OpenEdit

FAQ

• What is OpenEdit?

  OpenEdit is VEED's agent-native video tool: an open-source editor your AI agent runs, paired with VEED Engine, the renderer behind it. Tell your agent what you want and it writes the script, generates or imports the footage, designs the captions and motion graphics, composes the audio, and returns a ready-to-post clip. It is in beta and available now on GitHub.

• Is OpenEdit really open source?

  The OpenEdit editor is under Apache-2.0. Read it, fork it, ship it. The renderer binaries are closed source, under PolyForm Shield 1.0.0, and you can sell what you make with them at no cost to VEED. You are not locked to them either: composition does not depend on VEED's renderer, so if a closed binary is a dealbreaker, you can render through Chrome instead. Both licenses are in the repo.

• Which AI agents work with OpenEdit?

  OpenEdit is agent-agnostic. It has been tested with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini. The skill prepares the runtime and loads its AGENTS . md explicitly, so it is not tied to one model.

• Can OpenEdit generate video, or do I need my own footage?

  Both. OpenEdit edits footage you bring, and it now generates footage you do not have. Your agent can call VEED Fabric through the VEED API, generate stills, images, music, and sound effects in whatever models it can reach, and build a video with no source footage at all from slides, stills, or pure motion graphics. It can also build a soundtrack from several tracks at once, layering music, voice, and effects.

• Is OpenEdit a Remotion alternative?

  Both let an AI agent drive video captioning, and both let you style in HTML and CSS. The difference is underneath. Remotion renders with a headless browser. VEED built its own HTML-to-video renderer with no headless browser in the pipeline, and it runs locally on your machine. In VEED's early internal benchmarks, it ran up to 2.2x faster than tools that drive Chrome. That is VEED's own testing rather than a published comparison, and reproducible benchmarks are coming in the next few weeks.

• What does OpenEdit cost to use?

  OpenEdit is free to use. No subscription, no paywalls. Rendering runs on your own machine at no cost. Transcription is built in and runs on one veed.io account: your audio, not the video, is uploaded and stored to transcribe it. Generating footage through VEED Fabric runs on the same account. For both, the limits are whatever your VEED account already has. Models you reach outside VEED run on your own access to them.

• What are the system requirements, and what is coming next?

  OpenEdit runs on Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 26 (Tahoe). Not Intel, and not earlier versions of macOS. Windows support is coming soon, along with Lip Sync 2.0 and background removal inside the skill. Linux is something VEED intends to build, and how it gets prioritized depends on the demand. Captions were V1. Motion graphics, generated footage, and multi-track audio are live now, and brandbook-matched styling is where the engine is roughest today.