Best Video Editing MCP Servers
Five Model Context Protocol servers can edit video from an AI conversation. They are not variations of one product — three are hosted clipping services, one is a full editor, and one drives a copy of DaVinci Resolve on your own machine. Picking correctly is mostly a matter of deciding how much of the edit you want the agent to own.
Written by Valmera, which is one of the five. Every claim below about another product is taken from its own published documentation and is checkable at the links given — including the places where those products are the better answer.
The short version
| Server | Tools | Scope | Auth | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valmera | 110 | Full editor | OAuth 2.1 + PKCE | Hosted |
| reap | 10 | Clip · caption · dub | API key | Hosted |
| OpenClip | 30+ | Clip · caption | OAuth 2.1 | Hosted |
| Video Jungle | ~10 | Search · assemble | API key | Self-run |
| DaVinci Resolve MCP | varies | Drives Resolve | Local | Self-run + Resolve |
Tool count is the clearest single signal of scope, though not of quality. Ten tools is enough to find clips and burn captions on them. It is not enough to grade the picture, duck music under speech, erase a watermark or check the render — those need their own tools, and a server that lacks them will hand the job back to you halfway through.
What each one actually does
Valmera — the full editor
108 tools covering cutting, captions, motion, colour, audio, generation and censoring, plus the session tools for uploads, indexing, rendering and export. It is the only one in this list where the agent can look at the frames it just rendered and react to them, which is what makes requests like "blur the username in the corner" or "end on the wide shot" land rather than approximate. Edits operate on an edit decision list, so nothing is destructive and the final export is cut from your original upload at source quality.
Weakest where breadth costs focus: no dubbing, no translation, no SRT/VTT import or export, and English is the best-tested transcription path.
reap — clipping, captioning, dubbing
Ten tools, deliberately narrow: detect clip-worthy moments, caption in 100+ languages and 50+ styles, dub into 80+ languages, translate subtitles, transcribe, reframe. Hosted, API-key auth, free tier of one hour of processing, paid from $9.99/mo. If your bottleneck is multi-language distribution, reap is the right answer and Valmera is not — Valmera has no dubbing at all. What reap does not attempt is finishing: no grading, no music mixing, no object removal.
OpenClip — clipping with a wider media surface
30+ tools built around turning a link into captioned shorts, with useful extras — format conversion, thumbnails, background removal, branded agents with logos, UGC generation. OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration, so setup is a sign-in rather than a key. Sits between reap and Valmera in scope, and closer to reap in intent: the unit of output is a clip, not a finished edit.
Video Jungle — search and assemble, self-run
Open source. Its distinctive idea is semantic search over your own video library using embeddings, then generating an edit from what it finds — including pulling from a local Photos library and exporting to DaVinci Resolve via OpenTimelineIO. Runs on your machine, needs Python and ffmpeg. Best fit if you have a large personal archive and the question is "find the shots" rather than "finish the video".
DaVinci Resolve MCP — a bridge, not an editor
Exposes Resolve's own scripting API to an assistant, so the ceiling is Resolve's ceiling — genuinely professional colour and audio. The cost is that it edits nothing by itself: you need Resolve Studio licensed and running locally, and the agent is driving an application rather than calling a service. Right answer for someone already living in Resolve; wrong answer for someone who wants a file back from a chat.
Capability by capability
| Valmera | reap | OpenClip | Video Jungle | Resolve MCP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cut silences / filler words against a transcript | Yes | Partial | No | No | Via Resolve |
| Find and cut clips from a long video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Manual |
| Word-timed burned captions | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Via Resolve |
| Dubbing / translation | No | Yes — 80+ languages | No | No | No |
| Reframe to 9:16 / 1:1 / 4:5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Via Resolve |
| Zooms, transitions, colour grading | Yes | No | Partial | No | Via Resolve |
| Music library + ducking + mastering | Yes | No | No | No | Via Resolve |
| Generate images / video / SFX into the edit | Yes | No | Partial | No | No |
| Erase burned-in text or objects (repaint) | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Agent can look at rendered frames | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Runs with nothing installed locally | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
"Via Resolve" means the capability exists in DaVinci Resolve and the MCP bridge can drive it — the server is not doing the work itself, and it only applies if you have Resolve Studio installed.
How to choose
Turning long videos into shorts, one language. reap or OpenClip. Both are built for exactly this and neither asks you to think about anything else.
Publishing in many languages. reap. Dubbing in 80+ languages is not something the others do.
A finished video, not a clip. Valmera. Cutting is the first ten minutes of an edit; the rest is captions timed to the new cut, music that gets out of the way of speech, a grade, a few zooms that land on the right words, and a watermark that has to go. Those are separate tools and they need to be in one registry or you end up moving files between products.
A large personal archive to search. Video Jungle.
Already a Resolve user. The Resolve bridge — nothing else gives an agent that colour and audio ceiling.
Connecting Valmera
In the Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the endpoint, sign in. No token to copy — the client registers itself and runs an OAuth sign-in.
https://entrepreneur-bot-backend.onrender.com/mcpIn Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http valmera https://entrepreneur-bot-backend.onrender.com/mcp. The full walkthrough, including the errors worth recognising, is on the connect Claude guide, and every tool is listed on the tool reference.
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