# Mosaic agentic video editing

25 Hacker News commenters recommended Mosaic agentic video editing and 13 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Agentic video editor built from tiles on a canvas. People like the Rough Cut tile for first cuts. Critics find the homepage busy and say sign-up was buggy.

## Why people recommend it

- Rough cut tile automates rough edits (5 comments): "I'd recommend using the clips tile to create clips, but you can also use the rough cut tile to help edit down the raw footage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986285)) "then I'd recommend using either the Rough Cut tile or the Montage tile to stitch them all together" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985553)) "the coolest part with this Rough Cut was that it decided to stand in the footage of the kite" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009163))
- Node-based tile workflow approach (4 comments): "The node-based canvas feels like a more scalable abstraction for video automation than the usual chat-only interface." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983198)) "it feels like THIS is a fantastic model for how agentic tools should be built" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984109)) "head directly to https://edit.mosaic.so to try the actual canvas interface" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982535))
- Saves time, fun to use (2 comments): "I’ve never had this much fun editing videos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984529)) "this is going to save me so much time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983981))
- Clean UI, promising approach (2 comments): "this solves such a huge problem and the ui is insanely clean" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983262)) "this looks very promising" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984525))

## What people warn about

- Homepage is busy and confusing (4 comments): "too much motion going on on the homepage and the use cases page" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981415)) "non-scrollable, dark, fixed content pane with loads of flickering images" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982407)) "The home page is a big turn off. Change it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992973))
- Sign-up flow and emails broken (2 comments): "The sign up only works in Chrome not Chromium, and then I'm stuck forever at the step 3 of signing up" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994180)) "the automated "Thank you for being a Mosaic Creator" email going out is not configured correctly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982965))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Kdenlive](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kdenlive.md): 56 recommend
- [Final Cut Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/final-cut-pro.md): 25 recommend
- [OpenShot Video Editor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openshot.md): 25 recommend
- [Cardboard video editor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cardboard-agentic-video-editor.md): 22 recommend
- [Adobe Premiere Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/adobe-premiere.md): 17 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Mosaic agentic video editing", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mosaic-agentic-video-editing/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).