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Woven launched today: an AI video editor for Mac. You ask for the edit in chat, then fine-tune it on a real timeline.
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Woven is launching as a full AI video editor for Mac, aimed at people who want to edit by asking for changes in chat instead of doing every cut by hand.
The pitch is simple: import your footage, describe the edit, and let the software do the first pass. Then you can go back onto a real timeline and clean it up yourself. That mix matters. A lot of AI video tools like to promise magic and then leave you stranded when you need precision.
Woven also bundles the stuff that usually turns a rough cut into something publishable: captions, music, sound effects, and even generated shots. It’s being positioned for YouTube videos, Shorts, podcasts, and similar formats, so this isn’t meant to be a toy for one narrow use case.
The launch framing is telling. Woven isn’t trying to replace editing judgment; it’s trying to speed up the boring first draft and keep the final say in the editor’s hands. That’s a more believable promise than “press button, get cinema.”
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The real test for tools like this is whether they save time without turning the timeline into a cleanup job. Chat-first editing sounds neat, but the industry has heard plenty of neat before. The useful ones are the ones that still respect human control at the end.
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