A message, not a menu
Ask for pacing the way you'd say it: cut the ums, lose every pause over a second, get it under ten minutes. Chat shows you its plan and waits for your OK before it touches the draft.
Edit video with AI prompts
Just ask.
Selects edits it.
Ask for cuts, captions, graphics, effects, even a shot you never filmed. Selects builds it on a real timeline and reworks it with every reply.
Free plan, no credit card required
Prompt: Cut the ums and the dead air while I look for the right folder
Prompt: I don't have a drone shot. Make one of the coastline for the intro, then land on the waterfall
Prompt: Make the captions pop word by word, I talk fast in this one
Ask in chat.
It edits what you filmed.
It actually watches the video
Selects knows your shots as well as your words, so you can ask for the close-up where she laughs or the wide of the kitchen. Search your footage by what's on screen and put it straight into the cut.
It remembers how you edit
Ask chat to save what you do every time: how you switch cameras, how long the intro runs, how you name drafts. Later projects pick it up, and you change it by telling chat.
Then take it by hand
Every draft opens on a real multi-track timeline. Trim a cut, swap an angle or move a clip yourself, even while chat is still working.
Just say it
Type what you want the way you'd tell an editor. These are real prompts, and the clips are what came back.
Prompt: This is episode 14. Remember how I edited 12 and 13: same cut pacing, same lower thirds, 20 second intro
Prompt: Every time I say a year or a number, put it on screen as a torn newsprint card
Prompt: Find every moment the crowd jumps on a drop and string them together
Prompt: Get this down to 8 minutes. Keep the whole unboxing and lose the part where I can't find the charger
Prompt: Here's my script. Cut it in this order and use the take where I don't trip over the price
Prompt: The middle drags. Drop the second coffee story and cut to the market B-roll whenever I mention it
How it works
Drop in your footage
Ask in chat, like you'd message an editor
Reply with notes, then export the video
Same footage.
Messages, not hours.
| Rough cut · 1h talking-head footage | Editing manually | Selects |
|---|---|---|
| Total time | 4h 00m | 0h 30m |
| Watch it all back | 1h | included |
| Cut pauses and filler | 1h | included |
| Pick the best takes | 45m | included |
| Place the B-roll | 45m | included |
| Tighten to length | 30m | included |
Works great for
10,000+ projects,
80% time reduced.
Professionals are already seeing the payoff.
The client said they wanted it super fast.And the only reason I'm not worriedis because we are using Selects.
The Chef Gal (@dachefgyal)
DP, Producer & Editor based in NYC
This will actually look at the video,and it'll catch those reaction shots,those subtleties that all others are gonna miss.
Brent Pierce
Podcast Studio & Video Production Company Owner
Honestly,this is one of the best editing toolsI've tried in a long time.
Serge Morgotch
Video Editing Educator & Creator
This is what AI should really be about,helping us filmmakersrather than taking our job.
Luca Epifani
Filmmaker & Video Creator
A brand-new AI editing softwarethat has literally changedmy 20-year workflow overnight, permanently.
DJ Kerr
Video Editor / Motion Graphics Artist
The client said they wanted it super fast.And the only reason I'm not worriedis because we are using Selects.
The Chef Gal (@dachefgyal)
DP, Producer & Editor based in NYC
This will actually look at the video,and it'll catch those reaction shots,those subtleties that all others are gonna miss.
Brent Pierce
Podcast Studio & Video Production Company Owner
Honestly,this is one of the best editing toolsI've tried in a long time.
Serge Morgotch
Video Editing Educator & Creator
This is what AI should really be about,helping us filmmakersrather than taking our job.
Luca Epifani
Filmmaker & Video Creator
A brand-new AI editing softwarethat has literally changedmy 20-year workflow overnight, permanently.
DJ Kerr
Video Editor / Motion Graphics Artist
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FAQ
How do I edit a video with AI prompts?
- Drop your footage into Selects and analyze it. Analysis takes about 20 minutes per hour of video, and you can keep working while it runs.
- Type what you want in chat, like cut it to 8 minutes and keep the unboxing.
- Chat shows its plan. Approve it and the draft lands on the timeline.
- Keep giving notes, or fix anything by hand.
What can I ask chat to do?
Most of an edit:
- Cut to a length or a storyline, or pull out the highlights
- Tighten the pacing: silences, filler words, repeats and jump cuts
- Cut to a script you attach, line by line, in script order
- Build the edit on the picture: who's in the shot, what they're doing, where it was shot
- Place B-roll, switch cameras on a multicam shoot, and change clip speed
- Add motion graphics, transitions and voiceover
Captions are made in the Captions app, and color is set in the Adjust tab.
Can I change the edit after chat makes it?
Yes. Every draft is on a real timeline, so you can fix any cut by hand or keep giving notes in chat.
You can also leave timestamped comments on the draft and send them all to chat at once. It plans one pass over every comment and builds a new draft, so the original stays as it was.
Does chat use credits?
On Selects models, yes. Chat uses Selects credits, with no fixed rate per message.
If you connect a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan inside Selects, chat runs on that plan and uses no Selects credits. Analyzing your footage always uses Selects credits.
You can download Selects and start on the Free plan, no credit card required.
Can I edit from Claude or Codex instead?
Yes. Connect Claude desktop, Claude Code, Codex or OpenClaw to Selects over MCP, and your agent can search the footage, cut it and hand it off. The Selects app needs to be running on the same computer.
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