Clipto MCP
Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…
Clipto MCP launched on August 19, 2026 with 655 votes, #3 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Clipto MCP is a tool that integrates with AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to search and extract clips from videos, photos, and audio files stored locally on a computer. Users can describe what they need—such as matching footage to a script, finding specific scenes, or creating rough cuts—and the tool retrieves relevant moments from their media library. It's designed for content creators, editors, and anyone working with large volumes of local video or audio who want to automate the process of finding and assembling footage.
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From the sources
Clipto MCP gives Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents the ability to source clips and more from inside the videos, photos, and audio recordings stored on your computer. Instead of manually browsing files, simply describe what you need. For example, turn a script into a video by matching each sentence with your local footage; find every scene where someone mentioned a topic; create rough cuts; or search years of media as if you have a dedicated assistant editor.
Let AI understand your local files with Clipto MCP—then find moments, auto-edit videos and podcasts, assemble A-roll, and auto-match B-roll to create faster.
Your AI tool asks Clipto for context. Clipto searches your approved local media and returns source-backed results Create a complete video using this A-roll or voiceover in my Clipto library: {name the recording} . Match B-roll to this script: {paste your script} , following {describe the look you want} . Use the strongest clip for each beat, keep it in sync, and stay on the main track when no good match exists. Export the finished video with source timestamps and Clipto links. Edit this full podcast recording in my Clipto library: {name the recording} . Shape it around {main topic or goal} and deliver it as {audio or video} . Remove filler, false starts, repetition, long pauses,…from clipto.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can…
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