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Browser-Use Team Launches Open-Source AI Video Editor Video-Use

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Video-Use is a 100% open-source skill that lets coding agents like Claude Code edit video by reading transcripts instead of frames. It hit 13,000+ GitHub stars in early July 2026, with 3,000 stars added in a single week. The tool uses ffmpeg orchestration and a transcript-first pipeline to produce final.mp4 from raw footage.

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The approach—agents editing video via structured data rather than pixel-level analysis—is clever, but the real test is whether it can handle complex edits beyond simple cuts and transcript-based trimming.
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