i post short reels on the side (instagram @stormej.studio). filming was fine. editing was where every reel died: picking takes, cutting the ums, redoing captions every time i trimmed something. so i built umber. you drop the clips you shot into a chat, it edits them into a reel with captions, and you change it by asking: "make it shorter", "start with the laptop shot". it runs on your mac and uses the claude or chatgpt plan you already pay for, so there's no separate ai bill. how it works, roughly: clips are transcribed on the mac with word timestamps (apple's speech model, faster-whisper as a fallback) the ai never touches video. it returns json: which ranges to keep, b-roll cutaways, on-screen text, and what to remove (filler, false starts, repeated takes) code only accepts a cut if it lines up with real word boundaries, which fixed it chopping mid-word ffmpeg does the cutting, and captions are burned from the same word timings, so re-cuts never desync them small changes like trims or a song swap skip the model entirely reels i made with it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/De695u9iGL5/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DejyibXiKjs/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DerCwzLCNFR/ 24-second tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6tCzlpCjOk it's in a small private beta. it needs an apple silicon mac and a paid claude, chatgpt or gemini plan, and i set each person up on a short call for now. if that's you: https://umber.ekaksh.in/?ref=reddit-sideproject what i'd love feedback on: does "drop clips in, change it by chatting" make sense from the tour, or does it read like another ai video generator? it doesn't generate footage, it edits yours.   submitted by   /u/BodybuilderFormal919 [link]   [comments]