ButterCut teaches Claude to edit video by assembling selects, scenes, and script cuts
No predatory pricing.
Edits footage.
Generates none.
Works with Premiere, Final Cut & Resolve.
Assembles selects, scenes and script edits.
Runs on your Claude subscription.
Claude can't hold a camera, but he's ready to pore over your footage, transcribe every word, and prepare every select and scene until you're ready to press publish.
Point ButterCut at any folder on your Mac. It picks up everything inside: interviews, A-roll, B-roll, screen recordings.
Claude transcribes every word with frame-accurate timing, watches each clip to log shot type and framing, and writes a summary for every clip.
Pitch a direction or let Claude propose two or three. It pulls the best takes, builds rough scenes, and exports a cut to your editor. You polish and take it to export.
Boy genius. Film-school grad. Also swimming in $194,358 of film school / pre-training debt, which is why he's yours, for cheap.
Your raw video files never leave your Mac or need to be uploaded. ButterCut visually looks at your footage and creates transcripts locally. Summaries of your footage, stills as well as transcripts are digested by Claude or ChatGPT.
ButterCut runs inside Claude Desktop, locally on your Mac — there’s no separate app to launch. See the full install guide for the step-by-step.
Final Cut (FCPXML 1.8), Premiere (xmeml), and DaVinci Resolve (xmeml). You can export any cut to any of these three editors.
ButterCut pulls frames from your video and detects scene changes. It also transcribes your footage and summarizes it so it can have an overview of all your footage in its head without having to memorize every word and frame.
It’s quite impressive the first time you see it! AI!
Unfortunately no. CapCut doesn’t support importing external files, so there’s no way to export to CapCut.
ButterCut works with desktop code apps — Codex, Claude CLI, OpenCode and others — but it works best in Claude Desktop. Outside of Claude Desktop, ButterCut Preview only works in the browser.
ButterCut reads footage through FFmpeg, so any video FFmpeg can decode — MP4, MOV, MKV, HEVC, AV1, and hundreds more — works.
What doesn’t work: ProRes, camera RAW formats like RED R3D and Blackmagic RAW, and DRM-protected files. Maybe someday.
Transcription runs on WhisperX, which pulls audio the same way: WAV, MP3, M4A, and the audio tracks inside your video files all work.
Not yet, but we’re currently testing a branch of code with Windows support. Email andrew@tubesalt.com (subject: Windows support) if you’re interested in early access.
