Video Jungle MCP (video-editing-mcp) — guide skill for editing & clips

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MCP for Video Jungle: upload, analyze and search footage, then generate edits from the results.

• Type: Guide · Editing & clips
• Slug: video-jungle-mcp
• Status: live
• Publisher: Kirk Kaiser (community)
• License: none stated
• Source: https://github.com/burningion/video-editing-mcp
• Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Any MCP client
• Requires: Video Jungle API key
• Cost: Free MCP; Video Jungle account
• Adoption: 294 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

Connects Claude to the Video Jungle service so you can add videos, have them analyzed, search by content and generate edits that render in the cloud, with a local Videojungle project view. One of the earliest video editing MCP servers.

Use when

• search clips by what happens in them
• auto-assemble an edit from search results
• edit without local rendering

Install

• Any MCP client: npx -y @smithery/cli install video-editor-mcp --client claude

More editing & clips skills

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• Splice AI clips into a video with FFmpeg: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
• Chengfeng Videocut: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
• Claude Code Video Toolkit: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
• Herk Edit Kit: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• Clipify: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.