Use cases
What FirstCut is for
FirstCut is a browser-based narrative editor for story-driven video. It finds the stories inside your footage and turns them into editable narratives — beats made of real clips, clips connected to the exact words spoken — that you reshape, refine and play in the browser, then export to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro. The video never uploads — only its audio, to produce the transcript.
Podcasts
Turn a long video podcast recording into a narrative rough cut in your browser: write a brief, get a cut built from the transcript, export to Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut.
Interviews & documentary
Skip the manual paper edit: FirstCut reads your interview transcript and assembles a narrative first cut from your brief, then exports an EDL or XML timeline to your NLE.
Webinars, courses & lectures
Turn a recorded webinar, course session or lecture into a shorter edit: FirstCut picks the key moments from the transcript and exports a timeline to Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut.