Favorites Keep Your Best Lines Safe

You can now star the lines you never want to lose, and ScriptCut keeps them safe through every AI pass and every export.

What it is

Every row in Select has a star. Click it and the star turns gold. That's a favorite: a line you've decided is a keeper, no matter what happens next in your edit.

The problem it removes

You find the perfect line early in a transcript, the one line the whole story hinges on. Then you run AI Select again, or build a new AI Story, or generate AI Clips, and that line quietly disappears because the AI made a different call. Favorites stop that. A starred line is always kept by AI Select, AI Story, and AI Clips. The AI can never drop it or deselect it.

How it works

Say you're cutting a panel discussion and one guest gives a sharp, quotable answer two minutes in. Star that line the moment you spot it. Keep working through the transcript, run AI Story to shape the rest of the narrative, even regenerate AI Clips for social. That starred line rides along through all of it. When you export your timeline, it lands in the Premiere XML with a yellow 'Favorite' marker sitting right on the clip, so your editor sees it the second they open the project. Resolve picks up the same marker, just without the color.

Working with others

More than one person can work in the same ScriptCut project, and the header shows who else is in there with you. Turn on the 'Who did what' toggle (the person icon) and hovering any line shows who marked it, who favorited it, or who last edited it, plus the score and reason behind any AI pick. So if a producer stars a line while you're both in the transcript, you'll see exactly who did it and when you hover.

Who this helps

Anyone working from a long, unscripted recording benefits: podcast editors protecting a host's best joke, documentary editors holding onto a key testimony, agencies making sure a client's must-use soundbite survives every revision, marketers locking in the one line that has to make the social cut. Favorites make sure the line you cared about most is still there when you get to the timeline.

Star your first line and see it carry through to export in ScriptCut.