Use case
5 Reasons Creators Let Cutroom Edit Their TikToks
The talking is yours. The cutting, the b-roll and the captions are not your problem any more.
- caption styles, and you pick where they sit
- 6
- transitions between shots, placed for you
- 5
- the longest take you can upload
- 3 min
A face for ninety seconds does not hold
You know the feeling: you watch your own video back and it is you, talking, for a minute and a half with nothing else happening. So you go looking for something to cut away to, and that is where the evening goes.
Cutroom reads what you said and puts the clips on the words that need them. Then it cuts, captions and tightens the whole thing while you make coffee.
Here are the five reasons people use it.
Where a finished TikTok lands
Upright at 1080 by 1920, captions burned in, nothing to crop before you post.
Something to look at on every claim you make
A talking video holds attention when the picture changes on the thing being said, not on a timer. That is the whole difference between b-roll that works and b-roll that feels bolted on.
Cutroom puts the shot on the words it belongs to and shows you exactly where it landed, so you can see the timing rather than guess at it.
And the shots can be your own footage, which is what stops your TikTok looking like everyone else's.
The picture changes on the claim, not on a clock
Five words get one shot. Drag it and it follows the words, not a point in time.
This is the whole editor
Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on those exact words. No timeline, no keyframes, no layers.
You never open a clip site
This is the part that eats the afternoon: opening a clip site, typing a word, scrolling past four hundred results that nearly fit. Cutroom reads your transcript and does the searching itself, across millions of free clips.
You do not type a search and you do not pick from a grid. It takes the phrase you actually said and goes and finds something that matches it.
The clips come from Pexels and Pixabay, they are free to use, and searching does not cost anything extra: it happens inside the same batch that writes down what you said and builds the cut.
The sentence does the searching
You said the words. That is the whole search query.
Fix the one thing that bothers you
The usual complaint about AI editors is not that the first result is bad. It is that fixing it means doing the whole thing again. Here you change the one bit that bothers you and the rest stays where it was.
Fix a word it misheard. Swap a shot. Move the captions up because they are sitting on your face. Pick a different caption style. Turn the music down.
All of it is free, all of it is undoable, and nothing you already fixed comes undone.
One change, and the rest holds still
You move the one thing that bothers you. The rest of the edit stays exactly where it was.
Six caption styles, and the timing comes from your voice
Clean, Bold, Karaoke, Meme, Editorial and Minimal, with the colour, the weight, the size and the position under your control. They are part of the picture itself, not a separate subtitle file, so they survive being downloaded and reposted.
The timing is measured from the sound of your own voice, so a word on screen never lands on the wrong word and never stays up while the picture changes. The AI is not allowed near the timing at all.
Music is one tap away and starts switched off on purpose: the first thing you hear back should be your own voice. Turn it on and a lively read gets a lively bed.
- Clean: one line in a pill. Out of the way.
- Bold: huge condensed caps with a hard shadow.
- Karaoke: a marker box on the word you are saying.
- Meme: white outlined text, top and bottom.
Meme, one of the six packs
White outlined text, top and bottom, burned into the picture and timed to your voice word for word.
It comes back in about a minute
Upload and go do something else. The cuts, the transitions and the captions are done before you look at it. The ums are out and the long silences are shorter, and nothing is ever cut halfway through a word.
Transitions between shots come with it: a whip pan, a punch-in, a glitch, a light sweep, placed where they fit rather than everywhere.
You did not set any of that up.
What it will not do
Your take has to be under three minutes and shot upright with sound on it. Landscape footage is refused at upload, before a credit is charged.
One size comes back: 1080 by 1920. There is no 4K and no dearer plan that exports a bigger file.
The free plan is three videos, editor only, and those three carry the Cutroom mark across the middle. Nothing else about them is cut down: the same editor, the same b-roll library, the same length.
Questions people ask
- If I make a TikTok, can I actually download it, or is there a paywall at the end?
- You download it. Exporting costs credits, and the price sits on the Export button before you press it, so nothing about the bill turns up at the end. The free plan gives you three videos, and those three carry the Cutroom mark across the middle. On Basic and Premium there is nothing of ours on the file. There is no card at the front door, and you get seven days to walk through it: the free tier is three finished videos, with 600 credits, which covers those three edits and re-exporting them after you change a caption.
- Will it work with my kind of video?
- Cutroom takes one upright video of a person talking, up to three minutes, with sound on it. You get back one upright video at 1080 by 1920. Landscape footage is refused at upload, before a single credit is charged. A wide take inside an upright frame is a strip between black bars, and we would rather stop you than sell you that. A video with no sound is refused for the same reason. There is no widescreen export and no 4K; a 4K upload comes back at 1080p, the same as everyone else's. If you shoot horizontal, or your videos run twenty minutes, this is not your tool yet, and we would rather you knew that here than after paying.
- Where do the b-roll clips come from, and do they cost extra?
- From Pexels and Pixabay, millions of them, free to use and included. Searching them costs nothing on top: it happens inside the same batch that writes down what you said and builds the cut. Your own uploaded clips are reached for first, and they cost nothing either.
- How many videos do I actually get for this?
- Two charges make an ad, and you see both before you spend them. Cutting one upload is 100 credits: writing out what you said, the edit itself, and the b-roll search. Exporting is 20 credits for every finished minute, charged for the length you actually export, so a thirty-second ad is 10. That makes a thirty-second ad 110 credits from upload to finished file. Basic gives 2,500 credits a month, which is about twenty finished ads. Everything between those two charges is free: editing, previewing, undoing, searching for clips, uploading your own footage, changing your mind. Exporting the same cut again unchanged is free too. Credits you do not use stay in the account.
- Can I post what comes out, or will I still be in there for an hour?
- Two things make the difference, and both are structural rather than a promise about quality. First, Cutroom does not pick which parts of your video to keep. Your whole take stays in, in order. It tightens the dead air and drops the ums, and it only ever cuts where a sentence ends, never mid-word. Second, when it gets something wrong you fix it by pointing, not by editing. Highlight a phrase and a clip lands over exactly those words. Delete a line and the cut rebuilds around it. Correct a word it misheard and every caption of that word changes. All of it is free, all of it is undoable, and there is no timeline to learn.
- Does this work on my phone, or do I need a computer?
- It works on a phone. Cutroom is a website, not an app. There is no iPhone version and no Android version, so there is no feature that lives on one device and not the other. A big screen is more comfortable for marking up your words, and the app says so once, but nothing is locked away.
- Does this work in my language, or only English?
- Eight languages today, by name: English (US), English (UK), Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Dutch and Italian. You pick yours from a list when you upload. If your language is not one of those eight, Cutroom will not do a good job for you yet. We would rather write that down than sell you a subscription and let you find out.
- If it turns out not to be what I thought, do I get my money back?
- Your first charge: yes, in full, if you tell us within seven days that you did not mean to be billed. No argument. Later charges: we refund unused subscription time when something went wrong on our side, and we say so plainly when we think it did not. Credits already spent on finished videos are not refundable. That video was made and the machines were paid at the moment it ran. There is one case where we say no, and it is written on the refunds page rather than discovered by you. And if an export fails on our side, you do not need to ask at all: the credits come back on their own.
Upload a video you already filmed and watch where the b-roll lands. Three finished videos free in your first seven days, no card. They carry a Cutroom mark; Lite at $19.99 a month removes it.