AIEV

# AIEV

Edits video automatically with Claude as the director. It transcribes a clip, plans the edit, adds subtitles, zooms and sound effects, and exports an MP4. For creators who want a local dashboard.

Made by notivn on GitHub. These notes are Mindket's, written from its README; the project's own files and license are in its repository.

## About

What it is: AIEV is an automatic video editor from noti.vn in which Claude directs the edit. You drop in a clip and describe what you want. The system transcribes it, plans the edit, builds animated text scenes, subtitles, zooms and sound effects, and exports an MP4. Besides editing, it can make a narrated video from an article, split a long video into shorts, and translate a video into other languages.

Who it suits: Creators and small teams who make a lot of talking-head or explainer video and want the AI to do the first edit while they supervise in a browser.

```table
Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Content creation | Solo creators | Turn a raw clip into an edited video with subtitles, zooms and sound effects | A creator drops in a talking-head clip and gets karaoke subtitles and beat-synced zooms
Publishing and media | Editors | Turn written articles into narrated videos | An editor pastes a web article and gets a spoken script and a narrated video project
Marketing and branding | Brand managers | Apply a brand kit with colors, fonts and a logo to every video | A brand kit puts the logo top-left on each output automatically
Localization | Translators | Translate the dialogue and add translated subtitles, a dubbed voice or both | A team converts a recorded talk into another language with dubbed audio
```

Anyone who wants a hosted online service can skip it, because it runs on your own computer.

Where to use it:

- A web dashboard in your browser, served from your own machine
- Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, through XML export
- macOS and NVIDIA machines, where hardware acceleration is detected automatically
- Claude, which acts as the director through the Claude Agent SDK

```table
Use case | Who | What they get back
AI video editing | Creators | An MP4 with scenes, subtitles, zooms and sound effects, drafted first and finalized later
Text to video | Publishers | A narrated video made from a URL or pasted text
Auto cut | Podcasters and speakers | Several shorts from one long video, split by time, highlights or your prompt
Translate video | Localization teams | Translated subtitles, a new voice track or both
```

How to set it up: Several local tools need to be in place before the dashboard can edit anything.

- Node.js 24 LTS, or a recent 22 or 26 security release
- FFmpeg on your PATH
- Google Chrome, because the render tools use headless Chromium
- Claude credentials, since Claude directs the edit
- Python and faster-whisper for subtitles, and a Gemini key for Gemini voices and images

On macOS you can install FFmpeg with this command.

```sh
brew install ffmpeg
```

The project includes an environment check that tests for each of these tools and installs what it is able to.

How to use it: Open the dashboard, drop in a clip, describe the edit and click the button that starts editing with AI. A Guide button sits in the top bar of each page and opens a help panel for it.

```table
Tool | What it does
AI video editing | Analyzes the source, builds the scenes, assembles the timeline and exports an MP4
Video editor | Previews the edit in the browser and lets you reorder, trim and split scenes on a timeline
Text to video | Writes a script from a URL or text, then narrates it and builds a video project
Auto cut | Splits one long video into many shorts
Translate video | Translates dialogue, then adds subtitles, a dubbed voice or both
Style Design | Keeps brand kits with colors, fonts, logo and tone and applies them to every output
```

Example: You drop in a long talking-head video and ask for short clips cut around the best moments. The system picks highlights, makes each one its own project, and all of them share one brief. You can then adjust any clip in the video editor, or ask the AI for changes in the chat panel.

For newcomers and experts: AIEV is a video editor where an AI does the editing. You give it a clip and a short description, and it listens to the speech, plans the edit and adds titles, subtitles, zooms and sound effects. A first small thing to try is dropping in one short clip and starting an edit.

Underneath, Claude drives HyperFrames, which builds motion-graphics scenes from HTML and GSAP, and Remotion assembles them into a timeline. A Next.js dashboard on port 6868 talks to an Express backend on port 6869 over REST and server-sent events, with SQLite and a render queue. Every project keeps its state in one meta.json file, shared by the editor, the AI and the queue. The trade-off is a long list of local requirements.

```flow
You drop in a clip and describe the edit
The AI transcribes it and plans the edit
HyperFrames builds the motion-graphics scenes
Remotion assembles the timeline
The result exports as an MP4
```

Good to know:

- License: MIT.
- Voices: 30 Gemini preset voices work online.
- VieNeu-TTS runs offline and for free, and it is the one engine here that can clone your voice from a short recording.
- Edit styles are off by default, and you can add your own to the 50 built in.
- A brand logo that is missing is downloaded automatically, and logos are never drawn by AI.
- Hardware acceleration uses NVENC on NVIDIA and VideoToolbox on macOS.

```chart
Title: Built-in items by type
Sound effects: 86
Brand logos: 125
Edit styles: 50
Gemini preset voices: 30
Color grading presets: 14
```

## On GitHub, 7 November 2026

- Stars: 124
- Forks: 62
- Open issues and pull requests: 5
- Language: TypeScript
- License: MIT
- Topics: ai-video-editor-sdk, claude, claude-agent-sdk, claude-ai, claude-code, claude-skills, edit-video, edit-videos, ffmpeg, hyperframes, motion-graphics, remotion

## Links

- Code: https://github.com/notivn/AIEVv2
- Website: https://noti.vn/
- Releases: https://github.com/notivn/AIEVv2/releases
- Issues: https://github.com/notivn/AIEVv2/issues
- Star history: https://www.star-history.com/#notivn/AIEVv2&Date

## Get the code

```
git clone https://github.com/notivn/AIEVv2.git
```

Then follow the setup in its README. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.

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