Stop Choosing the WRONG AI Video Editor — Omni vs Seedance vs Runway

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Generative video editing just got an embarrassment of riches — and everyone wants to crown a single winner. So I put the big three head-to-head: Google's Omni, Runway's Aleph 2, and the one a lot of people don't realize can do this — Seedance 2.0. But this isn't a "this killed that" video. I ran them through 9 tests — restyles, cleanups, object removals, "what happened 10 seconds before," and a few experiments that went sideways in the best way — and the takeaway is simple: there is no one true ring. They're tools. Different strengths, different failure modes, different jobs. PLUS — a first look at what I think is the next real shift in AI video workflows. It's not nodes (relax, node-haters). If you start seeing the letters MCP everywhere over the next few months, this is what it means and why it's worth playing with now. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 – An Embarrassment of Riches 0:45 – Hold On… This Isn't "Editing" 2:03 – Test 1: Restyle 4:12 – Test 2: Cleanup & the Scan Line Problem 5:31 – Test 3: Object Removal (the doomed submarine) 8:04 – Test 4: Flamethrower Girl @ Google I/O 9:39 – Test 5: "Show Me 10 Seconds Before This" 11:20 – Test 6: The Bear POV Experiment 12:31 – Test 7: Can They Count to 10? 13:30 – Test 8: Draw a Line, Get Drone Footage 14:16 – Test 9: Genie 3 + Street View Down Hollywood Blvd 15:07 – The Verdict + What's Cooking (Omni Pro / Seedance 2.1) 16:01 – The Real Shakeup: MCP for AI Video 16:53 – Hands-On: MCP in Flora + Claude Code 18:40 – Claude as an Extra Set of Hands (the Martini build) 21:12 – Final Thoughts 🔗 LINKS Google Omni: https://labs.google/fx/tools/flow Runway: https://runwayml.com/ Seedance: https://dreamina.capcut.com/ai-tool/home?utm_source=Officiaaccount&utm_campaign=octo&utm_content=6ytb Flora: https://refer.flora.ai/theoretically-media Martini: https://www.martini.film/early-access?code=BPKBY1 ▶ My Claude Code "film studio" setup walkthrough: https://youtu.be/ORuSQ0Fui-A 📩 Theoretically News (the newsletter): https://theoreticallymedia.beehiiv.com/ #AIVideo #Seedance #RunwayAleph #GoogleOmni #AIfilmmaking #MCP #GenerativeAI