Palmier Prov0.12.0

Palmier Pro integrates an AI assistant into a real video editing workflow: you can use natural language to specify editing requests, letting the assistant organize footage and adjust the timeline, then return to the editor to review the visuals and audio. It’s not just a website that generates a few seconds of video, nor does it require you to hand over your entire creative project to an uneditable “black box.” For those who produce interview highlights, product ads, or regular segments every week, this approach—of “first creating a sample clip, then reusing the production rules”—is particularly worth exploring.

Official website:palmier.io

Product and Team: Start with the Editor, Not the Generate Button

The product is provided by Palmier, Inc., and its official website features information about its support from Y Combinator. The company’s mission statement emphasizes two points: serious video production still takes place in the editor; and AI should help creators bring their ideas to life, rather than replace them. This positioning explains why Palmier retains multi-track timelines, manual refinements, and an Agent interface, rather than offering only a prompt input box. When selecting tools like this, it’s best to assess whether they can integrate into your actual workflow: Is the output easy to modify? Are repeatable steps easy to reuse? Can complex deliverables still be handled by your familiar post-production software?

Key Features: Automated rough cut, with human oversight retaining the final decision-making authority

Import the clips that have been marked as "Assistant" into the editing project. Palmier exposes project manipulation capabilities to clients such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor through its local MCP service. Assistants can read the project context and perform editing operations; You can still view and adjust the results within the editor. For those who have already used these assistants, the value lies in reducing the friction of having to “receive suggestions in the chat window and then click through them one by one.”

Blend live-action and generated footage on the timeline. Videos you shoot yourself can be combined with generated footage, voiceovers, music, and other elements within the same project. This is ideal for first establishing the main content with real footage, then adding supplementary material to fill in missing transitions or explanations—rather than having to download files and switch between software programs to reassemble the project after each generation.

Retain the editorial structure so it can be refined. The timeline supports cutting, ripple editing, clip replacement, keyframes, and multiple versions. When replacing footage, it preserves the clip’s original timing and effect settings, which is particularly useful for swapping products in commercials or replacing footage in TV segments. While it can’t determine whether a shot might mislead the audience, it can reduce the tedious, repetitive work involved in making adjustments.

What's New as of October 29, 2026

v0.12.0 introduces the ability to run in the background without a user interface and supports simultaneous processing of multiple projects and timelines; timeline history now allows for saving and restoring snapshots, along with improvements to the usage panel, subtitle presets, and color management. For batch production, the most significant benefit isn’t simply “running more tasks simultaneously,” but rather gaining the ability to track costs and revert to previous versions. Parallel tasks should also use clear project names and delivery requirements to avoid mixing materials, subtitles, or brand guidelines from different clients.

What Scenarios Are Worth Trying?

• Short Video Team for Regular Features: First, determine the opening sequence, subtitles, aspect ratio, and closing credits, then organize the standardization steps into a reusable Skill. What’s repeated are the production guidelines, not the decisions made for each episode.
• Small Advertising Studio: Prepare different lengths or aspect ratios for the same footage; have an assistant create the first draft, then review each one to confirm the selling points, subtitles, and brand placements.
• Interviews with Course Creators: Let your assistant handle the rough cut, footage selection, and basic subtitling work, so you can focus your time on ensuring the content is complete and on refining the tone and pacing.

If you’re only occasionally editing a short video on your phone, it may not be worth setting up an entire suite of desktop tools just for automation; if the rules are completely different for each episode, you shouldn’t expect reusing commands to immediately yield consistent results.

A Practical Getting-Started Process

1. Verify that your Mac meets the official requirements for macOS 26 or later, install and open Palmier, and start by importing a small amount of non-sensitive test data.
2. In the "MCP Instructions" section of Help, select the appropriate client and follow the link in the official documentation. Both Claude Code and Codex have their own configuration methods; first, have the assistant list the projects, verify the connection, and then assign specific editing tasks.
3. Clearly specify the delivery requirements, such as “Create a 60-second portrait-oriented introduction, keep these three sentences, do not change the product specifications, and ensure subtitles do not appear in the bottom control area of the screen.” This is an example of a task description and does not imply that the product comes with such presets.
4. Review the first cut, focusing on checking for missing lines, broken sentences, audio-visual synchronization, proper nouns in the subtitles, and whether the source material complies with usage rights requirements.
5. Save a snapshot of versions you're satisfied with, and consolidate the truly stable steps into a Skill; after replacing assets, run a test first before deciding whether to process them in bulk.
6. Export the final project or exchange project files. For work that requires further refinement, first test cross-software import using a small project; don’t wait until the day of delivery to verify it.

Costs and Limits You Need to Know in Advance

The free plan includes a multi-track editor, MCP, local transcription, and media search, as well as the ability to export video or project files; subscription or API costs for external AI assistants are not included. The Pro and Max plans offer generation credits, cloud-based transcription, and built-in chat. The promotional monthly prices shown on the pricing page are $29 and $69, respectively, and include 5,000 and 12,000 credits per month. Discounts, taxes, quotas, and purchase terms are subject to the actual checkout page; “free editing” should not be interpreted to mean that all generation tasks are free.

Cross-editor exchange is not a lossless, universal solution. The official export documentation clearly distinguishes between XML exported to Premiere and FCPXML exported to Resolve and Final Cut; some subtitles, effects, color grading, or audio keyframes will not be transferred completely. For client projects, you should retain the original project and source files and check each item individually in the target software. When dealing with unpublished video, you must also verify the data rules for the assistants used, cloud transcription, and the generation model separately; a local MCP does not mean that the entire processing chain is handled locally.

How to Choose Among Similar Tools

The proper way to use Palmier is to have assistants handle production steps that can be documented and reviewed, rather than outsourcing aesthetic decisions, factual accuracy, and copyright responsibilities all at once. It’s more valuable to start with a small, real-world task to verify “which steps have been streamlined and which checks have been added” than to simply watch a polished demo.

Official Information

• Product Home Pagetogether withCompany Profile
• v0.12.0 Release Notes
• Agent and MCP User Guide
• Timeline Editortogether withExport Compatibility
• Solutions and Integrals