I cut my YouTube shorts with AI instead of Descript

He stopped using Descript and now cuts his YouTube shorts with AI. He says the quality of the shorts has gone up since the switch.

How it works

Cuts his YouTube shorts with AI instead of Descript
The shorts go out with better quality than before

Why it’s worth knowing

A coding agent is doing the video cutting a paid editing app used to do, and the shorts came out better.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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