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Product updates, engineering deep dives, and editing workflows from the team building the cursor for video editing.

Announcements

Introducing Agent28

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Announcements·July 21, 2026

Introducing Agent28: we built Cursor for video editing

Editing is the bottleneck between good footage and a published video. Today we're opening the waitlist for an editor where you describe the edit and AI agents execute it on the timeline.

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Engineering

Agents on the timeline

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Engineering·7 min read

How AI agents actually edit your timeline

No black-box renders. A look at how a plain-language prompt becomes real, inspectable timeline operations — cuts, layers, and keyframes you can change.

July 14, 2026

Product

Motion graphics

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Product·4 min read

Motion graphics without After Effects

Callouts, text pop-ins, and animated UI highlights used to mean a second application and a second skill set. Now they're a prompt.

July 7, 2026
Product

Semantic search

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Product·6 min read

Find the moment: semantic search across all your footage

“Find where he puts the ring on her finger.” “Find where I say ‘I made 10k’.” How visual and audio search turn a footage library from a graveyard into an asset.

June 30, 2026

Creators

Viral formats

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Creators·5 min read

Recreating viral formats without becoming a repost account

The hook, the rhythm, the pacing — viral edits have learnable structure. Here's how to borrow the format and keep your own voice in the frame.

June 23, 2026
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Creators

10 editor prompts

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Creators·4 min read

10 prompts that save editors hours every week

From “cut every silence longer than a second” to “caption this like my last viral post” — real prompts from early users, and why they work.

June 16, 2026

Comparisons

Premiere vs Agent28

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Comparisons·8 min read

Agent28 vs. Premiere Pro: the industry standard meets the agentic editor

Premiere Pro is the default tool of professional post-production. So why are solo creators drowning in it? An honest comparison of two very different answers to the same timeline.

June 9, 2026
Comparisons

Final Cut vs Agent28

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Comparisons·7 min read

Agent28 vs. Final Cut Pro: what the magnetic timeline can't do

Final Cut Pro is the fastest manual editor money can buy — a one-time purchase, tuned for Apple silicon. But fast manual editing is still manual. Where the two tools actually differ.

June 2, 2026

Comparisons

DaVinci vs Agent28

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Comparisons·7 min read

Agent28 vs. DaVinci Resolve: the free powerhouse has a different job

Resolve gives you Hollywood-grade color, Fairlight audio, and Fusion compositing for free. It's astonishing software — aimed at a completely different problem than shipping three videos a week.

May 26, 2026
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CapCut vs Agent28

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Agent28 vs. CapCut: templates get you started, agents get you further

CapCut made editing accessible to a hundred million people with templates and one-tap effects. But templates make your video look like everyone else's — and that's the ceiling.

May 19, 2026

Comparisons

Descript vs Agent28

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Comparisons·7 min read

Agent28 vs. Descript: two takes on editing without the timeline

Descript proved you could edit video like a document — delete a sentence, delete the clip. It's brilliant for podcasts. But text is only half of what's in your footage.

May 12, 2026
Comparisons

After Effects vs Agent28

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Agent28 vs. After Effects: do you still need a compositor for creator content?

After Effects is the deepest motion graphics tool ever made, and most creators use five percent of it — slowly. When a prompt replaces a keyframe rig, and when it can't.

May 5, 2026