Kino

Video made by an AI agent usually arrives as a finished render that nobody can nudge without prompting again. Kino turns every edit, motion graphic and comment into code on a shared timeline, so people and agents work on the same cut and anything an agent made can be dragged into place by hand.

## A timeline written as code

The editor is built on Remotion, the React video framework, and the makers describe it as a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for React turned into a video editor. Editing is real-time and collaborative: teammates see each other's cursors and which part of the timeline each is watching, and several agent sessions can work on different parts of a project at the same time. Every project, clip, comment, single frame and the line of code that draws it has its own URL, which is how a user points an agent at exactly the item to change. Review links send notes back onto the timeline, where an agent can apply them.

## Footage it can search

Everything imported is transcribed, embedded, described shot by shot and face-detected, so an agent can find the right clip by what is said or shown. Kino plays camera originals without transcoding, with custom decoders for ProRes, Blackmagic RAW and RED R3D as well as DNxHR and MXF, and footage streams from Kino so a project opens the same on any machine. The site lists more than 100 templates for titles, maps, captions and transitions.

## Plans and platforms

The launch post says the full editor is free, including unlimited imports and exports, collaboration and the MCP server, with Pro at $25 per editor per month. Desktop apps are offered for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu. Kino first launched in 2023 as bespoke on-premises deployments for television productions and was rebuilt as an editor in 2025, according to the post.

## Key facts

**Maker:** Kino AI **Launched:** Y Combinator launch post, 11 November 2026 **Built on:** Remotion **Platforms:** macOS, Windows, Ubuntu **Pricing:** free editor; Pro $25 per editor per month (launch post, read 11 November 2026) **Works with:** Claude Code, Codex, MCP clients

Not yet independently verified: Dated from the Y Combinator launch post of 11 November 2026, as the site gives no launch date. The view count and the customer stories are the maker's own, and the pages name no city or country. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.