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Edit videos online with the Renderforest AI video editor. Generate AI clips, add voiceovers and upload your own footage, then cut everything together on a single timeline and export in HD. Free to start, right in your browser.

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Since 2013, 40M+ creators have made 120M+ projects with Renderforest

What AI Can Do for Your Edit

Upload your footage and cut it on the timeline. These AI tools sit in the same editor and take on the parts that would otherwise mean a reshoot, a recording session or another app.

  • Generate the missing shot

    Describe the b-roll your cut is missing and the clip lands on the timeline, ready to trim. Almost right? Reword the prompt and regenerate that shot alone with the built-in AI video generator.

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  • Turn a photo into footage

    Animate a product photo or any still into a moving shot with image to video AI, then cut it in beside your own clips.

  • Lip-sync a presenter to your audio

    Upload a voice track, set a face as the start frame, and AI matches the lips to every word. Need a full AI avatar presenter? Pick one from the library and paste the script.

  • Add a voiceover in your audience’s language

    Type the narration, pick an AI voiceover in the language your audience speaks, and lay it under any clip on the timeline.

  • Narrate in your own voice

    Upload a voice sample once and clone your voice for every future edit, so an update to the script never needs a new recording.

  • Restyle and fit images

    Give any still a new look with Restyle Image from the AI image generator, and let AI resize reference images so they match your video’s frame.

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How to Edit Videos with AI in 3 Steps

Step 1

Start with footage

Drag in any clip: phone video, screen recording, podcast, or webinar. The editor reads it straight away, no conversion step and no software to install. Starting from zero instead? Describe the shot in a generation panel and start the cut from what comes back.

Start with footage
Step 2

Build the cut

Split, trim, and reorder clips on the timeline, then layer in what is missing: generated footage, an avatar presenter, titles, a voiceover, or a track from the music library. Every change stays visible and reversible, so nothing is baked in behind your back.

Build the cut
Step 3

Fine-tune and publish

Set volume and speed per clip, switch the canvas between widescreen, vertical, and square, and export in HD when it plays right. Watermark-free exports come with paid plans, and your project stays editable, so you can come back and re-cut it any time.

Fine-tune and publish

Everything You Can Edit

The AI panels fill the gaps in a cut, but the everyday video editing work all happens right here on the timeline:

  • Trim, split, and merge clips
  • Crop the frame
  • Clip speed control
  • Transitions
  • Text and overlays
  • Freeze frames
  • 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 aspect ratios
  • Per-clip volume
  • Music and audio tracks

Six AI Tools in One Video Editing Workspace

Each tool below is a panel inside the editor. Type what the cut is missing (footage, an image, a presenter, a voiceover) and it lands on your timeline ready to trim. It all runs in one browser workspace, on one subscription, with a single credit balance instead of six separate AI signups.

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One timeline for everything

Uploads, generations, voiceovers, and titles share one project. Trim, reorder, and layer clips, switch the canvas ratio, and export when it plays right. AI History keeps every past generation a click away.

AI video generation

Describe the shot, or hand the model a reference image to animate, and the clip drops straight into your cut. Renderforest’s own model, Kling 3.0 Omni, Seedance 2.5, and Veo 3.1 all sit in one dropdown.

AI image generation

Thumbnails, backgrounds, product shots: describe the image, pick a style, and steer it with up to 10 reference photos. Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT, and Flux 2 Pro are built in, and one more prompt animates any image into video.

AI avatars

Pick a public presenter or create your own, paste the script, and get a lip-synced talking-head clip in HD, with no camera and no reshoots. Voices come from the built-in library, or clone yours.

Text to speech

Type the narration and pick a voice in 50+ languages, from US and UK English to Japanese and Arabic. Set the pace per block, then lay the track under any clip on the timeline.

Music and audio

Score the cut from the built-in music library, filtered by mood from cinematic to playful, or upload your own tracks. Audio gets its own lane on the timeline, so trimming a song to the edit is one drag.

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Edit the Prompt, Not Just the Clip

What stays editable

  • Select any generated clip and the prompt that made it opens beside the timeline
  • Reword a sentence and regenerate: a change of mind is a rewrite, not a redo
  • Rerun the same prompt on another model (Kling, Seedance, Veo) from one dropdown
  • Steer a shot with reference media, or pin its start and end frames
  • Version history keeps every take, so you can flip back when an earlier one was better
  • A new take lands back on the timeline as an ordinary clip you can trim, move, or undo

Generated footage is never final here. Every AI clip on the timeline keeps the prompt, model, and settings that made it, so fixing an almost-right shot means editing a sentence, not starting the edit over. Regenerate the take, compare it against earlier versions, and keep whichever plays better.

The prompt stays attached to the clip.

Most generators hand you a file and forget the recipe. Here, selecting a generated clip reopens the panel that made it (prompt, model choice, reference images and all), so the tenth revision costs the same effort as the first: change the words that are wrong and run it again.

Takes, not gambles.

Each clip keeps its version history, so regenerating is never a leap of faith: every earlier take stays a click away, and AI History holds everything you have ever generated, ready to drop into this cut or the next one. Nothing you liked can be lost to one more attempt.

Nothing is baked in.

A generated take arrives on the timeline as an ordinary clip: trim it, move it, layer it, or undo it like footage you shot yourself. Generation is a starting point you can argue with, not a render you have to accept.

For AI assistants

Edit Videos from ChatGPT or Claude

Connect the Renderforest MCP connector and your assistant can plan and generate videos, replace or add a single scene, and re-export a finished video at a higher quality, all in your own account. You see the credit cost before anything is generated.

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Why Teams Choose Our AI-Powered Video Editor

Hours back, every week

B-roll, presenters, narration, images, and music used to mean five different tools and an export-import loop between them. Here they are panels on one timeline, so the missing piece of a cut is a prompt away and a day of production fits into one sitting.

From raw clip to finished video in one place

Templates, a licensed music library, and AI voiceovers live right next to the editing timeline. There is no export-import loop between five apps, and nothing leaves the browser between the first upload and the final render.

The full model stack, one subscription

Generate b-roll and new scenes with Kling 3.0 Omni, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, and MiniMax H3 without leaving the editor. One subscription and a single credit balance cover every model, so there are no separate signups and no per-tool billing to babysit.

Works where you work

Edit videos on the go, fast, like a pro. Renderforest has been fully browser-based since 2013: any OS, any device, no install. Projects save to the cloud as you go, so the cut you start at the office opens exactly where you left it at home.

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Who Our AI Video Editor Is for

Marketing team meeting

Marketing professionals

Reframe one campaign cut into every placement it needs (widescreen, vertical, square) and generate the missing b-roll on the spot. For marketers, the online AI video editor is a fast way to ship branded content without booking design or production time.

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Educators and trainers

Turn raw lecture, course, and onboarding footage into material that is easy to follow: trim the detours, add titles and text overlays that make complex points land, and narrate with an AI voiceover in the language your learners speak.

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Small business owners

Cut phone footage into a publishable clip the same day. Small business owners can produce marketing content with our AI video editor without a large budget or technical expertise, and the results stand alongside far more expensive productions.

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Content creators

Cut a long recording down to its best moments and flip the canvas to vertical for reels and shorts. From vlogs and tutorials to animations, creators can test formats, add voice or music, and publish without a studio setup.

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Customer Stories: Real Teams, Real Results

Three businesses that make their videos in-house with Renderforest instead of outsourcing them, and what changed.

Josh runs his company solo and used to build every video asset in After Effects and Premiere. Now AI-generated drafts give his product videos a starting point, he edits scenes himself, and built-in music and voiceovers save him hunting for assets, so his marketing stays in-house.

Doron turns legal topics into video. He starts from the AI video generator or animates his own images, layers text and voiceover in Hebrew, English, and Spanish, and exports for Instagram, newsletters, and the firm’s website, without an agency.

Andrew’s consultancy produces branded intros, event videos, and board presentations with Renderforest, including two-minute life-story videos for eight award recipients, shown live at the ceremony.

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AI Video Editor FAQ

What is an AI video editor?

An AI video editor edits your footage with AI help: you upload clips, then trim, split, reframe and add text to them on a timeline, while AI voices your script, lip-syncs a presenter to your audio, and regenerates any generated shot from a reworded prompt. When the cut is missing footage, an image or a presenter, you can generate it in the same workspace, and it lands on the timeline as an ordinary clip you can trim, replace or undo.

Is there an AI that can edit videos for free?

Yes. Renderforest’s AI video editor is free to start in any browser: upload footage, cut it on the timeline, and generate clips with the built-in Renderforest model without a credit card. Paid plans add watermark-free HD exports, more generation credits, and commercial licensing.

How do I edit a video with AI?

Three steps. First, add footage: upload your own clips or generate new ones by describing the shot. Second, build the cut: trim, split, and reorder on the timeline, then layer in music, a voiceover, or an avatar presenter. Third, pick your aspect ratio and export in HD. The project stays editable, so you can come back and re-cut it any time.

Can AI edit my videos automatically?

Yes, for the edits AI does well. Reword the prompt on a generated clip and AI regenerates that shot alone, lip sync matches a presenter’s mouth to the audio you upload, text to speech narrates your script in your audience’s language, and AI resizes reference images to fit your canvas. Trimming your uploaded footage and choosing the clip order take a few drags on the timeline, and every AI change stays editable.

What AI is best for video editing?

The best AI for video editing works on your cut, not just next to it. Look for three things: AI that helps you edit (voiceovers, lip sync, regenerating a single shot from a reworded prompt), generated clips that stay editable with their prompt, references and version history, and one workspace to cut, generate and export. Renderforest builds Kling 3.0 Omni, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and MiniMax H3 into its editor, with one credit balance across them.

Is Renderforest’s AI video editor free to use?

Yes, you can use the free AI video editor to edit videos with essential features. For access to higher video quality, watermark-free exports, more generation credits, and commercial licensing, you can upgrade to a paid plan. The AI video editor online offers flexible pricing so you can choose what fits your needs.

Do I need any video editing skills to use an AI video editor?

No. The timeline is deliberately simple (drag clips in, trim their edges, stack audio underneath), and the AI panels handle the hard part of production: footage, presenters, narration, and music are generated from plain text. If you can describe the video you want, you can build it, from any browser and any device.

What types of videos can be edited with Renderforest’s AI video editor?

Anything you can record or generate: product demos, ads, tutorials, training and onboarding modules, social clips, and vlogs. Upload any footage, mix it with AI-generated scenes, avatars, and voiceover, and reframe the same cut for YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram with a ratio switch.

Can I edit a video with ChatGPT or Claude?

Yes. Connect the Renderforest MCP connector to Claude, or to ChatGPT with developer mode on, and edit from the chat: replace or add a single scene with a new prompt, use your own images and audio as references, and re-export the finished video at a higher quality. Everything lands in your Renderforest account, ready to fine-tune in the editor.

Can AI actually edit videos?

Yes. In Renderforest, AI regenerates a generated shot from a reworded prompt and keeps earlier takes in version history, lip-syncs a presenter to audio you upload, narrates your script in your viewers’ language, clones your voice, and restyles images before you animate them. Cutting and ordering your own footage stays a quick drag-and-trim job on the timeline.

Is there a 100% free AI video editor?

Renderforest comes close. Editing is free with no credit card: upload and cut footage, add text, music and voiceovers, try AI generation with free test credits, and export in 720p. Free exports carry a watermark; paid plans remove it, unlock 1080p exports (4K on Business), and add more AI credits.

Which AI video editor is best for beginners?

One that runs in the browser, starts free and keeps the AI on the same timeline as your clips. Renderforest works that way: upload footage, trim it with drag handles, generate a missing shot or a voiceover from plain text, and export in HD with nothing to install.

Can I use an AI video editor for YouTube videos?

Yes. Set the canvas to 16:9 for a regular YouTube video or 9:16 for Shorts, cut your footage on the timeline, add music or an AI voiceover, and export in HD. The same project can be reframed for TikTok or Instagram with a ratio switch.

How much does an AI video editor cost?

Renderforest’s AI video editor is free to start: editing costs nothing, and AI generation comes with free test credits. Paid plans add watermark-free exports, higher resolutions and a bigger AI credit balance, with the exact price shown in your currency on the subscription page.

Your First AI Edit Is Free

Drop in a clip, or generate one from a sentence, and see how it cuts together before you decide anything.

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