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You can edit your videos with AI on Instagram’s new desktop Edits app
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Instagram’s desktop editor has a full multi-track timeline, keyboard shortcuts, and support for connecting AI agents.
Instagram’s desktop editor has a full multi-track timeline, keyboard shortcuts, and support for connecting AI agents.
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Instagram’s standalone video editing app is now available on macOS, where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram’s Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge, “One of the things we’re releasing with Edits Desktop is a MCP for all the tools within Edits Desktop. You can use any agent you want, you can use Muse — we would love you to — but really any agent you want of [your] choice, to edit, tweak, work with your video.”
The Edits app originally launched on mobile platforms last year. Simari said creators have been “heavily” requesting a desktop version, but AI plans were also a factor in the expansion to macOS. Instagram added an AI “creative assistant” to the mobile version of Edits in September, which can give users video suggestions and feedback using data and metrics from their Instagram account like views and retention on their videos.
On the new desktop version of Edits, Simari said users can “go back and forth from agentic to manual editing.” He gave an example of a creator asking Meta’s Muse agent to use the Edits MCP to make a rough cut of a video in their downloads folder, saying, “It’ll be able just to go access that MCP, do the tool calls, make that rough cut for you, and then you can open that project file in Edits to continue editing.”