Reel Cut
Library

Write the video.
The edit follows.

The video editor for the person who understands the story.

Private beta · macOS · local-first
The hand-off

The person who understands the story hands it to an editor who doesn't. Every “which chart goes here?” is a round trip, every misunderstanding a re-cut. Reel Cut removes the hand-off — you edit the video by editing the document.

From research to render, in one document.

Write the video.

Try itEdit the text. Watch the timeline.
How Much To Charge

Let's talk about money.

One minute of finished video can cost $ or $.

From to , the same day rate triples.

Agency rates peaked at $k a minute in 2010.

The price is in the layers around it.

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Film B02
Counter
Map route
Chart
Film B06c
VO
A teleprompter advances line by line while each recorded take attaches to its line.

Record the voice-over against lines that already know what they show. Every take lands on its line.

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Record later.
Record
A teleprompter advances line by line while each recorded take attaches to its line.

Record the voice-over against lines that already know what they show. Every take lands on its line.

AI assembles the cut.
Edit

Claude or GPT builds the rough cut from your document. You keep or skip each change, like suggestions in a doc.

Motion for everyone.
Motion

Charts, maps and timelines fill themselves from a form and render in 4K. No After Effects.

4K, one click.
Render

Export 4K — or hand Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut XML to your editor, with every line's reasoning attached.

Why it's different

Others start from the recording.
We start from the thinking.

Record-first editors
Record
Transcribe
Cut the words
then hand it to an editor
Reel Cut
Research
Write
Link every line
Record
AI rough cut
Review
Render

Not an um-remover.

Not a clip generator.

The whole production, in one place — with AI where the misunderstandings used to be.

Motion for everyone

Explainer motion,
without After Effects.

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Line chart
Map route
Counter
Timeline
Source board
Lower third
There's an element for that

Charts, maps, timelines and source boards — filled from a form, rendered in 4K.

01 · Existing footage
Clips, selects and screen recordings, found by what is in them.
02 · Code-rendered graphics
Remotion elements: deterministic, 4K, ProRes 4444 with alpha.
03 · AI overlays
Describe it; a video model makes it, on its own layer.
Motion | New element
4K · rcs/stat-counter

Formats inspired by leading channels. Drag to explore, open one, or pick two or three to remix.

15 channels
1 deep · 14 preview

Under the hood

The best models,
each doing one job.

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MCP tools give Claude and GPT the same hands as you: read, search, propose, render.
Claude
Claude Code CLI + Reel Cut's MCP server
The editing agent. Reads the document and transcript in a compact format, assembles the rough cut and proposes cuts as change sets you keep or skip. Claude Haiku vision reads silent screen recordings and labels footage.
Write · Edit
GPT
Codex CLI, same MCP tools
A second engine for the same agent and writer, and the generator for new motion-graphics packages and variations — Remotion code from a brief.
Write · Edit
Whisper
Local (faster-whisper) or cloud (Groq, fal)
Word-level transcripts, so every spoken word lines up with the sentence you wrote.
Write · Edit
Video & image models
Veo 3, Hailuo, Seedance, Nano Banana via fal
AI overlays and B-roll, generated on their own layer above your footage. Sound effects from ElevenLabs and Stable Audio.
Edit · Render
Remotion
React, rendered in 4K
Code-rendered charts, maps, timelines and lower thirds — deterministic, edited through a form, exported as ProRes 4444 with alpha.
Edit · Render
Your NLE
Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut
Clean XML with separate tracks, so an editor can take over with the full context attached.
Render
Local-first
The app runs on your Mac. Footage stays on your disk.
AI proposes, you decide
Every AI edit arrives as a change set: keep or skip, with undo.
Your own sign-in
Claude and ChatGPT run on your own subscription or keys.
Time saved

The hours go back
into the story.

We measure ourselves on two numbers: hours saved per video, and round trips avoided. Put in yours.

What the hand-off costs you each month
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6
1.5 h
4

Illustrative: your inputs, multiplied. It is the time the hand-off costs today — the time Reel Cut is built to remove. Our own measured numbers will be published here.

Pricing

Software you own a seat in.

Free while in early access. The model at launch:

Solo
Set at launch · per month
  • The full app: Write · Edit · Render
  • Your own Claude or ChatGPT sign-in
  • 4K export and NLE hand-off
Team
Set at launch · per seat / month
  • Everything in Solo
  • Share episodes with your editor
  • Shared show library and styles
AI credits
Set at launch · pay as you go
  • Video and image models for AI overlays
  • Cloud transcription
  • No markup on your own keys
Early access is free.
Where we are

Built in the open,
shipped every week.

Today
A working app on macOS: Write, Edit and Render, with Claude and GPT built in. We make our own videos with it.
Next
Private beta with researchers, journalists and explainer creators. Sharing episodes with editors.
Then
The channel library, more motion packages, and a Windows build.
What's new
  1. Export page
    4K UHD, HD or draft, to any folder — even for episodes without a camera.
  2. Share with your editor
    Send an episode to an editor through your own cloud storage. In testing.
  3. Screen moments
    Silent screen recordings, found by what is on screen and cut where you need them.
  4. Write · Edit · Render
    The app is three places, with one bar and search in the middle.
  5. One Motion window
    Pick, fill, time and edit every graphic in one place, including AI video.
  6. Writer, recorder, footage window
    A Notion-like writer, a new recorder, hover-skim footage and a sound library.
Private beta

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