Video Editor

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A Model Context Protocol Server to add, edit, and search videos with [Video Jungle](https://www.video-jungle.com/).

Source Code

Video Editor MCP server

See a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG6TMLD8GmA

Upload, edit, search, and generate videos from everyone's favorite LLM and Video Jungle.

You'll need to sign up for an account at Video Jungle in order to use this tool, and add your API key.

Components

Resources

The server implements an interface to upload, generate, and edit videos with:

Custom vj:// URI scheme for accessing individual videos and projects
Each project resource has a name, description
Search results are returned with metadata about what is in the video, and when, allowing for edit generation directly

Prompts

Coming soon.

Tools

The server implements a few tools:

add-video: Add a video from a URL
- Returns an vj:// URI to reference the Video file
search-videos: Search videos using embeddings
- Returns video matches based upon embeddings and keywords
generate-edit-from-videos
- Generates a rendered video edit from a set of video files
generate-edit-from-single-video
- Generate an edit from a single input video file

Using Tools in Practice

In order to use the tools, you'll need to sign up for Video Jungle and add your API key.

add-video

Here's an example prompt to invoke the

add-video

tool:

can you download the video at https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RumgYaH5XYw and name it fly traps?

This will download a video from a URL, add it to your library, and analyze it for retrieval later. Analysis is multi-modal, so both audio and visual components can be queried against.

search-videos

Once you've got a video downloaded and analyzed, you can then do queries on it using the

search-videos

tool:

can you search my videos for fly traps?

Search results contain relevant metadata for generating a video edit according to details discovered in the initial analysis.

search-local-videos

You must set the environment variable

LOAD_PHOTOS_DB=1

in order to use this tool, as it will make Claude prompt to access your files on your local machine.

Once that's done, you can search through your Photos app for videos that exist on your phone, using Apple's tags.

In my case, when I search for "Skateboard", I get 1903 video files.

can you search my local video files for Skateboard?

generate-edit-from-videos

Finally, you can use these search results to generate an edit:

can you create an edit of all the times the video says "fly trap"?

(Currently), the video edits tool relies on the context within the current chat.

generate-edit-from-single-video

Finally, you can cut down an edit from a single, existing video:

can you create an edit of all the times this video says the word "fly trap"?

Configuration

You must login to Video Jungle settings, and get your API key. Then, use this to start Video Jungle MCP:

$ uv run video-editor-mcp YOURAPIKEY

To allow this MCP server to search your Photos app on MacOS:

$ LOAD_PHOTOS_DB=1 uv run video-editor-mcp YOURAPIKEY

Quickstart

Install

Installing via Smithery

To install Video Editor for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install video-editor-mcp --client claude

Claude Desktop

You'll need to adjust your

claude_desktop_config.json

manually:

On MacOS:

~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

On Windows:

%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

<details> <details> <summary>Published Server Configuration</summary>

 "mcpServers": {
   "video-editor-mcp": {
     "command": "uvx",
     "args": [
       "video-editor-mcp",
       "YOURAPIKEY"
     ]
   }
 }

</details> <summary>Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration</summary>

 "mcpServers": {
   "video-editor-mcp": {
     "command": "uv",
     "args": [
       "--directory",
       "/Users/YOURDIRECTORY/video-editor-mcp",
       "run",
       "video-editor-mcp",
       "YOURAPIKEY"
     ]
   }
 }

With local Photos app access enabled (search your Photos app):

  "video-jungle-mcp": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "/Users/<PATH_TO>/video-jungle-mcp",
      "run",
      "video-editor-mcp",
      "<YOURAPIKEY>"
    ],
   "env": {
        "LOAD_PHOTOS_DB": "1"
    }
  },

</details>

Be sure to replace the directories with the directories you've placed the repository in on your computer.

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

Build package distributions:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the

dist/

directory.

Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

Token:
```
--token
```
or
```
UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
```

Or username/password:

--username

UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME

and

--password

UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via

npm

with this command:

(Be sure to replace

YOURDIRECTORY

and

YOURAPIKEY

with the directory this repo is in, and your Video Jungle API key, found in the settings page.)

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run --directory /Users/YOURDIRECTORY/video-editor-mcp video-editor-mcp YOURAPIKEY

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.

Additionally, I've added logging to

app.log

in the project directory. You can add logging to diagnose API calls via a:

logging.info("this is a test log")

A reasonable way to follow along as you're workin on the project is to open a terminal session and do a:

$ tail -n 90 -f app.log

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