Notes from the build.
Why we made the choices we made — the orchestrator, memory, captions, and what it means to build a video editor other AIs can use.
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Why we built an orchestrator instead of a timeline
Every video editor starts with a blank timeline. We started with a blank prompt — and a planner that figures out the rest.
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Captions people actually read
Word-level timing was the easy part. The hard part is making captions feel like part of the video instead of a subtitle file bolted on top.
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Your editor should remember you
Every project used to start from zero. Now the tenth video you make already knows your pacing, your banned words, and the caption style you settled on three weeks ago.
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MCP: letting Claude edit your videos
EditorBuddy isn't just a website other tools link to. It's a server other AIs can call — same orchestrator, same memory, same agents.
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