How to Edit Your Minvo Clips by Talking to an AI Assistant (Step-by-Step Guide)

What if you could edit your clips just by saying what you want? "Make all my clips vertical, add yellow captions, remove the silences and give me the download links." That's what Minvo's AI assistant connection does: you connect an AI assistant to your Minvo account once, and from then on you edit by typing plain sentences.

This guide walks you through every step, even if you've never used an API before:

Get your Minvo API key
Connect an AI assistant (Claude Code or Cursor)
Edit your clips with prompts, with 40+ examples you can copy
Optional: use the Minvo API from your browser, without writing code

What you can do with it

Anything you can do in Minvo Studio, you can ask your assistant to do for you:

Turn a YouTube link into clips: "Import this video and make clips from it."
Restyle captions: "Yellow bold captions at the bottom, upper case."
Tighten the pacing: "Remove silences and filler words."
Add energy: "Add emojis, B-roll and a quick zoom hook at the start."
Brand it: "Put my logo top-right and end with the Continue on YouTube outro."
Go global: "Translate the captions to Spanish and dub it."
Finish: "Render it in 1080p and give me the download link."

The biggest win is doing it in bulk: one sentence can apply the same changes to every clip from an episode, which would take many clicks in Studio.

Before you start

You need three things:

What	Details
A Minvo plan with API access	Pro or Pro+ (monthly or annual) includes it. On a lifetime (LTD) Pro or Pro+ plan, it's a one-time $199.99 add-on. Free and Creator plans don't include it
A computer	Mac, Windows or Linux
An AI assistant that supports MCP	Claude Code (needs a paid Claude plan) or Cursor

What's MCP? MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard way for AI assistants to use other apps. Minvo has an MCP server, which means your assistant can see your videos and clips and make edits for you. You don't need to understand how it works; you just connect it once.

Can I use it in the Claude or ChatGPT website? Not yet. For now, connect through Claude Code, Cursor or a custom app.

Step 1: Get your Minvo API key

Your API key is like a password that lets your AI assistant work in your Minvo account.

Go to app.minvo.pro and sign in.
Click Settings in the left sidebar, then API keys.
On an LTD plan: you'll see Unlock API and MCP: $199.99. Click it, complete the one-time payment, and come back to this page.
Click Create key.
Give it a name you'll recognise, like "Claude on my laptop".
Choose the access:
- Read and write (recommended): your assistant can upload, edit and render.
- Read only: your assistant can look at your videos and clips but can't change anything.
Click create. Your key appears once; it starts with mnv_.
Copy it right away and keep it somewhere safe, like a password manager. Minvo can't show it to you again.

Good to know:

One key at a time: an organization has one active key. To get a new one, revoke the old key on the same page, then create another.
Admins only: only organization admins can create or revoke keys. If you don't see the page, ask your team's admin.
Keep it private: never share your key or post it online. If it leaks, revoke it straight away.

Step 2: Connect your AI assistant

Pick one of the two options below. If you're not sure, choose Claude Code.

Option A: Claude Code

Install Claude Code by following the instructions at claude.com/claude-code, and sign in with your Claude account.
Open a terminal:
- Mac: press Cmd + Space, type "Terminal" and press Enter.
- Windows: open the Start menu, type "PowerShell" and press Enter.
Copy the command below into a text editor first, and replace mnv_YOUR_KEY with the key you copied in Step 1:

claude mcp add --transport http minvo https://be.minvo.pro/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer mnv_YOUR_KEY"

Paste the edited command into the terminal and press Enter. You should see a message that the minvo server was added.
Start Claude Code by typing claude and pressing Enter.
Check the connection: type /mcp and press Enter. You should see minvo listed as connected.

You're ready. Type your first request, for example: "List my Minvo brands."

Option B: Cursor

Install Cursor and sign in.
Open the MCP settings: open Cursor Settings, find the MCP section, and click Add new MCP server. Cursor opens a file called mcp.json.
Paste this into the file, replacing mnv_YOUR_KEY with your key (if the file already has servers, add the minvo part next to them):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "minvo": {
      "url": "https://be.minvo.pro/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer mnv_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Save the file. Back in the MCP settings, minvo should show a green dot.
Open Cursor's chat (the AI panel) and ask: "List my Minvo brands."

Step 3: Your first conversation

Here's what a real session looks like. You type normal sentences; the assistant does the clicking for you.

You: List my Minvo brands.

Assistant: You have one brand: "The Growth Show" (id 42).

You: Import https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID into The Growth Show and make clips from it.

Assistant: Imported and processing. I'll check back… Done: 8 clips are ready.

You: Show me the clips with the strongest hooks.

Assistant: Here are the top 3, with their titles and lengths…

You: For all 8 clips: make them vertical, yellow bold captions at the bottom, and remove silences.

Assistant: Done. All 8 clips are updated.

You: Render a preview of the first clip.

Assistant: Here's the preview link…

You: Looks great. Render all 8 in 1080p and give me the download links.

Two things to know:

The assistant may ask before acting. Claude Code and Cursor usually ask your permission before using a Minvo tool. Approve it, or allow it for the session.
Everything shows up in Studio. Every change your assistant makes appears in Minvo Studio, so you can open any clip and fine-tune it by hand.

Prompt guide: 40+ prompts you can copy

Copy any of these and change the details. The more specific you are about colours, positions and times, the closer the first result.

Getting videos in

"List my Minvo brands."
"Import https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID into my brand The Growth Show."
"Import this Vimeo video and make clips: https://vimeo.com/VIDEO_ID"
"Make clips from my latest video, and make every clip vertical with captions from the start."
"This video is short. Make one full-length captioned clip from it."
"Is my latest video done processing?"
"Make a clip from 12:30 to 13:45 of my latest video."
"Give me the transcript of my latest video as subtitles (SRT)."

Choosing clips

"List the clips from my latest video with their titles and lengths."
"Which 3 clips have the strongest opening line?"
"Find the clip where we talk about pricing."

Captions

"Make the captions yellow, bold, upper case, at the bottom."
"Captions in white with a black outline, two lines max."
"Make the word being spoken pop out bigger."
"Highlight the important words in purple (#7C3AED)."
"Fix the caption at 0:42: it should say 'Kubernetes', not 'Cuban eighties'."
"Turn off captions on this clip."

Pacing and cuts

"Remove silences and filler words."
"Remove repeated words and false starts."
"Cut this clip down to 0:10–0:55."
"Undo all the cuts on this clip."

Hooks and energy

"Open with a quick zoom and a swoosh sound."
"Add some energy: punch-in on short sentences."
"Give this clip a catchier title, as a question."
"Make the title shocking but honest."

Layout and framing

"Keep both speakers in frame with a split screen."
"Split screen for the interview part, picture-in-picture for the rest."
"Show the whole frame with a blurred background."
"Make it square for Instagram."

Emojis, B-roll and sound

"Add emojis above the captions."
"Add GIF B-roll that matches what's being said."
"Put a 'mind blown' GIF when he says 'wow'."
"Add sound effects to the funny moments."
"Generate an image of a rocket launching for 0:05–0:08." (Pro+)

Branding and music

"Add my logo top-right: https://example.com/logo.png"
"Show 'Link in bio' on a purple box for the last 3 seconds."
"Add upbeat background music, quiet."
"End with the 'Continue on YouTube' outro."
"Save this clip's style as a template called 'Yellow bold'."
"Apply my 'Yellow bold' template to every clip from this episode."

Language and audio

"Translate the captions to Spanish."
"Translate to German and dub it." (dubbing needs Pro+)
"Clean up the audio, it's noisy."
"Switch back to the original audio."

Finishing

"Render a quick preview of this clip."
"Render all clips from this episode in 1080p and give me the download links."
"Render this clip in 4K." (Pro+)

Doing it in bulk

"For every clip from my latest video: vertical, yellow captions, remove silences, add emojis, then render them all."
"Apply my 'Yellow bold' template to all clips from the last 3 videos."
"Translate every clip from this episode to Spanish."

Asking about tokens

"How many Minvo tokens do I have left?"
"What would adding emojis and B-roll to all 8 clips cost?"

How to write good prompts

Say which clip: use its title ("the pricing clip"), its number, or "all clips from my latest video".
Give times as you see them in the video ("at 2:15", "from 0:10 to 0:55"). The assistant converts them.
Be specific about looks: "yellow" works, "#FFD400" works even better. Say "bottom", "top-right" or "centre".
Preview before the final render: a 360p preview is quick and doesn't count against your exports.
Batch your changes: "do A, B and C" in one message is faster and applies all three together.
If something isn't right, just say so: "make the captions smaller", "undo that", or "reset this clip".

What it costs: tokens

Most edits are free. AI-powered edits use tokens, which come with your plan.

You ask for…	Tokens
Emojis, emphasis, sound effects, a new title, GIF or stock B-roll	1 each
Clean up the audio	1 per minute of clip
Translate the captions	4 per minute of clip
An AI-generated image	8 per image
Everything else (captions, cuts, layouts, logos, music, rendering, dubbing)	Free

Your tokens:

Every month: Pro gets 500 tokens and Pro+ gets 1,500, including LTD. They refresh on the 1st of each month.
Need more? Buy a pack in Settings → API keys → Buy tokens: $10 for 1,000 tokens or $20 for 3,000 tokens. Pack tokens never expire.
Example: emojis and B-roll on 8 clips cost 16 tokens, about 3% of a Pro month.
No surprises: if you don't have enough tokens, the edit doesn't run and nothing is charged. Failed audio clean-ups give their tokens back.
Studio is free: editing directly in Studio never uses tokens.

Optional: use the Minvo API in your browser, no code

If you'd rather click than chat, Minvo has an interactive API page where you can run every action from your browser.

Open be.minvo.pro/api/v1/docs.
Click Authorize at the top right, paste your API key (mnv_…), click Authorize, then Close. The page remembers it.
Find an action, for example GET /api/v1/brands, and click it.
Click Try it out, then Execute. Your answer appears below, for example your brand list with its id.
To import a video: open POST /api/v1/videos/import, click Try it out, put your brand id and the video link in the box, then Execute:

{ "brandId": 42, "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" }

To make clips: open POST /api/v1/videos/{id}/process, enter the video id from the previous answer, click Try it out and Execute.

It's slower than asking an assistant, but it's a good way to see exactly what's happening. If you or your developer want to automate Minvo from your own app, read the Minvo API and MCP developer guide.

Troubleshooting

What you see	What to do
"minvo" isn't connected in `/mcp` or Cursor	Check that you replaced `mnv_YOUR_KEY` with your real key, with no spaces, then restart the assistant
"Missing or invalid API key"	The key was mistyped or revoked. Create a new key and update your setup
"Plan required"	Your plan doesn't include API access, or the feature needs Pro+ (AI images, dubbing, 4K)
"Tokens exhausted"	Buy a token pack, or wait for your monthly tokens on the 1st
"The clip changed"	Someone edited the clip at the same time. Ask the assistant to try again; it re-reads the clip
"Too many requests"	Wait a minute and ask again
"AI framing isn't available"	Ask for "center", "split" or "show the whole frame" instead
The assistant can't find your video	Ask it to "list my videos" first, or give it the video's title

Frequently asked questions

Is my content safe? Your key only works inside your own organization, and only for people you give it to. You can revoke it at any time in Settings → API keys.

Will my assistant change things without asking? Claude Code and Cursor ask for permission before using Minvo tools, unless you allow them for the session. Every change is visible in Studio.

Can my team use it? Yes. Anyone who has your organization's key can connect their assistant, so share it only with people you trust. Only admins can create or revoke the key.

Can I undo what the assistant did? Ask it to "undo that" or "reset this clip", or open the clip in Studio and change it by hand.

Does it work with ChatGPT or the Claude website? Not yet. For now, use Claude Code, Cursor or a custom app.