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This tutorial walks you through your first agentic editing workflow: asking an AI agent to search for footage, review its plan, and export clips you can drop straight into your NLE. For background on what agentic editing is, see Agentic editing.

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Before you begin

1

Give the agent a search query

Open your AI agent (Claude Desktop or Codex) and describe what you’re looking for in plain language. For example:
USER
okay use jumper to search in ~/Downloads/jumper test movies/, I want a varied sequence with calm landscape shots and other nature related topics. Lets aim for 20 clips
Tell the agent which media to search if it matters (e.g. a specific folder path).
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Review and approve the plan

The agent will run some checks, and then come back with a plan: which media it will search, the query it will run, and what it will export.
USER
okay use jumper to search in ~/Downloads/jumper test movies/, I want a varied sequence with calm landscape shots and other nature related topics. Lets aim for 20 clips
Worked for 10s
AGENT
Here’s my plan:Run multiple visual searches with varied queries across the folder:
  • Calm water, ocean waves, beach
  • Mountains, valleys
  • Desert, dunes
  • Sunrise, golden hour
  • Village, countryside, pastoral
  • Forests, trees, greenery
  • Sky, clouds
Collect ~20 clips by running several searches, then deduplicating and picking the strongest results.
  • Export as timeline XML or export individual clips to a folder.
Question: Do you want the sequence as timeline XML or individual clips to a folder?
USER
lets export the clips to a folder
Review the plan and approve it when you’re ready. The agent will then execute the search and export steps.In this case, we’ll ask the agent to export the clips to a folder.
3

The agent exports clips to a folder

The agent uses Jumper to search your analyzed media, finds matching clips, and exports them as individual files to a folder you specified (or a default location).You don’t need to click through Jumper yourself, the agent handles the search and export.
USER
lets export the clips to a folder
Worked for 32s
AGENT
All 20 clips have been exported as individual MP4 files to:~/Downloads/jumper test movies/landscape_clipsFolder structure:
SubfolderClips
ocean/4 clips
mountains/4 clips
desert/4 clips
sunrise/4 clips
village/4 clips
Each file is a trimmed clip you can import into Premiere and arrange however you like.
4

Import the clips into your NLE

Open the folder with the exported clips and drag it into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Avid Media Composer. The clips are ready to use.agentic_editing_import.png

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Resulting sequence

Here’s the resulting sequence from the above workflow. 20 clips exported by the agent and dropped into Premiere:

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What’s next?

  • Try other queries: people, specific actions, transcript phrases
  • Ask the agent to export a sequence (Premiere XML, FCPXML) instead of individual files
  • Run multiple agent tasks in parallel for different projects
For more on what agents can do, see Agentic editing.
Last modified on February 22, 2026