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CutPrep · macOS

Your rushes, spotted in 4 minutes.

Point it at a card, say what the film is, and walk into Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut at a structured selection. No blank timeline, no afternoon of scrubbing.

See plans · free to start →See what you save

A typical editor saves

€480 a month

That is 9.6 hours of spotting, or 1.3 junior days, you no longer pay for. Over a year, €5,760.

You pay

€19

Solo, per month

3 projects · 4 hr of day-one scrubbing each · €50/hr · CutPrep takes 80% of it

Run your own numbers →

~5 hr

Day-one spotting and the first assembly, done before lunch.

Your Mac

The footage never leaves the machine it sits on.

Any NLE

Resolve, Premiere and Final Cut. Same timeline, your pick.

You cut

CutPrep proposes. Final cut stays with the editor, as it should.

How it works

Four steps. No setup but the footage.

Drop the card

A folder of rushes. Nothing to convert, nothing to upload.

Say what it is

One line about the film. Pick a preset if you want a head start.

It does the spotting

Every take watched and labelled, the moments worth keeping marked. Even the take where someone sneezes.

Open the timeline

FCPXML and XMEML, so it opens wherever you cut. Selects in place, nothing to conform.

This is the whole app

One window. Four tabs. That's it.

Two modes

Interviews and loose shots need different eyes.

Pipeline mode

Talking Head

Interview & editorial selection

You give it

Interview rushes
Multi-cam + wireless audio
A transcript, or it makes one

You get back

Hero cut per angle
Snippets & spotting bin
Quotes with timecode

Pipeline mode

B-roll

Atmosphere & shot distribution

You give it

A card of loose shots
Phone footage or pro
A storyline, or a brief

You get back

Shots sorted by moment
Two cuts to compare
Sub-clips, ready to drag

Production presets

Nine editorial languages, from commercials to podcasts.

Open the presets tree →

Ask, don't scrub

Describe the moment. It finds it.

"A moment where she explains why it mattered." CutPrep reads the transcript and comes back with candidates, each with timecode. Keep the ones you like; the order you put them in is the order on the timeline.

No transcript yet? It makes one, on your Mac.

What €1 buys you in 2026

🥐

€1

a croissant

a single bite

📮

€1

a postage stamp

one letter, gone

🚌

€1

a bus ticket

10 minutes across town

✂️

€1

25 minutes of rushes

watched, labelled and spotted

And only the watching is metered. The cut you build costs nothing. ↗ See the breakdown

Pay for what it watches

The meter runs on hours of footage. Nothing else.

Building the cut, the preview, the timelines, the sub-clips and the export are free, because they happen on your own Mac. Every run counts the footage it reads, a second run on the same interview too. An hour of interview counts as one; an hour of B-roll counts as two.

Cost calculator

What will your editorial month cost?

Open the calculator →

Junior savings

How many junior hours do you get back?

Open the savings calculator →

Getting started

Four steps to your first timeline.

Download

macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.

Two free hours, once, to try it on. No credit card needed.

Point & brief

A folder and one line.

Open the timeline

Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut. Picture lock is still your call.

No API keys, no second invoice to watch.