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Edit videos online with the Renderforest AI video editor. Generate AI clips, add voiceovers and upload your own footage, then cut everything together on a single timeline and export in HD. Free to start, right in your browser.

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Multiple tools, one timeline

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Since 2013, 40M+ creators have made 120M+ projects with Renderforest

Six AI Tools, One Timeline

Each tool below is a panel inside the editor. Type what the cut is missing — footage, an image, a presenter, a voiceover — and it lands on your timeline ready to trim. It all runs in one browser workspace, on one subscription, with a single credit balance instead of six separate AI signups.

AI video generation

Describe the shot, or hand the model a reference image to animate, and the clip drops straight into your cut. Renderforest’s own model, Kling 3.0 Omni, Seedance 2.5, and Veo 3.1 all sit in one dropdown.

AI video panel

AI image generation

Thumbnails, backgrounds, product shots — describe the image, pick a style, and steer it with up to 10 reference photos. Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT, and Flux 2 Pro are built in, and one more prompt animates any image into video.

AI image panel

AI avatars

Pick a public presenter or create your own, paste the script, and get a lip-synced talking-head clip in HD — no camera, no reshoots. Voices come from the built-in library, or clone yours.

AI avatar panel

Text to speech

Type the narration and pick a voice in 20+ languages, from US and UK English to Japanese and Arabic. Set the pace per block, then lay the track under any clip on the timeline.

Text to speech panel

Music and audio

Score the cut from the built-in music library — filtered by mood, cinematic to playful — or upload your own tracks. Audio gets its own lane on the timeline, so trimming a song to the edit is one drag.

Music library panel

One timeline for everything

Uploads, generations, voiceovers, and titles share one project. Trim, reorder, and layer clips, switch the canvas ratio, and export when it plays right — AI History keeps every past generation a click away.

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How to Edit Videos with AI in 3 Steps

Step 1

Start with footage

Drag in any clip — phone video, screen recording, podcast, or webinar. The editor reads it straight away, no conversion step and no software to install. Starting from zero instead? Describe the shot in a generation panel and start the cut from what comes back.

Start with footage
Step 2

Build the cut

Split, trim, and reorder clips on the timeline, then layer in what is missing — generated footage, an avatar presenter, titles, a voiceover, or a track from the music library. Every change stays visible and reversible — nothing is baked in behind your back.

Build the cut
Step 3

Fine-tune and publish

Set volume and speed per clip, switch the canvas between widescreen, vertical, and square, and export in HD when it plays right. Watermark-free exports come with paid plans, and your project stays editable, so you can come back and re-cut it any time.

Fine-tune and publish

Edit the Prompt, Not Just the Clip

What stays editable

  • Select any generated clip and the prompt that made it opens beside the timeline
  • Reword a sentence and regenerate — a change of mind is a rewrite, not a redo
  • Rerun the same prompt on another model — Kling, Seedance, Veo — from one dropdown
  • Steer a shot with reference media, or pin its start and end frames
  • Version history keeps every take, so you can flip back when an earlier one was better
  • A new take lands back on the timeline as an ordinary clip — trim, move, or undo it

Generated footage is never final here. Every AI clip on the timeline keeps the prompt, model, and settings that made it, so fixing an almost-right shot means editing a sentence, not starting the edit over. Regenerate the take, compare it against earlier versions, and keep whichever plays better.

The prompt stays attached to the clip.

Most generators hand you a file and forget the recipe. Here, selecting a generated clip reopens the panel that made it — prompt, model choice, reference images and all — so the tenth revision costs the same effort as the first: change the words that are wrong and run it again.

Takes, not gambles.

Each clip keeps its version history, so regenerating is never a leap of faith — every earlier take stays a click away, and AI History holds everything you have ever generated, ready to drop into this cut or the next one. Nothing you liked can be lost to one more attempt.

Nothing is baked in.

A generated take arrives on the timeline as an ordinary clip — trim it, move it, layer it, or undo it like footage you shot yourself. Generation is a starting point you can argue with, not a render you have to accept.

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Why Teams Choose Our AI-Powered Video Editor

Hours back, every week

B-roll, presenters, narration, images, and music used to mean five different tools and an export-import loop between them. Here they are panels on one timeline, so the missing piece of a cut is a prompt away and a day of production fits into one sitting.

From raw clip to finished video in one place

Templates, a licensed music library, and AI voiceovers live right next to the editing timeline. There is no export-import loop between five apps, and nothing leaves the browser between the first upload and the final render.

The full model stack, one subscription

Generate b-roll and new scenes with Kling 3.0 Omni, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, and MiniMax H3 without leaving the editor. One subscription and a single credit balance cover every model, so there are no separate signups and no per-tool billing to babysit.

Works where you work

Renderforest has been fully browser-based since 2013 — any OS, any device, no install. Projects save to the cloud as you go, so the cut you start at the office opens exactly where you left it at home.

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Who Our AI Video Editor Is for

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Marketing professionals

Marketing professionals

Reframe one campaign cut into every placement it needs — widescreen, vertical, square — and generate the missing b-roll on the spot. For marketers, the online AI video editor is a fast way to ship branded content without booking design or production time.

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Educators and trainers

Educators and trainers

Turn raw lecture, course, and onboarding footage into material that is easy to follow: trim the detours, add titles and text overlays that make complex points land, and narrate with an AI voiceover in the language your learners speak.

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Small business owners

Small business owners

Cut phone footage into a publishable clip the same day. Small business owners can produce marketing content with our AI video editor without a large budget or technical expertise, and the results stand alongside far more expensive productions.

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Content creators

Content creators

Cut a long recording down to its best moments and flip the canvas to vertical for reels and shorts. From vlogs and tutorials to animations, creators can test formats, add voice or music, and publish without a studio setup.

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AI Video Editor FAQ

What is an AI video editor?

An AI video editor combines AI generation with a normal editing timeline. Instead of only trimming footage you already have, you can create what is missing — video clips, images, avatar presenters, voiceovers, music — and cut it together in the same workspace. Nothing is locked: every generated clip lands on the timeline as an ordinary edit you can trim, reorder, regenerate, or replace.

Is there an AI that can edit videos for free?

Yes. Renderforest’s AI video editor is free to start in any browser — upload footage, cut it on the timeline, and generate clips with the built-in Renderforest model without a credit card. Paid plans add watermark-free HD exports, more generation credits, and commercial licensing.

How do I edit a video with AI?

Three steps. First, add footage — upload your own clips or generate new ones by describing the shot. Second, build the cut: trim, split, and reorder on the timeline, then layer in music, a voiceover, or an avatar presenter. Third, pick your aspect ratio and export in HD — the project stays editable, so you can come back and re-cut it any time.

Can AI edit my videos automatically?

AI does the production side for you: it generates footage, images, presenters, narration, and music from a plain-text description, and regenerates any clip you are not happy with. The cut itself stays in your hands on a simple timeline — trim, reorder, resize the canvas, and export when it plays right.

What AI is best for video editing?

Judge an AI video editor on three things: which generation models it gives you, whether generated clips stay editable — prompt, references, and version history included — and whether the whole flow runs in one place. Renderforest builds Kling 3.0 Omni, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, and MiniMax H3 into the editor itself, with a single credit balance across all of them instead of separate signups.

Is Renderforest’s AI video editor free to use?

Yes, you can use the free AI video editor to edit videos with essential features. For access to higher video quality, watermark-free exports, more generation credits, and commercial licensing, you can upgrade to a paid plan. The AI video editor online offers flexible pricing so you can choose what fits your needs.

Do I need any video editing skills to use an AI video editor?

No. The timeline is deliberately simple — drag clips in, trim their edges, stack audio underneath — and the AI panels handle the hard part of production: footage, presenters, narration, and music are generated from plain text. If you can describe the video you want, you can build it, from any browser and any device.

What types of videos can be edited with Renderforest’s AI video editor?

Anything you can record or generate: product demos, ads, tutorials, training and onboarding modules, social clips, and vlogs. Upload any footage, mix it with AI-generated scenes, avatars, and voiceover, and reframe the same cut for YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram with a ratio switch.

Your First AI Edit Is Free

Drop in a clip — or generate one from a sentence — and see how it cuts together before you decide anything.

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  • Free to start
  • No credit card
  • Works in any browser
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