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Video marketing for financial advisors: the approved script becomes the finished video
A prospect does not hand their savings to a website. They hand them to a person they feel they have met, and video is how they meet you before the intro call. Cutroom takes one talking take, filmed at your desk, and returns a finished 9:16 video with captions in about a minute. The part built for your profession: the whole edit happens on the transcript, so every word of the finished video is readable as text before it posts. Here is how it works, what it costs, and what it will not do.
- From upload until the finished edit comes back
- ~1 min
- One finished one minute video, batch plus export
- 120 CR
- Free in your first 7 days, no card
- 3 videos
- To cancel, under Settings
- 1 click
Trust is the product, and a face builds it faster than a whitepaper
Advisory is the one business where what is being bought is trust itself. The prospect is deciding who gets to see everything they own.
A whitepaper proves you can write. A video proves you exist: how you explain things, whether you rush, what sitting across from you for twenty years might feel like.
That is why the referred prospect watches your videos before booking the call. Not to learn about markets. To check the person.
The blocker was never conviction. It is that one finished video costs an editing evening, and in a regulated firm, a review pass on top of it.
The edit happens on the transcript. Your review culture already works this way.
Advisors review the words before the camera rolls. That habit is exactly the shape of this editor.
Film the approved script as one take, up to 3 minutes. Cutroom transcribes every word, writes the hook, places b-roll on the words that need showing, tightens the dead air, drops the ums, and burns in captions in your pick of six styles.
You direct on the transcript, never on a timeline. Delete a line you no longer want and the cut rebuilds around it. Fix a misheard word. The entire finished video sits in front of you as text before it goes anywhere.
One honest boundary: Cutroom is not a compliance tool. Approval and record keeping stay with your firm's process, exactly where your compliance officer wants them.
From an approved script to a posted video
A one minute video comes to 120 credits, batch and export together.
Film one take
Up to 3 minutes, at your desk
Batch
100 credits: transcript, director pass, b-roll search
Direct on the words
The disclosure stays in, word for word
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.
What one take becomes
The finished video is not a static face. B-roll lands on exactly the words that describe something: say quarterly rebalancing and a chart clip covers that phrase, not the sentence next to it.
The b-roll search draws on millions of free stock clips, and anything you upload once, your office, your whiteboard, your charts, is reusable in every video after that.
Punch-in zooms and transitions keep the pace up. Captions carry the argument for everyone watching on mute, which on LinkedIn is most of the room.
The export is a 9:16 MP4 at 1080 by 1920, the shape LinkedIn's mobile feed, Reels, Shorts and TikTok all play full screen.
What a month costs, counted in credits
A batch is 100 credits: the transcript, the director pass and the b-roll search. Export adds 20 credits per finished minute, so a 30 second video is about 110 credits and a one minute video is 120.
Try it 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.
Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits. That covers about 10 one minute videos, or about 11 at 30 seconds, with nothing on the picture. Enough for a weekly video with room left to re-export.
Cancelling is one click under Settings, and everything you exported stays yours.
Basic is $39.99 for 2,500 credits and adds avatars and generated music. Premium is $79.99 for 5,000 credits.
Finished one minute videos a month, plan by plan
At 120 credits a video, batch plus export. Free exports carry a Cutroom mark.
- Free, first 7 days3 videos
- Lite, $19.99~10 videos
- Basic, $39.99~20 videos
Prefer to stay off camera? Read this first.
Some advisors will not film themselves, and there is a product answer: on Basic, $39.99 a month, an avatar presents instead. A portrait photo and a script in, a talking presenter out, at 350 credits a minute of render on top of the batch and export. Generated voice is 70 credits a minute.
Here is the honest counter. Your business is your face. A rendered presenter can carry a product explainer; it is a strange ambassador for the one service bought entirely on personal trust. If you use one, disclose it.
The cheaper fix is usually the third take. Nobody hires the smoothest presenter. They hire the person who can explain a drawdown without flinching.
What it will not do
The source take caps at 3 minutes. It will not clip your 45 minute webinar into shorts; it is built for the direct take, filmed on purpose.
Exports are 9:16 MP4 only. Right for LinkedIn's mobile feed and every vertical app, wrong for a 16:9 website hero or a conference screen.
Captions are burned into the picture. There is no SRT file export, no translation, and no teleprompter; you bring the script and the delivery.
If you post once a quarter, skip the subscription. A phone and the platform's own captions cost nothing and cover that pace.
Questions people ask
- Does this fit a compliance pre-approval workflow?
- Yes, better than a timeline editor does. Film the script exactly as approved, and the transcript shows every word of the finished cut as text before it posts. Approval itself and record keeping stay with your firm's own process; Cutroom does not archive or approve anything.
- Do I have to be on camera?
- Somebody has to talk. On Basic, $39.99 a month, an avatar can present from a portrait photo and a script, at 350 credits a minute of render, plus generated voice at 70 credits a minute. It is the expensive route, and in a business bought on personal trust, your own face earns more per dollar.
- What does one video cost?
- About 110 credits for 30 seconds and 120 for a minute: a 100 credit batch plus export at 20 credits per finished minute. Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits, about 10 one minute videos, cancel in one click.
- Can it cut my webinar or podcast into clips?
- No. The source take caps at 3 minutes. A fresh 60 second answer beats hunting for one inside an hour of recording anyway, because the fresh take can be scripted and approved before the camera rolls.
- Will a vertical video work on LinkedIn?
- Yes. LinkedIn's feed plays vertical video at full height on mobile, where most of the scrolling happens. What a 9:16 file is wrong for is a website hero or a slide deck; Cutroom does not export landscape.
- Is there a plan without a monthly charge?
- The way in has none. 3 finished videos are free in your first 7 days, with 600 credits and no card asked for anywhere before the app. They export with a Cutroom mark across the middle. Lite at $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits removes the mark, cancelling is one click under Settings, and everything you exported stays yours.
One approved script, one take at the desk, and a finished captioned video back in about a minute. The review culture stays intact. The editing evening goes.