We want to make a software that enable more people to be creative with their work, with or without AI. Davinci/Premiere is great software, but for beginners it is still a very high barrier to learn the software.

AI is already used in existing software to help automate parts of editing workflow. One example: Masking an object used to be very mechanical with keyframing, Mocha makes it easier. Now with AI segmentation models, masking anything is much more automated than before. I think that's much more outside of masking that we can just do better.

It's similar in a sense that we're both exposing a mcp server to let claude runs editing tools, and also a traditional video editor interface.

It's different in terms of how you run it. FableCut requires you to install node, ffmpeg, and run a local server and connect to it via Chromium-based browser, whereas Palmier Pro is a native Mac App.

I don't know enough about the feature parity to comment on it. How is your experience with FableCut?

Long videos with different speakers is a core use case that we are trying to optimize for, please let us know how it goes for you!

- Making some AI transitions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbM_-eR1GX4

- Multicam editing with Codex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjS2q2LT1q8

- Cutting long form clips into shorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR66eN2ouuQ

We built Palmier Pro as an internal tool when we were making AI launch videos for other startups. The main problem it solved in the beginning was the back-and-forth between AI generation platform and video editor. The iteration loop was awkward: AI videos → download → import to editor → edit → realize we need to change the AI video → repeat. So we built a minimal video editor where we could let Claude generate AI videos inside the editor.

As we gave more and more tools to the agent, we wanted to push to see what else agents can do in the video editing space. So today, your Claude/Codex can:

- Manage projects inside Palmier Pro

- Import media from a public URL or filesystem to the project, and organize them in folders

- Search media (by embedding footages using SigLIP2 running locally)

- Edit the timeline (tracks/clips/keyframes operations)

- Generate images, videos, sound effects, captions, music

- Export videos

There are two ways for LLMs to interact with the editor: by connecting to the local MCP server, or using the in-app chat. Both use the same tools and APIs exposed by the video editor.

We have seen people using MCP server to connect to their own workflow to automate massive-scale video editing (e.g. given this same podcast style, replicate it with other footages that I have). We have also seen people using the in-app chat where it lives closer to the editor UI, with lower latency for faster iteration.

We don't believe that AI is going to replace human creativity (nor should it), but where it can really help is in automating the gruntwork in video editing. Most work in the editing workflow is more mechanical than creative. Our vision is to build a video editor where AI can enable more individuals to create.

Throughout our experiments, AI is not very good at creative editing, but given a pattern (transcription-based, beat-based), it can do a decent job at rough cut.

We built Palmier Pro in Swift as an MVP because we wanted better performance and minimal dependencies (no nodejs/webview), with some native macOS APIs like SpeechAnalyzer and CoreML for us to run some models locally. We use SpeechAnalyzer for local transcriber, SigLip2 to embed video frames, beat_this for beat detection, Silero VAD for silence detection, all running locally. The tradeoff is that we don't support Linux or Windows at the moment.

Palmier Pro is open source and free to try out (macOS 26 only at the moment, though - we'll support more platforms over time, but for now are focusing on iterating the core product).

No login required except for the AI generation features, which route requests to our backend. We are offering free credits on sign up so you can try out the AI generation as well.

We'd love to hear your feedback!

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I spend a lot of time in terminal with claude code and codex, and I also build apps with openai and anthropic api keys. I found myself hopping on two different dashboards quite often to check my usage, so I built a TUI to monitor my daily/weekly/monthly cost, without leaving my workflow inside the terminal.

You can view the usage and cost for each of your api keys for the past 7 or 30 days, grouped by either model or api key.

For folks also using a lot of claude code/codex with api keys, or building ai apps, you might also find it useful without constantly hopping on openai and anthropic dashboard.

Github: https://github.com/htin1/toktop Quick installation: cargo install toktop

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https://github.com/htin1/toktop

I use codex and claude code daily, also build apps with openai and anthropic api keys, so i always go to openai dashboard and anthropic dashboard to track my usage. Since I spend most of times inside cursor or terminal, I wanted to quickly check my usage without leaving my terminal/ide, so i built this!

It's open-source, MIT, and built with ratatui (awesome name).

It's MIT license and BYOK.

We've found some fun use cases with Sora that are not brain-rot meme videos on the Sora app, for example: - Turning blog posts to video

- Making launch videos

- Making educational videos

- (currently experimenting) Marketing Ads

But we don't want to pay $200 for the max plan, so instead we built this to use our existing API credits. With this app, you have access to:

1. storyboard with a AI chat 2. watermark-free videos 3. sora-2-pro 4. basic editing with ffmpeg

Would love to hear some feedback. Hope you find it useful and fun too!

Download link (Apple Silicon): https://github.com/palmier-io/sixsevenstudio/releases/downlo...

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