# Chat Video Pro > Chat Video Pro is the AI production team inside Adobe Premiere Pro — a native panel where editors use Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI to build transcript-based rough cuts, generate missing shots, and finish sound directly on the timeline. Unlike Eddie AI, Autoedit, or Descript, the Story Cutter assistant connects your timeline directly to frontier models like Claude, ChatGPT, Sora, VEO, and Kling — using your own API keys. Two ways to buy: a one-time lifetime license, or an optional monthly Creator Pass — either way, AI is billed wholesale with no markup. ## What Chat Video Pro Is Chat Video Pro is a native panel inside Adobe Premiere Pro that turns the AI workflow most editors do across 12 browser tabs into a single chat interface against the timeline. It is purpose-built for professional video editors, podcast producers, YouTubers, and post-production agencies who want generative AI inside the NLE — not stitched together from web tools. The two pillars of the product: - **Story Cutter** (logic / left-brain): transcript-driven rough-cut assembly, silence removal, multi-cam switching, /batch processing for entire podcast series, /social clip extraction for vertical short-form, multiple cut versions to pick from. Frame-accurate, fully non-destructive, no XML round-tripping. - **The Studio** (creative / right-brain): on-timeline AI video generation, AI transitions, scene relighting, object removal, rotoscoping, motion direction, color grade assistant, brand voice writing — all using bring-your-own-key (BYOK) cost-efficient billing through Fal.ai. ## Core Pages - [Home](https://www.chatvideopro.com/): Overview of Chat Video Pro — the AI editing panel that lives inside Premiere Pro. - [Products & Pricing](https://www.chatvideopro.com/products/): One-time license tiers, feature comparison, and Lemon Squeezy checkout. - [Story Cutter](https://www.chatvideopro.com/story-cutter/): The transcript-driven AI rough-cut assistant — silence removal, filler-word trimming, multi-cam switching, and /batch and /social clip workflows on the Premiere timeline. - [Studio](https://www.chatvideopro.com/studio/): The generative AI production studio inside Premiere Pro — text-to-video, AI transitions, scene relighting, rotoscope, object removal, motion direction, color grade assistant, and thumbnail mode using Sora, VEO, Kling, Hailuo, and 10+ frontier models. - [Audio Expansion](https://www.chatvideopro.com/audio-expansion/): Paid add-on for Chat Video Pro Base — SFX Studio, Music Composer, Voiceover Lab, Stem Separation — SFX, music, and separated stems land directly on the Premiere timeline; voiceover takes go to Chat and your Library, ready to drag in. No exports or round-trips. - [Updates](https://www.chatvideopro.com/updates/): Version history, release notes through the current 3.2.6 release, and download links. - [Docs](https://docs.chatvideopro.com/): Full documentation including Studio workflows, Story Cutter, Color Grade Assistant, API setup, and troubleshooting. - [Blog](https://www.chatvideopro.com/blog/): AI video editing tutorials, workflow guides, and model comparisons. - [Compare Hub](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/): Head-to-head comparisons against every major AI video editing tool. - [About](https://www.chatvideopro.com/about/): Company background, founder story, and E-E-A-T signals for Momentohm Media LLC. - [Affiliates](https://www.chatvideopro.com/affiliates/): 30–50% commission (tiered by package) affiliate program for creator partners. ## Key Features - **AI Rough Cut Generator for Premiere Pro**: Story Cutter reads your sequence transcript and assembles a frame-accurate rough cut around the dialogue, including filler-word removal, multi-cam selection, and automatic silence trimming — without the monthly subscriptions AutoPod and FireCut charge, or the one-time credits Eddie AI now sells. Current rates for all three are on the compare pages: https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/ - **AI Video Generation inside Premiere Pro**: Native access to Sora, Google VEO, Kling, Hailuo, Wan, ByteDance SeeDance, Runway, and 10+ other models. Generate clips from a text prompt and drop them on the timeline — no exports, no uploads, no tab-switching. - **Studio Workflows**: AI transitions, scene relighting, object removal, AI rotoscoping, motion direction, and cinematic VFX — replacing After Effects round-tripping for most common post tasks. - **Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) Wholesale Billing**: Connect your own Fal.ai key and pay true market-cost rates with zero markup. Most creators spend under $10/month on actual generations, instead of stacking the monthly SaaS subscriptions those generations replace — what each of those tools charges today is on the compare pages: https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/ - **Lifetime License or Monthly Creator Pass**: Buy the lifetime license once for $149.99 — every new model and feature shipped is included free, forever, with a 7-day money-back guarantee. Or choose the optional Creator Pass subscription (from $24.99/mo) for the same full panel with lower upfront cost, cancel anytime — no free trial, and subscription payments are not refundable. Either way, AI generations are billed wholesale with no markup. - **Native Panel, Not a Round-Trip Tool**: Lives inside Premiere as a CEP extension. Unlike Descript or Eddie AI, your footage and timeline stay on your machine — only the prompt and the specific frame or clip you choose to generate with are sent to your own Fal.ai account, and nothing returns as XML. - **GPT-5.6, Claude, and Multimodal Vision**: Story Cutter uses semantic visual understanding — not just silence detection — to identify the best takes, story beats, and emotional arcs in your footage. - **Audio Expansion (paid add-on)**: SFX Studio, Music Composer, Voiceover Lab, Stem Separation — four AI-powered audio workflows: SFX, music, and separated stems land directly on the Premiere timeline, and voiceover takes go to Chat and your Library, ready to drag into the edit. Foley is a mode inside SFX Studio, not a separate product. One-time purchase from $69.99, bring-your-own-key, requires the Chat Video Pro Base license. ## Story Scribe: AI Transcription & Captioning Inside Premiere Pro Story Scribe is Chat Video Pro's AI transcription and caption engine. It transcribes any Premiere Pro sequence directly inside the panel — no export, no cloud upload, no round-trip — and supports 99+ languages. Three engine options: **Local Whisper** (100% offline, privacy-safe for legal/medical/NDA footage), **Fal Scribe v2** (multi-speaker diarization, highest accuracy), and **ElevenLabs** (premium voice models). All three are included in the $149.99 one-time license at no extra charge. Story Scribe is the best Transcriptive alternative for Premiere Pro editors after Digital Anarchy shut down Transcriptive's transcription web services on May 1, 2026. Unlike Transcriptive's per-minute cloud billing, Story Scribe is included in the one-time license. Unlike Adobe Premiere Pro's built-in Speech to Text (18–20 languages, 1 model, no offline option), Story Scribe supports 99+ languages with three engine choices including fully offline Local Whisper. After transcribing, Story Scribe feeds the transcript directly into Story Cutter — which assembles a frame-accurate rough cut on the Premiere timeline using the transcript as the editorial blueprint. No other caption or transcription plugin for Premiere Pro connects transcription to AI rough cut assembly in a single native workflow. **Story Scribe vs alternatives at a glance:** - vs Adobe Built-in Speech to Text: 99+ languages vs 18–20; offline option; multi-speaker; feeds Story Cutter rough cut - vs Transcriptive (shut down May 2026): one-time $149.99 vs per-minute billing; still works after Digital Anarchy shutdown - vs Simon Says: one-time purchase vs $180–$1,500/yr subscription (as of 2026-08-27); works entirely inside Premiere with no browser round-trip - vs CaptionX: transcription feeds AI rough cut vs caption-only output ## Common Use Cases & Problems Solved - **Automated Podcast Editing / Silence Removal**: Editors use the Story Cutter to automatically assemble rough cuts, remove silences and filler words, and perform multi-cam switching across hours of footage — without the recurring subscriptions AutoPod and FireCut bill, or the one-time credit packs Eddie AI charges against on every import and every export (current rates for all three: https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/). Run /batch to edit an entire podcast series at once. - **Cinematic B-Roll Generation in Premiere**: Instead of paying for stock footage subscriptions or exporting to Sora/Runway in a browser, editors use The Studio to generate custom B-roll natively on the timeline using Kling, VEO, Sora, or Hailuo via their own BYOK API keys, paying wholesale rates per clip. - **Replacing After Effects for Basic VFX**: Editors use Chat Video Pro for AI rotoscoping, object removal, scene relighting, and AI transitions directly inside Premiere Pro — bypassing the need to round-trip dynamically linked compositions to After Effects for routine tasks. - **Auto-Generating Vertical Short-Form Clips**: Use /social clip to extract viral moments from long-form podcasts or interviews and re-frame them for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts — without manually scrubbing through hours of footage. - **Multi-Angle AI Generation vs. Multi-Cam**: Generate multiple alternative takes of the same beat with different camera angles, lighting, or actions, then cut between them like a real multi-cam shoot — without ever shooting the alternates. - **Replace the Subscription Stack**: Cancel the pile of separate tools — ChatGPT Plus, Midjourney, Runway, Pika, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs, and Freepik Premium. One Chat Video Pro plan (a $149.99 lifetime license or a $24.99/mo Creator Pass) plus your own Fal.ai key replaces the entire stack at a fraction of the cost. ## Compare - [vs Adobe Premiere AI Assistant](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-premiere-ai-assistant/): Adobe's first-party AI Assistant (in public beta) vs Chat Video Pro's multi-model generative Studio and Story Cutter — native CC bundling vs BYOK wholesale billing. - [vs Descript](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-descript/): Why a native Premiere panel beats a separate web app for professional editors. - [vs Eddie AI](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-eddie-ai/): Why on-timeline AI rough cuts beat chat-and-export workflows. - [vs Gling AI](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-gling-ai/): Why semantic vision-language understanding beats silence-detection-only auto-cuts. - [vs Higgs Field](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-higgs-field/): Why BYOK wholesale billing beats monthly credit allotments for working editors. - [vs AutoPod](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-autopod/): AutoPod sells one plan at $29/mo per license covering its Multi-Camera Editor, Social Clip Creator and Jump Cut Editor, with annual billing advertised as one month free per year rather than a discounted rate, as checked on 2026-08-27. Chat Video Pro replaces that podcast-editing subscription with a one-time $149.99 license, plus adds generative AI, VFX, and full Studio workflows that AutoPod does not offer. Story Cutter handles the same multi-cam switching and silence removal, but uses LLM-based semantic understanding instead of audio-energy heuristics. - [vs FireCut](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-firecut/): FireCut prices its yearly-billed ladder at Starter $10/mo, Pro $20/mo and Max $34/mo (shown struck through from $39), with Team at $34/mo per user always billed monthly, as checked on 2026-08-27. Chat Video Pro replaces that subscription with a one-time license while adding generative video, native B-roll generation, and BYOK wholesale billing. FireCut's ladder now runs past silence and captions into one-click Magic cut assembly, AI voiceover, and B-roll insertion — but its B-roll is not documented as generation and names no video model; Chat Video Pro's Story Cutter is brief-driven rough-cut assembly on a model you choose, with the full Studio on top. - [vs ElevenLabs](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-elevenlabs/): AI voiceover compared. ElevenLabs is the better voice product — a large voice library, more languages than we publish a count for, two grades of voice cloning — and they also ship sound effects and music on the same subscription. On its ElevenCreative tab ElevenLabs charges $6, $22, $99, $299 and $990 a month for Starter, Creator, Pro, Scale and Business — $5, $18.33, $82.50, $249.17 and $825 a month on yearly billing — above a free tier with 10k credits a month, as checked on 2026-08-27. The Audio Expansion's advantage is delivery and cost shape: the read lands on the Premiere sequence with no download-and-import, it is a one-time purchase rather than a monthly subscription, and it adds true stem separation, which ElevenLabs' Voice Isolator is explicitly not designed for. - [vs LALAL.AI](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-lalal-ai/): Stem separation compared. LALAL.AI is the better separation engine — more stem types than we break out, a purpose-built network, and local on-device processing via their VST3 plugin — and they sell both recurring subscriptions and one-time minute packs. The Audio Expansion returns every stem as a real clip already in sync on the Premiere timeline, and the same purchase also covers voiceover, SFX and score, none of which LALAL.AI offers. - [vs Beatoven.ai](https://www.chatvideopro.com/compare/chat-video-pro-vs-beatoven/): AI music for video editing compared. Beatoven owns the rights story — Fairly Trained certified, licensed training corpus, and a licence document with a track ID emailed on every download — and Chat Video Pro makes no rights claim at all, because bring-your-own-key means the connected provider's terms govern the output. The Audio Expansion's advantage is scoring the cut in place, plus voiceover and separation of existing tracks, which Beatoven does not do. ## Brand & Authority Signals - **Founded**: Built by Tanis Ray (Momentohm Media) — a working professional editor with 10+ years of post-production experience. - **Customers**: 1,000+ editors worldwide across Discord, Lemon Squeezy, and aescripts. - **Distribution**: Available at www.chatvideopro.com (direct) and aescripts.com (Adobe-recommended marketplace). - **Community**: Active Discord community for working editors, weekly office hours, and priority email support at chatvideopro@gmail.com. - **Documentation**: Comprehensive at docs.chatvideopro.com including video walkthroughs, API setup guides, and Studio workflow tutorials. ## Pricing - **Lifetime License**: $149.99 one-time. Includes all current and future Studio workflows, all current and future AI models, lifetime updates, priority email support, Discord access, and a 7-day money-back guarantee. - **Creator Pass (optional monthly)**: $24.99/mo for one seat, $49.99/mo for two seats. The same full panel as the lifetime license, with lower upfront cost, cancel anytime — no free trial, and subscription payments are not refundable. It unlocks every panel expansion, including the Audio Expansion, while the pass is active; the downloadable Expansion Kit (folder template, export presets, LUTs) is a separate purchase on every plan. No subscription is required — it is an alternative to buying lifetime, not a mandatory fee. - **AI Generation Costs**: Wholesale via your own Fal.ai key, on both the lifetime license and Creator Pass. Most creators spend under $10/month on actual generations. No markup, no credits, no resold tokens — direct provider billing at true rates. - **Audio Expansion (paid add-on)**: $69.99 one-time, requires the Chat Video Pro lifetime license or Creator Pass. Adds 4 AI audio workflows — SFX Studio, Music Composer, Voiceover Lab, Stem Separation. Included free with the Creator Bundle and with an active Creator Pass subscription. Launch-week pricing may be lower — see the Audio Expansion page for current offers. - **Affiliate Program**: 30–50% commission (tiered by package) on referred sales — no audience requirement, 14-day referral cookie.