First Cut / private beta
The film is already in there.
First Cut watches your raw footage, finds the story, builds the first cut, and lets you direct the edit through conversation.
Private beta for filmmakers, editors, producers, creators, and teams drowning in footage.
Scene 02 / the old way
The timeline was never meant to start empty.
You do not begin with a story. You begin with drives. Folders. Interviews. Reactions. B roll. Silence. Mistakes. Gold.
Somewhere inside it is the cut.
Today, finding it is still mostly memory, transcripts, bins, and pain.
The bottleneck in video is no longer capture. It is comprehension.
Scene 03 / new interface
Ask for the cut.
Describe the film you are trying to make. First Cut watches the footage, finds the moments, builds the structure, and gives you something to react to.
State A
Ingest
CARMEN_DOC_RAW
187 clips / 11h 42m
State B
Ask
Make a three minute first cut about Carmen, food, memory, and family.
surfaced moments
“My mother never wrote it down.”
“You know it by watching.”
“This kitchen is where I remember her.”
State C
Cut
Assembled from 27 moments across 11h 42m of footage
Scene 04 / revision loop
Then direct it.
First Cut is built around how creative work actually happens: watch, react, note, revise.
Not a blank timeline. A first cut.
timecoded notes
00:42 Replace this with a more intimate shot.
01:18 This section drags. Tighten it.
02:05 Try a warmer music cue.
Global: Make this feel less like a profile and more like a memory.
First Cut v1
before notes
First Cut v2
after notes
Scene 05 / manifesto
Editing starts before the timeline now.
Manual editing begins by arranging clips.
AI native editing begins by understanding footage.
Search was the first layer. Generation was the spectacle. Assembly is the prize.
First Cut is building the creative reasoning layer for video.
Access
Private access opens in waves.
We are starting with people who have real footage, real deadlines, and real stories buried inside the mess.