AI Editing
Prompt-Based Video Editing, Explained
Prompt-based video editing means describing the edit you want in plain language instead of manually placing every cut. Here's what it can and can't do today.
What "prompt-based" actually means here
Prompt-based editing is an interface, not a separate technology: instead of building an edit by manually placing clips on a timeline, you describe what you want — the story, the tone, the length — and an AI system does the work of finding footage and assembling it to match that description.
What makes a prompt actually usable for editing
A prompt is only as good as the system's ability to act on it, which depends on two things happening underneath: the footage has to already be searchable by meaning, and the system has to be able to make sequencing decisions, not just retrieve clips. A prompt that returns a pile of matching clips still leaves you with the assembly work. A prompt that returns a built story doesn't.
How this differs from a template with fill-in-the-blanks
Some tools marketed as "prompt-based" are really templates with a text field attached — the structure is fixed, and the prompt only swaps in specific words or clips. Genuine prompt-based editing, the kind Broll does, doesn't start from a fixed structure: the agent decides the structure itself, based on the raw footage available and the story you described.