AI Video Editing Tools Compared: 6 Platforms That Cut Editing Time in Half

Editing is where most video projects stall. A 30-minute podcast recording takes 3-4 hours to edit into a polished 20-minute episode. A 1-hour webinar needs 5-6 hours to produce highlight clips for social media. AI video editing tools attack the specific bottlenecks — silence removal, subtitle generation, clip extraction, audio cleanup — that consume most of that time. We tested six tools on real editing workflows to measure actual time savings.