AI video editing that lands on a real Mac timeline.

Export FCPXML with clips, trims, gaps, track placement, audio levels, and supported still images.

Choose plain subtitles or editable caption titles, with an SRT copy included.

Copy source media into the export folder for handoff to another Mac.

Review unsupported effects and graphics before exporting; AVE caption backgrounds and animation do not transfer.

Multi-track timeline with video, audio, and graphics tracks.

Multiple saved sequences per project for drafts, ratios, and versions.

Clip trimming, splitting, Ripple, Roll, and Slip edits, same-track clip swapping, movement, duplication, deletion, retiming, source replacement, and smart snapping with a live Option bypass.

Searchable, categorized Transitions catalog with duration labels and live hover or keyboard-focus previews before dragging.

Exportable dissolve, fade, flash, wipe, slide, blur, zoom, luma, and glitch-style transitions.

Direct visual fades, clip alignment, opacity envelopes, audio automation, and synchronized inspector feedback.

Compact live viewer controls for sequence format, frame rate, background, guides, and sequence settings.

Gap-aware export preflight plus local MP4, MOV, and WebM rendering at up to 4K UHD, with resolution-aware bitrate choices and an upscaling warning for lower-resolution content.

Use Batch Selects on 1 to 50 imported videos to inspect each source separately for obvious image problems, abrupt movement, quiet sections, and shot boundaries.

Review suggested removals and splits, include or exclude recordings, preview a flagged range, and name the new selects sequence before creating it.

Hybrid lexical and semantic search across names, dialogue, scenes, subjects, actions, objects, frame notes, metadata, and related meaning.

Browse Assets or exact timecoded Moments, filter the local library, preview source ranges, and use a selected moment in a project.

Smart Rename proposes collection-aware AVE names from project evidence, with editable before-and-after review and per-asset exclusion.

Smart Rename changes project-visible names only; original source files and AVE-managed media stay unchanged.

When requested footage is missing from the project, the Assistant can search the global Asset Library, suggest matches from other local projects, add the chosen assets, and continue the edit.

Global Asset Library access also includes cross-project moment deduplication and content-aware analysis reuse when the same footage appears in another saved project.

Create video from text with Google Veo, Runway, Luma, Kling, fal.ai, or Seedance.

Animate a reference image with Google Veo, Runway, Kling, or Seedance.

Generate or edit images with Google Nano Banana, and generate images through selected fal.ai models.

Choose provider-specific models, aspect ratios, durations, resolutions, reference inputs, audio options, seeds, formats, and advanced controls where supported.

Track queued and running jobs, cancel work, recover completed results, and import generated files as normal AVE assets.

Keep provider credentials in encrypted desktop storage and send generation requests only to the provider the user selects.

Remember one exact source range with project-only scope or across the AVE Library on this Mac, then forget it when the label is no longer useful.

Search confirmed memory by its label or the underlying visual and transcript evidence without returning unremembered footage as a substitute.

Find visually similar moments inside the current project with Apple Vision and calibrated weak-match rejection.

Use the same evidence-backed moment retrieval through the editor Assets panel, Ask, Plan, and connected MCP assistants.

Keep every result reviewable with its exact asset, source range, rationale, and source-project references.

AVE never silently confirms an identity, renames original files, or changes the timeline just because footage looks similar.

Select words to split or remove a passage from your video.

Turn a favorite excerpt into its own sequence.

Read and edit dialogue through the Assistant or connected MCP agents.

Preview suggested filler-word and pause cuts, then keep only the ones you want.

Add automatic captions that follow your edits.

Export your edited sequence captions as SRT or WebVTT subtitle files.

Keep speech clear with voice cleanup and music that lowers during dialogue.

Find the beat and shape your edit around the music.

Searchable, categorized Graphics catalog with visual template previews before adding a graphic to the timeline.

Dedicated graphics editor with a browsable layers tree, component selection, rename, duplicate, delete, and Hug Contents controls.

Direct canvas movement and resizing with centered resizing and safe-area snapping.

Titles, template-aware lower thirds, shapes, captions, brand kits, style packs, and motion templates.

Solid, gradient, grained mesh, and custom-image sequence backgrounds with palettes, cover or contain fit, blur, dim, scale, and positioning controls.

Camera presets and Target-Aware Camera for local subject-aware reframing with an honest cover fallback.

Validated hex colors, a screen eyedropper, color correction, opacity, transforms, chroma key, masks, and mask animation.

Ask mode for questions, simple commands, captions, search, and timeline help.

Plan mode for approval-gated, project-aware edit plans.

Auto, Fast, and Reason execution routing for different levels of AI involvement.

Transcript search, visual search, talking-head identification, rough-cut analysis, and asset ranking.

Reviewable tool calls with accepted, declined, retried, and inspected changes.

Bundled Local AI engine with starter on-device vision analysis and transcription models.

Downloadable local assistant and analysis model options for stronger private planning and footage understanding.

Installed assistant support when you prefer command-line AI tools.

Custom API endpoint support for teams with their own provider setup.

Bring-your-own media generation with Google Veo, Google Nano Banana, Runway, Luma, Kling, fal.ai, Seedance.

Encrypted provider-key storage through the desktop app.