Use Files Straight Away

Files you upload from your own computer now work right away, while ScriptCut compresses them in the background.

What Changed

Before, adding B-roll or a music track meant a wait. You'd drop the file in and watch a processing bar before you could actually use it. Now, if the file comes straight from your computer, you can drop it on the timeline, play it, hear the track, and see its waveform immediately, using the copy already sitting on your machine.

The Problem It Removes

Processing time used to break your flow. You'd find the right cutaway or the right music bed, then sit there while ScriptCut caught up before you could see if it actually worked in the cut. That gap is gone for local uploads.

How It Works

Say you're cutting a coffee brand's product video and you upload a shot of steam rising off a cup, straight from your laptop. You can place it on the timeline and preview it instantly. In the background, ScriptCut swaps in the compressed version the moment it's ready, with no action needed from you. Files brought in from cloud storage, or uploaded from a different computer than the one you're working on, still show as Processing until ScriptCut has them, since your browser doesn't have a local copy to work from. Final downloads still wait too: if you ask for a clip while one of its ingredients is still processing, ScriptCut tells you which one, instead of handing you a video with a piece missing.

Who This Helps

This matters most for editors and producers building fast, especially anyone assembling social clips or a rough cut under a deadline. Podcast editors dropping in music beds, agencies stacking B-roll for a client review, and vloggers pulling clips straight from their own laptop all get to keep moving instead of waiting on a progress bar.

Try it the next time you upload B-roll or music in ScriptCut.