Point FirstPass at your raw interviews, tell it the story you're after, and get back a first-pass edit that holds together — as writing and as spoken delivery — with a timeline ready to refine in your NLE.
Your footage never leaves your machine. Only the extracted audio and transcript are processed — video stays local, always.
Cut purely from a transcript and you get sentences that connect on paper but jolt in the ear — confident energy slammed into a mumble, a question's rising tone cut to a flat statement. FirstPass listens as well as reads.
Every candidate clip carries its vocal fingerprint — pitch movement, energy, pacing, where the voice rises and lands. FirstPass picks clips that flow into each other, so the cut sounds like one continuous thought.
Every pass exports a timeline (verified in DaVinci Resolve; Premiere XML supported) with markers where it matters, plus a rendered preview and full transcript. You stay the editor — FirstPass does the first 80%.
Analysis and rendering run on your computer. Your video is never uploaded — only an extracted audio track and its transcript are processed. We don't train on your content, ever.
One interview or several, multiple camera angles, separate audio recorders — Smart Import sorts what you give it and finds the reference audio.
A sentence or two about what the cut should say, plus a target length. Or ask "what's in this footage?" first and let FirstPass map the themes for you.
Watch the preview, inspect every clip choice and why it was made, request refinements, then send the timeline to your NLE for the final polish.
A coherent narrative at your target length, chosen for content and delivery, with the reasoning behind every clip.
The strongest takes grouped by theme, laid out with markers and gaps — a selects reel your rough cut can grow from.
Keep every idea, lose the stumbles — a content-complete clean-up that trims filler and false starts without touching your story.
Ranked candidates for 9:16 social cuts, pulled from the same analyzed footage — no second pass over the material.
Free to download. Sign in inside the app to start your trial — no card needed for your two free cuts.
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