Most footage
is filler.We ship the rest.
Drop in a game, a podcast, a stream. Cutlist watches it, listens to it and reads it, then hands back captioned vertical clips that follow the action. Tools built only on transcripts never open the video at all, which is why they fall apart the moment nobody is talking.
Half an hour of footage freeno cardno watermark, ever
The job is not making clips. Anyone can cut a video into thirty-second pieces. The job is knowing which six of them are worth a post, and that takes actually looking at the footage.
All of it,on every plan.
Hover anything to see what it does. All of it is included on every plan, including the free trial.
It reads the whole thing.Then it commits.
This is how a cut sheet reads: the source on top, the moments it kept underneath, and every score split into what was seen, heard and read. Nothing is chosen from a transcript alone.
Every score is the sum of what was seen, heard and read. Click a moment to move the playhead.
A centre croploses the game.
Reframing built on face detection has nothing to lock onto in a wide shot, so it centres the frame and hopes. Cutlist tracks whatever is moving and follows it.
Turn the toggle off in the panel and watch the subject leave frame. That is what happens to a touchdown when a tool only knows how to find faces.
The crop tracks whatever is moving, so the subject stays in frame across the shot.
HE TAKES IT
Word-level timings from the transcript, so the highlight lands on the word being said. Burned into the video, with an SRT alongside it.
Six caption styles.Word by word.
Timings come from the transcript at word level, so the highlight lands on the word being spoken rather than drifting a beat behind it.
- Bold, punch, clean, block, brand, subtle
- Your accent colour, your size, your height in frame
- Burned into the video, with an SRT alongside
It works on footagethat actually moves.
Sports
Found from motion and crowd noise
Nobody has to name the play for Cutlist to find it. The score, the hit, the reaction - it reads the room and the pictures, so a wide shot with no commentary still gets cut.
Podcasts
Cut on sentence boundaries
The hook, the take, the story that lands. Edges snap to where sentences actually end, so nothing opens or closes mid-thought.
Streams
Six hours to six clips
The moments worth keeping, without scrubbing a timeline all evening looking for the one you half remember.
Talks and demos
Reads what is on the slide
On-screen text is part of the judgement, so a clip can be titled by what was actually written on the board behind you.
Every clip opensin a real editor.
An automatic cut is a first draft. Yours is the one that ships, so the editor gives you the controls that actually change the outcome and none of the ones that do not.
Trim
Drag the handles, nudge in tenths of a second, or hold a handle and use the arrow keys. The preview scrubs with you.
Text
Where there is speech, the transcript is right there. Click a word to cut it and the footage goes with it, silence included.
Frame
Vertical, square or wide. Follow the action, centre on a face, or place the crop by hand.
Captions
Six styles, your colour, your size, your height in frame. See where they will land before rendering.
Post caption
The words that go next to the video, written in a voice you pick - relaxed, punchy, corporate - with alt text and hashtags.
Re-cutting is billed at the anchored rate, because the moment is already known. You are not paying full price to move an edge two seconds.
A real timeline.Not a trim bar.
The filmstrip is your actual frames and the waveform is your actual audio, both drawn in the browser. Scrub it, trim to a tenth of a second, cut a sentence out by clicking the word, then re-cut at the anchored rate.
Simple mode keeps it to three decisions. Creator mode opens the whole desk. Your choice is remembered.
Paste your chapters.Skip the guessing.
Nobody should pay a model to work out something they already wrote down. Drop your timestamps in at upload and Cutlist goes straight to cutting them - at the anchored rate, without the start-up charge that finding them costs.
Chapters, a run of show, notes you took while watching. It reads all of them and tells you how many it found before you spend anything.
Everything it does.And what it does not.
Including the rows where the honest answer is not built. A feature list made entirely of ticks tells you nothing; this one tells you where the edges are.
Finds moments in any footage
Frames, audio texture and transcript judged together, so it works with or without dialogue
Sports, podcasts, streams, talks
SignatureReframing that follows the action
Motion tracking for anything that moves, face-centring for talking heads, or no crop at all
Vertical, square and wide
SignatureExplains every score
Each clip reports what was seen, heard and read to arrive at its number
Auditable, not a black box
SignatureTimestamps you already have
Paste chapters or notes and detection is skipped entirely
Billed at the anchored rate
SignatureWord-timed captions
Six styles, adjustable size and position, your accent colour, SRT sidecar
Burned in or off
IncludedWrites the post caption
Six voices, with alt text and specific hashtags, grounded in what the clip shows
Corporate through to fun
SignatureEditor
Trim on a timeline, change shape, reframe, caption treatment, then re-cut
Included on every plan
IncludedFiller and pause removal
One click strikes the ums and uhs and closes the long silences - by cutting your own footage through the editor's existing span mechanism, so nothing is added or generated
Tighten, in the editor
IncludedAudio cleanup
Loudness evened and background noise reduced on the audio you recorded, so a clip sounds finished without ever leaving your footage
Your sound, cleaned not faked
IncludedExport
One clip, or every clip and caption file in a single zip
Never watermarked
IncludedLanguages
Transcription auto-detects the language rather than asking you to pick
Broad language coverage
IncludedYour footage is real, and stays real
No generated b-roll, no stock inserts, no synthetic voice-over, no invented speaker. Every second that comes out is a second you shot - cut, reframed and captioned, never fabricated
The line we will not cross
SignatureBrand kit
Logo on every clip, accent colour, default caption style and post voice
Set once, inherited
IncludedAgents can drive it
An MCP server with four tools, so a workflow can cut video without a person
cut, poll, estimate, list
Signature
Three things this category is expected to have that Cutlist does not do yet. If a capability is not on this page, we do not have it.
Intro and outro cards
Topping and tailing a clip with your own frames
Not built
Not builtTeam workspace
Shared projects and per-seat roles
Not built
Not builtPosting to social directly
Download and post yourself for now
Not built
Not built
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