Add effects to your video

Drag any look straight onto the footage — film grades, double exposure, thermal cam — and ChatCut applies it to the whole shot, locked through every edit after.

Add effects free See how it works
A laughing model in a leather jacket in front of a hedge — the original shot The same shot as a double exposure, foliage blended through the portraitThe same shot as a thermal camera image with a FLIR-style overlayThe same shot as grainy black-and-white print halftoneThe same shot as an indigo-and-orange halftone duotone printThe same shot as a warm amber halftone duotone print

How to add an effect in ChatCut

Four steps from raw footage to a finished look: drop the clip in, build the effect — by agent or by hand — and send it out as video or an XML your NLE can open.

AI video effect generator, describe it and it exists

AI video effect generator,describe it and it exists

Type the look you're after — Matrix rain, a teal-orange grade, a glitch — and ChatCut writes the shader for it. You're never held to the presets someone else shipped.

On your real footage, not a regenerated clip

On your real footage,not a regenerated clip

The effect is a shader over your actual pixels, not a fresh clip from a video model. Your framing, your face and your timing all come through untouched.

A full effects library, masks, blurs, LUTs and more

A full effects library,masks, blurs, LUTs and more

Open the FX tab for masks, mosaics, magnifiers, blurs, tilt-shift and CRT retro — plus zoom, transitions and built-in LUTs when you just want a colour grade.

Every effect lands right on your timeline

Every effect landsright on your timeline

Effects stack as real tracks you can trim, reorder and retime. Re-cut the video later and every effect stays where you put it, right through to export.

All your tools,
on one timeline

Generate clips, edit on a real multi-track timeline, and layer effects that survive the re-cut. Create, edit, and finish a video on desktop, in Codex or any agent, or in the browser.

A creator filming a scene, generated as a clip in ChatCut
Create videoSeedance 2.0
A studio scene generated as an image in ChatCut
Create imageGPT-Image-2

Generate a clip in place

Spin up video with Seedance 2.0 and images with GPT-Image-2, generated right on the timeline, no round-trip between apps.

Cut the silences and tighten the open so the first line lands in the first two seconds.

Then put a CRT retro look on the whole thing and drop a soft music bed underneath.

Tell ChatCut what to change, @ to reference media

A real editor underneath

Transcript, agent chat, a multi-track timeline and a player. The full editor lives one click under the conversation.

AI captions

Word-level subtitles straight from the transcript, in 32 languages, styled to match.

AI voiceover

Curated voices in 32+ languages. Drop in a script and it lands on its own audio track.

Motion graphics

Lower thirds, titles, and data viz from one sentence, fully editable, no keyframes.

Check out other features

Effects are one layer of many. The same chat drives the cut, the captions, the graphics, and the mix.

Conversational editing Text-based editing AI captions Motion graphics Generate clips AI voiceover AI music Noise removal

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Video effects FAQ

How does ChatCut generate a video effect?
Describe the look you want and ChatCut generates the effect for it — a real WebGL shader built for your clip, not a preset pulled off a shelf. Colour grades, distortions, glows, masks and transitions all come from the same request, so you aren't limited to a fixed catalogue.
Does adding an effect regenerate my video?
No. The effect is a shader that renders over your original frames, so your footage is never re-generated by a video model. Framing, faces, motion and timing are exactly what you shot — which is the difference between an effect and an AI clip that merely resembles your video.
What effects are built in?
The FX library ships with masks (rectangle, circle), local mosaic, magnifying glass, dome magnifier, gaussian blur, tilt-shift and CRT retro, alongside separate tabs for transitions, zoom, LUTs and audio effects. Anything not in there, you can generate.
Can I adjust an effect after applying it?
Yes. An applied effect keeps its properties — intensity, focal point, colours, animation curve — so you can tune it after the fact instead of undoing and starting over. Effects also sit on the timeline as their own items, so you can trim, reorder and retime them.
Can I take the result into Premiere or Final Cut?
Export a finished video, or export XML and open the timeline in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve to keep working there. Most browser effect tools only hand back an MP4.
Is it free, and does it work in the browser?
It's free to start, no card required. ChatCut runs in any modern browser on Mac or Windows with nothing to install, and heavy renders happen in the cloud so your machine isn't tied up.