AVE is a local-first AI video editor for Mac that searches footage, plans edits, and makes timeline changes while keeping projects and exports on Mac.
AVE is a local-first AI video editor for Mac that combines a standard non-linear timeline with AI-assisted planning and editing. The product is positioned as an editor first, with AI used to search footage, draft edit plans, and execute supported changes on a timeline you can inspect.
The app is designed for work that starts with real footage and ends with local exports. AVE keeps project files, imported media, analysis, and rendering on the Mac by default, while allowing optional connections to external AI assistants or providers when a workflow calls for them.
AVE supports direct timeline operations rather than limiting AI to suggestions. Supported actions include trim, split, ripple, move, duplicate, delete, retime, close gaps, add transitions, add captions, adjust volume, and apply motion.
Ask and Plan use project context to keep AI output grounded in the edit. AVE can use imported assets, transcripts, visual notes, clip metadata, and current timeline state when generating search results or edit plans.
Create outputs for common social and distribution formats without rebuilding the project from scratch. The site lists 16:9, 4:5, 1:1, 9:16, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Shorts, YouTube, websites, and custom formats.
AVE includes finishing tools for titles, lower thirds, shapes, brand-aware styling, camera presets, color correction, opacity, masking, and motion actions when the edit needs polish.
Projects, media analysis, execution, and exports stay local by default, and the desktop app can store BYO provider keys with encryption.
AVE MCP provides a local authenticated bridge for Codex CLI and Claude Code, letting external coding assistants inspect projects, search footage, request edits, review changes, and export from within the app's controlled tool surface.
Turn long recordings into short vertical clips by finding the strongest section, tightening pacing, removing dead air, and adding captions while keeping the timeline available for manual refinement.
Build launch edits, ad variants, founder clips, and platform-specific exports from a shared footage pool, using the timeline to keep control over each version.
Use transcript search, visual search, and plan previews to create tighter episodes, highlights, and promo cuts from interviews, podcasts, or talking-head recordings.
Edit on a local Mac workflow for sensitive client, internal, or private footage, then decide whether to connect assistants or providers only when the project allows it.
Assemble outputs from generated clips by importing assets into AVE, searching for usable moments, building a sequence, and finishing the cut by hand.
AVE is available as a local Mac download. The site says version 1.0.21 can be downloaded from GitHub Releases and installed by dragging the app into Applications.
AVE is built for Apple Silicon Macs and requires macOS 14.0 or later. The site specifically mentions M1 or later.
AVE combines Ask and Plan modes with a real non-linear timeline. It can turn approved plans into supported timeline changes such as trimming, splitting, moving, transitions, captions, and export preparation.
Yes. AVE MCP connects local Codex CLI or Claude Code installations to a controlled set of AVE project, search, edit, review, and export tools through a local authenticated bridge.
AVE is local-first by default. Project files, imported media, local analysis, timeline execution, and exports stay on your Mac unless you choose to connect an external assistant, API provider, or generation service.
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