The video editor by Jabrod. Part of Jabrod Art.
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JBD is a desktop video editor for Windows 10 and 11. It provides a multi-track timeline with ripple, roll, slip and slide trims; colour grading with curves, wheels, looks and scopes; audio mixing with loudness meters; titles and editable caption tracks with on-device speech to text; and export up to 4K.
Since version 1.1, JBD includes the AI Director: describe the edit you want, and it plans the edit, works step by step on your timeline, generates video and voiceover, and checks the result on rendered frames before it reports back. Every change it makes can be undone.
JBD is the first product of Jabrod Art, Jabrod's open-source creative suite. It is built on FilmCraft, an open-source, pure-Rust video editor. FilmCraft's original README is in docs/FILMCRAFT-README.md.
| Microsoft Store | apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P0KS6185QSX |
| Direct download | jabrod.com/jbd |
JBD is free. JBD Pro, available from within the application, adds further features. A Jabrod account is required to sign in; projects and media remain on your computer.
The current version is 1.1.1. Every version is tagged in this repository and published on the Releases page, on jabrod.com and in the Microsoft Store. JBD checks for new versions itself (Help ▸ Check for Updates).
| Version | Date | Highlights | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.1 | 16 Oct 2026 | JBD Pro: the Director with 1,000 monthly AI credits, pay-as-you-go, Settings ▸ Usage | Changes |
| 1.1.0 | 16 Oct 2026 | The AI Director; What's New, Check for Updates and Report a Problem; refined themes | Changes |
| 1.0.0 | 8 Oct 2026 | The first JBD built on FilmCraft: a new, faster editor | Changes |
The full history is in CHANGELOG.md and at jabrod.com/jbd/changelog.
Requirements: Rust (stable, MSVC toolchain) and the Visual Studio 2022 C++ Build Tools.
winget install -e --id Rustlang.Rustup
winget install -e --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools --override "--wait --passive --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --includeRecommended"Then run start-jbd.cmd in the repository root, or from a terminal:
.\start-jbd.cmd # Home screen
.\start-jbd.cmd demo # opens the demo project
.\start-jbd.cmd control # also starts the control server on port 9876, for agentsThe script runs cargo run -p filmcraft with at most six parallel compile jobs, to keep memory
use within 16 GB. The first build compiles about 50 crates and takes some time; subsequent builds
are incremental. The executable is target\debug\jbd.exe. For an optimised build, use
cargo run -p filmcraft --release.
Before submitting a change, run cargo xtask ci. Contribution guidelines are in
docs/contributing.md.
JBD is built on FilmCraft, an open-source, pure-Rust non-linear video editor by the FilmCraft contributors. FilmCraft provides the editing engine, the codecs, the renderer, the timeline and most of the editor's interface; JBD adds the Jabrod account, JBD Pro, the AI Director and its own design. We thank the FilmCraft contributors for making their work available.
- JBD 1.0 was based on FilmCraft as of 6 October 2026 (tag
filmcraft-base-2026-10-06in this repository). Improvements from FilmCraft are merged regularly (upstream-main). - FilmCraft is available under the MIT or Apache 2.0 licence. Its copyright notice is retained in NOTICE, and FilmCraft's original README is in docs/FILMCRAFT-README.md.
- Third-party fonts, media and other material, with their authors and licences, are listed in ATTRIBUTION.md.
JBD is available under either the Apache License 2.0 or the
MIT License, at your option. The notices in NOTICE and ATTRIBUTION.md must be
retained.
The JBD and Jabrod names and logos, including the files in assets/jbd/, are trademarks of
Jabrod and are not licensed under the above terms (see assets/jbd/LICENSE-brand.txt).