How this project came together

OpenCut AI stands on the shoulders of OpenCut and the open-source community. This page tells that story.

Chapter 1

The foundation

It started with OpenCut, an open-source video editor built by a community of 96+ contributors. They built the timeline, the real-time preview, multi-track editing, effects, keyboard shortcuts, and the browser-based storage that makes it all work without a server.

Top contributors

Leading the way in contributions

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Everyone who makes OpenCut AI better

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Chapter 2

The AI layer

The question was simple: what if you could edit a video by editing its transcript? What if AI could transcribe, translate, clone voices, generate visuals, and fact-check claims, all running on your own machine with no cloud dependency?

That question became OpenCut AI. A fork that wraps a complete AI suite around the OpenCut editor, adding transcription, text-based editing, voice cloning, filters, subtitles, fact-checking, and more. All open source. All local.

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Abhishek

@Ekaanth

Forked OpenCut and built the AI layer on top.

Chapter 3

The open-source ecosystem

None of this would work without the broader open-source ecosystem. Whisper handles transcription. Coqui TTS generates voices. Ollama runs LLMs locally. Stable Diffusion creates images. Next.js, React, Tailwind, FastAPI, and Docker hold it all together.

Open source means anyone can build powerful tools without gatekeeping or cloud lock-in. Thank you to every maintainer and contributor who keeps this ecosystem alive.

Built with

The tools and models powering OpenCut AI

Claude (Opus 4.6)

Claude (Opus 4.6)

Anthropic's most capable model. Used to build the entire AI layer of OpenCut AI.

Cursor

Cursor

AI-powered code editor. The IDE used to develop OpenCut AI with Claude integration.

Docker

Docker

Container platform running all AI services locally. Whisper, TTS, Ollama, and more.

Ollama

Ollama

Run LLMs locally. Powers AI commands, fact-checking, script editing, and translation.

Coqui TTS

Coqui TTS

Open-source text-to-speech with voice cloning. XTTS v2 model for natural voiceovers.

Faster Whisper

Faster Whisper

CTranslate2 reimplementation of Whisper. Fast, accurate local transcription.

Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI

Indian language AI APIs. Transcription, translation, and TTS for 22 Indian languages.

Continue the story

OpenCut AI is open source. If you want to contribute, fix a bug, add a feature, or just try it out, the code is there.