Recently, the AI-powered media editing app, Descript, raised $50 million in a Series C funding round by OpenAI Startup Fund, started by Microsoft, OpenAI, and their partners to invest in early-stage companies. Founded in 2017, Descript is an audio and video editing platform that leverages AI to make video editing easier. 

Editing videos on heavy hardware-driven softwares like Apple’s FinalCut or Adobe Premiere Pro is a cumbersome task and not easily available for people with a low-spec system. Editing, rendering, and sharing becomes an exhausting task resulting in delays and corruption in files. But the introduction of AI in this field has made the task easier and more browser friendly.

Apart from being present in the cloud, Descript has a feature called “Overdub” where you can edit the audio of the video clip by just editing the transcription.

Besides Descript, let’s look at some other promising media editing tools powered by AI that you can try out in your browser without the need for a heavy spec system.

VEED.io

With auto-translation and subtitling capabilities, VEED.io is a perfect platform to make videos easily and quickly. The tools on the platform allow users to record, stream, and edit clips on one dashboard. Along with editing soundwaves and polishing audio, VEED.io allows you to remove background noises with flexibility.

For social media influencers and creators, the platform can quickly crop into different ratios while analysing the content in the video for perfect placement of the subjects on any screen.

Biteable

An online collaborative video editing platform that identifies the personality of your brand, Biteable, is a one-stop tool to create perfect personalised media for your company or group. The templates available on the platform can be converted into your own brand designs with a single click, enabling quick and hassle-free creation of branded content.

The website also recently released a new feature of including stock footage for creating quick videos for organisations. The best feature of this platform lies in its ability to create branded content with just one click, doing away with the need of any other tool.

InVideo

With a library of over 5,000 templates, transitions, and effects, InVideo is a highly efficient professional video editor available online. InVideo also recently released its smartphone application that hosts all the same features. A powerful feature based on AI is the conversion of text to video – the simple processing of words into video.

This highly-rated media creation and editing platform is free to try and has several plans that suit individual users and businesses as well.

VideoVerse

VideoVerse, formerly known as Touch.ai, is a simple video-editing tool on the cloud powered by deep learning. The platform consists of a smart-AI ecosystem, including products like Magnifi for real time video highlighting, Styck for live-streaming across multiple social media platforms, and Illusto is a web-based editor for editing videos for all media formats on the go.

Read: How VideoVerse plans to take on Apple iMovie, Adobe Premiere Pro

Vimeo Create

If you want to create videos that look like they took hours to make within minutes, Vimeo Create is the perfect place for you. It’s a platform to build, edit, customise, and share from the same place. With over 2,000 video templates, editors can quickly render out a perfect copy of a branded video.

Vimeo Create’s platform is ideal for creating media content for all social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, featuring various style options suitable for each platform. You can also check out their blog and tutorials for step-by-step guides.

Magisto

Upload your files on the server, select a template, and Magisto will start doing the job for you. The platform features a powerful audio and visual analysis algorithm that matches the sequence seamlessly without requiring any input. 

The editor is also available for iOs and Android to edit on the go. Originally made for AI video generation, the software is excellent for editing videos.

RunwayML

One of the only platforms to offer green screen capabilities online, RunwayML is one of the top-rated AI-based editing tools that allows precise editing in the video, just like Premiere Pro or After Effects. You can remove objects completely or change the background of the frame by allowing AI to detect the frame and do all the work. 

Though the interface might take some time to get used to, the powerful platform which is completely online, can add complex effects into your videos without requiring too much hardware processing. 

Rawshorts

Built for simplicity and no-fuss editing, Rawshorts is ideal for creating small videos with a user-friendly interface. It also includes the text-to-video feature that can convert your articles into a video by assembling and then visualising all the available information. 

This software is ideal for companies that use long-format text and want to shift their information into videos using AI. The generated video is also customisable with lots of flexibility for editing. 

Wisecut

Calling itself an automatic video editor, Wisecut allows you to edit videos using voice recognition. You can upload your videos on the platform and also add speech or any voice on the server and it can automatically refine it by improving the quality and cutting out the silences. 

It can also split and crop your video into multiple vertical videos for social media and make it seem like the video is edited manually using hardware-based engines.

Aivo

Created by Pantheon Lab Limited in Hong-Kong, Aivo makes the video-editing process seamless by including your brand elements easily into a desired video template. You can either start with a template, or post a script to frame the timeline according to your preference.

The platform allows you to select the genre of the video like business, education, entertainment, travel, among others and select the ratio to achieve the desired output instantly available for sharing. 

Synthesia

This platform is quite unique. Synthesia allows you to create talking head videos using text input. The videos can be up to 30 minutes long in more than 60 languages and many avatars. It also allows you to upload your own audio which is then synced with the avatar seamlessly.