I've been working on a video editor where you can edit by typing commands in plain English instead of using traditional timeline tools. The idea came from making tutorial videos and getting frustrated with how many clicks it takes to do simple things. Right now it handles commands like:

"Zoom into this area smoothly" "Speed up the next 5 seconds by 2x" "Highlight this button for 3 seconds" "Remove the zoom at 10 seconds"

You can render videos locally for free (single-threaded on your CPU), or use cloud rendering for faster processing. I'm trying to figure out if this approach actually saves time for people or if it's just a novelty. My main questions:

For folks who make tutorial/demo videos - what editing tasks eat up most of your time? What features would actually make you switch tools? Would you trust AI to correctly interpret your editing commands, or does that feel too unpredictable? What types of effects or edits would be most handy to control with natural language?

Curious to hear what would make this genuinely useful for your workflow vs just an interesting demo.