Video Editor MCP server for AI agents

The Video Editor MCP server allows you to upload, edit, search, and generate videos by connecting your favorite LLMs with Video Jungle. This server provides tools for video analysis, editing, searching, and generation through a convenient API interface.

Installation

Prerequisites

You'll need to:

Sign up for an account at Video Jungle
Get your API key from the settings page

Installing the Package

You can install the Video Editor MCP server using pip:

pip install video-editor-mcp

Installation via Smithery

For automatic installation with Claude Desktop:

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

Manual Configuration for Claude Desktop

Adjust your Claude Desktop configuration file:

MacOS Location:

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

Windows Location:

%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Add this to your configuration:

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

Replace YOURAPIKEY with your Video Jungle API key.

Usage

Starting the Server

To start the Video Editor MCP server:

uv run video-editor-mcp YOURAPIKEY

To enable local Photos app search (MacOS only):

LOAD_PHOTOS_DB=1 uv run video-editor-mcp YOURAPIKEY

Available Tools

The server provides several powerful tools for video manipulation:

Adding Videos

Use the add-video tool to download and analyze videos:

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

This downloads the video, adds it to your library, and performs multi-modal analysis (audio and visual).

Searching Videos

After adding videos, you can search them:

can you search my videos for fly traps?

Search results include metadata used for generating video edits.

Searching Local Videos (MacOS only)

With LOAD_PHOTOS_DB=1 enabled:

can you search my local video files for Skateboard?

This searches through videos in your Photos app using Apple's tags.

Generating Edits

Create edits from your search results:

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

Or create an edit from a single video:

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

Other Available Tools

create-videojungle-project: Creates a Video Jungle project
edit-locally: Creates an OpenTimelineIO project and downloads it to open in Davinci Resolve Studio
get-project-assets: Gets assets within a project for video edit generation
update-video-edit: Updates a video edit's information in real-time if Video Jungle is open

Reference

The server uses a custom vj:// URI scheme for accessing videos and projects. Each project has a name and description, and search results include metadata about video content and timing.

For more information and examples, visit Video Jungle or watch the demo video.

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "video-editor-mcp" '{"command":"uvx","args":["video-editor-mcp","YOURAPIKEY"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

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

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

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

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect