Cutler / A first cut with reasons
A first cut from your footage, with a reason for every clip.
Cutler doesn't hand you a mystery edit. Claude builds the first cut as a paper edit you can read: every row with its source, its timecodes and why it is there. You argue with it, it changes only what you asked, and you finish.
It names the weak spots first
Before it cuts, it tells you what the footage is: dim, soft or repetitive material is called out in plain language, and it asks you one question before it builds the cut.
Read the cut. Argue with it.
- A plan names the hook, the turn and the payoff.
- A ribbon shows every shot, with width as time.
- A preview plays before you export.
- Plain-language changes. Say "the payoff drags" and only the payoff changes.
No brief yet? Ask it first.
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, written once, is read before every cut.
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.
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