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Complete Video Editor for macOS (Website)

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ShootClip is a macOS video editor that integrates a built-in Model Context Protocol server, allowing AI agents to perform edits directly on the project timeline.
What: Developed by the ShootClip team, this macOS editor features a magnetic timeline and native support for 8K ProRes and RAW footage. Its standout feature is an MCP server that lets AI agents, such as Claude, execute commands like trimming clips, applying color grades, and exporting files.
Why it matters: This represents a move toward 'agentic' creative software where the application logic is exposed via standard protocols to allow AI to perform functional tasks rather than just generating content within a chat window.
Deep dive
  • Features a Metal-native engine for real-time 8K playback without proxies.
  • Includes AI-driven object tracking for blurring faces or license plates.
  • Automatically segments subjects to allow text/graphics to render behind people.
  • Offers free AI transcription (speech-to-text) and auto-captioning.
  • Built-in MCP server enables programmatic control of timeline operations.
  • Pro tier ($7/month) adds object tracking, 4K export, and 300 minutes of monthly AI captioning.
Decoder
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol): An open standard that enables AI models to connect to local development tools, databases, and APIs, providing them with context and the ability to perform actions within those environments.
  • Magnetic Timeline: A non-linear editing interface design where clips automatically snap into place and ripple edits maintain synchronization across multiple tracks.
Original article

WHAT IS SHOOTCLIP

ShootClip is a video editing application for macOS. You import your footage, cut and arrange clips on a multi-track timeline, add captions, text animations, color grades and blur effects, then export the finished video to your Mac — or publish it directly to your own YouTube channel.

If you connect a Google account, ShootClip uses it for exactly two things: signing you in to activate your license, and — only when you click Publish — uploading the video you chose to your own YouTube channel via the YouTube API. ShootClip never reads your other Google data, and your footage stays on your Mac.

Everything a pro timeline needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Metal-native engine

Real-time playback of 8K ProRes and RAW, tuned for Apple Silicon. No proxies unless you want them.

Magnetic timeline, pro trims

Ripple, roll, slip, and slide with frame-accurate keyboard control and instant audio waveforms.

Built-in MCP server

Expose your whole project to Claude or any MCP client. Every edit is scriptable, reviewable, undoable.

Text that moves

Standalone text tracks with 19 Canva-style animations — typewriter, burst, skate, roll, merge, and more.

Blur & censor layers

Drop blur, mosaic, or black-box clips on the timeline to cover anything, anywhere, for exactly as long as you need.

Export anywhere

H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and social aspect presets — rendered in the background while you keep cutting.

Three features you have to see.

AI OBJECT TRACKING: A censor that follows the subject.

Draw a blur over a face or a license plate once — the AI tracker locks on and follows it frame by frame. Gaussian, mosaic, or black box, it stays glued to the subject however the shot moves.

TEXT BEHIND SUBJECT: Titles that live inside the scene.

ShootClip segments the person or object on every frame, so your text slides behind them automatically — the cinematic layered look with zero manual masking or rotoscoping.

AUTO CAPTIONS: Captions that write themselves.

One click turns speech into styled, frame-accurate captions — AI transcription built in, no API key needed. Pro includes 300 minutes of video every month.

Your AI assistant is now an editor.

Every copy of ShootClip ships with a built-in MCP server — free for all accounts. Connect Claude or any MCP client and it can read your timeline, cut clips, apply grades, and export — with every action reviewable and undoable.

  • Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and any MCP client
  • Tools for cutting, effects, media, playhead, and export
  • Free for every account — sign in and it switches on
claude · connected to shootclip-mcp
you › remove silences in the interview track, keep pauses under 400ms
shootclip.timeline.analyze_audio ✓
shootclip.timeline.ripple_delete × 23 ✓
shootclip.timeline.crossfade × 23 ✓
claude › Removed 23 silences — runtime is now 11:42, down from 14:05. Want me to export a review copy?

Free to edit, AI included. Pro to go further.

Free

Forever

  • Full editor — cut, grade, mix
  • MCP AI assistant — Claude & any MCP client
  • AI silence removal & agent-driven cuts
  • Text animations & blur layers
  • Unlimited projects
  • Export up to 1080p — no watermark

ShootClip Pro

$7/month or $19/year — save 77%

  • Everything in Free
  • Auto captions — 300 min of video / month
  • No API key needed — included with Pro
  • Moving censor — face & object tracking
  • 4K export
  • Auto-activates when you sign in
  • Priority support
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