The editing room for your AI · Claude & ChatGPT · macOS
Cutler is the room your AI edits in — Claude or ChatGPT, the assistant you already use. It syncs your cameras and mics, sees what's in every clip, and gives the model real editing tools: cuts, music, graphics, a timeline it can actually look at. You brief it; it cuts the first 90% in minutes; you open a real Final Cut project and finish — or let it run the whole way to a finished cut.
Works where your AI works
You don’t learn a new app. You talk to Claude or ChatGPT, Cutler gives it the eyes, the hands and the timeline to actually cut — and its panel shows the work as it happens. Same tools, same room, whichever one you open.
In Claude
Claude Code for finished videos and Final Cut timelines, working with the files on your Mac — or the Claude app, no terminal, where Cutler’s panel shows the work as it happens. Uses your Claude plan.
In ChatGPT · Beta
Talk to your AI inside Cutler’s window. It edits with Cutler’s tools, and you sign in with your own ChatGPT account. Uses your ChatGPT plan.
The proposal
Refine
Dim, soft, repetitive footage gets called out in plain language, and it asks you one question before it builds the cut.
The job
Before anyone cuts, someone has to sync the cameras, log the rushes, find the usable takes and lay out the selects. Cutler does that part, proposes a first cut, and stops where taste begins.
The rule it works by: if a choice can be justified from the footage, your brief and your editing doctrine, Cutler makes it. If it needs taste the data can't supply, it hands it back to you.
How it works
Raw camera cards are welcome: unsynced multicam, separate audio, all of it. Cutler transcribes on your Mac, syncs by waveform, and describes what is in every shot, with tags and quality flags such as soft focus, blinks and motion blur.
While it works, you can circle the moments you care about and leave notes for the edit.
Write the brief in plain language: the premise, the beats that must be in, the payoff, the platform. Next to the destination, Cutler shows you what the footage is, such as how much of it is horizontal.
No brief yet? Ask what the strongest material is. It answers from what it saw and heard, including what it would keep short and why.
Your editing doctrine is written once and read before every cut: your pacing, your shot grammar, your house style. Switch it off when the brief should speak alone.
The proposal arrives as a paper edit: every row with its source, its timecodes and the reason it is there. A plan names the hook, the turn and the payoff, and a ribbon shows every shot, with width as time.
It plays inside Cutler before you export. Say "the payoff drags" and it changes only what you asked, leaving the rest intact.
Cutler writes an FCPXML file and validates it against Apple's own DTD before you see it. Roles, keywords and multicam come with it, and every clip points at your original media: nothing re-encoded, nothing generated.
Add turnover documents, a clean transcript and the stringouts as extra sequences. A write log lists every row placed and any row left out.
Final Cut Pro today. Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are in progress.
Talk to the editor
Brief
The thread it found, the best-looking material, and a caution: the dinner scene is badly underexposed. Use it in short bursts.
Sync and multicam
Cutler syncs multiple sources by waveform. You rank the sources, and when Cutler has doubts, it asks you to confirm.
What leaves your Mac
Client rushes on a cloud you didn't pick is a conversation no editor wants to have. So Cutler shows you what runs where, and what it costs, before anything runs.
Transcription
Whisper runs on your Mac. There is no cloud option. Your audio never leaves the machine.
Vision
Claude, Qwen rented through OpenRouter at around 35× less, or Qwen on your own Mac with 32 GB of memory or more. Cutler spells out what leaves the Mac, and what to read before a client project.
Reasoning
The editorial decisions run on Claude. Local models haven't scored well on the benchmarks yet.
Cost
An estimate before analysis, a hard cap if you want one, and the actual spend as it runs. Billed to your own key. Cutler adds nothing on top.
Final Cut Pro
Deliver
Keywords for subjects, light and defects. Selects, circled moments and unused takes. The cut on the timeline, every clip pointing at your original media.
At a glance
Timecoded, multilingual, offline, on your Mac.
Aligns by sound. Works without timecode.
Opens as multicam, angles where you expect them.
A paper edit you can read and disagree with.
An estimate first, a cap if you want one.
FCPXML with roles, keywords, original media.
Built for Apple Silicon. Not a browser tab.
Stop using it tomorrow and you lose nothing.
Same tools, in the assistant you already use.
It cuts the first pass; you finish, or let it run the whole way.
From the beta
“I like how it actually looks at the clips and chooses the best parts, not just the middle section of a clip.”Adam Mann · Cutler beta tester
Cutler is opening to early adopters. If you cut real projects in Final Cut Pro and want the assistant's work done before you sit down, request access and I'll get back to you.
Built by an editor
I'm Erik Lindgren. I've shot and edited for more than twenty years: documentaries, corporate work, television. Cutler started in May 2026 as a way through more than a decade of footage I had never edited.