Kinocut MCP server

Kinocut is a free helper that lets your AI edit video files sitting on your own machine. You describe what you want in plain words, and it does the cutting, captioning, and resizing for you. It is handy if you deal with interviews, podcasts, or short clips for social media and do not want to learn video editing software.

What this MCP server does

You tell your AI something like trim this interview and add captions. The AI passes that request to Kinocut, which checks it first so nothing gets broken. Kinocut then runs the real video tool on your computer to do the cut, the captions, or the resize. When it is done, it hands back the new file plus a short record of what it changed. You can review that record before you publish anything.

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What you can do with it

• Trim a long recording down to the best few minutes
• Add captions to a video from a transcript file
• Resize a video into a vertical format for Shorts or Reels
• Turn one recording into several clips for social media
• Check a video for problems like black frames before you publish
• Normalize or adjust the audio in a clip
• Keep a record of every edit so you can redo or review it

Try asking your AI

• “Trim interview.mp4 from 2 minutes 15 seconds for 45 seconds and save it as a new file”
• “Add burned captions to this clip using captions.srt”
• “Resize this video to a vertical 9 by 16 format for Reels”
• “Run a quality check on the final clip and show me the result”

What it gives back to you

You get back the new video file saved on your computer, plus a short summary in the chat of what was done. Kinocut also creates a record, called a Video Receipt, that lists the steps it took and the settings it used. Some checks also give you a thumbnail or a small report about the video's quality.

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Who it's for

People who edit interviews, podcasts, or social media clips and want their AI to do the boring parts for them.