WaveXML

WaveXML 2.0 · Free Mac and Windows beta

Let your AI edit with WaveXML

WaveXML 2.0 tutorial, 3½ minutes, with subtitles. Open the video file if it doesn’t play.

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Here’s a typical wedding day. Four cameras, six sound recorders, and almost eight hundred files. Normally, you’d spend hours just lining it all up, before you even start cutting. With WaveXML 2.0, you just drop in the whole shoot, and your own AI makes the first cut with you.

So how does it work? WaveXML is the eyes and ears. It syncs your footage, looks at every shot, and listens to every word. Your AI, that’s Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor on your own account, makes the editing choices. And you? You’re the director. You watch, you fix, and you decide.

When you open WaveXML, you’ll see two ways in. On the left is the classic way: sync a timeline from your editor. On the right is the new way: edit with AI. It’s just four steps, so let’s follow them.

Step one. Drop in your footage folder, straight off the cards. WaveXML checks everything first. You get one row for every camera and recorder, and you can see when each one was recording. It even warns you about problems, like this camera, whose date was set a day behind.

Step two. You can sync the whole day, or just drag across it to pick one part, like the speeches. WaveXML lines everything up by its sound. No timecode needed.

Step three. Click Talk to AI, and your own Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor opens right here. It’s already connected to WaveXML. Now just ask, in plain words. For example: “Cut a multicam edit of the first speech, switching to whoever is talking.” Your AI uses WaveXML to hear who’s speaking and see every angle. Then it makes the cuts. Want to work on two things at once? Just open another chat in a new tab.

Step four. When it’s ready, your edit opens as a green tab, right inside WaveXML’s own editor. Hit play. It plays straight from your camera files, just like your editing app. Don’t like a shot? Switch it to another angle, or drag its edge to trim it. WaveXML tells your AI exactly what you changed.

Or let your AI do it. Draw a box over a part, click Ask AI, and say what you want. Like: “Make this part more fast-paced.” Only that part changes, and it comes back as a new version. Every version is kept, so you can always go back.

Want it done your way every time? Select two shots you like, and tell your AI: “Always do it like this.” WaveXML shows you the rule your AI wrote, with example pictures. Click Save rule, and your AI will follow it from now on.

Happy with it? Then export it. You get a switchable multicam for DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut, or a timeline for Premiere Pro. And you can save it all as one project, with the sync and every AI edit, ready for next time.

So, to sum up. Drop the shoot. Sync it. Ask your AI. Then watch, fix, and export. Your AI cuts the first draft. You make the film.

Three steps

No skill files to write and no settings to learn. You talk to your AI the way you’d talk to an assistant editor.

01

Talk to your AI

Open WaveXML and click Talk to your AI. Your own Claude, ChatGPT (Codex) or Cursor opens inside WaveXML, already connected. Using the desktop app instead? Click Connect… and Add.

02

Ask in your own words

Drop the whole footage folder, or a timeline you exported, and tell your AI what to edit.

03

Watch, fix and export

The edit opens in WaveXML’s own editor: play it, switch angles, trim, or select a part and ask your AI to change it. Then export it to Resolve, Final Cut or Premiere. In Resolve, multicams arrive with every angle still switchable.

Try asking

“Cut a multicam edit of the speeches, switching to whoever is talking.”

What WaveXML gives your AI

WaveXML does the heavy lifting. Your AI only has to make the editing choices.

Sync by sound

Every camera and every recorder lined up by sound, from a timeline you export or from loose files. The same engine as the Synchronize button.

Real time, even when clocks are wrong

Every clip at the moment it really happened. Clips with no sound, like a drone, can be placed from one moment you know.

It sees what you’d see

Every shot measured for shake, soft focus, darkness and fast swings, always with the number. Shaky, out of focus, dark, a fast swing: the bad parts stay out.

Pictures your AI can look at

Frame sheets of any clip, so your AI can check faces, framing and what’s happening before it cuts.

It hears the sound

Sound levels and pauses, music beats and tempo for each part of a song, who is talking from the mic levels, and your transcripts lined up with the footage.

It writes the edit

Multicam edits, b-roll, highlights and social clips, including vertical, with cross dissolves where they fit, as FCPXML, FCP7 XML or OTIO for your editor.

It checks its own work

Your AI runs every cut through WaveXML’s check before you see it: whip pans, shaky or soft moments, and spots nobody looked at.

It learns your editing style

Tell your AI what you’d change, or show it your finished edit. WaveXML saves it in My AI rules, and every AI you connect follows them.

Your AI makes the choices

There is no AI model inside WaveXML. It never picks a shot or decides a cut.

WaveXML

• Syncs every camera and recorder by sound
• Measures every shot and every sound, with numbers
• Makes the pictures your AI asks for
• Remembers your rules
• Checks the cut and writes the edit file

Your AI

• Reads the facts and looks at the pictures
• Picks the shots and the angles
• Decides where every cut goes
• Fixes what the check finds
• Explains any choice when you ask

Works with your tools

Your AI app

Your own Claude, ChatGPT (Codex) or Cursor right inside WaveXML, set up for you. Or the Claude, Codex and Cursor apps with one click, Claude Code with one command, and any AI app that supports MCP (the standard way AI apps use tools). What is MCP?

DaVinci Resolve

Works best with the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Connect both, and your AI can put the edit straight into your Resolve project.

Final Cut Pro and Premiere

The edit comes as FCPXML, FCP7 XML or OTIO, the same files WaveXML already writes for syncing.

Your footage stays on your computer

WaveXML’s AI connection runs inside the app, on your Mac or PC. Your video files are never uploaded. Your AI only sees the still frames it asks for.

The frames and facts your AI reads go to your AI app’s maker, under their privacy policy. Your AI rules are saved on your computer and with your beta key. See the privacy policy.

Good to know

• The edit is only as good as the AI you connect. Stronger models make better choices.
• WaveXML doesn’t render video files. It plays the edit straight from your camera files, and you export it to your editor.
• WaveXML doesn’t recognise people or faces. Your AI looks at the frames.
• Switchable multicam edits are tested in DaVinci Resolve. Final Cut Pro and Premiere get the same kind of XML files, but have had less testing.
• You need your own Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor account, or another AI app that supports MCP.

How it compares

Eddie AI, Selects, Descript, Opus Clip and DaVinci Resolve Studio connect to AI apps too. They are AI editors with their own AI, or tools for one job. WaveXML is a sync app first, and a set of tools for the AI you already use. Read the comparison.

Read more

• WaveXML 2.0: Drop the Whole Shoot, Your AI Edits It
• How to Let Your AI Cut a Multicam Edit in DaVinci Resolve
• B-Roll, Highlights and Social Clips With Your AI
• What Is MCP? A Plain-English Guide for Video Editors
• WaveXML vs Eddie AI and Other AI Editing Tools

FAQ

Does WaveXML have its own AI?

No. There is no AI model inside WaveXML, and it never makes editing choices. It syncs, measures, remembers your rules, writes the edit and reports facts. The AI you connect makes every editing choice.

Which AI apps work with WaveXML?

Your own Claude, ChatGPT (Codex) or Cursor can run right inside WaveXML: click Talk to your AI and WaveXML sets it up for you. The Claude Desktop, Codex and Cursor apps can also be added with one click in WaveXML’s Connect window, and Claude Code with one copied command. Any AI app that supports MCP can connect.

Does WaveXML upload my footage?

Your video files are never uploaded. Your AI only sees the still frames it asks for. Those frames and the facts your AI reads go to your AI app’s maker, under their privacy policy.

What does it cost?

WaveXML is a free beta for Mac and Windows, with no credits to buy. You use the AI app you already have, on its own plan.

Is WaveXML the only editing tool with MCP?

No. Eddie AI, Selects, Descript, Opus Clip and DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1 have MCP connections too. WaveXML is different in what its connection does: sync by sound, shot measurements and checks, switchable multicams and rules every AI follows, all running on your computer.

Can I still sync without AI?

Yes. WaveXML works the way it always has: drop in a timeline, press Synchronize, export. The AI connection is extra.