Stanley Studio

The AI video editor you hire that edits like a human

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Hi @therealdanielpark — this is a really cool product! As someone who's a complete beginner when it comes to video creation and editing, I'm curious how easy it is to use. Do you need to know the basics of video editing, or is it entirely prompt-driven? I'm planning to give it a try this week. Thanks!

I Tried a bunch of these AI editors and honestly they all came out looking like slop. I'd still end up editing everything myself, which is rough since I have no real editing skills. If this actually avoids that it's great.

Really wanted to like this but my first video wouldn't upload to x due to audio codecs issues. It was just me talking and engraving something. No idea what failed here but it was disappointing.

I like this idea because I was also in the editing space for a while and it does take a lot of time to edit videos, I can see that this AI could save a lot of time for content creators. Quick question : What are the things that Stanley Studio struggles with when editing videos ?

Love the positioning — "videos dying in the camera roll" is painfully real.

Quick question: how does Stanley handle footage with mixed audio quality?

That's usually the biggest bottleneck before editing even starts.

the hard part of editing to me has always been less the mechanical trimming and more the judgment call of which take is actually the funniest or most compelling when three takes say almost the same thing. does stanley make that call on its own or does it flag options and let you pick, curious how much creative control you give up for the time saved

Hey Daniel! Thank you for the fun experience! First of all - I really love how you presented Stanley Studio. I work with video professionally but sometimes I miss the fun of the process - crazy transitions, cartoon fonts, just pure joy. And you're right: when editing is easy and results come fast, it becomes so much more enjoyable.

So I uploaded my morning basketball video and gave Stanley Studio some hard tasks:
1) Freeze frame transitions - it couldn't do it, but we compromised on a dramatic zoom.
2) Captions - love the option of merging and splitting words, great!
3) Animated starburst every time the ball hits the ground - tricky one, and it struggled to detect those moments even when I set the timing manually.
4) Replacing the music track with an instrumental so it wouldn't conflict with my voice - did great.

Just one question: does Stanley Studio use royalty-free music? Is it safe to publish the result on Instagram?

Can I just install a mobile app that gets access to my photo library and automatically picks the best photos? I travel a lot - I've been to more than 70 countries, and I've visited some of them 10–15 times already. After every trip, I end up with hundreds of photos. Going through them and putting together, for example, an Instagram post takes forever. I just want a simple tool that does it for me. I've talked to other travelers, and they have the same problem. That's definitely something I'd install with pleasure.

I had a long (rambling) product update that I created a while ago and have been looking to cut down to be something far more punchy. Stanley did a really good job and I love the thought process that is shared. There is still work to be done in editing my video as some of the sentences no longer make sense. I also asked for a lighting improvement and I don't think it quite got that right. However, my gut feel is that it is closer to the finished article than when I started so there is clearly an opportunity for significant time saving here.

I like the idea because editing tasks me longer than filming. How well does Stanley handle awkward pauses and repeated takes. Showing a before and after example would answer that and build more trust.

Me trying this would depend on action accuracy. do captions stay reliable with different accents. A few real user samples could clear up that question quickly.

Love that Stanley skips the timeline entirely and just asks what you want instead. The caption styling looks clean too, not that generic auto-generated look you usually get. Genuinely useful for podcast clips.

I’ve made 3 reels with Studio so far that wouldn’t exist without it.

You’re creating a market that doesn’t exist yet!

Me liking simple tools helps. Can Stanley edit long podcasts too. Chapters might help.

Finally tried this with a messy vlog clip and the auto captions landed better than I expected, plus the song choice actually fit the mood. Free is wild for this.