FableCut
A browser video editor that AI agents can drive.
FableCut is a Premiere-style non-linear video editor that runs entirely in your browser — and exposes its whole timeline as one JSON document. Edit it by hand, from the UI, or let an AI agent (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or anything that speaks MCP/REST) cut your video for you while you watch the timeline update live.
Zero npm dependencies. One node server.js . That's it.
Why it's interesting
Most "AI video" tools hide the edit behind an API. FableCut flips that: the project file is the interface. project.json describes media, clips, tracks, effects, keyframes and transitions — any process that can write JSON can edit video, and the open browser UI hot-reloads within ~150 ms via server-sent events. A human and an agent can work on the same timeline at the same time.
Features
Editing
4 video tracks + 3 audio tracks, drag/trim/split/snap, undo/redo
Timeline multi-select — rubber-band marquee (drag on empty track area), Ctrl/Cmd/Shift+click to add/remove clips, Ctrl+A to select all, Esc to deselect. Drag any selected clip to move the whole group; Delete removes all selected; S splits all selected at the playhead. Inspector shows an "N clips selected" banner.
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