Overview
Cue is a free, open-source (MIT) video editor for macOS on Apple Silicon. You edit by hand with the shortcuts you know from Premiere, and an AI agent can edit the same project through the same set of tools. These pages cover what the app does today.
New to Cue? Start with Getting started. If you want an agent to do the work, read AI and agents.
Guide
- Getting startedInstall Cue, make a project, import media and find your way around the editor and its workspaces.
- EditingTools, keyboard shortcuts, trimming, ripple edits, three-point editing, markers, sequences and text-based editing.
- Look and motionTransform, keyframes, zooms, colour, LUTs, effects, masks, chroma key, adjustment layers, transitions and scopes.
- Motion graphicsImport After Effects (Lottie) graphics, edit their text and colours, use the template library, and have agents design graphics from a brief.
- Titles and captionsTitle templates, text styles and animations, word-by-word captions and automatic captions.
- AudioThe mixer, ducking, voiceover recording and takes, denoise, loudness and beat detection.
- AI and agentsChat with Claude Code, Codex or Gemini in Cue, connect any MCP client, review agent edits, and choose local or cloud models.
- ExportExport presets, GIF, sound only, variants, captions, stems and timelines for other editors.
- Projects and historyProject files, the projects overview, relinking moved media, and the history of every change.
Reference
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