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Thinking on Shots: Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing with Agentic Reasoning

arXiv 2608.26809 ↗First posted 27 Aug 2026cs.CV cs.MMcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

While generative AI has significantly advanced video editing, existing methods primarily focus on single-shot or short video clips. Editing long videos with multiple instructions remains a formidable challenge. Naive chunking strategies, e.g., fixed-duration segmentation, often lead to entity fragmentation, severe editing hallucinations, and disrupted temporal continuity. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Multi-Instruction Multi-Shot Long-Video Editing (MMLVE) task, which is structured around three core objectives: Cross-Shot Editing Consistency (CSEC), Multi-Instruction Decoupling (MID), and Zero-Destruction on Spatiotemporal Structure (ZDSS). To tackle these three unique challenges, we introduce an agentic editing framework that leverages the synergy of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to achieve shot-level video decoupling and precise instruction parsing. Furthermore, to comprehensively evaluate this task, we construct MMLVE-Bench, which is an MMLVE-focused dataset characterized by complex real-world spatiotemporal dynamics, high-density heterogeneous instructions, and sparse, random entity distributions. Three MMLVE-focused evaluation metrics are further exploited to assess the quality of the editing results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our MMLVE-Agent outperforms existing closed-source SOTA approaches (e.g., Seedance 2.0), successfully eliminating editing hallucinations, preserving cross-shot editing consistency, and attaining seamless spatiotemporal transitions.

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  1. 2025From Shots to Stories: LLM-Assisted Video Editing with Unified Language Representations
  2. 2026VEBench:Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Real-World Video Editing
  3. 2025InstructX: Towards Unified Visual Editing with MLLM Guidance
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