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Tell your editor what you want. Watch it cut.

Viode is an AI-native video editor. The timeline is a plain text file, every operation is one command, and an AI with real senses reads frames, waveforms, and scopes to do the tedious work for you.

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A real editor: live preview over a filmstrip timeline

The Viode editor: live preview above a filmstrip timeline
The tedious work, automated

An afternoon's work, one command

The jobs that eat editing days are single verbs in Viode. Each one runs on your machine, on your footage, in seconds.

Dead air, removed
One command scans 92 minutes of dialogue in nine seconds and cuts every silence, keeping enough padding that speech still breathes.
Multicam that syncs itself
Add a second camera and Viode aligns it by its audio — no clap slate needed. Then cut on the angle wall: every angle shows its frame at the playhead, and pressing its number key takes it.
Edit video by editing text
Local transcription with word timing turns the footage into a transcript. Delete the sentence and the video cuts itself. No cloud, no upload.
Exports that sound right
YouTube, Shorts, and podcast presets finish every export with proper two-pass loudness normalization. ProRes and DNxHR cover the handoff to other suites.
Shorts that follow the subject
One flag turns a 16:9 edit into a vertical Short whose crop finds the speaker's face, scene by scene — and holds its framing when they look away.
Captions, no cloud
Local transcription becomes an SRT file or burned-in captions in one command — editable like any other title, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
Music that knows its place
One command ducks the music wherever someone speaks — as visible, tweakable volume keyframes. Another retimes a track to fit, hiding the seam in a crossfade.
Shaky and noisy, fixed
Stabilization and voice cleanup are one command each — cached one-time passes on your footage, so nothing slows the edit down afterwards.
Start to finish

A podcast episode, in six commands

  1. 01

    viode new episode && viode add cam-a.mp4

    A project is a folder and a readable text file. Footage copies in, gets probed, and lands on the timeline.

  2. 02

    viode angle cam-b.mp4

    The second camera aligns itself by its audio — on a real recording Viode found a two-second offset to the millisecond. No clap slate.

  3. 03

    viode cut-silences 0

    Ninety-two minutes of dialogue scans in nine seconds; every dead stretch is cut with enough padding that speech still breathes.

  4. 04

    press 1, 2, 1, 2 on the angle wall

    Every angle shows its frame at the playhead. Mark a range, press a number, the take is made — multicam cutting at reading speed.

  5. 05

    viode duck 1 && viode clean 0

    The music drops itself under every spoken passage as visible volume keyframes, and the voice track loses its hum and rumble in one cached pass.

  6. 06

    viode captions --burn && viode render --preset youtube

    Captions burn in from local transcription, and the master renders with proper two-pass loudness. The Short? Add --preset shorts --reframe.

AI-native, not AI-bolted-on

An editor the AI drives like you do

One click connects the AI you already use — Claude, Cursor, opencode, and friends — and it holds the same tools you do: it cuts, trims, places, grades, and renders, then checks its own work by looking at the result. All of it on your machine: your footage is never uploaded, and there are no AI credits to meter.

Real senses
The AI grabs frames and reads waveforms and scopes, so its choices are judgments about pictures and sound, not guesses about timestamps.
Your edit is a diff
The timeline is a readable text file. Review an AI's edit the way you review a pull request, and revert it the same way.
Every interface, equal
The command line, the terminal UI, the desktop app, and the AI all hold the same capabilities. Nothing ships in one without the others.
For people who cut every day

The pro grammar is all here

The vocabulary you already work in — trims, keyframes, scopes, ramps — as plain verbs on a timeline you can read. The manual documents every one of them.

Roll, slip, slide.
The three trims that keep totals intact — rate-aware, and they refuse an impossible trim instead of silently guessing.
Keyframes that survive.
Volume, opacity, position, and scale animate in source time, so a fade or a move stays where you put it through every later trim.
Color you can measure.
Grade and gamma controls, .cube LUTs through ffmpeg's color math, one-command shot matching, and real waveform and vectorscope displays.
Time as a tool.
Constant speed, stepped ramps, frame holds, and optical-flow slow motion — a 2x clip renders at exactly half duration, and a test proves it.
Cuts with intent.
Crossfades, typed wipes, and a morph that smooths a jump cut into continuous motion. Titles, markers, and nested projects keep long work organized.
Hide what must be hidden.
Green screens key out, and a blur or pixelation can lock onto a face or a screen and follow it through the shot.
Built for long form.
540p proxies drive everything interactive, edits take 3 ms on a three-hour timeline, and a render queue works through your delivery list.

The same editor lives in your terminal

Viode's terminal timeline with filmstrips and waveforms

Measured on real films, not demo clips.

  • 3 msper edit on a three-hour timeline
  • 640×realtime silence scanning
  • 20×faster scene detection in 4K
  • 1.7×realtime rendering of true 4K
Pricing

One subscription, everything included

Try Viode free for 32 days, then keep it for one price — no tiers, no metered credits, cancel whenever you like.

$15 per month, or $144 a year — launching soon
  • The full editorEvery feature on this page, on Linux and macOS. Soon on Windows too. No tiers, no feature gates, no credits to count.
  • Yours to keep after a yearSubscribe for twelve months and the last version you paid for keeps working forever — even if you cancel.
  • Nothing leaves your machineNo cloud rendering, no telemetry. The subscription funds development, not servers holding your footage.
  • Support from the authorQuestions land with the person who wrote the code.
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