How to let ChatGPT edit your videos in CapCut
A 43-second video shows ChatGPT turning raw clips into a first draft in CapCut, with captions, transitions and music. Here is the full step-by-step guide: what you need, the prompt to paste, what ChatGPT does when you send it, how to edit by asking, and what to do when sign-in fails.
A short video makes a big promise: ChatGPT can now edit your videos for you, right inside CapCut. You drop your footage into ChatGPT, it picks the best moments, cuts the rest and builds a first draft in CapCut, with captions, transitions and music. The setup, it says, takes three clicks.
The video ends by asking you to comment “CapCut” to receive the full step-by-step guide. You do not need to: the guide is below. It was checked on 27 October 2026 against CapCut’s plugin page and the installation file that the setup prompt points to, so it also covers what the video skips: what you need before you start, what ChatGPT does on your computer when you send the prompt, and what to do when the CapCut sign-in fails.
What it does
CapCut is a video editor with a large library of effects, transitions, music and templates. Its plugin for ChatGPT connects the two: once it is installed, you give ChatGPT your raw clips and describe the video you want, and ChatGPT does the first edit in CapCut for you. The video lists the work it takes off your hands: the hours spent scrubbing through clips, cutting bad takes and typing captions.
In the video’s animation, ChatGPT watches six clips, keeps the three best moments and drops the other three, then opens a first draft in CapCut: the kept clips on a timeline, captions written from what is said, transitions and a music track. CapCut calls this its smart rough-cut capability. The draft is a normal CapCut project, so you keep editing it, either by asking ChatGPT or by opening it in the CapCut editor yourself.
According to CapCut’s page, the plugin can also:
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