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Kinocut MCP Server

Guardrailed video editing for AI agents: FFmpeg, captions, effects, Hyperframes, and receipts.

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Connect

Published as kinocut on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

18 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Spec: Product and object matte on hyperframes-remove-background

Spec: Product and object matte on existing hyperframes-remove-background

Status: agent-ready Date: 2026-08-19 Public guide: docs/PRODUCT_MATTE.md Example: examples/product-matte/

Who this is for

Kinocut users who shoot things, not people: product photographers, shop operators, catalog studios, UGC sellers, marketplace listings. Jewelry on a turntable, shoes on a sweep, bottles on a lightbox, phones on a table, ceramics on a banding wheel, boxed SKUs on a kitchen t

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · closed · 7 comments

Spec: Insta360 X4 360 dual-cam assembly

Spec: Insta360 X4 360 dual-cam assembly

Status: ready-for-agent
Date: 2026-08-13
Design companion: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-13-x4-360-assembly-design.md

Test seams (highest, existing first)

One compiler seam: propose → validate → approve → render a 360_assembly_plan.

Hook it through existing surfaces only:

Read the thread · 2026-08-13 · closed · 4 comments

Wayfinder map: first-class Windows support and honest diagnostics

Destination

The spec first-class Windows support and honest diagnostics implemented and merged: the MCP entry point reports real import failures, doctor exercises the MCP server import path, the projectstore tests run on Windows, CI guards the platform on every PR, and Windows lock errors surface instead of hanging. The maintainers work these tickets themselves — the PR #446 contributor's scope ends at his own diff.

Notes

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · closed · 3 comments

effect_noise with mode='film' produces extreme green/magenta chromatic distortion on image-based videos

Bug Report: effect_noise Produces Extreme Green/Magenta Chromatic Distortion

Repository: KyaniteLabs/mcp-video
Version: 1.4.0
Labels: bug, effects

Bug Summary

The effect_noise tool with mode="film" and animated=true applies extreme green/magenta chromatic aberration that completely destroys video content, rather than subtle film grain.

Reproduction Steps

  1. Create a video from a static image using video_create_from_images
  2. Apply effect_noise with t

Read the thread · 2026-05-12 · closed · 2 comments

doctor: verify the MCP server import path

Parent

#447

What to build

kino doctor gains a check that actually imports the MCP server tool tree and reports it as its own component. On a machine where the server tree cannot import (the #445 scenario), doctor names the failing component and does not report overall OK — "OK" starts to mean the primary integration paths work, not just the ffmpeg binaries. The check is failure-isolated (a failed check can never crash doctor) and uses the same stable, privacy-safe error mapping as the

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

Docs: self-host Kinocut MCP behind Funnel + OAuth (reference stack)

Context

I published an Apache-2.0 reference packaging that runs Kinocut + HyperFrames behind Tailscale Funnel, Caddy, and Google OAuth (mcp-auth-proxy):

https://github.com/ismailkattakath/hyperframes-selfhost

Ask

If useful, a one-line pointer under install / deploy docs (or “community deploys”) would help operators who want a public MCP URL without opening home-router ports or using hosted cloud MCP.

Happy to open a docs PR if you prefer that shape. Not affiliated with HeyGen host

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

fix(hyperframes): restore skip_transcribe contract without reopening MCP hang

Summary

PR #361 correctly fixed the no-TTY Hyperframes hang by closing child stdin and setting HYPERFRAMES_SKIP_SKILLS=1, but it also moved --skip-transcribe from a conditional switch into the always-on init arguments.

As a result, the public skip_transcribe: bool = False parameter is now ignored across the engine, Python client, CLI, and MCP tool: passing False still emits --skip-transcribe.

Current evidence

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 0 comments

[pipeline][MEDIUM] Dashboard cannot fully read repository status

Pipeline issue-surfacing finding

This issue was created or refreshed automatically by the pipeline issue surfacing worker. It is designed to be picked up later by a fixer/triage agent without rediscovering the failure from scratch.

Signal

Root cause hypothesis

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Read the thread · 2026-05-31 · closed · 1 comment

[pipeline][MEDIUM] Dashboard cannot fully read repository status

Pipeline issue-surfacing finding

This issue was created or refreshed automatically by the pipeline issue surfacing worker. It is designed to be picked up later by a fixer/triage agent without rediscovering the failure from scratch.

Signal

Root cause hypothesis

D

Read the thread · 2026-05-28 · closed · 1 comment

Add doctor/version checks for FFmpeg, Hyperframes, Node, and package skew

Version/dependency skew is too hard to diagnose before a media job starts.

During NucBox dogfood, we needed to check:

The information is available manually, but not as one MCP-video health surface. This caused avoidable

Read the thread · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

video-quality-check falsely fails silent videos and renders empty report

Bug

mcp-video video-quality-check gives a misleading empty Overall: FAIL report for valid silent videos.

This has now blocked/derailed the NucBox image-to-video workflow repeatedly. On the latest run, a valid 1080x1920 / 30fps / 61-frame silent MP4 was marked FAIL with an empty table, even though visual QA and Kimi review showed the clip was visually usable.

Latest reproduction evidence

Command run on the NucBox:

/srv/external/bin/mcp-video video-quality-check \
  /srv/ext

[Read the thread](https://github.com/KyaniteLabs/kinocut/issues/311) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 1 comment

### remotion_still tool has no props parameter — renders cannot accept runtime data

### Summary

The `remotion_still` tool exposed by this MCP server accepts only: `project_path`, `composition_id`, `output_path`, `frame`, `image_format`. There is no `props` / `inputProps` / `defaultProps` parameter. As a result, every still rendered through this MCP tool uses the composition's `defaultProps` from `src/Root.tsx`, which makes the tool functionally unusable for dynamic content.

The underlying Remotion CLI (`npx remotion still`) has supported `--props=<json-or-path>` since Remotio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/KyaniteLabs/kinocut/issues/306) · 2026-05-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 16 reports Pod holds for Kinocut](/mcp/kinocut/issues) — of 18 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

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## Related servers

- [mcp-video](/mcp/mcp-video) — Also by kinocut.dev

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