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A video editor for car detailers: talk through the job once, post it the same day
Detailers film more than almost any trade. Foam, extraction, 50/50 shots. Most of it never gets posted. The edit costs an evening, and the day already took nine hours. Cutroom turns one spoken take about the job into a finished 9:16 video with captions, back in about a minute. Here is what it needs from you and what it costs.
- From upload to a finished edit
- ~1 min
- One finished 30-second video
- ~110 CR
- Finished videos in your first 7 days, no card
- 3 free
Nine hours on your feet does not leave an evening for editing
A full correction day runs eight or nine hours.
You still filmed. The snow foam draping the bonnet. The iron remover turning purple. The 50/50 under the LED bar.
Then the quote replies, dinner, and the edit never happens.
Count what is on your phone from the last month, then count what you actually posted.
The gap is not discipline. An edit in a normal app costs an evening, and the week does not have one spare.
Talk for 90 seconds at handover. That is the whole shoot.
Prop the phone on the workbench and say what you would tell the customer.
What the car came in with. What you did about it. How long it took. What a job like this costs.
One take, up to three minutes. No script beyond that.
Upload it in the browser. There is no app to install.
Cutroom transcribes the take, drafts the cut, places b-roll on the words and hands back a finished 9:16 MP4, 1080 by 1920, captions burned in.
The edit comes back in about a minute.
One take to a posted video
Two steps cost credits. The rest is talking and deciding.
Film
90 seconds at handover
Batch
100 CR: transcript, cut, b-roll
Direct on the words
Highlight, swap, delete
Export
20 CR per finished minute
This is the whole editor
Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on those exact words. No timeline, no keyframes, no layers.
Your foam and extraction clips land on your own words
The transcript is the editor. You read your own sentences and point at them.
Highlight the phrase where you describe the wheels, and a clip lands on exactly those words. Move it if you disagree.
Swap in your own footage. Ten seconds of foam, ten of the extractor, filmed on the same phone.
Delete a line you do not want and the cut rebuilds around it.
Captions come in six styles, and they matter here. Most people scroll with the sound off, and a before-and-after needs the words to land anyway.
What a posted video costs, in credits
A batch is 100 credits. That covers the transcription, the director pass and the b-roll search.
Export is 20 credits per finished minute. A 30-second video lands at about 110 credits.
Basic is $39.99 a month for 2,500 credits. About 20 finished videos.
Premium is $79.99 for 5,000 credits. About 40.
Your first 3 finished videos are free, in your first 7 days, with 600 credits and 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, first 7 days3 videos
- Basic, $39.99about 20
- Premium, $79.99about 40
The flat facts to plan a week around
Somebody talks on camera, and it should be you. A detailer the customer has already seen and heard gets handed the keys more easily than a logo does.
One take caps at three minutes. One project makes one finished video.
Every export is a 9:16 vertical MP4. That is the shape Reels, TikTok and Shorts want. There is no horizontal export.
It runs in the browser, on the footage your phone already holds.
Film the talking take at handover, while the result is behind you. The edit is back before the customer has left the street.
Questions people ask
- Do I have to talk on camera?
- Yes. One talking-head take is the input. It does not need a script; say what you told the customer at handover. B-roll covers much of the runtime, so the camera is not on your face for long.
- Can I use my own clips of the wash?
- Yes. Upload them, then highlight the words where you describe that part of the job and put the clip there. The b-roll search in the batch covers anything you did not film.
- How long does one video take, start to finish?
- Film for 90 seconds. Upload. The edit comes back in about a minute. Your own pass, moving a clip or deleting a line, is minutes more. The whole loop fits inside the handover.
- What does the free tier include?
- 3 finished videos in your first 7 days, with 600 credits and 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.
- Does it make long YouTube videos?
- No. Output is one 9:16 vertical MP4 and source takes cap at three minutes. It is built for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, which is where a local customer meets a detailer.
- Who should not buy this?
- Detailers whose entire feed is music-over-foam montages with nobody speaking. An ordinary editor covers those. The moment you explain a job out loud, this is the faster route, at about 110 credits a video.
One spoken take at handover. Your foam shots on your own words, captions on, back in about a minute. The clips sitting on your phone finally get posted.