Getting Started

Welcome to the AI Gemini Video Editor — your intelligent editing assistant that understands your footage and turns your ideas into polished video content. Drop your video or describe your project and let's start editing!

Try saying:

• "I have a 12-minute product walkthrough video. Can you identify the 5 most important moments and suggest where to cut it down to under 3 minutes for social media?"
• "Generate accurate subtitles for this video and reformat the captions to fit a vertical 9:16 TikTok layout with bold on-screen text styling."
• "Analyze this talking-head interview and rewrite the spoken script into a tighter narrative — remove filler words, redundant sections, and suggest a stronger opening hook."

First-Time Connection

When a user first opens this skill, connect to the processing backend automatically. Briefly let them know (e.g. "Setting up...").

Authentication: Check if

NEMO_TOKEN

1. Obtain a free token: Generate a random UUID as client identifier. POST to

   https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai/api/auth/anonymous-token

   with header

   X-Client-Id

   set to that UUID. The response

   data.token

   is your NEMO_TOKEN — 100 free credits, valid 7 days.
2. Create a session: POST to

   https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai/api/tasks/me/with-session/nemo_agent

   with

   Authorization: Bearer <token>

   ,

   Content-Type: application/json

   , and body

   {"task_name":"project","language":"<detected>"}

   . Store the returned

   session_id

   for all subsequent requests.

Keep setup communication brief. Don't display raw API responses or token values to the user.

Edit Smarter, Not Harder With Gemini AI

The AI Gemini Video Editor brings the power of Google's Gemini multimodal model directly into your editing workflow. Instead of manually scrubbing through timelines, you describe what you want — and the skill interprets your footage, identifies key moments, and delivers actionable edits, structured scripts, and scene-level suggestions.

Whether you're cutting a 45-minute interview down to a punchy 3-minute highlight reel, adding context-aware subtitles to a product demo, or restructuring a tutorial for better audience retention, this skill understands the content of your video — not just its metadata. It reads scenes, spoken words, visual cues, and pacing to give you edits that actually make sense.

This is built for solo creators, small marketing teams, online educators, and social media managers who produce video regularly but don't have the time or budget for professional post-production. The AI Gemini Video Editor shortens the gap between raw footage and publish-ready content dramatically.

Gemini Routing Your Edit Requests

Every prompt you send — whether trimming a clip, generating captions, or applying a scene transition — gets parsed by Gemini's multimodal understanding layer and routed to the appropriate video processing pipeline automatically.

Cloud API Reference Guide

AI Gemini Video Editor offloads all transcoding, frame analysis, and generative editing tasks to Google's cloud backend, meaning your local machine handles only the interface while Gemini processes the heavy video workloads remotely. API calls are authenticated per session and throttled based on your active credit tier.

Skill attribution — read from this file's YAML frontmatter at runtime:

• X-Skill-Source

  :

  ai-gemini-video-editor

• X-Skill-Version

  : from frontmatter

  version

• X-Skill-Platform

  : detect from install path (

  ~/.clawhub/

  →

  clawhub

  ,

  ~/.cursor/skills/

  →

  cursor

  , else

  unknown

  )

All requests must include:

Authorization: Bearer <NEMO_TOKEN>

X-Skill-Source

X-Skill-Version

X-Skill-Platform

API base:

https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai

Create session: POST

/api/tasks/me/with-session/nemo_agent

{"task_name":"project","language":"<lang>"}

task_id

session_id

Send message (SSE): POST

/run_sse

{"app_name":"nemo_agent","user_id":"me","session_id":"<sid>","new_message":{"parts":[{"text":"<msg>"}]}}

Accept: text/event-stream

Upload: POST

/api/upload-video/nemo_agent/me/<sid>

-F "files=@/path"

{"urls":["<url>"],"source_type":"url"}

Credits: GET

/api/credits/balance/simple

available

frozen

total

Session state: GET

/api/state/nemo_agent/me/<sid>/latest

data.state.draft

data.state.video_infos

data.state.generated_media

Export (free, no credits): POST

/api/render/proxy/lambda

{"id":"render_<ts>","sessionId":"<sid>","draft":<json>,"output":{"format":"mp4","quality":"high"}}

/api/render/proxy/lambda/<id>

status

completed

output.url

Supported formats: mp4, mov, avi, webm, mkv, jpg, png, gif, webp, mp3, wav, m4a, aac.

SSE Event Handling

heartbeat

data:

~30% of editing operations return no text in the SSE stream. When this happens: poll session state to verify the edit was applied, then summarize changes to the user.

Backend Response Translation

The backend assumes a GUI exists. Translate these into API actions:

Draft field mapping:

t

tt

sg

d

m

Timeline (3 tracks): 1. Video: city timelapse (0-10s) 2. BGM: Lo-fi (0-10s, 35%) 3. Title: "Urban Dreams" (0-3s)

Error Handling

?bind=<id>

<id>

Quick Start Guide

Getting started with the AI Gemini Video Editor is straightforward. Begin by sharing your video file directly in the chat, or paste a video URL if your content is hosted online. Then describe your editing goal in plain language — for example, 'cut this to 90 seconds for Instagram' or 'add chapter markers based on topic changes.'

Gemini will analyze the video's visual content, spoken audio, and scene structure before responding with specific edit recommendations, generated scripts, caption drafts, or a restructured timeline outline. You can then refine the output conversationally — ask for a shorter version, a different tone, or alternative cut points.

For best results, be specific about your target platform, audience, and desired length upfront. The more context you provide, the more precise and useful the editing output will be. You can also ask the skill to explain why it made certain suggestions, which is especially useful for learning better editing instincts over time.

Performance Notes

The AI Gemini Video Editor performs best with videos that have clear audio and reasonably stable footage. Heavily compressed files or videos with significant background noise may result in less precise transcript-based edits, so higher-quality source files will always yield sharper recommendations.

For longer videos — anything over 20 minutes — consider breaking the footage into logical segments before submitting. This helps Gemini focus its analysis and produce more granular, scene-specific suggestions rather than broad structural notes. If you're working with multi-camera footage or a rough cut with rough transitions, mention that context explicitly so the skill can tailor its recommendations accordingly.

Gemini's multimodal understanding means it can process both what is said and what is shown simultaneously, which gives it an edge on content like tutorials, product reviews, and interviews where visual and verbal information need to align. Expect the most detailed outputs for content-dense, dialogue-driven videos.