JianYing MCP — guide skill for editing & clips
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MCP server that creates JianYing drafts: tracks, clips, transitions, filters, masks, keyframes, audio fades.
- Type: Guide · Editing & clips
- Slug:
jianying-mcp - Status: live
- Publisher: hey-jian-wei (community)
- License: none stated
- Source: https://github.com/hey-jian-wei/jianying-mcp
- Works in: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Any MCP client
- Cost: Free/open source
- Adoption: 313 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)
What it does
Lets an AI assistant build JianYing projects in natural language: create a draft, add video, audio and text segments (local files or URLs), then apply entrance animations, transitions, filters, masks, background fill, keyframes and audio effects before exporting a draft you open in JianYing.
Use when
- build a JianYing draft from chat
- add transitions and filters in bulk
- prepare an editable draft for a human editor
Install
Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/hey-jian-wei/jianying-mcp
More editing & clips skills
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- 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.