Fast Cut Video tool for cutting video for Agents
Details
- External ID
- 49580689
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fast Cut Video tool for cutting video for Agents
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5015948963317385
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
Hi HN,Build this tool in a couple of hours with OpenAI Codex to scratch an itch.As part of my videos workflows I needed to cut the videos myself since the agent is pretty bad cutting and timing using only the transcription. But using a big app like Premiere or DaVinci Resolve was overkill so I used Astra to build an app tailored to that very task.It will be useful to others with the same problem.Tested only on Silicon Macs, so any feedback is welcome.As part of my workflow when the agent get the video it can open the app with the video or videos loaded in the timeline for me to cut and then export the cuts in a format the agent can use and continue the workflow.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI video creation and editing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- video editing tool for agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight UI to trim video clips using ffmpeg or HTML5 video elements is straightforward to build in a few hours.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Final Cut Pro (FCP), Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve
Concerns raised: Limited to cutting/editorial step, not full video editing workflow, Users prefer manual editing in traditional tools for certain tasks, LLM integration in video editing is still experimental/unclear value
Feature requests: Keep agentic workflow fully in text form, Edit alongside LLMs in real-time, Full video editing capabilities beyond just cuts, Workspace/project management system for brand assets and tone of voice
Competitors
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Attention rank: #66 of 132 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Transcriptcut · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ChatCut · ph · 2026-07-10 · 441 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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