Audience
Documentary, interview, podcast and YouTube editors who need to find the story in hours of raw footage before they start cutting
About FirstCut
FirstCut is a browser-based narrative editor for dialogue-led video. It transcribes spoken material from imported footage, identifies possible story arcs, and assembles rough cuts organized as beats, clips, and transcript text. Editors can compare story directions, reorder beats and clips, remove or restore words, and request revisions from an AI assistant in plain language. The sequence can be previewed in the browser using video stored on the user's device; only extracted audio is uploaded for transcription. Users can export FCPXML, Final Cut Pro 7 XML, CMX3600 EDL, or OpenTimelineIO sequences to finish in Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Media Composer. It is designed for interviews, documentaries, podcasts, lectures, webinars, and conversations where spoken content carries the story.