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PromptCut

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APP
Year
2024
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Edit videos with natural language

Just describe what you want. PromptCut understands your instructions and edits your footage from your prompts.

This project explores building a native macOS application in Swift that enables video editing through natural language. Inspired by modern AI prompting interfaces, the app allows users to perform common tasks, such as compressing, cropping, or converting video formats, using plain English commands, removing the complexity of traditional video editing tools.

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Editing video clips can be surprisingly painful. Even for the simplest tasks, trimming a clip, converting it to a different format, extracting audio, or merging a couple of shots, there’s usually a long chain of steps across different tools. Clicking through timelines, wrestling with export settings, opening yet another app… it all adds friction to the creative process...

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