OPENWhat OpenScene is
A local-first desktop video editor with an agent that can operate the timeline instead of only advising you.
OpenScene is an open-source Electron application for editing video on your own machine. You open a folder as a project, put clips on a timeline, and export an H.264/AAC MP4 through the FFmpeg already installed on your system.
What separates it from a conventional editor is the Edit Agent: a chat panel docked beside the timeline that calls the same operations the interface does. It can read your timeline, place and trim clips, generate voice or video, and start an export — and it asks for approval before anything that writes to your project.
What you get
- A real timeline — video and audio tracks, trim, split, move, duplicate, keyframes, transitions, per-track mix, undo and redo
- Local export to H.264/AAC MP4 through your own FFmpeg binary
- An agent with a typed tool surface that operates the editor, not a suggestion box
- Voice and video generation studios in the same workspace, importing results straight into the open project
- Roughly 150 model providers to choose from, or a local Ollama engine and no account at all
What is deliberately absent
There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no crash reporting. The app reaches a provider only when you ask it to, using a provider you connected yourself. Read Data and privacy for the boundary in detail.
Current boundaries
| Works today | Not yet |
|---|---|
| Selected-window capture to local WebM | Full-screen capture; microphone or system-audio mix in the recorder |
| Local projects, media, timeline editing, undo and redo | Cloud sync, hosted rendering, accounts, auto-update |
| Local H.264/AAC MP4 export | Other export formats; frame-perfect multitrack mastering guarantees |
| Agent-driven editing, generation, and export | Unattended operation — writes always ask for approval |
| Google Veo image-to-video via a reference image | Sora reference images, which need a multipart upload path this build does not send |
The Program Monitor is a best-effort review surface. The FFmpeg export is the authoritative output.
Where to go next
- Install and run — prerequisites, clone, and first launch
- Projects and folders — how a project maps to a folder you choose
- The workspace — a tour of the editing surface
- The Edit Agent — what the agent can do and what it asks before doing