Recut

Video editor, Mac and cloud

Edit video by editing text. Or let Claude do it.

Record your screen, delete the words you do not want, and export. Recut keeps the cuts smooth, the captions clean and the whole edit scriptable.

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The Recut editor: the script on the left with cut sentences struck through, the video on the right, the timeline below
The script is the edit. Struck words are cut; click one to bring it back.

Made in Recut

From raw take to this. In a few clicks.

  • Fillers and a retake cut by deleting text.
  • Misheard words fixed with Correct: "root" to route, "cloud code" to Claude Code.
  • Quick design for the title card and chapter title.
  • Captions with the spoken word lit up, smooth audio at every cut.
A staged demo recording, edited and exported in Recut. Unmute for the voiceover.

Smooth cuts

Cuts land in the pauses. Not mid-breath.

Word timestamps drift. Recut listens to the audio around every cut and moves the edge into the quietest moment nearby, then fades it so there is no click. Add a crossfade or a dissolve at every cut if you want it softer still.

Waveform with the removed time shaded red and the cut edges marked in blue
Removed time in red, cut edges in blue. The same picture Claude gets.

Features

Everything a screen-recorded video needs. Nothing it does not.

Record with live captions

Screen and mic in one take, captions as you talk, clicks tracked for auto-zoom. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you send it.

Cut by deleting words

Every word has a timestamp. Delete text and the video follows. Cuts snap to the quietest moment so they do not pop.

Clean up in one pass

Remove fillers, retakes and dead air, or tighten for clarity. It reads the words around a filler, so "filler words like um" stays.

A real timeline

Speed and volume per section, drag a cut's edge, insert a pause, move a passage, J/K/L and frame steps, transitions at every cut.

Layers

Titles straight from a selection, images, video and sound effects. Fades in and out, and the preview matches the export.

Captions that look finished

Box, outline, minimal, or the word being spoken lit up. Drawn after the crop, so 9:16 never cuts them off.

Studio Sound and music

Voice cleanup, a music bed that ducks under speech, and volume on any section.

Quick design

One click for a title card, chapter titles, captions, smooth cuts and zoom on clicks. Everything it adds stays editable.

Claude as your editor

Over MCP, Claude reads the script, makes the cuts, looks at the waveform, checks every jump cut and leaves review comments.

Share links

A page with the video and a click-to-seek transcript. Works signed out, and you can turn it off.

Versions and comments

Several edits of one recording, and notes pinned to words, from you or from Claude.

Export anywhere

MP4, MOV, WebM, GIF, MP3, WAV, SRT and VTT, a still frame, or a timeline for Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve.

Three frames of a vertical export with the spoken word lit up in yellow
Vertical export with the spoken word highlighted.
Quick design in AI Tools with chapters found
Quick design: titles, chapters, captions and polish in one click.
Timeline with a section at 2x and a muted section
Speed and volume on any section, shown as bands on the timeline.
A share page with the video and its transcript
Share pages work signed out and jump to any line.

Claude as an editor

Ask for the cut. Watch it happen.

Recut ships an MCP server. Claude reads the script, makes the edit, looks at the waveform, checks every jump cut, and leaves a comment when a human should decide. Your open editor updates live, and Cmd+Z undoes anything it did.

  • get_script, edit, get_waveform, cut_report
  • export_video, share_link, versions, comments
  • quick_design, transcribe, find_clips
.mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recut": { "command": "pnpm", "args": ["--filter", "@dl/mcp", "start"] }
  }
}
The editor after Claude cut a phrase, with a notice saying it was updated from outside the editor
Claude cut a phrase; the open editor picked it up.

Mac app

Records, transcribes and renders on your Mac. Pairs with Recut Dictate for voice everywhere else.

Cloud

The same editor in the browser, with rendering on our servers, share links and an API for agents.

FAQ

Questions

Is it available now?

It is in early access while we use it on our own videos. Join the newsletter and we will tell you when the Mac app and the cloud version open up.

Where does transcription run?

On your Mac with whisper.cpp by default, so your recording does not have to leave the machine. A cloud transcriber can be switched on instead.

Which AI models does it use?

The AI tools go through the AI SDK, so you choose the model. Editing by hand, the timeline and exports work without any AI at all.

How does Claude edit my video?

Recut runs an MCP server. Claude can read the script with word ids and times, apply any edit the editor can make, see a picture of the waveform with the cuts drawn on it, and check every jump cut. If the editor is open, the changes show up live and Cmd+Z undoes them.

Can I finish in another editor?

Yes. Export an FCPXML or EDL and the cut opens in Final Cut, Premiere or Resolve on the same source file.

Is there a command line?

Every edit is available as a command, for example clipper edit <id> cut start=3.2 end=4.1, plus export, waveform pictures and a jump-cut report.

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