Tutorials

Here's the usual grind: hours of footage, a scrubber, marked up PDF’s from clients. ScriptCut skips all of that. This is where a long, rambling recording becomes a tight, story-driven cut, before you ever open your editor. You work with words instead of a timeline. Read the transcript, tap the moments that matter, arrange them into a story while always keeping an eye on the actual runtime, and ScriptCut rebuilds every choice as a real timeline in your editing software. Podcasts, docs, vlogs, panels, talking heads, if it wasn't scripted, ScriptCut got it. Working with collaborators such as your client, directors, producers? Send them a review link to make their selects and approve before you touch a single edit. Come on in, let's look around.

Welcome home. Every project you make lives right here. Top right, three buttons do the heavy lifting: **New Folder** to organize by projects and clients, **Transcribe** to turn a raw recording into a transcript, and **New Project** to get rolling. Flip between grid and list, sort, or search by name. Each card wears little icons for what's inside: transcript, timeline, audio, and video. Click to open, or pop the three-dot menu to rename, duplicate, move, or delete, and don't sweat that delete, it just parks in the Archive for thirty days. The left sidebar rides along everywhere you go, and its tutorials are smart: you only ever see the ones that fit the page you're on. And see that chat bubble? That's your lifeline. Message your clients directly, more on that later, or tap **AI Assist**, ask it anything and get an answer on the spot. Next, let's start a project.

Click **New Project** and ScriptCut asks one thing first: how do you work? Go **Blank** and bring a transcript later. Pick **Transcribe** to hand over an audio or video file and let ScriptCut write the transcript for you. Or choose your editing software, and the whole ride, import steps, exports, even the tutorials, gets tuned to your editor. Itching to go social? The **Social clips** path turns long content into short, ready-to-post videos. Name it, drop in a cover image to make that share link pop, and hit **Create Project**. Done.

ScriptCut comes in three flavors. **Free** lets you select, arrange, and export an editor cut sheet, a great way to get your feet wet. **Starter** opens up the full exports: a formatted PDF, the timeline, subtitles, and spliced audio. And **ProAI** brings out the big guns, the AI tools, the publishing suite, your own branding, and a monthly pool of AI credits. Toggle monthly or annual, and annual quietly knocks off twenty percent. Transcription minutes and AI credits ride along with your plan, and you can top up any time. Prices shift now and then, so the live numbers always sit right here, in **Settings**, under **Plan**

You don’t need to transcribe and cleanup your transcript to re-use it. Drop the project that has that transcript into a folder, then create a new project inside the same folder and pick **Choose master transcript** instead of starting fresh. Every new project pulls from that one source, while you make your own picks and arrangement inside it. Fix a typo or a speaker name on the master, and every linked project updates on its own. No exporting, no re-importing, no copy-paste marathons.

Two housekeeping wins. Under **Settings**, **Storage** shows what each project is eating up, biggest first, with a bar if your plan has a cap. Tight on room? **Remove video, keep audio**, or **Remove audio** altogether, and your transcript and exports stay put, so the project keeps working. And under **App Integrations**, connect **Frame.io** to pull a video straight from your library, even a huge file, with no slow browser upload. Just pick it from the thumbnails and ScriptCut reels it in.

Experimenting is only fun when you can take it back. See that little version badge on a project, the V1? Give it a click. ScriptCut saves versions as you work, so you can try a bold recut, then rewind to any earlier point, like save states for your story. Landed on a cut you don't want anyone touching? Lock the version, and a client with the review link won’t be able to make any more changes . Here's the nice part: the moment your client approves, the project locks itself, right here, so nothing drifts after sign-off. Want to keep tweaking? Unlock any time. And for the full paper trail, Settings, History keeps automatic restore points too, a proper time machine for your edit.

o get a word-level transcript out of DaVinci Resolve, open the **Audio Transcription** panel, click the three-dot menu, and choose **Export Subtitles**. Now the settings that matter: set **Maximum** to **1 character per line**, set **Lines** to **Single**, and check **Include Speaker Name**. That one-character-per-line setting is the whole trick. It gives every word its own timecode, which is what lets ScriptCut cut to the exact frame. Save the file, then drop it into ScriptCut's transcript step." As of 2026, the transcription engine in Davinci Resolve isn’t perfect. Should you be unhappy with the results or experience timing issues, try to Transcribe within ScriptCut for more accurate results.

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Already have a transcript? Drag it onto the upload area, or click to browse. Upload either a SRTX, SRT, VTT or JSON subtitle file. To ensure accurate timing, ScriptCut needs a word level timecoded file. To check, open your subtitle file in a regular text editor and confirm that every word has a dedicated timecode range. As soon as the file is read, ScriptCut confirms it and tells you whether it found word-level timecodes and speakers. A green check means you're good to go.