OpenEdit

OpenEdit is an open-source, agent-driven editing pipeline that ships with VEED's HTML renderer — closed
source, but free to use.

There is no GUI and no timeline. The pipeline is driven entirely through your coding agent: it
transcribes the audio, designs a caption style for the footage, and renders the clip.

OpenEdit edits footage; it does not generate it. Supply your own source files.

Requirements

Installation

Download this repo, or install via the command line with:

npx skills add veedstudio/open-edit

Agents

OpenEdit uses an agent-agnostic skill and repository guide. It supports Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini;
the installed skill prepares the runtime and loads its AGENTS.md instructions explicitly.

Usage

Open your coding agent. For example, with Claude Code:

claude

then ask it:

Add subtitles to my video [VIDEO]

The agent will automatically transcribe your video, analyse the transcript, create a suitable design for your video, and then render it.

After 1-3 minutes, the agent will return your video with subtitles burned in, as well as launch a video previewer. It will also tell you where to find the final MP4.

You can then ask the agent for subtitle amendments, for example:

I don't like the yellow colour, make it darker

Move the text up a bit

When he says "go buy it now", make sure the 'now' really stands out.

Prompts

You can provide more specific or tailored prompts, for example:

Add subtitles to my video [VIDEO], avoid placing subtitles on the lower third

Add subtitles to my video [VIDEO], make them really engaging and dynamic

Add subtitles to my video [VIDEO], clean chill vibe

Add subtitles to my video [VIDEO], ensure that the hook really catches the eye and that my call to action hits the mark

Add subtitles that look like this [IMG-REF], to my video [VIDEO]

Renderer

Caption styles are authored in HTML and CSS. Rendering does not use a headless browser: there is no
browser to install, launch, or keep alive for the duration of a render.

Internal benchmarks measured the renderer up to 2.2x faster than Chrome-driven renderers. These
measurements are preliminary and not yet reproducible outside VEED; a documented benchmark and its
methodology will follow.

The renderer is integrated but not required. Composition does not depend on it, so Chrome can be used
as the render backend instead.

Transcription

The default workflow provides access to VEED's transcription and requires a VEED account. Usage limits
are those of your VEED account. The audio track is uploaded and stored in order to transcribe it; the
video is not uploaded.

By default OpenEdit does not create a VEED project. The agent guides the one-time browser login and
stores a refreshable token at veed/.veed-token.json inside the runtime.

For manual use:

node --import tsx veed/login.ts
node --import tsx veed/go.ts /path/to/video.mp4

Scope and limitations

V1 targets captions. Motion graphics, charts, and brandbook-matched styling render today, but are less
exercised than captions and should be expected to have rough edges.

Report defects through GitHub issues.

License

The editor is licensed under Apache-2.0. The renderer binaries are distributed under PolyForm Shield
1.0.0, which permits commercial use of the videos you produce with no payment to VEED. See LICENSE
and NOTICE for the full terms.