Show HN: Palmier Pro – open-source macOS video editor built for AI

A shiny new Show HN post dropped for Palmier Pro, an open-source video editor for Mac that wants to let people edit videos with AI instead of screaming at a timeline alone at 2 a.m. It only works on newer Apple Silicon Macs, and the flashy promise is simple: make cutting video less painful, while letting AI help generate clips and images inside the editor itself. But the real action? The comment section, where exhausted editors and curious tinkerers showed up sounding downright emotional.

The loudest mood was basically: "finally, maybe video editing won’t be torture." One commenter confessed they had just spent a miserable day editing one simple project by hand and were ready to try anything that looked easier. Another arrived with a massive action-camera backlog and instantly started dreaming of feeding old GoPro footage into the app, while already side-eyeing the future and asking for 360 video support. That’s the fun kind of drama here: not a flame war, but a pile-on of wish lists, desperate relief, and people projecting their entire chaotic media libraries onto this one app.

There was also a mini victory lap for Palmier being a real native Mac app instead of what one commenter basically framed as another bloated app monster. And in a sweeter twist, one longtime follower cheered that the creators had "finally found their thing," giving the launch a feel-good underdog glow. So no giant backlash yet—just hopeful hype, platform grumbling, and the universal joke that editing video is suffering and everyone wants out.