I just tested 3 AI video editors, all chasing the same goal: get the base edit done at 95-98% in one shot. The lineup: Descript API, Gling, and a newer tool called ChatCut.
The Descript API still hits 100%, but it takes 35-45 minutes per video and burns through AI credits fast. Gling and ChatCut both got to 95-98%, but only with the paper edit trick: pull the transcript into Claude or Gemini first, ask it to edit down to a finished script, then feed that back into your editing tool as the instructions.
The standout was ChatCut. It does something the others don’t, it automatically checks its own work, running multiple passes with no prompting from me. Most AI editors say ‘done’ and move on. This one caught its own mistakes.
For now, our Descript workflow with the Underlord Agent is still the consistent daily pick because we can take a video beyond the base edit all the way to final completion in one tool. But this stuff is changing fast and I’m constantly testing as it evolves.
