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On 2026-08-02 @levelsio shipped an AI-first web video editor in Photo AI that can…

Brief

levelsio announced on 2026-08-02 that Photo AI now includes an AI-first web video editor able to generate videos with user-trained likeness models and edit them on a timeline. He added Fill gap (from @marckohlbrugge), in-place Regenerate, timeline Generate, and Send to video editor integration, and plans an AI Agent sidebar to script, generate and auto-assemble short films (demo: a Bangkok short featuring Lorn's "The Slow Blade").

Why it matters

On 2026-08-02 @levelsio shipped an AI-first web video editor in Photo AI that can generate videos using your trained likeness models directly inside the editor and auto-edit them on the timeline; he says "likeness in video models is now good enough" to enable cinematic short films.

Key details

  • New features: [Fill gap] (idea from @marckohlbrugge) will generate a connecting clip when two clips have a space and place it after generation; [Regenerate] replaces any clip in place; regular [Generate] lets you create at any timeline position; integrated "Send to video editor" from Photo AI.
  • Planned addition: an AI Agent sidebar that will take control of the interface, ask questions, write a script of prompts, generate actor clips (e.g., "make a short film of me in Bangkok") and automatically assemble them—example demo: a short film of @levelsio arriving in Bangkok featuring Lorn's song "The Slow Blade".
Source evidence

Lots of great replies and ideas

One by @marckohlbrugge I added now called [ Fill gap ]

If you have 2 clips and space in between, it will try to generate a video to connect the two in someway and place it after it's done generating

Also added [ Regenerate ] on any clip if you're not happy with the result and it replaces it in place too

And regular [ Generate ] on the timeline lets you generate on any position on the timeline

AI-first video editing!

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@levelsio (@levelsio)

All this talk about AGI destroying moats and everything made me want to ship again

One of the conclusions from all of you was, if you can use AI to ship faster and better, you should just ship way more complex things, like things you could not imagine making before

For me personally I'd never imagine making Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro or Capcut but on the web, it'd simply be too difficult for me, where do I even start?

So today I just tried and vibecoded them into Photo AI!

A fully functional video editor but the cool twist is this one can actually generate videos with you or your trained models in it directly in your video editor

I'm personally less interested in the AI influencers etc, but more fun to make actual kinda cinematic short films with yourself and other people in it, so I made this

Likeness in video models is now good enough so that gives lots of cool opportunities, but most AI platforms just let you generate 10 second clips but then you're stuck with that and have to put it together yourself in Final Cut Pro

So now you can just [ Send to video editor ] inside Photo AI and you end up here

And the next thing I'll add is the AI Agent sidebar I have in Photo AI's main app too, which lets an agent take control of the interface. In this case you'll be able to say "make a short film of me in Bangkok", it'll ask you some questions, then write a script of prompts, which are then generated as videos with you or other people as the actors in it and automatically edited into a short film on your time

Then you can right click on any video you don't like (some videos just suck or have bad resemblance to you, shit happens), and click [ Regenerate], adjust the prompt a bit and the new video will show up in the same place on your video timeline

In this case I did try to make a short film of me arriving in Bangkok as a digital nomad the first time and being dazed, lost and disillusioned as I am on the other side of the world 🤯

Featuring Lorn's song "The Slow Blade"

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— https://nitter.net/levelsio/status/2083654998404268188#m