AI and media

Video generation and editing: tools for AI agents

Create, edit and convert video. The best matches among the MCP servers, command-line tools, web APIs and Claude Code plugins AptLynx checks every night, working ones first.

MCP servers

• Generative Video Editor Working at last check
  Uses natural language to generate and control edits
• Shotstack Verified publisher · Needs a sign-in or key
  Generate, edit, and render videos via the Shotstack video editing API.
• Generative Video Editor GPU Working at last check
  Uses natural language to generate and control edits
• Unifically: edit_video Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Edit an existing video from a prompt, or transfer motion onto a subject image. Pass the source in video_url and the change in prompt. Defaults to Google…
• Mon Working at last check
  generate a video from an image with a text prompt
• Hermoso: edit_video Verified publisher · Working at last check
  EDIT an existing clip from a plain instruction (video-to-video): the motion, timing, framing and cut stay, the named thing changes. 'change only the mug to…
• Generative Video Editor CPU Asleep: wakes on first use
  Uses natural language to generate and control edits
• Xenition: video_status Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Use this when the user asks whether a video from create_video or edit_video is ready. Returns generating, the finished file link, or why it failed. Needs the…
• Switchapp Switch: generate_video Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Generate video with the configured provider lineup (Kling, BytePlus Seedance, Switch Video/WAN 2.7, Switch Video Edit, Switch Cinema, Topaz upscale) and modes…
• Videos Verified publisher · Needs a sign-in or key
  Vídeos, retenção, comentários e envios
• io.github.incendies/imageat Needs a sign-in or key
  Generate and edit images and videos with imageat.
• Pitchboom: edit_video Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Edits a rendered video with the same ops as update_storyboard. Edits that need nothing new (text, order, timing, CTA, captions) apply at once for free as a…
• Blitzreels: generation_video_create Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Queue video generation, image animation, source-video editing or character replacement into the media library. Editing accepts referenceVideoAssetIds and…
• Clipwave Verified publisher · Needs a sign-in or key
  Generate video and images, edit them on a real multi-track timeline, and export an MP4.

Command-line tools

• mjpegtools
  Record and playback videos and perform simple edits
• auto-editor
  Effort free video editing!
• mlt
  Author, manage, and run multitrack audio/video compositions
• vibes-diy
  Command-line tool for vibes.diy — generate, edit, pull, push, and publish AI-built apps ai dom micro-app generator web esm typescript
• shotcut
  Video editor
• subtitleedit
  Video subtitles editor

Web APIs

• JSON2Video API
  Create and edit awesome videos programmatically
• Shotstack
  Shotstack is a video, image and audio editing service that allows for the automated generation of videos, images and audio using JSON and a RESTful API. You…
• AdSense Host API
  Generates performance reports, generates ad codes, and provides publisher management capabilities for AdSense Hosts. analytics media
• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media
  Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media (amazonaws.com) cloud
• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
  Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (amazonaws.com) cloud
• Video Search Client
  The Video Search API lets you search on Bing for video that are relevant to the user's search query, for insights about a video or for videos that are…

Claude Code plugins

• runway-api
  Video generation at scale. Generate videos, images, and audio with Runway's API — batch ad campaigns, product videos, multishot stories, and creative…
• canva
  Create, edit, review, resize, and brand-check Canva designs with the Canva MCP server. design

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