How to Edit Videos With AI on Mac

Import your raw takes into ClipsPal, run the one-click AI edit, then fix the rest by typing requests to Director or dragging clips on the timeline. The AI cuts failed takes, silences and filler and adds zoom-ins and subtitles. Five steps take you from takes to an exported video.

What an AI that edits videos for you actually does

An AI editor works from what you said, not from what the picture looks like. It reads the transcript, so the cuts follow your sentences.

• Keeps the best take of each line and drops the failed ones.
• Removes silences and filler words.
• Adds zoom-ins on emphasis.
• Adds subtitles.
• Places visuals and sound effects on strong moments.

It edits footage you recorded. It does not generate original footage from a text prompt, and ClipsPal has no browser editor: it is a Mac app, with a Windows 11 beta.

Step 1: Import your takes

Open the New video dialog and add your files. On a Mac you can also record your voice, or your screen with the camera, straight into a new video.

Transcription runs on your computer, so the video and audio stay on it.

Step 2: Run the one-click AI edit

You supply the clip and choose which AI does the editing: the account or installed provider you already use, or a local model. Check the current options on the ClipsPal homepage.

ClipsPal sends only the transcript to the AI you chose. With a local model, nothing leaves your computer.

When the edit finishes, it opens in a multi-track timeline. Failed takes, silences and filler are cut, and zoom-ins, subtitles, visuals and sound effects sit where the AI placed them.

Step 3: Ask Director for changes

Director is the text box under the video that says "Ask Director to edit this video…". Describe a change in plain words, or type / to list the commands:

• /edit: run the full edit with your request.
• /cut: remove a passage you describe.
• /visuals: suggest visuals for every showable moment.
• /zoom: add punch-ins where you emphasise.
• /sounds: add sound effects to strong moments.
• /motion: change motion slides, one or all.
• /fix: fix wrong words in the subtitles.
• /short: make 1 to 5 vertical shorts.

Typed requests work the same way:

• "Cut the part where I explain the setup twice."
• "Add zoom-ins when I say the three steps."
• "Fix the product name in the subtitles."

Each short from /short is a separate saved edit. Open each one and check that it has distinct content and framing.

Step 4: Fix anything by hand on the timeline

Nothing is locked after the AI pass. Drag, trim and split clips on the timeline, restore any cut, and undo any edit. Wrong words in the transcript and subtitles can be corrected in place.

For more on editing from the words, see transcript-based video editing.

Step 5: Export

Export is manual and happens in the Export dialog. Director has no export command.

• Video exports at 1080p or 1440p, with playback speed, burned-in subtitles and an optional SRT file.
• Editor exports a timeline file for supported editors.

Exports queue on your computer. ClipsPal does not post to social platforms, so you upload the file yourself.

What to check after the AI edit

• Cuts that land mid-sentence.
• A kept take that is not the best one.
• Zooms on the wrong word.
• Names and terms in the subtitles.

The full routine is in automating the editing workflow. If the video is for YouTube, editing a YouTube video from raw takes covers the rest. To try silence cutting on its own first, use the free silence remover.