AVCLabs Media MCP

What it does

AVCLabs' first-party MCP wraps its cloud enhancement backend: upscale and denoise video to 1080p/2K, enhance, colorize and denoise stills, and run Meta's SAM3 to pull pixel-level masks from an image by text prompt. Video runs as an async job (create_task then poll get_task_status) so long clips survive the client timeout. For an agent, this is the desktop Video Enhancer AI workflow reachable as tools — useful for cleaning up archival plates or lifting generated footage that came out soft, as long as the clip is short enough to be worth the credits.

Connect

claude mcp add avclabs -e API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @avclabs.ai/media-mcp@latest

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avclabs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@avclabs.ai/media-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avclabs": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@avclabs.ai/media-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Sample tools

Field notes

The image tools finally shipped. npm @avclabs.ai/media-mcp 0.3.0, published 13 Oct 2026 after five months on 0.2.1, carries all nine tools — create_task, get_task_status and enhance_video_sync for video; enhance_image_sync, colorize_image_sync, denoise_image_sync and get_image_task_status for stills; sam3_predict and get_sam3_task_status for masks — so `npx @latest` now does what the README always said it did. On 17 Oct the repo was split into a monorepo of per-function servers (@avclabs.ai/video-mcp, image-mcp, sam3-mcp) so a client only loads the tool schemas it needs, and the all-in-one package was relabelled 'legacy'. Checked 23 Oct 2026: those three split packages are documented in the README but not on npm yet — the registry 404s all of them — so the command above is still the only one that installs. Expect to switch once they publish; the vendor says the legacy package stays configuration-compatible. The repo still sits at 0 stars. Pricing as rendered 10 Sep 2026: 1 credit per second of video and 1 credit per image mask, against Starter $9.95/mo for 100 credits, Pro $25.95 for 300, Advanced $39.95 for 500, or one-time packs from $19.95/50 — so the entry plan buys about 100 seconds of enhanced footage a month, which makes this a spot-fix tool, not a pass over a reel. MIT, Node 18+, 100MB upload cap, thin client over AVCLabs' HTTP backend at mcp.avc.ai; base URLs are overridable via HTTP_API_BASE_URL and SAM3_API_BASE_URL. Ceiling is 1080p/2K — below Topaz or the Topaz models on fal, so this is the cheap-and-cloud option, not the finishing one. enhance_video_sync blocks and truncates around 45s; use create_task plus get_task_status for anything real. SAM3 segmentation is image-only, so it is a masking tool, not video roto. The vendor documents a JSON mcpServers block rather than a CLI one-liner — the command above is the same command/args/env in claude mcp add form. The generic env var name API_KEY will collide if you set it globally.

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