Edit your project by asking the DepCut AI assistant

Select a clip, press ⌘J (Ctrl+J on Windows), and type what you want changed. That is the whole loop. The AI assistant lives in a panel beside the editor, reads your project, and makes the edit on the same timeline you are looking at.

Open the assistant

Click the Agent button in the top bar, or use the shortcut. A fresh chat greets you with a line about what it can see: your clips, titles, subtitles and publish details. Under it sit suggestion chips such as "What's in this video?", "Add transitions between clips", "Improve my title" and "Watch and create subtitles". Click one to send it.

Type in the box at the bottom. Press Enter to send and Shift+Enter for a new line. The box reads "Ask about your video, or tell me what to change", and an @ in it references media.

Say what you mean by "this"

The assistant reads "this" as your current selection. Select a title and ask "make this bigger". Select a clip and ask "tighten this one". With nothing selected, name the thing: "the second clip" or "the title at the start".

To point at media, type @ and pick a clip, an image or a library item. You can also drag items into the panel from the Media tab, the Library, stock tiles, the timeline or the preview, or paste a file into the box. Dropped files import into the project as chat media.

Ask for words or ask for edits

The assistant handles two kinds of request differently:

• Ask for a deliverable, such as a caption, a script, a title idea or a prompt, and the answer arrives in the chat. Your project stays untouched until you say "do it" or "add it".
• Ask for a change, such as "trim the silence at the start" or "add a title that says Day One", and it acts with its tools right away.

A complaint counts as words too. If you say the intro feels cluttered, the assistant offers what it could do and waits for your go-ahead.

It does what the newest message asks and stops, sometimes with one closing idea such as a transition or captions. Short requests that name one result work best: "add a crossfade between the first two clips", then "now fade out at the end".

Watch it work

While it works, the chat shows a Working… line with a clock and a chip for each tool it calls. Click a chip to see what was sent and returned. A run of several calls folds into one "tool calls" row. The edits land on your timeline as they happen, and the Stop button in the composer halts the turn.

Edits are easy to reverse. History groups everything the assistant does in one turn into a single step, so one undo (⌘Z) reverts the whole turn. Generation is the exception. Undo removes a generated clip, but the credits stay spent, so the assistant generates media only when you ask for the media itself.

Pick a model and keep your threads

The model picker sits at the bottom left of the composer. Models that run on your DepCut account spend credits. Models that use your own command-line logins appear when the DepCut Mac app is running and those tools are installed.

At the top of the panel, Past threads lists your earlier chats for the project and New chat starts a fresh one. A thread keeps its history, so you can come back tomorrow and say "now do the same for the last clip".

Start a chat

Open a project in DepCut, press ⌘J, and click "What's in this video?" to see how the assistant describes your cut.