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A video editor for personal trainers: one take in, one finished video out
You film more than you post. Most trainers do. Cutroom is a video editor for personal trainers that takes one talking-head take, filmed on a phone between sessions. It returns a finished 9:16 video, b-roll placed and captions burned in, in about a minute. Here is what it costs, how the edit works, and what it does not do.
- Longest take you upload
- 3 min
- Until the finished edit comes back
- ~1 min
- One finished 30 second video
- 110 CR
The clips get filmed. The editing is why they never get posted.
Your camera roll is full. A squat cue filmed between two clients. A client's first pull-up. A myth you corrected out loud at the desk and meant to say again to camera.
The filming is the easy half of your day. You are already in a gym, in decent light, saying these sentences for the fourth time this week.
The editing is the other half. It happens at night, after the last session, in an app with a timeline. Trimming, syncing captions, hunting for a cutaway shot. Per clip.
So the page goes quiet. Not because you have nothing to say. Because posting costs an evening. Your evenings are already spent.
The fix is not more discipline. It is making one video cost minutes instead of an evening.
The transcript is the editor. Highlight a phrase and the b-roll lands on it.
Upload one talking-head take, up to three minutes. It works in the browser, no app to install.
Cutroom transcribes the take, drafts the cut, places b-roll against your words and burns in the captions. The edit comes back in about a minute.
You review it on the transcript, not on a timeline. Highlight the phrase where you say deadlift and a clip lands on exactly those words. Disagree with a placement and you move it.
Captions come in six styles. Most viewers meet your advice with the sound off, so the words are on screen from the first frame.
Out comes one finished vertical MP4, 1080 by 1920. The shape Reels, TikTok and Shorts all want. Upload it and go coach.
One session gap, start to posted
The whole production fits between two clients.
Film one take
Up to 3 minutes, on a phone
Upload in the browser
No app, no install
Batch
100 CR: transcript, director pass, b-roll search
Direct on the words
Highlight a phrase, move a clip
Export
20 CR 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.
About 110 credits a 30 second video. About 20 a month on Basic.
A batch is 100 credits. That covers the transcript, the director pass and the b-roll search.
Export costs 20 credits per finished minute. A 30 second video lands at about 110 credits all in.
Basic is $39.99 a month for 2,500 credits. That is about 20 finished videos, or five a week with credits left over.
Premium is $79.99 for 5,000 credits, about 45 videos. More than most trainers will ever want to post.
The first 3 finished videos are free, in your first 7 days, on 600 credits. No card. Free exports carry a Cutroom mark across the middle. Basic removes it.
Finished 30 second videos a month, by plan
At about 110 credits per video. The first 3 are free in your first 7 days, no card.
- Free, first 7 days3 videos
- Basic, $39.99about 20
- Premium, $79.99about 45
Three videos that suit a trainer, and the sentence that opens each
The form fix. One mistake, one cue, one demonstration. Open on the mistake: your lower back hurts on deadlifts because the bar drifts away from you.
The client question. Take the question you answered three times this week and answer it once to camera. Use the same words you used on the gym floor. If clients ask it, searchers type it.
The myth. Name it, say what is true, give the one action to take instead. You correct myths all day. Film one of them.
All three are talking-head takes. All three fit inside three minutes. That is the entire input Cutroom needs.
- One idea per video. The second idea is next week's video.
- Say the useful sentence first. Your name and your gym can wait for the caption.
- Film where you coach. The background proves you are a working trainer, no set needed.
Built for spoken video. The flat facts before you start.
Cutroom edits speech. It needs one person talking to a camera. A montage of gym clips with music and no speech is not a job for it. Film a talking take about that session instead, and place those clips over your words.
One project returns one finished video. The source take caps at three minutes. Output is 9:16 vertical, 1080 by 1920. There is no landscape export.
Your own footage works as b-roll. Film your gym floor once, twenty minutes on a phone. Upload the clips to your library and they are available to every video you make afterwards.
Someone has to be on camera, and for a trainer that someone should be you. Clients are choosing a person, not a logo. The take you film between sessions is the proof they are looking for.
Questions people ask
- How many videos a month do I get on Basic?
- About 20. A 30 second video costs about 110 credits, a batch at 100 plus export at 20 credits per finished minute, against 2,500 credits for $39.99 a month.
- Is there a watermark on the free videos?
- Yes. The 3 free videos export with a Cutroom mark across the middle. Lite at $19.99 removes it, and every paid export is clean.
- Can my own gym footage be the b-roll?
- Yes. Upload your clips to the workspace library, highlight the words they belong to, and they land on exactly that phrase. The free b-roll search covers everything you have not filmed.
- Do I have to be on camera?
- Yes. The input is one talking-head take, up to three minutes. A phone at eye height and a window is enough to start. No mic needed on day one.
- Does it work from my phone?
- Cutroom runs in the browser, no app. Film the take on your phone, upload it, and the edit is back in about a minute.
- Who should not buy this?
- Trainers whose whole feed is silent training montages set to music. There is no speech for the transcript to edit. Anything where you talk, a form fix, a Q and A, an offer, belongs here at about 110 credits for a 30 second video.
One take between two clients. A finished 9:16 video, captions burned in and b-roll on the right words, before your next session starts. Filming was never your problem.