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A video editor for hair salons: one talking take becomes a finished vertical video
Cutroom is a video editor for hair salons that needs one talking take and nothing else. Film yourself explaining the job, up to 3 minutes. A finished 9:16 video comes back in about a minute, captions burned in, your own clips placed on your words. Here is how it works, what it costs, and what it will not do.
- From upload to the finished edit
- ~1 min
- One finished 30-second video
- ~110 CR
- Free in your first 7 days, no card
- 3 videos
The reveal gets filmed. Posting it is the part that dies.
Salons film more than almost any other trade. The before at the consult. The foils going in. The spin at the reveal.
The client says yes to being posted. The clip is good. Then the day continues.
Posting needs an edit. Trimming, captions typed by hand, music, an app with a timeline.
That work lands at 9pm, after eight hours on your feet. Most nights it loses.
So the camera roll grows and the feed does not. The reveal from Tuesday is still in there. So are forty like it.
The fix is not more discipline at 9pm. The fix is an edit that costs about a minute.
One talking take in, one finished vertical video back
Film one talking take, up to 3 minutes. Say what you would say to the client in the chair.
Upload it in the browser. There is no app to install.
Cutroom transcribes the take, drafts the cut, runs the b-roll search and burns in captions. The edit comes back in about a minute.
Out comes one finished vertical MP4. 1080 by 1920, the shape Reels, TikTok and Shorts all want.
The transcript is the editor. Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on exactly those words. Move it if you disagree.
Captions come in six styles. Most people scroll with the sound off, so the words carry the video either way.
One take to a posted video
Four steps. Two of them cost credits.
One talking take
Up to 3 minutes, filmed on a phone
The batch
100 CR: transcript, director pass, b-roll search
Direct on the words
Highlight a phrase, a clip lands on it
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 own before and after clips land on your own words
Your strongest footage already exists. It is the before you filmed at the consult and the reveal you filmed at the end.
Upload those clips to your library. They sit beside the b-roll search in the editor.
Now film a take about the job. Say what she came in with. Say what you did and how long it took.
Highlight the words where you describe the before. The before clip lands on exactly those words.
Highlight the reveal line. The spin lands there.
The result is you explaining your own work over your own footage. No trending audio required. No other salon can post it.
- The before clip sits where you describe the problem
- The reveal sits where you describe the result
- Six caption styles, because the words do the selling on mute
About 110 credits a video, and the first three are free
A batch is 100 credits. That covers transcription, the director pass and the b-roll search.
Export is 20 credits per finished minute. A 30-second video comes to about 110 credits.
The first 7 days are free. 3 finished videos, 600 credits, no card. Free exports carry a Cutroom mark across the middle.
Lite is $19.99 a month for 1,250 credits and removes the mark. Basic is $39.99 for 2,500 credits, about 20 videos a month.
Premium is $79.99 for 5,000 credits, for a salon feeding more than one chair's worth of content.
Credits per month, by plan
A finished 30-second video is about 110 credits. Basic covers about 20 a month.
- Free, first 7 days600 CR
- Basic, $39.992,500 CR
- Premium, $79.995,000 CR
A posting week that survives a fully booked chair
Monday morning is the quiet shift in most books. Use twenty minutes of it.
Film three takes back to back. The correction story. An aftercare answer. This week's reveal.
Each take is minutes of talking, and each edit is back in about a minute. The first one can be posted before your ten o'clock arrives.
The plain facts to plan around. Every export is a 9:16 vertical MP4, so a square crop for a site header comes from elsewhere.
One take becomes one finished video. Somebody has to talk on camera. A silent montage cut to a trending song is not what this makes.
That requirement is also why it works. A stylist explaining a correction sounds like no other salon on the feed.
Questions people ask
- Do I have to be on camera?
- Yes. One talking take is the input. No script, no studio. Say what you said in the chair an hour ago, phone at eye height. Most stylists find the talking easy and the editing hard. The editing is the part that is gone.
- Can I use my own before and after clips?
- Yes. Upload them to your library, then highlight the words where you describe the job and the clip lands on them. The b-roll search covers everything around your own footage.
- Do clients need to agree to being posted?
- Yes, and get it in writing. A message is enough. Ask at the consult, when saying yes is easy, not after the reveal is already on your feed.
- What does the free week include?
- 3 finished videos and 600 credits in your first 7 days, with no card. Free exports carry a Cutroom mark across the middle. Lite at $19.99 a month removes it.
- Who should not use this?
- A salon that only posts silent montages cut to trending audio. Cutroom edits one talking take into one finished video. If nobody in the salon will speak on camera, a phone app covers the montage.
The reveal you filmed on Tuesday can be posted on Wednesday. One talking take, about a minute of editing, one finished vertical video. The first 3 are free.