AI-assisted editing for macOS

Raw to rough.
In minutes.

Cutler turns raw footage into a rough cut — and exports it straight to Final Cut, Premiere, or Resolve. Built by an editor. Runs on your Mac.

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APPLE SILICON · LOCAL AI OR YOUR OWN API KEY

Your edit belongs in your NLE.
Not in someone's cloud.

Cutler does the assembly — the part that eats days — and then gets out of the way. No proprietary timeline. No lock-in. No footage leaving the building.

Step 01 — Ingest
⌘ drop footage here
interview_A.mov interview_B.mov broll_office.mov
transcribing locally · nothing uploaded
04:31→04:52"the moment everything changed was the first client saying no" — opens the arc
09:47→10:15"we rebuilt the whole process in a weekend" — the turn
06:02→06:05"can we pause? sorry—" — dropped
13:05→13:26"and that's when it finally worked" — payoff
every select comes with a reason — audit in seconds
Final CutFCPXML
PremiereXML
ResolveXML / EDL
✓ exported · your media, your timeline, keep cutting
a real project file — not a render, not a lock-in
STEP 01

Drop in your footage.

Cutler transcribes everything with timecodes — locally, on your Mac. An hour of rushes takes minutes, works offline, and nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

STEP 02

Direct the cut.

Tell it the story: the arc, the duration, the tone. Cutler drafts the selects — with a reason for every choice, so you audit its judgment in seconds instead of re-watching hours.

STEP 03

Open it in your NLE.

Export a real project — FCPXML for Final Cut, XML for Premiere and Resolve, EDL if you're old-school. Your media, your timeline. The craft stays yours; the grind doesn't.

Your footage never
leaves your Mac.

Client rushes on a third-party cloud is a conversation no editor wants to have. Cutler was built so you never have it.

Local models. Private by default.

Transcription and analysis run on-device with managed local models. Confidential material stays confidential — provably.

Your own API key. Your terms.

For the heavy editorial thinking, bring your own key for frontier models. Pay per use, cents per project. No subscription stack.

Everything the rough cut needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

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Local transcription

Timecoded, multilingual, offline. Minutes per hour of footage on Apple Silicon.

AI

Directed selects

Brief it like an assistant editor. Get selects with reasons, not a mystery edit.

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Vibe editing

Brainstorm the cut in plain language. It explores ideas with you — and never changes the timeline until you say so.

XML

Multi-NLE export

FCPXML, Premiere/Resolve XML, and EDL. Real project files from day one.

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Native on macOS

A real Mac app, built for Apple Silicon. No browser tab pretending to be software.

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No lock-in, ever

Cutler ends where your NLE begins. If you stop using it tomorrow, you lose nothing.

Talk to the editor

Stuck? Just talk it out.

Not every cut is a clean brief. Sometimes you need to think out loud — "the payoff drags," "what if the opening was slower," "is there a montage hiding in here?" Cutler's Vibe editing is a brainstorming partner that talks through the edit with you.

Brainstorm, don't commit. Ideas first.

Vibe editing never touches your timeline on its own. It's a conversation — angles, structure, what's working and what isn't. It surfaces options; you decide which ones become cuts.

Two modes, one editor. Direct or explore.

Switch between directing the cut (precise, changes the edit) and vibing on it (open, exploratory). The brainstorm stays a brainstorm until you say "apply that."

Early access is coming.
Editors first.

Cutler is in active development with a small group of founding editors. Join the waitlist and you'll hear the moment it opens — waitlist members get in before anyone else.

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