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AI reframe for video teams

Turn landscape into vertical. Without leaving your library.

Take any landscape video from your Cutsio library, press "AI Reframe," and close your laptop. We reframe it for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok on our servers — and deliver the vertical version back to your library. No uploads, no downloads, no rendering.

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AI is analyzing frame structure
A creator recording a talking-head video from a couch
Analyzing 16:9 frames
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Processing16:9 → 9:16

AI Reframe in your library

Open any video in your Cutsio library and press AI Reframe — the button lives right next to your player controls.

AI Reframe button in the Cutsio dashboard video player
Repurpose once

One source video. Every vertical feed.

AI Reframe turns long-form YouTube videos, podcasts, product demos, and interviews into vertical exports for the platforms where the same audience actually scrolls.

TikTok

TikTok

9:16 clips from long-form uploads

Reels

Reels

Vertical variants for Instagram

Shorts

Shorts

YouTube-ready vertical exports

How it works

Select, reframe, close your laptop.

Cutsio turns any landscape video into a vertical-ready asset without touching an NLE. Processing happens on our servers, then the result lands back in your library.

01

Select any landscape video in your library

Browse your Cutsio library and pick any video — a YouTube upload, a podcast recording, a product demo, or raw footage. No need to re-upload or download anything.

02

Click "AI Reframe"

A single button triggers the reframe pipeline on our servers. Cutsio analyzes the visual content — faces, action, movement, scene changes — to determine the best vertical crop for every moment.

03

Close your laptop

Processing happens entirely on our servers. No rendering ties up your machine, no exporting clogs your bandwidth, no babysitting required. Go work on something else.

04

Find the vertical version in your library

The reframed vertical video appears automatically in your Cutsio library alongside the original. Download, share, or publish directly — same workflow, new format.

Cutsio vs the alternatives

Reframe without the render queue.

Premiere Pro was built for editorial. Descript was built for transcription. CapCut was built for mobile. Cutsio was built to reframe video you already have.

FeatureCutsioPremiere ProDescriptCapCut
AI reframe in one click
No upload or download required
Server-side processing (close your laptop)
Result saved to your existing library
Smart subject tracking
Batch reframe multiple videos
No rendering on your machine
Works with any video in your library
Platform-native exports (9:16)
FCPXML / EDL export

Premiere Pro requires manual reframing and local rendering. Descript reframes with cloud rendering but requires re-upload. CapCut is mobile-first with limited library integration.

Included

Pay for storage. Reframe is included.

Every reframe is processed on Cutsio infrastructure. No per-reframe fees, no local renders, no export queue sitting on your laptop.

10x faster repurposing

0 machine load

1 library for every format

Free guides

Vertical video and content repurposing guides.

Practical guides for reframing landscape video to vertical formats, creating Shorts and Reels, and repurposing long-form content for social platforms.

Turn long videos into short clips

How to automatically transform long-form content into short, platform-optimized clips for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels.

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FCP vertical reframing workflow

How to reframe 4K horizontal masters into vertical YouTube Shorts using Final Cut Pro and AI-powered smart cropping.

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Short clips in DaVinci Resolve

Create short clips from long videos in DaVinci Resolve using AI-powered scene detection and automatic reframing workflows.

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Generate social clips from long videos

How to automatically generate social media clips from long-form content using AI that finds the best moments to repurpose.

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AI-powered content repurposing

Export ScreenStudio recordings to Final Cut Pro or DaVinci with Cutsio edits — turn tutorials into short-form social clips.

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Best social clips software for Premiere

Compare the best tools for creating social media clips from Premiere Pro projects, including AI-powered reframing and auto-captioning.

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Turn 6-hour streams into short clips

How to automatically find and compile the best moments from long livestreams into short-form clips for social media platforms.

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Reduce editing time for long videos

Practical strategies for reducing video editing time by using AI-powered search, scene detection, and automated reframing workflows.

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Turn long videos into clips in FCP

How to turn long videos into short clips in Final Cut Pro using AI-powered scene detection and automated reframing workflows.

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Your library is one click away from vertical.

Upload once in landscape. Reframe to vertical for every platform. No re-uploading, no local rendering, no busywork. Start with Cutsio on the plan that matches your storage and visual-indexing needs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Real questions editors actually ask. No marketing fluff.

We ingest almost anything you can throw at us:

Professional Codecs

  • Apple ProRes (422, 422 HQ, 422 LT, 422 Proxy, 4444, 4444 XQ)
  • DNxHD / DNxHR (444, HQX, LB, all flavours)
  • Avid 1:1 MXF, XDCAM, XAVC (HD & 4K), AVCHD
  • MPEG-2 (up to 422 Profile), VC-3

Consumer & Delivery

  • H.264 / AVC (baseline to high 5.2, 4:2:0 & 4:2:2)
  • H.265 / HEVC (8-bit, 10-bit, 12-bit — HDR included)
  • VP9, AV1, MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, MXF, WebM
  • GIF (yes, really)

What we don't support: RealMedia (.rm, .rmvb) — if you still have these, please donate them to a museum. Windows Media Video (.wmv) — no hard feelings. FLV — we let it die with Flash Player in 2020 where it belongs. 3GP — we respect your Nokia 3310 era but we can't help. And anything wrapped in a proprietary DVR container that even the manufacturer stopped supporting.

Kidding. Try uploading a VHS rip. We dare you.

Cutsio starts where traditional MAMs stop. Platforms like iconik, Widen, and Bynder give you folder structures, metadata fields, and maybe some basic transcript search. Cutsio gives you a search engine for every frame you've ever shot.

  • ✗Traditional MAMs make you tag everything by hand
  • ✗No visual content search — metadata-only
  • ✗Clunky share links, no AI chat, no XML export
  • ✓Cutsio auto-indexes every frame — visual, speech, objects, camera motion
  • ✓Ask "where's the sunset drone shot?" and get the clip, not a folder
  • ✓Share clips, export XML, chat with your timeline — all from the same platform

Call it a MAM with a brain. The category fits, but the capabilities don't end there.

Fast enough that you'll stop making coffee while you wait. Here's how we stack up against the usual suspects:

YouTube (4K upload + processing)~2 hours
Google Drive (4K "processing" — good luck)~6 hours
Vimeo (4K transcoding queue + buffer)~4 hours
Cutsio (4K ingest + streamable)~40 seconds

We built our ingestion pipeline to skip unnecessary re-encoding steps. Your 4K ProRes file lands, gets indexed, and is ready to search before YouTube would've even finished chewing on the first frame. No queue. No "we'll email you when it's ready."

If their device has a browser, it works. Cutsio's player runs everywhere — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, mobile Safari, Android Chrome, smart TVs, your grandma's iPad, that dusty laptop in the conference room. Even a quantum computer if you somehow got Chrome running on one.

Unlike Vimeo, which picks and chooses where it feels like playing on any given day. Our player just works. No "this video is not available on your platform" — we don't believe in that energy.

Yes, and it's embarrassingly simple. You generate a secure upload link, send it to anyone, and they can drop files straight into your Cutsio library — no account, no login, no password to forget.

XWeTransfer

  • 2GB limit on free tier
  • Link expires in days
  • No preview or transcript
  • Re-download to use the file

✓Cutsio Upload Requests

  • No file size limit
  • Link never expires
  • Instant transcript + timeline
  • Streamable in-browser, no download needed

Automatically. The moment a video finishes ingesting, Cutsio generates:

  • A full transcript — word-level timestamps, speaker diarisation, searchable inline in the player. No downloading a .srt file and hoping it lines up.
  • An interactive timeline — visual waveform, chapter markers, silence detection, and cut points. Click any word in the transcript to jump directly to that frame.
  • An AI summary — key topics, names mentioned, and a tl;dr for every video in your library.

You don't have to enable anything. It just happens. Every video. Every time.

Yes — and it's not a clunky plugin that crashes your timeline. Cutsio's Silent Slicer automatically detects and removes dead air, ums, ahs, filler words, and long pauses from your footage.

  • Adjust sensitivity per clip — gentle removal for interviews, aggressive for vlogs.
  • Preview the cut before exporting to see exactly what gets removed.
  • Export as FCPXML and the silent gaps are gone in your Final Cut timeline. No manual ripple delete.
  • Works across multiple audio tracks. Your lav and boom both get analysed.

DaVinci users: we see you too. Same feature works for Resolve via FCPXML export.

Intelliscript is a good start. Cutsio is what Intelliscript should have been — but for your entire library, not just one project at a time.

  • ✗Intelliscript is locked inside Resolve — you can't search across projects
  • ✗No visual search — transcript only
  • ✗No share links, no upload requests, no collaboration
  • ✓Cutsio indexes your entire archive — every project, every drive, every year
  • ✓Search by visual content, objects, camera motion, AND dialogue
  • ✓Share results, export XML, request uploads, review with clients

Think of Intelliscript as the transcript panel. Think of Cutsio as the search engine for everything your cameras ever captured.

Yes. Cutsio's AI agent cuts selects and highlights from your footage, then exports a clean XML or EDL that you can import straight into your NLE of choice.

  • Final Cut Pro: FCPXML export of your AI-selected clips, cuts, and sequences.
  • DaVinci Resolve: FCPXML and EDL export with your edits preserved.

No re-encoding. No gamma shift. Your export lands exactly as expected.

About as different as a Sony Venice and a webcam. Google Drive gives you folders with vague thumbnails. Cutsio turns your footage into a fully indexed, cross-referenced, searchable video intelligence layer.

  • We index every frame by visual content, not just filenames. Ask for "that dramatic low angle coffee pour" and we find it across years of projects.
  • Our transcripts are timestamped, speaker-labeled, and searchable inline within the player — no downloading a separate .srt.
  • Collections cross-search multiple videos as one source of truth. Drive still thinks a shared drive is a storage bucket.

Descript is an all-in-one, text-based audio and video editor. Cutsio is an AI-powered MAM and pre-edit workspace that makes a growing footage library easier to search, organize, review, and hand to an editor.

  • ✗Descript centers the workflow on a script and composition
  • ✗Best suited to editing and publishing individual projects
  • ✗Professional timeline export depends on the plan and destination
  • ✓Cutsio works with FCP and DaVinci — not against them
  • ✓Search by visual content, objects, AND speech
  • ✓Exports XML/EDL directly into your NLE timeline

Use Descript when the transcript is the editor. Use Cutsio when the footage library and the workflow around the NLE are the bottleneck. Some teams use both.

Current Cutsio plans describe active storage in footage hours and support uploads at any file size within the plan's supported formats and processing workflow.

Pro includes 30 storage hours, Studio 150, and Enterprise unlimited storage hours. ProRes upload is available on Studio and Enterprise. High-bitrate processing is available as a production add-on.

For unusually large camera originals or RAW workflows, confirm the format and ingest path before transfer rather than assuming every codec uses the standard upload path.

Enterprise supports saving ProRes review media and supported ARRI or RED RAW originals as linked pairs.

Use the ProRes file for searchable playback and review while keeping the paired camera original available for conform and finishing. The ingest service is priced separately from the standard plan allowance.

  • ARRI / RED RAW originals — linked as downloadable conform assets.
  • ProRes upload — included on Studio and Enterprise.
  • ProRes + RAW pairs — included as an Enterprise workflow capability.

Contact the team for codec, camera, and high-bitrate requirements before starting a large RAW transfer.

Absolutely not. Your footage is your footage. We just give it AI superpowers and get out of the way.

Uploading to Cutsio is like handing your car keys to a valet — they park it, they don't start taking road trips. We process, index, and transcribe your videos to make them searchable and editable. That's it. You retain full ownership of everything you upload.

  • We don't resell or redistribute your videos. Obviously. That would be a spectacularly fast way to go out of business.
  • You can delete anytime. Remove a video from your library and it's gone from our systems. No hidden copies, no "but we might need it for analysis" nonsense.

Translation for the paranoid:

We're a tool, not a licensor. You wouldn't ask Adobe if they own your PSD files. Same energy here. Your intellectual property stays yours. We just make it actually usable — because what's the point of a video library if you can't find anything in it?

Active storage is measured by footage duration rather than gigabytes. That matters for video teams because higher-bitrate media does not consume more active-storage allowance than a lower-bitrate file of the same duration.

Pro includes 30 storage hours and 5 visual-indexing hours. Studio includes 150 storage hours and 25 indexed hours. Enterprise includes unlimited storage hours and 100 indexed hours.

Archive storage, extra visual indexing, extra users, linked camera-original workflows, DRM asset protection, and high-bitrate processing are priced as production add-ons.

Yes — and you keep 100% of the sale. No marketplace taking a cut.

Your portfolio lives at cutsio.com/portfolio/yourname — a public page where anyone can browse your curated work. Mark any clip as licensable, set your price, and when a producer or brand wants to buy it, the transaction happens right there. Cutsio processes the payment and you get the full amount. Zero commission. No hidden fees. No "platform percentage."

What you need to know:

  • Your portfolio pulls from footage you've already uploaded to Cutsio — no re-uploading, no duplicate storage.
  • You control exactly which clips are licensable and at what price. Nothing goes on sale unless you say so.
  • Viewers see a clean, ad-free page with zero distractions. No view counts, no related videos, no "you might also like this competitor's work."
  • Your portfolio URL is permanent. Put it on your resume, your Instagram bio, your pitch deck — it's yours.

Think of it as a showroom that doubles as a checkout counter. Except the showroom looks stunning and the counter doesn't take a cut.