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The video editing app for barbers: talk through the cut, get a finished video back
Barbers film more than almost any trade. Fades, tapers, before and afters, whole transformations, all sitting in a camera roll. The edit is why they never post. Cutroom takes one talking take, lays your own cutting clips on your words, burns in captions, and returns a 9:16 video in about a minute. Here is how it works, what it costs, and what it does not do.
- From upload to the edit coming back
- ~1 min
- A finished 30 second video, batch plus export
- 110 credits
- Finished videos in your first 7 days, no card
- 3 free
The footage exists. The edit is why it never posts.
A barber's camera roll is full. The fade from Tuesday. The beard lineup a client asked to see mid-cut. The transformation that made the whole shop turn around.
Almost none of it goes up. Posting means an evening in an editing app after ten hours on your feet. Cutting clips, timing captions, picking music.
So the shop with the best work in the neighbourhood posts twice a month. The shop up the road posts three times a week and is the one a stranger finds first.
The problem was never the footage. It is what one edit costs in evenings.
Talk through the cut once. Your clips land on your words.
Upload one talking take, up to 3 minutes. Film it at the chair on your phone. Sixty seconds is plenty.
Cutroom transcribes it, drafts the cut, and returns a finished vertical video in about a minute. Captions burned in, in your pick of six styles.
The transcript is the editor. Highlight the phrase where you describe the skin fade, and your clip of that fade lands on exactly those words. Disagree with a placement, move it.
It runs in the browser. No app, no timeline, no keyframes. You approve the edit between clients, on the same phone that filmed it.
One take at the chair to a posted video
A 30 second video comes to about 110 credits, batch and export together.
Film one take
Up to 3 minutes, on your phone
Batch
100 credits: transcript, director pass, b-roll search
Point at the words
Your fade clip lands on the phrase
Export
20 credits per finished minute, 9:16 MP4
This is the whole editor
Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on those exact words. No timeline, no keyframes, no layers.
The arithmetic, in credits you can count
A batch is 100 credits. That covers the transcript, the director pass and the b-roll search. Export adds 20 credits per finished minute.
A 30 second video lands at about 110 credits. Basic is $39.99 a month for 2,500 credits, which comes to about 20 finished videos. Premium is $79.99 for 5,000 credits.
You start free. 3 finished videos in your first 7 days, on 600 credits, no card. They export with a Cutroom mark across the middle. Basic removes it.
Finished 30 second videos a month, by plan
At about 110 credits a video. Free exports carry a Cutroom mark; Basic removes it.
- Free, first 7 days3 videos
- Basic, $39.99~20 videos
- Each $39.99 top-up~20 more
Your before and afters become the b-roll
The clips you already film are the raw material. Upload them once to your workspace library and they are available to every video after that.
Say the words in your take. The transformation this client asked for. Highlight that phrase and the before and after lands on it. The b-roll search adds millions of free clips for everything around your chair.
The flat facts to plan around. One take in, one finished video out per project. Takes cap at 3 minutes. Exports are 9:16 MP4, 1080 by 1920, the shape Reels, TikTok and Shorts want.
Somebody has to talk. A cut can be copied by the shop up the road. The way you explain it cannot.
Five videos you can film this week, one take each
Every one of these is a single talking take at the chair. No script, no second camera, no studio.
Film them on your slowest morning. Five takes is about 15 minutes of talking, and nearly two weeks of posts.
- The explained transformation. What the client walked in with, what you did, why it suits their face.
- The chair question. Answer the one you hear every week. How often a skin fade needs redoing. What to ask for when a hairline is going back.
- The product one. What you actually put in a client's hair and what it does. Name it.
- The booking one. What a first visit looks like, what it costs, how to book.
- The local one. Name your neighbourhood, say who you cut, show the shop.
Questions people ask
- Do I have to be on camera?
- Yes, one talking take is the input. It can be filmed at the chair in a spare minute. Up to 45 percent of the runtime then gets covered by your clips, so the video is far from a static face.
- Can I use my own footage of my cuts?
- Yes. Upload your clips to the workspace library once. Highlight the phrase in your transcript where a clip belongs and it lands on exactly those words. Swap any placement you disagree with.
- What does the free tier include?
- 3 finished videos in your first 7 days, on 600 credits, with no card. They export with a Cutroom mark across the middle. Basic at Lite at $19.99 a month removes the mark and holds 2,500 credits, about 20 videos.
- Does it work on my phone?
- It runs in the browser, so there is no app to install. Film on your phone, upload the take, direct the edit, download the MP4. The edit itself comes back in about a minute.
- How long can the video be?
- The take you upload caps at 3 minutes. Export costs 20 credits per finished minute, so shorter is also cheaper. For Reels and TikTok, under a minute is the length to aim at.
- Is it right for every barber video?
- It is built for videos where you talk. A silent transformation cut to a song is a phone editor job. The moment you explain the work in your own voice, this is the faster route, at about 110 credits a video.
One take at the chair in. A finished 9:16 video out, your own cuts on your words, captions burned in, about a minute later. The editing evening is gone.