CutrovaCut by deleting text
Delete words in the transcript and the video skips them, gaplessly.
Features
Everything runs on your Mac, most of it from the transcript
From a raw recording to a captioned, multi-platform, accessible video, every capability below runs locally on your Mac, and most of it is driven by editing the transcript.
Editing
The transcript is the timeline.
Delete text to cut video, transcribe locally in seconds, tighten every pause, and get media in any way you like.
Strike & restore
Cuts stay visible as struck text, click to bring any of it back.
Scenes & chapters
Split with "/", merge, and reorder, scenes drive chapters and framing.
Speakers
Label speakers from the script, color-tinted paragraphs.
Correct text
Fix a word's spelling for captions without changing the audio.
Undo everything
Every edit is an undoable, crash-safe transaction with full history.
Local Whisper
About 17x realtime on Apple silicon with word-level timestamps, no upload.
Cloud options
OpenAI or Deepgram when you want them, behind your own key.
Diarization
Deepgram labels who spoke when, turned into project speakers.
Filler detection
"Um," "uh," and friends are flagged automatically for one-click removal.
Remove filler words
Delete every flagged filler across the project in one pass.
Tighten pauses
Collapse long gaps with a slider, see the time you'll save.
Dead-air sweep
Click a silence badge to collapse a gap, a scene, or the whole timeline.
Remove retakes
Find repeated takes of a line and keep just the best one.
Frame-nudge handles
Nudge a cut's in/out by a frame to grab or release audio at the seam.
Confidence heatmap
Tint shaky words, jump between them, and fix one everywhere.
Audition the cut
Hold a key to A/B a deletion seam, words out vs in, instantly.
Capture & design
From recording to finished frame.
Record, import, and dress the video without leaving the project.
Built-in recorder
Screen, system audio, webcam, and mic, straight into a project.
Drag-and-drop import
Any video or audio file is normalized into editable artifacts.
Watch folders
Auto-import new recordings from folders you choose.
Project bundles
Back up or move a project as one integrity-checked archive.
Titles & lower-thirds
Drop, edit inline, and burn into export.
Brand Studio
Default colors, fonts, and a logo watermark.
Layout packs
Caption and title presets you can apply in a click.
B-roll & audio beds
Overlay clips and music with gain and ducking.
Audio
Sound pro on any mic.
Clean up noise, even out loudness, and catch problems before they ship.
Studio Sound
Denoise and even out loudness, the player hot-swaps to the cleaned audio.
Audio Doctor
A report card: quiet audio, clipping, hum, dead air, dual-mono, with fixes.
Per-guest leveling
Balance each podcast guest toward a target before the master pass.
Captions
Reach, compliance, and style.
Styled, compliant captions that travel wherever your video does.
Styled captions
Color, font, and position with a live preview in the canvas.
Karaoke captions
Word-by-word highlighting that travels on social.
Compliance linter
Score cues against FCC, BBC, and Netflix limits and reflow to fix in one click.
SRT & VTT
Side caption files written with every render.
AI suite
An AI co-editor, built in.
Describe the edit and approve the diff, plus speech, translation, and short-form coaching.
Underlord
"Cut the boring intro, remove fillers," it edits a draft, you accept or discard.
Speech regeneration
Fix a flubbed word by typing it, overdub seamlessly.
Voice cloning
Clone a speaker's voice from a clean sample, behind a consent step.
Translation & dubbing
Translate captions or dub audio into 10 languages.
AI clip suggestions
Let AI surface the moments most likely to land, ready to batch-export.
Hook Doctor
Score your cold open on explainable signals and trim the dead pre-roll.
Pacing Inspector
A timeline lane that shows where the edit drags: WPM, dead air, filler.
Remove retakes (AI)
Underlord can detect and clear repeated takes for you.
Multitrack & podcast
Interviews, done right.
Drop in everyone's recordings and let Cutrova sync, script, and frame the conversation.
Auto sync
Drop 2 to 6 tracks recorded together, Cutrova aligns them to the frame.
Speaker-turn script
One interleaved transcript with a track legend and mute toggles.
Active-speaker video
Each segment shows whoever is talking.
Vertical reframe
Auto-build 9:16 framing that crops to the active speaker.
Distribution
Every format, frame-accurate.
Export, publish, and package for wherever your audience is watching.
16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1
Aspect presets with per-scene framing baked in.
Clip from selection
Export just the words you selected.
Batch export
All presets at once, or one file per AI clip.
Audiograms
Turn audio-only projects into branded waveform videos.
Share pages
A local, chrome-less viewer with a copyable link.
YouTube kit & script
Chapters, description, show notes, and the script as MD, text, or HTML.
Accessibility & local-first
Thoughtful by default.
Described narration, fast search, and a workflow that never leaves your machine.
Audio description
Author described narration into the gaps, export descriptive cues.
Global search
Find any phrase across every project's transcript and jump to it.
Command palette
Cmd+K to run any action without leaving the keyboard.
Local-first privacy
Your media never leaves your machine, works offline.
Version history
Named snapshots and forward-only restore.
Early access
Start with your last recording
Early access is open. Send a mail and we will get you set up.
Write to contact@cutrova.com