Record the episode. Get the edit,
cut like your editor would.
CutSmith learns the format you already publish — what you cut, what has to stay whole, where your overlays sit, what ships with every episode — then edits each new recording to match, and gets closer every time.
A 12-minute recording hides a 10-minute video.
Finding it means cutting “okay, where do I start?” and “wait, I messed that up” without cutting the good take. Keeping the part that has to run whole — the song, the clip, the demo — in sync even when you pressed play late. Bringing your overlay up when the talking stops, not before. Adding cards that never cover a face. Making a thumbnail, a title and a Short.
Then doing it all again next week, to the same shape.
If every episode has the same shape, the shape can be learned.
CutSmith doesn’t know your subject. It knows your format: which beats you keep, what has to run whole and in sync, where your overlays sit, and the set of files you publish with every episode. That is what repeats — and repetition is the whole of what it learns from.
Every worked example on this page comes from our own show, music reactions. That is the format CutSmith was built on and the one running today, not the edge of what it is for.
- Music reactions — the show we make ourselves
- Interviews and podcast episodes
- Reviews and unboxings
- Tutorials and walkthroughs
- Recaps and roundups
- Gameplay commentary
What they have in common: a recording of people talking, often a second source that has to stay whole and in sync, and a set of outputs that doesn’t change from one episode to the next.
Tell us your format when you ask for access and we’ll say plainly whether it fits yet.
Two files in. A finished episode out.
- 01
Upload the recording
Your recording, and whatever played alongside it — a song, a clip, a screen capture. Nothing to install.
- 02
It lines the two up
Even when the second file was only audible in your headphones: it hears the leak and matches the moment you pressed play.
- 03
It builds the edit to your format
Setup, planning and retakes cut. The part that must run whole kept whole. Overlays, cards and zooms where your format puts them.
- 04
You review beside the script
Strike or restore lines, leave a note at the second, pick a title and thumbnail. Re-draft in one click.
- 05
Download, publish, it learns
Video, thumbnail, titles, a Short, and a timeline for your editor. Each episode starts closer to your cut.
Every job your editor does after the record button.
Hover a job to see where it lands in the frame.
Strike a line once. It stops keeping lines like it.
Review the draft beside its script. Strike a line to cut it, restore one to keep it, leave a note at the exact second. Your marks always win, and each one becomes a rule for the next episode.
A change to your format is only kept if it makes your past episodes better too, not just one. Progress is counted, not promised: notes per round, repeats, and how closely each draft matches the edit you published.
Your notes go to taste, not to glitches.
Every draft is scanned before anyone watches it. Each check reports a time, or “clean”. Plus a one-page storyboard of every edit decision with its written reason.
- Black or frozen frames
- clean
- Frame timing gaps
- clean
- Audio dropouts
- clean
- Cards covering a face
- 1 moved · 3:44
- Text too short to read
- clean
- Song kept whole
- ✓ 3:12–6:41
- Loudness
- −14.0 LUFS
Everything the upload page asks for.
Thumbnail in your layout
The frame whose expression matches the moment, laid out the way your channel lays them out — the same arrangement on every episode.
Titles in your voice
Learned from your best-performing titles. Never claims something you did not say.
Shorts from the big moments
Vertical clips reframed to follow whoever is talking. Connect YouTube and it learns what gets clicked.
Questions we get asked.
Record this week’s episode. Review the edit tomorrow.
Nothing to install. Two files in, a draft beside its script back.
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