+

✦Moat AI console — edit by prompt

✦MCP server: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor

✦Edit from Telegram & WhatsApp chat

✦Scripting — build your own edit macros

✦REST API with your own keys

04Ship everywhere+

✦Auto-reframe 9:16 · 1:1 · 16:9

✦Platform presets: TikTok, Reels, Shorts, YouTube

✦4K exports, mp4 / webm / gif

✦Distribute workspace — one edit, every format

✦Desktop app: 10 GB files, zero uploads

OR JUMP STRAIGHT TO A TOOL

AI Auto CaptionsSilence RemoverFiller Word RemoverBeat Sync EditorVideo Background RemoverAuto ReframeVideo StabilizerColor Grading & LUTsAuto Audio DuckingAI Sticker GeneratorSpeed RampingVideo to GIF Maker

Fresh from the lab. Shipping weekly.

NO PLUG-INS / NO EXPORT QUEUE

Remove BG

One click. No green screen. The background just… leaves.

WATERMARK

Cleanup Brush

Paint over anything you regret filming. Logos, strangers, exes.

KEYED ✦

Green Screen

Chroma key with spill cleanup. Pick the color, gone.

CAPTIONSTHATACTUALLYSLAP

Karaoke Captions

Every word lights up as it's spoken. Auto-synced to your audio.

The whole suite. None of the suffering.

06 TOOLS / 00 TUTORIALS NEEDED

[F1]CUT

Auto-Cut

Finds the good takes, kills the flops. Your rough cut, already cut.

[F2]TEXT

Text-to-Edit

Delete a sentence in the transcript, it disappears from the video. Editing by backspace.

[F3]CC

AI Captions

Word-perfect, on-beat, styled to your brand. Not a court transcript.

[F4]SFX

Silence Slayer

Umms, ahhs, and dead air — detected and deleted. Ruthlessly.

[F5]CLIP

One-Click Shorts

One long video in, twelve vertical bangers out. Hooks included.

[F6]ROLL

B-Roll Brain

It scans your library and drops the right shot at the right beat. You take the nap.

MOATS

MADE FOR THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY CREATE

Three creators. Three moats.

Same agent, three completely different workflows. Yours is in here somewhere.

🎙️THE PODCASTER

Records Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning: the full episode on YouTube, twelve clips for Shorts, karaoke captions on every one. She hasn’t opened a timeline in months.

3 hrs recording→13 posts

🍳THE CHEF

Films the whole cook on one phone, dumps the footage, types “fast recipe edit, keep the flip.” The agent cuts the prep, keeps the fire, captions the seasoning rant.

40 min footage→60-sec banger

🏋️THE COACH

Green-screens himself over client transformations, brushes out the gym’s logo, ships a polished breakdown to four platforms — before his next session walks in.

1 take→4 platforms

HOW IT WORKS — 3 STEPS, 0 BRAIN CELLS

01

Dump your footage

Drag in everything. The good takes, the bloopers, the 40 minutes you forgot to stop recording.

02

Tell it the vibe

"Fast-paced cooking video, punchy captions, keep the part where the pan catches fire." Done.

03

Ship the banger

Tweak what you want, export in every format, and get back to the part you actually love: filming.

Cheaper than an editor. Faster than three of them.

HOBBY

$0forever

For testing the waters. Or the moat.

✦3 projects

✦Auto-Cut + captions

✦720p exports

✦Tiny watermark (sorry)

Start free

MOST HYPECREATOR

$19/month

For people who post like it’s their job. Because it is.

✦Unlimited projects

✦The full AI suite

✦4K exports, no watermark

✦One-Click Shorts

✦Brand kit + caption styles

Go Creator

STUDIO

$49/month

For teams shipping content at industrial scale.

✦Everything in Creator

✦5 seats + shared library

✦Multicam sync

✦API + priority renders

Go Studio

FAQ — THE STUFF YOU'D DM US ANYWAY

Fair questions.

Do I need to know how to edit video?+

No — that's the whole point. Type what you want in plain words (“make this a punchy TikTok”, “add captions”, “cut the boring parts”) and the AI agent plans and applies the edits. Everything stays on a normal timeline, so you can tweak by hand whenever you want.

Is the free plan actually usable?+

Yes. 3 projects, the AI console, auto-captions, effects, and 720p exports — free forever, with a small watermark. Upgrade when you want 4K, no watermark, and the pro effects.

Where does my footage go? Is it private?+

Your uploads live in your account and are only used to render your videos. The clip analysis (transcripts, silence detection) runs to power your edits — we don't train on your footage or share it.

What makes this different from CapCut or Premiere?+

Those are tools you operate. Vidmoat is agent-first: an editor that operates itself — an AI with hands on the actual timeline. It cuts, captions, grades and re-formats across platforms from one prompt, everything stays fully editable, and it's the only editor external AI agents can drive too.

Can I connect my own AI — Claude, Cursor, custom agents?+

Yes. Vidmoat ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server: create an API key in your dashboard, add it to Claude Code or Cursor in one command, and your agent can import media, edit the timeline with 65+ commands, preview frames as images, and render MP4s — without ever opening the app.

Can I cancel anytime?+

Anytime, in one click from your account page (Stripe handles it — no email-us-to-cancel games). Your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for.

What can the AI actually do today?+

Auto-captions with word-sync, silence cutting, multi-step edit plans from one prompt, background removal, green screen, a cleanup brush, 33+ effects, smart splits with varied transitions — and the list grows weekly.

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