The job was the kind most product teams get handed eventually: put real AI video editing into our product. Our users wanted captions without typing them, background removal without a green screen, and touch-ups without retakes. It took us three attempts, and two dead-ended. The first attempt wired AI services around a basic player. The transcription API sent captions back as a sidecar file, and we wrote the code to…
Banuba’s comparison page claims the AI edge. The product pages tell a more countable story: their Video Editor SDK ships two AI features — AI clipping and AI captions. The Meishe SDK ships five — smart cutting, auto captions, auto dubbing, auto color grading, and script-to-video. This comparison walks the full list, what each feature does in a workflow, and the architectural difference underneath the counting. 1. The full table…
AI in video editing splits into two very different promises. One is “an assistant that helps you edit” — suggestions, tweaks, a chat box near the timeline. The other is “work that is already done” — the captions are on the timeline, the long footage is already cut to its good parts, the script is already a video. This comparison looks at which promise each SDK ships: the AI features…