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EDITOR’S PICK · 9 MIN READ

Your AI agent is editing video blind

Give a language model a video editor's API and it will confidently place a caption 300px off the canvas, because nothing in the loop ever told it what the frame looked like. This is a perception problem, not a reasoning problem — and it is fixable.

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AI & workflow

We built a benchmark for AI video editing, and spent most of the time debugging the benchmark

Nine models, 81 tasks, 729 runs, truth known by construction. We found seven bugs in our own measurement before we found anything about the models, and each one produced a number that looked like a result. Here is the benchmark, the board, and the debugging.

· 12 min read
Creator life

Make a SaaS product demo people can actually follow

One customer problem, one real workflow, one next step. A practical playbook for founders turning a screen recording into a product demo.

· 7 min read
Creator life

Working on the same video, at the same time

Two editors in one timeline used to be a race nobody knew they were in. Here is how Vidmoat handles it now, and why nobody loses an afternoon to it.

· 5 min read
Gaming / Field notesPhoto: Atahan Demir / Pexels
Gaming

How to Cut Hours of Gameplay Capture Into Something Worth Watching

Most gaming footage fails not because the play was bad but because the edit buried it. Here is how to find the moment in six hours of capture and cut it so it lands.

· 14 min read
Podcasting / Field notesPhoto: Jakub Zerdzicki / Pexels
Podcasting

One Recording, Two Deliverables: Editing a Podcast Episode and the Clips That Sell It

A recorded podcast is not one edit, it is two: a full episode people listen to and short clips people scroll past. The mistake is doing both with the same technique.

· 14 min read
Cooking / Field notesPhoto: MART PRODUCTION / Pexels
Cooking

How to Edit a Cooking Video People Can Actually Follow

A recipe video has two jobs at once: it has to be followable and it has to make somebody hungry. This is how to cut one so it does both, from the first ingredient card to the plated hero shot.

· 14 min read
Fitness / Field notesPhoto: Elena Kravets / Pexels
Fitness

Editing Fitness Video: Form Checks, Follow-Alongs and Everything Between

A form breakdown and a follow-along workout are two different films and they need two different edits. Here is how each one is actually cut, and what goes wrong when you treat them the same.

· 14 min read
Real estate / Field notesPhoto: Max Vakhtbovych / Pexels
Real estate

How to Edit a Listing Video That Buyers Actually Watch

Most listing videos lose the viewer before the front door closes. Here is how to order a walkthrough, hold the frame, put the specs on screen and cut one timeline into both a landscape listing version and a vertical social version.

· 11 min read
Courses & tutorials / Field notesPhoto: Letícia Alvares / Pexels
Courses & tutorials

Editing Course Videos for People Who Are Trying to Do Something

Your student is not watching your lesson, they are following it with a keyboard under their hands. That single fact changes what you cut, how fast you cut it, and why the first fifteen seconds should not be about you.

· 12 min read
Music / Field notesPhoto: Dominik Gryzbon / Pexels
Music

Editing Music Videos: Cutting to the Track, Not to the Footage

A music video is the only kind of video where the timing is decided before you shoot. This is how to edit to the track instead of to the footage, from bar-level structure down to word-level lyric timing.

· 11 min read
Product & tech / Field notesPhoto: J. S. / Pexels
Product & tech

Product Videos That Answer the Question the Photo Could Not

Every product page already has photos. A product video only earns its place by answering what the photos left unanswered, and most of them never get around to it.

· 11 min read
AI & workflow

Your AI agent is editing video blind

Give a language model a video editor's API and it will confidently place a caption 300px off the canvas, because nothing in the loop ever told it what the frame looked like. This is a perception problem, not a reasoning problem — and it is fixable.

· 9 min read
AI & workflow

Meet Otto, the editor that tells you when something is wrong

The worst bug in a video editor is not a crash. It is the edit that looks finished and is not — the clip that comes out black, the voiceover that exports silent. Nothing warns you, so you assume the tool is broken and you leave. Otto is our answer to that.

· 8 min read
Creator life

Who the modern creator actually is

Most advice for new creators is really advice for freelance videographers from 2014. The job has changed: the scarce thing is no longer the ability to operate an editor, it is having something to say and the stamina to keep saying it. Here is our definition of video creation, and the roadmap we would give anyone starting now.

· 11 min read
AI & workflow

How to edit video with Claude using MCP

MCP lets Claude call a video editor directly. Here is what that actually looks like in practice — the setup, the commands worth knowing, and the parts that still need a human eye.

· 8 min read
AI & workflow

Edit video from Telegram: send a clip, get it back cut

Telegram video bots have existed for years, but they take commands like /trim and /rotate. This is different: you describe the edit in plain language and an agent performs it on a real timeline.

· 6 min read
AI & workflow

What is an AI video agent?

Most "AI video editing" is a set of buttons with a model behind each one. An agent is different: it reads the project, decides which operations to run, and executes them. That distinction changes the workflow.

· 7 min read
TikTok & Reels / Field notesPhoto: Dominik Gryzbon / Pexels
TikTok & Reels

How to repurpose one video for every platform

Exporting the same 16:9 file to every platform wastes most of the screen and buries your subject. Repurposing properly means reframing, not just resizing — and it does not have to mean four separate edits.

· 6 min read
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