How to edit your raw talking videos.
Upload the raw talking-to-camera footage — restarts, dead air, and flubbed takes included — and Real Cut returns a finished short: best takes kept, pauses cut, captions on. You refine it by typing plain-language notes. The free tier covers 15 edit-minutes a month, and it edits the real you — it never generates a fake you.
01Drop in the takes you actually shot.
No prep. You film the way you already film — phone or camera, one take or eleven, restarts mid-sentence, the dog barking at minute four. Uploads are resumable, so a long file from a phone on hotel wi-fi survives the trip. The mess is not a problem to apologize for; the mess is the raw material.
02The model makes editing decisions, with reasons.
RCM 1 — our editing model, trained on professional editors narrating real editing decisions out loud — picks the take where the line landed, cuts the restarts and dead air, sets the pace, and adds captions. Duration is automatic by default — the footage decides how long the short should be — and you can set an exact length in seconds or minutes when you want one. Every cut carries a reason you can read. The approach, in plain words.
03Refine by typing, not by timeline.
“Tighter opening.” “Keep the pause before the answer.” “Lose the second example.” You type the note; the cut comes back changed, with what changed stated. Chat refinements are free on every plan — fair use is 20 recuts per cut, disclosed up front so the meter never surprises you.
04What it costs.
One credit is one minute of raw footage taken through a full first cut. A human editor charges $50–150 per finished short; Real Cut is priced so you can run it every day.
FREE: 15 EDIT-MINUTES / MONTH · SIGNUP GRANT: 30 CREDITS
CREATOR: $29/MO · 120 EDIT-MINUTES · 3 VARIATIONS PER UPLOAD
PRO: $79/MO · 400 EDIT-MINUTES · MCP ACCESS
TOP-UP: $10 = 40 CREDITS · FOUNDING: $19/$59 LOCKED · 500 SEATS
The full table, credit math, and data-use answers live on the pricing page. If you are weighing this against paying a person per video, we wrote an honest comparison.
05What makes it different.
It is not a video generator. AI-avatar tools make a synthetic person say words to a camera that never existed; Real Cut edits the person who actually spoke — it never generates a fake you. And it is not a template: it is trained on paid professional editors working through real projects and explaining every decision out loud, so what you get back is judgement, not a preset. Where the training data comes from.
Your footage stays yours: no perpetual content license, and nothing of yours trains the model silently — training is explicit, opt-in, never retroactive.
06Where it stands today.
Real Cut is in early access. RCM 1 is in training now; onboarding runs in small batches, and the finished examples on this site are cut by the human editors the model learns from — labeled as such, because that is the truth. Early users get founding pricing locked for as long as they stay subscribed, and their corrections are exactly the signal the model is designed to learn from.
How do I edit my raw talking videos without learning editing software?
Upload the raw takes to Real Cut. It reads the footage, keeps the takes where you got the line right, removes restarts and dead air, adds captions, and returns a finished short. To change something, you type the note in plain words — no timeline, no software to learn.
What does it cost to edit a talking-head video?
A human editor typically charges $50–150 per finished short. Real Cut’s free tier includes 15 edit-minutes a month; Creator is $29 a month for 120. One credit covers one minute of raw footage through a full first cut, and chat refinements are free on every plan.
Does Real Cut clone me or use an AI avatar?
No. Real Cut edits the footage you actually shot — it never generates a fake you. There are no avatars, no synthetic voices, and no invented frames. The person on screen is you, on your best take, with the mistakes cut out.
What footage does it work with?
Talking-to-camera footage from any camera, including a phone. Restarts, flubs, long pauses, and repeated takes are expected — that is exactly what it is built to cut. Output covers 9:16, 16:9, 1:1, and 4:5, so one recording can ship as a vertical short or a widescreen clip.
Is Real Cut available right now?
Real Cut is in early access, and RCM 1 — the editing model — is still in training. Onboarding runs in small batches and edges are rough. The examples on the site are cut by the professional editors the model learns from, and they are labeled as such.
Send us the raw takes.
If you record talking videos and the editing is the part that stalls you, this is the tool being built for exactly that. Early access is open in small batches.