AV-FlowEdit: Training-Free Prompt-Driven Audio-Visual Editing with Event-Aware Spectral Trajectory Preservation

Joint audio-video diffusion models generate synchronized content, but editing existing clips requires target changes without disrupting non-target structure or cross-modal correspondence. We present AV-FlowEdit, a training-free and inversion-free framework for prompt-driven audio-video editing. Our key insight is that source--target flow differences provide both cross-modal editing directions and preservation cues. Under shared perturbations, they jointly update the video and audio branches, supporting visual-only, audio-only, and joint edits while retaining pretrained cross-modal interactions. To suppress drift accumulated during sampling, Cross-Modal Event-Aware Spectral Trajectory Preservation combines flow saliency, aligned audio activity, multiscale low-frequency displacement, and diffusion-stage scheduling. This adaptively preserves unsupported regions while allowing intended audio-visual events. AV-FlowEdit requires no model training, external masks, or optimization-based inversion. Experiments show strong prompt alignment and temporal consistency, together with competitive audio quality and cross-modal coherence.