ffmpeg-mcp (video-creator) — guide skill for editing & clips

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FFmpeg MCP for local video search, trimming, concatenation, overlays and playback through dialogue.

• Type: Guide · Editing & clips
• Slug: ffmpeg-mcp-video-creator
• Status: live
• Publisher: video-creator (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/video-creator/ffmpeg-mcp
• Works in: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Any MCP client
• Requires: ffmpeg, uv
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 153 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

An MCP server that wraps the ffmpeg command line so an assistant can find local videos, cut, splice, overlay, extract frames and play results. Runs with uv from a clone.

Use when

• cut and join local clips from chat
• add a watermark or picture-in-picture
• extract frames for review

Install

• Any MCP client: git clone https://github.com/video-creator/ffmpeg-mcp.git then run it with uv from your MCP config

More editing & clips skills

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• Splice AI clips into a video with FFmpeg: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
• Chengfeng Videocut: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
• Claude Code Video Toolkit: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
• Herk Edit Kit: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• Clipify: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.