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You can edit your videos with AI on Instagram’s new desktop Edits app
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Published 11/5/2026 9:00:00 AM
You can edit your videos with AI on Instagram’s new desktop Edits app
Instagram’s desktop editor has a full multi-track timeline, keyboard shortcuts, and support for connecting AI agents.
Instagram’s desktop editor has a full multi-track timeline, keyboard shortcuts, and support for connecting AI agents.
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Instagram’s standalone video editing app is now available on macOS, where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram’s Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge, “One of the things we’re releasing with Edits Desktop is a MCP for all the tools within Edits Desktop. You can use any agent you want, you can use Muse — we would love you to — but really any agent you want of [your] choice, to edit, tweak, work with your video.”
The Edits app originally launched on mobile platforms last year. Simari said creators have been “heavily” requesting a desktop version, but AI plans were also a factor in the expansion to macOS. Instagram added an AI “creative assistant” to the mobile version of Edits in September, which can give users video suggestions and feedback using data and metrics from their Instagram account like views and retention on their videos.
On the new desktop version of Edits, Simari said users can “go back and forth from agentic to manual editing.” He gave an example of a creator asking Meta’s Muse agent to use the Edits MCP to make a rough cut of a video in their downloads folder, saying, “It’ll be able just to go access that MCP, do the tool calls, make that rough cut for you, and then you can open that project file in Edits to continue editing.”
The jump to desktop follows Instagram’s push into longform, widescreen videos which tend to be a lot easier to edit on a larger screen. Meta says it’s “expanding Edits to support multiple aspect ratios” and adding support for watermark-free 4K exports. Beyond its AI features, the desktop version of Edits also has more advanced editing features like a full multi-track timeline and precise audio waveforms and color grading tools. It also supports keyboard shortcuts, which Meta says can be “carried over from another editor.”
Like the mobile Edits app, the desktop version has access to Instagram’s audio library and support for publishing videos directly to Instagram. Meta also says audio and text styles users have saved in the mobile app will be accessible from the desktop version, too.
However, the desktop app currently isn’t available on Windows or Linux, only macOS. You can’t edit the same project across both mobile and desktop yet, either. Meta says it’s working on cross-platform editing, and plans to update the new desktop app weekly.
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The X-70 Fractal is expected to take flight within the next two years.
The X-70 Fractal is expected to take flight within the next two years.
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Yesterday NASA announced the latest addition to its X-series of experimental aircraft that have included the Bell X-1 that first broke the sound barrier nearly 80 years ago, and the more recent X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator. The new X-70 Fractal is designed to be a “high-performance, highly adaptable research platform” that NASA can use as a testbed for the development and testing of next-generation aviation technologies.
The agency only released an AI-generated image of the X-70 shrouded in smoke and shadows, but confirmed several of the plane’s capabilities. It will be a crewed aircraft with a cruising speed of Mach .75 that can reach altitudes of up to 45,000 feet and will provide an “operational range exceeding about 1,726 miles.” The X-70 will be able to carry up to 2,000 pounds of experimental equipment either inside or outside the aircraft, and will feature “advanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never before demonstrated in crewed flight.”
“The X-70 Fractal gives NASA a crewed, high-performance platform to test advanced flight-control, maneuverability, and other cutting-edge technologies in real flight,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “Its modular design and ability to rapidly swap internal and external payloads will keep our teams flying, learning, and moving quickly from one experiment to the next. We expect her first flight under the NASA banner within the next two years, and X-70 is just one part of this new beginning for aeronautics.”
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