A little guidance.
A better first cut.

Learn the editor with your own footage. Practical steps, familiar controls, and room to make the edit yours.

AVE 1.2.0 on Mac with a documentary interview, editable timeline, and the Transcript panel open beside the viewer.

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How to edit video by editing the transcript on Mac.

Transcribe a spoken recording locally, select the words you want to keep or remove, review speech cleanup, add captions, and export from AVE.

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Illustration of the AVE editor with its assistant, wet-track video preview, Inspector, and multi-track timeline.

For AVE 1.2.0 · 10 min

How to get started with AVE on Mac.

Install AVE, edit a recording by its transcript, review speech cleanup, try Ask and Plan, and export locally. A practical guide to the Mac editor.

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Connect an external assistant

MCP setup, local clients, and access scopes.

Activate AVE Pro

Find your license key and activate it in Settings.

Understand the workflow

How footage, agents, review, and the timeline fit together.