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Video intelligence for video teams

Search video by what the camera saw.

Cutsio understands scenes, actions, objects, speech, and timestamps across your footage, so every useful moment becomes findable without manual logging.

Try visual search
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Searching frames
A person standing on an illuminated neon street at night
98% match
02:14:33
Tokyo_Night_A014.mov
neon street
A person walking through a colorful city street at night
94% match
00:41:08
Shinjuku_Walk_B032.mp4
night pedestrian
A city street at night with bright illuminated signs
89% match
01:08:19
City_Rain_C009.mov
urban lights

Video Demo

Beyond metadata

Your archive should know more than filenames.

Folders and tags break as soon as the library grows. Video intelligence gives every frame a useful memory, then pairs that with transcript and timeline context so editors can search the way they think.

Frames

Cutsio reads visual content shot by shot, so a clip can be found by what appears on screen instead of only by filename.

Speech

Dialogue, keywords, and transcript context stay attached to exact timestamps for quote hunting and rough cuts.

Moments

Actions, scenes, objects, people, and spoken meaning resolve into searchable moments across the whole library.

Natural visual queries

Ask for the shot, not the folder.

Search by scene, object, action, spoken line, or production intent. Cutsio returns the matching moments with the surrounding context an editor needs.

1"person opening laptop in a cafe"
2"drone shot over coastline at sunset"
3"product close-up with blue background"
4"laughing customer testimonial"
5"hands assembling hardware prototype"
Built for launch speed

From raw upload to usable moments.

1Step

Upload or import

Pull from existing drives, cloud sources, or direct uploads.

2Step

Cutsio indexes the footage

Visual, audio, and transcript signals are attached to every searchable timestamp.

3Step

Search by intent

Ask for scenes, objects, actions, phrases, moods, or production context.

4Step

Act on the moment

Open the source, share a result, or turn the selected timestamp into an edit decision.

A presenter speaking to a team in a meeting room
92% visual match
Boardroom_Demo_A021.mp400:37:51

"The big pricing change is that teams can search old footage by scene, not just by file name."

Why it matched
Presenter on screen
Pricing discussion
Meeting room
One result, full context

Visual search is only useful when it lands on the edit.

Cutsio brings back the exact timestamp, nearby transcript, source file, and visual match signal. That means producers can find proof, editors can jump straight into the moment, and teams can reuse old footage with confidence.

Timestamped resultsSource file accessTranscript contextShareable moments
Free guides

Related resources for visual search workflows.

Practical guides covering video library organization, AI tagging, asset management, and production workflows.

AI video organization tool

How to use AI to automatically organize, tag, and categorize video footage without manual folder structures.

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AI video tagging software

Automated metadata extraction in 2026 — how visual AI analyzes footage and generates searchable tags without human input.

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Best video library software for teams

Organize, search, and share video content with your team — comparing tools for video asset management and collaborative workflows.

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Cloud dailies for film production

How to avoid the 40GB upload limit problem and deliver camera-original dailies directly to cloud review without transcoding.

Read the guide

Upload review media to the cloud

No pre-transcode required — how to upload ARRIRAW, RED RAW, and other camera originals directly to cloud review platforms.

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Video collaboration for enterprise

How enterprise production teams manage video collaboration, review workflows, and asset management across distributed teams.

Read the guide

AI video asset management for FCP

How Final Cut Pro teams use AI-powered video asset management to organize, search, and share footage across productions.

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How to organize footage for fast retrieval

Proven strategies for organizing video footage so you can find any clip in seconds without digging through folder after folder.

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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 workflows.

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Give your team a video library that sees the footage, understands the moment, and gets people to the right timestamp.

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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.