If you edit weddings professionally, the best AI is the one that does the mechanical part —culling hundreds of clips, finding the moments and building a first cut to your music— and hands it to you editable in the software you already use. WedCut is a desktop app for Mac and Windows built for exactly that: it analyses the whole wedding and opens the edit in Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut so you can finish it.
Search for “AI to edit weddings” and you get very different tools. The difference is what footage they work with and what they hand you at the end.
| Type of tool | What it is for | Where it falls short |
|---|---|---|
| Video generators from photos or text | Invitations, social clips and eye-catching effects. | They create images that were never filmed. Not for delivering a couple's real wedding. |
| Template apps for your phone | A quick reel from a handful of clips. | They decide the edit for you and aren't built for hundreds of clips from several cameras. |
| Cloud services that return a finished video | Taking the edit off your plate entirely. | You upload your footage and get a closed render back, hard to rework in your style. |
| The AI built into Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut | Depending on the software: transcribing, finding shots, reframing or cleaning up audio without leaving the editor. | It helps shot by shot, but it doesn't cull the whole wedding or build the first cut. |
| First-cut AI for weddings, like WedCut | Culling the footage, finding the moments and building the first cut to your music. | It doesn't replace your finishing: colour, sound and the final polish are still yours. |
No invented images: the couple's wedding, with their real shots.
Vows, rings, kiss, first dance and speeches, and the real order of the day even with several cameras.
An FCPXML or EDL you open in your editor with the original clips linked.
See what was picked and what was left out, rescue a clip or ask for another before editing.
Your couples' footage on your computer, not on someone else's server.
The price of each wedding, clear before you start and not on the invoice.
WedCut doesn't replace your editor: it works before it. You import the wedding folders, the AI reviews every clip —scene, moment, emotion, technical quality and recording time— and shows you the best of each moment. You decide what goes in.
Then you choose the music and the format —teaser, highlight film, full film and 9:16 and 4:5 verticals— and WedCut builds the first cut to the beat of the song, with footage from every camera in real-time order. You export it as FCPXML and EDL and open it in Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere with your original clips linked. Colour, sound and your signature touch are up to you.
It runs locally on Mac and Windows: video files are never uploaded; only individual frames travel for the analysis. You edit in Narrative, with the day in order, or in Musical, to the peaks of the song; with «In / Out» you choose where each clip starts, and you do the final polish in your own editor.
And if you are a PRO member, with «My style» you give WedCut three of your finished teasers or short films and Musical mode edits your weddings with your rhythm and your way of telling the day.
More detail on footage analysis, the first edit and editing weddings with AI.
You pay per wedding based on its footage —size S, M or L, by number of clips— and the app tells you the price before you start. You only pay for the analysis, once per wedding: generating, regenerating and exporting edits is free. The full price list is on Pricing.
Some tools return a finished video, but a professional gets more out of something else: the AI culls and builds the first cut of the whole wedding, and you finish it in your editor. That way the result still has your style.
For the final edit, the one you already know: Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut. The AI that saves the most time is the one that works before you open it and leaves the first cut built inside, like WedCut does.
Yes, if you are a WedCut PRO member. In «My style» you add teasers or short films you have already finished (MP4 or MOV): WedCut learns your rhythm to the music, the moments and shots you pick, how you open and close, where you place each moment and whether you chain or alternate them. Then, in the Musical mode of the teaser and the short film, you pick it next to Vibrant and Flowing and your weddings are edited in your style; Narrative and the long film do not change. You notice it from the first video, and with three it is complete. 5 videos a month are included. Your videos are not uploaded: they are analysed on your computer, only three frames of each shot go to the AI, and what is kept are the measurements, not the video.
Yes. It exports FCPXML and EDL: you import the file into your editor and get the first cut built as a sequence, with the original clips linked. It isn't a plugin: it installs nothing inside your editor.
No. WedCut is a local app for Mac and Windows: video files never leave your computer. Only individual frames from each clip travel for the analysis.
Yes: on Apple silicon Macs, Intel Macs and Windows 10 or 11 PCs. The app is in English and Spanish.
Create your account, download the app on your Mac or PC and build the first cut today.