# MCP: your assistant edits the video itself, for free

> The MCP server now creates an Edit it myself project by default: your AI assistant edits the video for free, and only Slicer's AI features are paid.

Source: https://docs.slicer.media/en/changelog/mcp-free-editing/

Over the Slicer MCP server, your AI assistant now edits the video — just like you do in the app with **Edit it myself**. Connect any client that supports MCP, give it your materials, and it builds the video with editor commands: cuts, hook, titles, plaques, zooms, emoji, transitions, colour, music, caption style. All of it is free.

## What changed

-   `create_project` creates a project without the AI director by default (`mode: "manual"`): free, with no price and no confirmation; the materials go onto the timeline in order.
-   Reading the video (`get_transcript`), edits with the whole operation catalog (`edit_project`), style (`set_style`), auto colour (`auto_color`), export and publishing (`export_video`) are free.
-   New tools `transcribe_speech` and `get_transcribe_jobs` — captions from speech for such a project: at cost per minute of sound, in the background.
-   The `make_reel` prompt follows the free path: a project without the AI director → captions from speech with the price, if the materials contain speech → edits → export.

## What's paid

Only Slicer's own AI features spend tokens, and each one names its price first — the assistant starts it only after you agree:

-   an AI montage by the Slicer director — `create_project` with `mode: "ai"`, `remount_project`, `retry_project`; the assistant offers it only if you ask for it;
-   captions from speech — `transcribe_speech`;
-   the Slicer AI assistant — `ask_assistant`;
-   caption translation — `translate_captions`.

If your client called `create_project` without `mode` and expected a montage price, pass `mode: "ai"` explicitly. The REST API hasn't changed: the default mode of `POST /v1/projects` is still `ai`.

[MCP server](https://docs.slicer.media/en/mcp/#free) · [What's free and what's paid](https://docs.slicer.media/en/mcp/#pricing) · [Captions from speech](https://docs.slicer.media/en/mcp/tools/#transcribe) · [Example scenarios](https://docs.slicer.media/en/mcp/examples/)