About ScriptCut
I spent years fighting paper edits. So I built the fix.
ScriptCut comes from the edit bay, not a Silicon Valley. It is made by an editor and director who lived the messy part of the job and decided it was finally time to fix it.
4 Emmys and 13 nominations later,
I needed a solution that fixes my biggest day to day problem. But I couldn't find it.
Why I built ScriptCut
Hi, I am Marvin. I have spent the past 18 years of my career in unscripted television as an editor and director, with 13 Emmy nominations and 4 wins, and more than 300 hours of broadcast TV behind me.
Across all of it, one part of the process never got better: the paper edit. The stage before the real edit, where you and your client decide what the story actually is.
It was always the same. Transcripts dumped into PDFs. Highlighter pens and sticky notes. Clients marking up documents, sending screenshots, leaving notes in five different places. Long email chains. Version after version. Hours of an assistant copying timecodes by hand. Days, sometimes weeks, gone before a single cut was made.
The footage was great. The tools for choosing the story were stuck in 1995.
So I built ScriptCut. It is the part of the workflow I always wished existed.
You just skip the part everyone hates.
What ScriptCut actually does
ScriptCut sits before the edit. Your client reads the transcript and selects the moments that matter, right there, with no PDFs and no highlighters. You get a clean, frame-accurate timeline that drops straight into your editing software, whether that is DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or Avid.
It works for any long, unscripted content: podcasts, documentaries, interviews, panels, vlogs, testimonials, talking-head, reality, you name it. If real people are talking and the story has to be found, ScriptCut was built for it.
Why this matters
I am not a software company that decided video looked like a good market. I am an editor who got tired of the same broken workflow and built the tool I needed. Every decision in ScriptCut comes from real time in the chair, on real deadlines, with real clients. Speaking of chairs, the best part is that you can now edit while sipping Pina Coladas at the pool in Cancun by tapping on sentences on your phone. Just like that.
If you cut unscripted content for a living, I think you are going to feel right at home.
