Introducing Cutback: An AI Editing Assistant for Real Footage Workflows
Cutback is a video editing assistant that helps teams prep and package real talking-head and multi-cam footage — selects, cleanup, and faster first cuts without
Introducing Cutback: An AI Editing Assistant for Real Footage Workflows
Talking-head and multi-cam shoots still spend most of their time in prep — syncing cameras, labelling takes, clearing silence — before a creative cut even starts. Cutback sits in that packaging layer: an AI video editing assistant for real footage (including its Selects workflow) so editors and creator teams get a cleaner first pass without generative avatars or fake presenters.
What Cutback does
Cutback positions itself as a video editing assistant built around repetitive prep and packaging jobs:
- Assisted first cuts — helps turn raw recordings into tighter assemblies you can still revise
- Workflow for real footage — aimed at talking content, multi-cam, and professional NLEs rather than text-to-video generation
- Less busywork before creative edit — reduces the scrubbing, silence hunting, and take sorting that burn hours before storytelling begins
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Who it is for
Editors, podcast/video teams, and founder-led creators who already shoot real footage and want AI help packaging it — not a synthetic spokesperson generator.
Where it fits in a content stack
Cutback owns raw footage → cleaner first assembly / selects. Your story still comes from the camera; Cutback is the packaging assistant that makes the handoff into Premiere, Resolve, or a finish pass less painful.
Quick tips if you try Cutback
- Bring organised takes so assisted selects have clear candidates to surface.
- Review every automated cut before you treat it as final.
- Keep brand captions and B-roll decisions for the finish pass if your client needs pixel control.
- Export into your NLE when the job needs a traditional timeline.
- Email support@cutback.video for product or workflow questions.
Soft close — related tool
If you also need concept → storyboard → animated or whiteboard explainer / Reels (not talking-avatar presenters), see Scro Explainer. Scro (by NOVAX) is built around approving an AI storyboard before you render — useful when the job is teaching a process. Keep Cutback as the focus of this intro; Scro is only a related option for storyboard-first explainers.