Kino AI launches collaborative code‑first video editor

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Kino AI, founded by Luke, announced a new video‑editing system that stores footage and assets, provides a rich editor, and generates review links for teammates, all within a single environment. The platform treats every editing action, motion‑graphics element, timeline move, comment, and 3D scene as code built on Remotion, allowing multiple agents—including Claude, Codex, and other LLMs—to work on the same timeline with real‑time cursor visibility. Kino transcribes, embeds, describes, and face‑detects uploaded video, creating low‑resolution proxies for cloud inference while supporting high‑resolution professional codecs such as ProRes, BRAW, and R3D through custom decoders, enabling direct drag‑and‑drop of large clips into the timeline.

The service is offered as a free tier that includes unlimited imports and exports, real‑time collaboration, and MCP access, while a Pro tier costs $25 per editor per month and adds unlimited MCP tool calls, share links, additional storage, YouTube search, and the ability to edit alongside a team. Kino is currently distributed as an Electron application downloadable from kino.ai, with a web‑browser version planned for the future, and is marketed toward personal creators, companies producing daily video content, and full‑time filmmakers.