Skip the Setup. Own the Edit. The AI Assistant Editor for Wedding Videographers

Imagen Video · Beta

Saturday was the wedding. Sunday was backups. Monday morning, there’s 400GB of footage on your drive, 3 cameras’ worth of cards and a delivery date that isn’t moving.

You know what you shot. You were there. But you don’t yet know what you’ve got. Somewhere in those clips is the look she gave him during the vows, the uncle’s toast that actually landed and a second shooter angle you forgot existed.

Getting from “what you shot” to “what you’ve got” is the job of an assistant editor. Imagen Video’s Assistant Editor does exactly that job. It sorts your wedding footage into scenes, puts every clip in order and hands you a structured project in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Then you do the part that’s actually yours: the edit.

What does an assistant editor actually do?

On a film or TV production, the assistant editor is a real, paid role. They ingest and back up media, build the bin structure, log and label clips, sync audio, and build stringouts and selects. When the editor sits down, the project is ready to cut.

Most wedding filmmakers have never had one. You’re the shooter, the editor, the colorist and the assistant editor, all at once. Hiring someone to prep every wedding rarely makes financial sense. So the setup lands on you, usually on the same night you wanted to start editing.

That’s the gap the Assistant Editor fills. It’s the assistant editor you could never justify hiring.

Why wedding footage is so hard to prep

Long takes are the norm. You keep rolling so you never miss the glance, the laugh or the tear. That’s the right call on the day. In post, it means a 40-second clip might hold 2 seconds you actually want.

The day has a structure. Your files don’t. Getting ready, first look, ceremony, portraits, reception, speeches, first dance. You know the order. Your card dump doesn’t.

Second shooters double the footage. And let’s be honest, you were never going to watch all of their cards at 1x.

When you’re skimming hours of footage at 8x on a deadline, you make your biggest creative decisions from partial knowledge. The quality of the film starts before you open your editing software.

Meet the Assistant Editor in Imagen Video

Imagen Video is best known for adaptive AI color grading. That’s the finishing end of post. The Assistant Editor works on the opposite end: the setup, before you make a single cut.

Here’s what you open when it’s done:

• Footage sorted into wedding scenes. Ceremony, reception, getting ready and more, based on the scenes you choose.
• Every clip in chronological order. The day plays out in the order it happened.
• Your options, 3 ways. Every sequence stacks all your footage, a working trim and the most appropriate shots surfaced, each on its own track.
• A real project, ready to cut. A structured project for Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, with bins and sequences already built.

It’s designed for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve workflows, and it runs on Mac and Windows.

How it works, step by step

1. Choose Wedding, then Organize footage

Open Imagen Video and select Wedding as your video type. You’ll then choose what you want Imagen Video to do: Color correction or Organize footage. Choose Organize footage. It’s only available for wedding projects.

2. Pick your editing software

Choose Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Imagen Video builds your project for the software you actually cut in.

3. Upload your footage

Browse to your raw clips or drag and drop them in. You can also upload an existing Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve project that holds the footage.

4. Add the scenes you shot and put them in order

You bring the memory of the day. Choose the scenes you filmed from the wedding scene list, add sub-scenes where you want a finer breakdown, and arrange everything in the order it happened.

A few rules keep the structure realistic. You need at least 2 main scenes. Getting ready always comes first. A Ceremony always includes Vows and Exchange of Rings. Post-Ceremony follows the Ceremony, and Pre-Reception comes before the Reception.

Cultural or religious elements? Choose Traditional Moments. The model is trained to recognize traditional ceremony parts, so you don’t have to describe what happened.

Shoot a similar format every weekend? Choose Use last project to start from the scene structure you used last time.

5. Imagen Video organizes the footage

It classifies every clip by scene, sorts everything chronologically and surfaces the most appropriate moments, including the ones buried inside long takes. You’ll get an email when your project is ready.

6. Open it in your editing software

Download the project and import it into Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Start cutting.

What you’ll find when you open the project

Each scene you chose gets its own folder. Each sub-scene gets its own sequence. You also get an All Footage sequence that covers the whole day, organized the same way.

Every sequence holds 3 video tracks:

Track	What’s on it	Use it when
V1: All footage	Every clip for that scene, chronological, untrimmed. Your safety net.	You want everything, or a moment the AI didn’t surface
V2: Light trim	A working trim of roughly 70% of the footage, with the unusable parts cut	You’re building a full-length or documentary edit
V3: Most appropriate shots	A tight selection of roughly 30% of the footage	You’re cutting a highlight film or a teaser

The 3 video tracks in every Assistant Editor sequence

Think of it as a safety net at the bottom and a curated set at the top. This is where the Assistant Editor differs from AI tools that hand you a rough cut. We don’t hand you our edit. We hand you your footage, 3 ways. Disagree with V3? V2 is right there. Want everything? V1 is untouched. You can always go a layer deeper.

What the Assistant Editor doesn’t do (on purpose)

It doesn’t make creative decisions. Story, pacing, music and the take that makes the couple cry are all still yours. It doesn’t take a target length or build a rough cut. It gets your footage ready for you to edit.

It doesn’t delete anything. Every clip stays in the project. V1 always holds all of it.

It doesn’t touch your original project. Imagen Video creates a new project. Your originals stay exactly as they were.

It won’t get every scene right. It’s in beta, and a clip can occasionally land in the wrong scene. When it does, nothing is lost. V1 has every clip in order, so a mislabel costs you a drag and drop, not a moment.

It’s wedding-only, for now. The scene list is built around the wedding day, and categories are predefined, not custom. Other video types aren’t supported yet.

Multicam isn’t fully supported yet. It’s in the works.

Tips for getting the most out of it

Only pick the scenes you actually shot. Adding a First Look you didn’t film gives the AI an empty bucket to fill.

Match the order to the real day. If the couple did portraits before the ceremony, put portraits first.

Start from V3, drop down when you need to. Cut your first pass from the tightest track. When you need a reaction shot or a longer moment, V2 and V1 are right below it.

Tell us what’s missing. If your wedding had a scene the list doesn’t cover, share it in the Missing any scenes? field when you give feedback. That’s how the scene list grows.

Where it fits in your wedding video editing workflow

Most wedding editors work the same way: organize, edit, then color grade. The Assistant Editor takes the first step. Color grading in Imagen Video can take the last one.

Color grading and organizing are 2 separate workflows in Imagen Video. Each project runs one or the other. Since color grading charges by the minute of footage, it pays to grade the cut, not the pile. Organize your raw footage with the Assistant Editor, make your edit, then start a new color grading project with the finished film. The middle, where the actual filmmaking happens, stays entirely yours.

And yes, the setup hours come back too. Wedding editors told us sorting and pulling selects takes them 3 to 7 hours per project. That time is now yours to spend on the edit.

Skip the setup. Own the edit.

What’s new in Imagen: Alongside Imagen Video, Imagen has become an intelligent, agentic Studio for professional photographers, where you cull, edit, review and export stills in one project and in any order. If you also deliver photos from the same wedding, its assistant finds frames and acts on them when you ask in plain language, with you steering. The Studio is rolling out gradually as a beta.

FAQ

What is an AI assistant editor?

An AI assistant editor does the prep work a human assistant editor would: organizing footage, sorting clips and pulling selects. In Imagen Video, it sorts wedding footage into scenes and delivers a structured project for Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

Does the Assistant Editor support DaVinci Resolve?

Yes. You choose Adobe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve at the start, and Imagen Video builds a project for that software with the same scenes, sequences and 3-layer tracks.

Does it edit my wedding film for me?

No. It organizes your footage and surfaces the most appropriate shots. Every creative decision stays with you.

Will it remove clips from my project?

No. All your footage stays in the project. V1 always holds every clip, untrimmed and in chronological order.

Can I add my own scene categories?

Not right now. Scenes come from a predefined wedding list, which helps the model classify footage accurately. For cultural and religious ceremony elements, use the Traditional Moments category.

Does it work for events other than weddings?

Not yet. The Assistant Editor currently supports wedding footage only.

Does it change my original project?

No. Imagen Video creates a new project, and your original project and footage stay untouched.

Can I organize and color grade in the same project?

No. Organizing footage and color grading are 2 separate workflows, and you choose one when you start a project. Most editors organize first, edit, and then start a color grading project with their finished cut.

Does it support multicam?

Not fully yet. Multicam support is in the works.

How much does it cost?

The Assistant Editor is in beta, and it’s free during the beta.

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