FirstCut
Write a brief, get a rough cut of your footage
Tell FirstCut what the cut is for: a tightened full episode, a ten-minute highlight, a short clip for social. Give it a target length, a format and a rhythm, and it reads the transcript of your footage against that brief and assembles a first sequence from the strongest moments.
The result is a real cut you can play in the browser, built only from your own footage, and a starting point you then reshape by hand or by asking for changes. When the story works, export it to the editing software you already use.
Features
Brief-driven first cut: set target length, format and rhythm.
Story laid out as beats, clips and words, all editable.
Ask for changes in plain language; every change is a revision you can return to.
Pace dial applies filler-word and silence cut-outs, and can release them again.
Your video never uploads: the browser sends only the audio for transcription.
Exports FCPXML, FCP7 XML, CMX3600 EDL and OTIO for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Avid.
Use Cases
Video podcasts: turn a long recording into a tightened episode or a highlight.
Interviews and documentary: get the paper edit done from the transcript, with real timecodes.
Webinars, courses and lectures: pull the key moments of a long session into a shorter edit.
Comments
I built this because the first pass on interview footage is almost entirely mechanical: you're not making creative decisions yet, you're building an index of what was said and when. That's the part worth automating. The constraint I set myself: never upload the video. The browser extracts only the audio track, so there's no waiting on a multi-gigabyte upload before you can start, and your footage stays on your machine, which turns out to matter a lot to people working on sensitive material. It's a pre-editor, not an editor. It builds the assembly and hands off to your NLE. Free to try. I'd love to hear where it breaks on your footage.
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I built this because the first pass on interview footage is almost entirely mechanical: you're not making creative decisions yet, you're building an index of what was said and when. That's the part worth automating. The constraint I set myself: never upload the video. The browser extracts only the audio track, so there's no waiting on a multi-gigabyte upload before you can start, and your footage stays on your machine, which turns out to matter a lot to people working on sensitive material. It's a pre-editor, not an editor. It builds the assembly and hands off to your NLE. Free to try. I'd love to hear where it breaks on your footage.
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