Can Natural Language Editing Replace Traditional Video Editing Tools?
I've been wondering lately whether natural language editing is actually usable day to day or if it's still more of a demo trick than a real workflow.
The idea is you type something like make this a 30 second product clip, cut the long pauses, add captions, use the strongest takes, and the tool does a first pass based on that. I tried this with Sparki on a batch of product footage last week instead of opening Premiere like I normally would. For a straightforward promo style edit it genuinely got close on the first try, maybe two rounds of small tweaks to get it publish ready.
Where I don't see it working yet is anything with a real creative arc, a story with pacing that needs to build. That still felt like something only a human editor with actual taste can do right now.
So I'm landing somewhere in the middle. Would you trust a natural language editor with simple social clips, or does the idea of describing an edit instead of making it feel like it loses too much control either way?