The best AI video editors for interview videos

The short answer

If you still need to record the interview, with guests joining remotely, Riverside records each person on their own track and edits by transcript. To tidy one recording by deleting words in its transcript, Descript fits; if you already edit in Adobe Premiere, its built-in Text-Based Editing does the same inside your timeline. Editors who want interviews and multicam logged and assembled for their NLE can use Eddie AI, OpusClip cuts one long interview into short social clips, and Endroll builds a cut from a folder of multi-camera footage and your script, with the footage indexed on your own computer.

What we compared

• Whether it records the interview or edits footage you already have
• How you edit: by transcript, by prompt, or from a script
• Multicam: lining up and cutting between two or more cameras
• Where your footage is processed: uploaded or on your machine
• Export to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro
• Platform and pricing model

1. Riverside

Best for: Recording interviews with guests who join from anywhere, then editing the recording in the same place.

Riverside records solo or with remote guests, up to 4K, each participant on a separate track recorded locally on their device and then uploaded. You edit the recording through its transcript, with tools such as remove filler words and pauses, Magic Audio and eye-contact correction, and Magic Clips finds highlights for short clips.

• Limit: Built around recordings made in its studio; uploaded external files are capped at 15 hours a month on Pro, Grow and Webinar.
• Limit: Footage is processed in Riverside's cloud, and timeline export to Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro is on the Business plan.
• Runs on: Web app in Chrome, Edge or Safari, a Mac app (macOS 15+, Apple silicon), and iOS and Android apps.
• Pricing: Free plan (up to 720p, watermark), then Pro, Grow and Webinar plans billed monthly or annually; Business is custom.

riverside.com · Endroll vs Riverside

2. Descript

Best for: Editing one recorded interview by editing its transcript, with audio clean-up in the same app.

Descript transcribes the recording and you cut the video by deleting and moving text. Remove Filler Words, Remove Retakes, Studio Sound and Eye Contact handle common interview fixes, and its AI co-editor Underlord can find engaging moments and make bulk edits such as centering speakers or adding lower thirds.

• Limit: Media is uploaded to Descript's cloud storage.
• Limit: Timeline export to Premiere, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro is on the Creator, Business and Enterprise plans.
• Runs on: Desktop app for macOS 14+ and Windows 11+, and a web version in Chromium-based browsers.
• Pricing: Free plan, then Hobbyist, Creator and Business plans priced per person per month, each with media hours and AI credits; Enterprise is custom.

descript.com · Endroll vs Descript

3. Adobe Premiere

Best for: Editors already cutting in Premiere (formerly Premiere Pro) who want to edit interviews from the transcript without leaving the timeline.

Premiere transcribes video on import, and Text-Based Editing lets you trim and reorder clips by editing the transcript, with the changes rippling through the sequence. Filler words can be detected and bulk-deleted, Paper Edit assembles transcript selections into a new sequence, and Enhance Speech cleans up dialogue.

• Limit: A full professional editor: the AI helps with transcripts, search and audio, but you build and finish the cut yourself.
• Limit: Available only as a membership.
• Runs on: Desktop, plus Premiere on iPhone and Android.
• Pricing: Membership only: Premiere on its own or within Creative Cloud Pro, with team versions of both; 7-day free trial for individuals.

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4. Eddie AI

Best for: Editors who want interview, podcast and multicam footage logged and assembled, then finished in their own NLE.

Eddie AI logs A- and B-roll, transcribes in 100+ languages, syncs multicam, picks takes and builds assembly cuts to your script or outline. You direct it in plain language in the app, or from ChatGPT, Claude or its API, and send the cut to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Avid Media Composer (beta).

• Limit: The desktop app uploads light working copies (proxies) of your footage, and some files upload as they are; originals stay on your drive.
• Runs on: Mac and Windows desktop app, web app and an iPhone companion.
• Pricing: Pay-as-you-go credit packs that never expire, no subscription required; new accounts get free credits. Optional yearly plan.

heyeddie.ai · Endroll vs Eddie AI

5. OpusClip

Best for: Turning one long recorded interview or podcast into many short vertical clips for social.

You upload the long video or link it, and OpusClip's AI clipping (ClipAnything) picks moments and gives each clip a Virality Score. It adds AI captions in 20+ languages, reframes for each platform, removes filler and silence, and can schedule posts.

• Limit: Made for shorts from one long video, not for editing the interview itself into one finished film.
• Limit: Web app: footage is uploaded or linked; export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve is on the Pro and Business plans.
• Runs on: Web app, plus an API.
• Pricing: Credit-based plans: Free with a monthly credit allowance, then Starter and Pro; Business is custom.

opus.pro · Endroll vs OpusClip

6. Endroll

Best for: Teams with a folder of interview footage, often from two or more cameras, who want a cut built from a script without uploading the footage.

Drop the interview folder on Endroll and it transcribes the speech, finds the faces and describes each frame on your computer, without spending a credit. Cameras recorded at the same time line up by their sound, with no clap or timecode. Write or paste a script, or star lines into a paper edit, and Draft a new cut builds an editable cut from the exact words of real takes, switching angles at the pauses of a long answer; render it locally or send the timeline to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.

• Limit: It doesn't record: no remote-guest recording, and no browser or mobile version. It's a desktop app only.
• Limit: The free trial opens in batches from a waitlist, and AI work such as drafts and re-cuts spends credits.
• Runs on: Desktop app for Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or newer, macOS 13+).
• Pricing: Starter €29/month with 1,500 credits, Pro €59/month with 5,000. Credits pay only for AI work, and editing by hand never spends credits. Free trial (14 days, 600 credits, no card) from a waitlist.

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How to choose

Start with where the interview is now. If it hasn't been recorded yet and the guest is somewhere else, you need a recording tool, and Riverside is built for that. If the footage is already on a drive, any of the editors fits, and the question becomes how you want to work.

For a single recording that mostly needs tightening (dropping ums, false starts and the interviewer's questions), editing by transcript is the quickest route: Descript as a standalone app, or Text-Based Editing if you already cut in Adobe Premiere. If what you need from the interview is a stack of short clips for social rather than one video, OpusClip is made for that.

When the interview was shot on two or more cameras and has to become a story with a shape (hook, context, turn, result), look at tools that cut from a script or outline and handle multicam. Eddie AI is aimed at editors who will finish the assembly in their NLE. Endroll is aimed at the person who knows what the film should say: you write it, and the cut is built from your footage on your own computer.

Last, check where the footage goes. Riverside, Descript and OpusClip work with uploaded media, and Eddie AI uploads proxies. If the interview is client work or internal material that shouldn't leave the building, that narrows the list quickly.