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Other tools edit audio.
Lede edits narrative.

Your video is not just sounds and silences. It is a story.
Most AI editing tools cannot tell the difference.
Lede can.

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Multi-Accent Transcription — Non-Destructive Editing — Narrative Coherence Engine — Real XML Export — Premiere Pro — DaVinci Resolve — Unlimited Undo — Director-Speech Detection — Multi-Accent Transcription — Non-Destructive Editing — Narrative Coherence Engine — Real XML Export — Premiere Pro — DaVinci Resolve — Unlimited Undo — Director-Speech Detection —

The Problem

AI editing tools think your video is a waveform.
It is not.

They cut based on silence, not meaning. So the pause before your best line disappears. The beat you built for four seconds gets removed in two.

They cannot understand accents outside of standard American English. Ugandan, Australian, South African, Indian — all treated as noise to be guessed at.

Every edit is permanent. Made a mistake? Re-upload the entire video and start over. No undo. No history. No mercy.

They remove the setup but keep the punchline. They cut the context but keep the conclusion. The story stops making sense and they have no way to know.

How Lede Works

Four steps. One clean story.

Lede reads your video the way an editor reads a manuscript. It understands structure, context, and narrative logic before it touches a single frame. Every suggested cut is checked against the story it belongs to.

STEP 01

Upload your raw footage

Drag in your video. Lede accepts any format and any length. No compression required on your end.

STEP 02

Whisper transcribes every word

OpenAI Whisper handles 98 languages and every major English accent. Six cents per ten minutes of audio. What you said is what appears on screen.

STEP 03

The narrative engine reads the story

Before suggesting any cut, Lede maps your story. Setup, argument, transition, conclusion. Every flagged cut is checked against that map. Risky cuts get labeled. You decide.

STEP 04

Export to your editor of choice

Send a clean XML to Premiere Pro, an EDL to DaVinci Resolve, or a direct MP4 render. Every export reflects exactly what you approved. Nothing more.

What Makes Lede Different

Unlimited undo at every step

Every edit you make gets pushed to a history stack. Pull back anything, in any order, at any time before export. Nothing in Lede is permanent until you say it is.

Non-Destructive

Accents are not an afterthought

Whisper was trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio. Ugandan English. Nairobi English. Lagos English. Australian English. Caribbean English. All of it lands correctly in the transcript.

680K Hours of Training

Director-speech detection

Instructions to your camera operator. Requests to adjust the light. The moment you stood up to scroll the teleprompter. Lede recognises meta-speech and removes it without touching the performance.

Context-Aware

Lede vs. Everything Else

Other AI editing tools The rest

Cut silences regardless of whether that silence was intentional and part of the delivery

Struggle with non-American accents and produce inaccurate transcripts for global creators

No undo. One mistake means re-uploading the entire video from scratch

Cannot distinguish between a creator speaking and a creator giving instructions to their crew

Remove content without checking whether the story still makes sense after the cut

Lede The difference

Reads the transcript first. Understands that some silences are part of the story before suggesting any cut

Full edit history with unlimited undo. Nothing is final until you export. Fix anything, any time

Detects and flags director-speech, crew instructions, and off-camera actions before they end up in your export

Narrative coherence engine checks every cut against the story map. Risky cuts get labeled with a reason

Your story deserves an editor that reads it.

Lede is in early development. Join the waitlist and be the first to access it when it opens for beta.