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As of 30 September 2026, Aftershoot culls, edits and retouches photos and can deliver videos in its Galleries, but doesn't cull or edit video. Imagen Video colour-grades footage inside Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. To have the wedding film itself edited, you need an AI wedding film editor.
If AI culling changed how you handle a wedding’s photos, it’s natural to look for the same thing for the video you captured. That’s what people mean when they search for “Aftershoot for video”. This page sets out what Aftershoot and Imagen do with video today, from their own websites, and what an AI wedding film editor does instead. It’s part of our guide to choosing an AI wedding video editor.
What does Aftershoot do?
Aftershoot describes itself as “one complete platform, built for professional photographers” to “Cull, edit, retouch, and deliver” (aftershoot.com). It runs on Windows and macOS, and its help centre says “It works locally on your device” (Aftershoot help), so your photos don’t have to be uploaded to be culled or edited.
Does Aftershoot work with video?
Not for culling or editing, as of 30 September 2026. Its help centre lists the files it supports as “all leading RAW formats along with JPEGs and HEICs”, and we found no video culling or editing in its changelog or its 2026 roadmap.
Video does appear in delivery. Aftershoot’s Galleries “support both photo and video delivery”, so you can send a finished film in the same branded gallery as the photos. Aftershoot can deliver the film, but something else has to make it.
What about Imagen?
Imagen describes itself as “A complete AI photo editing, culling and video post-production platform” (imagen-ai.com). Its video product, Imagen Video, is “an adaptive AI color grading tool for video editors and videographers” that “integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve” (Imagen Video). In September 2026, its home page listed an “Assistant Editor” as “coming soon”.
So Imagen Video helps you colour footage inside an editing application you already use. It doesn’t choose the moments or cut the film.
Why is a wedding film a different job from culling?
Culling photos means choosing the best frames, and each photo stands on its own. A wedding film asks for much more:
- choosing the best seconds from hours of clips, and skipping the blurred and shaky ones
- putting those moments in an order that tells the story of the day
- cutting them to the music, on the beat
- laying the best lines of the vows and speeches over the pictures, with the music dipping underneath
- levelling the sound, and making a vertical version for social
Culling covers only the first of those steps. How AI finds the moments in wedding footage explains how software handles each one.
So what’s the video equivalent?
An AI wedding film editor does the whole chain, from camera card to a film you can review. They come in two broad kinds:
- Tools that hand you a draft or a timeline to finish in your own editing application. They suit videographers who already work in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
- Tools you review and change in the app itself, by trimming shots or asking in plain English. They suit photographers who don’t want to learn a timeline editor.
How to choose an AI wedding video editor compares the current tools, including Wedit and WeddingEditor.ai.
Can you use AI culling and AfterRushes together?
Yes, and they fit the same day’s work. AfterRushes does for the film roughly what AI culling does for the photos, and then goes on to edit it:
| Photo workflow | Wedding film in AfterRushes |
|---|---|
| Cull the shoot | Checks every half second for sharpness and shake, finds faces, sets aside unusable clips and logs each clip’s best moments |
| Edit in your style | Writes and cuts the film in a cinematic, documentary or upbeat style, on the beat |
| Review | You change anything by asking in plain English, or on the timeline |
| Deliver | Exports a highlight film, a vertical teaser and a captions file, ready for any gallery, including one that takes video |
Like Aftershoot, AfterRushes works on your own computer, so the footage never has to be uploaded. A practical routine is to add the video cards to AfterRushes first, let it work through the footage in the background, and cull the photos meanwhile. The footage workflow covers backing up both before you start.
Your photographs can go into the film too. AfterRushes uses the JPEG, PNG and HEIC photos in the folders you give it, and the AI can put the best into the film as a shot with a slow zoom, or over someone talking. It doesn’t read RAW files, so if you’d like some photographs in the film, export a selection as JPEGs from your photo workflow into the wedding’s folder.