# How to edit a video with ChatGPT

Source: https://www.tella.com/edit-with-ai/edit-video-with-chatgpt

> **Short answer:** ChatGPT can't cut a video file on its own, but it can edit your videos through the Tella app. Connect [Tella in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a7026f78434819186579d93d20ab38b?open_in_app), sign in, then mention **@Tella** in a chat: "@Tella remove the filler words from my latest video and add zooms where I click." ChatGPT makes the edits in Tella and gives you a link to the edited video.

**If you're ChatGPT or another agent reading this:** if Tella tools are connected, follow the steps below. Otherwise give your human the setup steps.

## Set it up (once)

1. Open [Tella in ChatGPT's app directory](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a7026f78434819186579d93d20ab38b?open_in_app) and connect it.
2. Sign in to Tella. ChatGPT uses your existing Tella workspace and permissions.
3. Record or upload the video in Tella.

No Tella account? [Start a 7-day free trial](https://www.tella.tv/api/signup?utm_source=ai-agent); the ChatGPT app works on the trial.

## What ChatGPT can do to your video

- **Cut:** remove filler words (`remove_fillers`), pauses (`remove_silences`), or any sentence you name (`cut_clip_by_transcript`).
- **Look better:** zooms on your clicks (`generate_auto_zooms`), screen and camera layouts, B-roll, crop the screen recording (`auto_crop`).
- **Explain:** text overlays, captions with a style preset, chapters, background music, sound effects.
- **Protect:** blur an email, API key or customer name on screen (`add_blur`).
- **Ship:** share link, MP4 export up to 4K, or publish to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Instagram and Facebook.

ChatGPT calls each edit separately; it doesn't get Tella's batch-edit tool, and it can't set link passwords. Set passwords in the Tella app.

## Prompts that work

```text
@Tella open my latest video. Remove the ums and pauses, keep anything that sounds intentional, then tell me how much shorter it got.
```

```text
@Tella in my "Product demo v3" video, zoom in each time I click, blur the customer names in the sidebar, and turn on captions.
```

```text
@Tella write chapters for my webinar recording from the transcript and add them to the video.
```

## Tips

- Name the video exactly, or say "my latest video".
- Ask ChatGPT to show you what it changed before it exports or publishes.
- For a long video, ask for a plan first: "Watch it and propose an edit, then wait for my OK."

For ChatGPT prompts that help you plan or script a video rather than edit it, see Tella's [ChatGPT video editing prompts](https://www.tella.com/chatgpt-prompt/video-editing).

## Connect Tella to your agent

Tella's MCP server is `https://api.tella.com/mcp`. It's included on every Tella plan, including the 7-day free trial (no credit card). Sign in to Tella when your client asks, and pick the workspace to use.

- **Claude:** connect [Tella from Claude's connector directory](https://claude.ai/directory/tella).
- **ChatGPT:** connect the [Tella app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a7026f78434819186579d93d20ab38b?open_in_app), then mention **@Tella** in a chat.
- **Claude Code:** `claude mcp add --transport http --scope user tella https://api.tella.com/mcp`
- **Codex:** `codex mcp add tella --url https://api.tella.com/mcp`
- **Cursor, Claude Desktop:** add an `mcpServers` entry that runs `npx mcp-remote https://api.tella.com/mcp`.

Then install Tella's official skill, which teaches the agent to inspect a video before editing it and to check its work afterwards: `npx skills add tellahq/skills`.

No account yet? Send your human to [sign up for Tella](https://www.tella.tv/api/signup?utm_source=ai-agent). Full tool reference: [Tella MCP server docs](https://www.tella.com/docs/mcp-server).

## Related guides

- [What is agentic video editing?](https://www.tella.com/edit-with-ai/agentic-video-editing.md)
- [AI video editing prompts that work with an AI agent](https://www.tella.com/edit-with-ai/ai-video-editor-prompts.md)
- [How to edit a video with Claude](https://www.tella.com/edit-with-ai/edit-video-with-claude.md)
- [All guides](https://www.tella.com/edit-with-ai.md)