A real editor. Drive it yourself, or ask your AI
Cutroom is a full video editor that lives on your PC. You can cut, caption, grade, and reframe on the timeline yourself, the way you would in any editor. Or you connect your own AI agent and ask it in plain words, and it does the same edits on the same timeline while you watch. Your originals stay on your disk the whole time.
Cut this to 30 seconds, drop the silences, and add captions.
It reads the frames and audio to check its own work. Nothing uploads.
One timeline, two ways to reach it
Edit it yourself
Drag clips, trim, add captions, grade the colour. Every panel of a normal editor is there, and nothing forces you to use AI at all.
Or ask your agent
Connect an AI agent over MCP and tell it what you want. It calls the same tools you would, and you see each cut land on the timeline.
The editing runs on your machine
Cutting, transcription, and the cutout all happen locally. The AI features you turn on are the exception: they send only what you point them at to your own provider, never to us.
Non-destructive
Your edits are a decision list over the source, not a re-encode. Undo anything, and the original files on your disk stay untouched.
The AI is an option, not the point
Plenty of editors bolt an AI panel onto the side and call it done. Cutroom is a real editor first. You can open it, ignore the AI entirely, and cut a video the ordinary way. The agent is there for the moments you would rather describe the edit than click it, and it drives the exact same timeline you do.
- Open it and edit with no AI connected at all
- Connect an agent only when you want to describe an edit
- Both routes touch the same clips, effects, and export
Same timeline, either way
The agent uses the editor. It does not replace it.
When your agent trims a clip or adds captions, it calls the same tools your mouse does. So an AI edit and a hand edit are the same kind of edit, and you can pick up either one where the other left off.
It runs on your computer, not in a browser tab
Cutroom is a desktop app, not a website you upload to. The cutting, the transcription, and the background removal happen with engines that run on your own machine. Things leave your PC only when you deliberately use an AI feature: a generation request, or image-to-video and the voice tools, which send the frame or clip audio you point them at to the provider whose key you brought, never to us.
- A desktop app for Windows, not a web uploader
- Transcription and cutout run locally on your machine
- Generation goes to your own provider, only when you ask
Your footage stays where it already is.
There is no import-to-the-cloud step. Cutroom reads the files on your disk in place, edits against them, and writes the export back to your disk. Nothing sits on a server waiting to be leaked.
Questions about how it works
No. Cutroom is a complete video editor you can drive entirely by hand. The AI is optional. You can cut, caption, grade, and export without ever connecting an agent.
When you connect an agent over MCP, you describe an edit in plain words and it calls Cutroom's tools to do it: trimming, removing silences, captions, colour, reframing, and more. It works on the same timeline you do, so you see every change as it happens.
Not for the editing. The editing, transcription, and background removal all run on your own machine, so your source files stay on your disk. The AI features you turn on are the exception: a generation request, and image-to-video, dubbing, voice isolation, voice change, and cloning, which send the frame or clip audio you choose to the provider whose key you brought. None of it ever comes to us.
Yes. Both do the same kind of edit on the same timeline. You can ask the agent for a rough cut, then finish it by hand, or the other way around.
A desktop app for Windows. There is no browser upload and no cloud project. It reads and writes the files on your own disk.
No. Cutroom keeps your edits as a decision list over the original media rather than re-encoding as you go, so the source files stay intact and you can undo anything.