Editing videos is powerful but painful. Traditional editors require scrubbing through timelines, hunting clips, and stacking effects.

We asked: what if editing was as easy as telling your computer what to do?

That’s how this project was born — inspired by Cursor, but reimagined for video editing.
Instead of cut() and drag-and-drop, you just say:

“Trim the part where the guy speaking is silent.”

…and it happens.

• Backend (FastAPI + TwelveLabs + FFmpeg): Handles video/audio processing, trims clips, adds effects, and generates previews.
• NLP (Cohere): Parses natural language into structured editing commands.
• Video Search (Twelve Labs): Finds key moments (like “LeBron silent” or “when the person dies”).
• Frontend: A minimal Cursor-like UI with chat-driven commands, video preview, and instant feedback.
• Dev Environment (Windsurf): Used Windsurf’s AI-first IDE to rapidly prototype, refactor, and debug the stack under hackathon time pressure.

Workflow:
User Command → Cohere (parse intent) → Twelve Labs (find moment) → Executor (FFmpeg) → Preview Video

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• How much AI-powered development environments like Windsurf accelerate building — almost like pair-programming with a senior engineer.
• How multimodal AI (language + video) can completely reshape creative tools.
• The trade-offs between real-time performance vs. hackathon prototyping.
• Why ruthless scoping matters: better to demo 3 magical features than 10 broken ones.
• Even for creative tools, structured pipelines (NLP → search → execution) simplify everything.

• Latency: Running Cohere + server + Twelve Labs was heavy → solved with mocks + pre-indexed demos.
• Parsing ambiguity: Natural language is messy → solved with careful Cohere prompting + heuristics.
• Media handling: Syncing audio overlays with video timelines → FFmpeg saved us.
• Time pressure: 30 hours forced razor-thin scope.

• Expand effect libraries (glitch, transitions, auto-cuts).
• Real-time collaboration — multiple users editing via chat.
• Distributed video rendering for scaling beyond demos.

We set out to answer one question:

What if video editing was as simple as talking to your video?

This project is our first step toward that future.

• Cohere
• FastAPI
• FFmpeg
• Twelve Labs
• Windsurf
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python