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The full Cutroom tutorial, step by step
One clip of someone talking goes in, and this video follows it through every step until the finished file comes out: the template, the captions, the b-roll, the emojis and the music.
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What the video shows
The tutorial starts at New project. You pick how the video should be cut (Straight cut, Punch, Flow or Native), choose the language you speak and upload one clip of up to 3 minutes. Cutroom then writes down every word and builds the edit with b-roll already on it. On Punch and Native it also cuts the filler words and tightens the pauses; Straight cut and Flow keep the take as you said it.
When the edit is ready, the editor opens with your words on the left, the controls in the middle and the video on the right. Captions are already on. The video shows how to try the caption styles on your own footage before you choose one, how to change the weight, the motion and the position, and how to give a few words a style of their own.
The b-roll part shows where a clip can sit (full screen, a small card, a band along the bottom or a card under the chin), how it comes in, and how to swap a clip for another one, for free stock or for your own footage. It also shows how to put a clip on words that have none.
It ends with the emojis, the music, which goes quiet by itself whenever someone talks, and the export: a vertical 1080 by 1920 MP4 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
Transcript
What is said in the video, word for word.
- 0:00Short form UGC, spokesperson videos, fully edited from just one take.
- 0:07Someone talks to camera, you drop that one clip into Cutroom, and it comes back cut with captions and b-roll already in.
- 0:15Cutroom makes it possible.
- 0:16Here's how it works.
- 0:17Click new project and pick how you want it cut.
- 0:20Hover over a card and it plays that style.
- 0:23Straight cut, punch, flow, or native.
- 0:25I'm going with punch.
- 0:26Pick the language you speak, drop in your clip, vertical works best, up to three minutes, and hit start.
- 0:32Now Cutroom does the boring part.
- 0:34It writes down every word, finds your hook, cuts the filler words, tightens the pauses, builds the edit, and puts b-roll on top.
- 0:41It takes about five minutes.
- 0:42You get an email when it's done, and the editor opens by itself.
- 0:46Your words are on the left, the controls in the middle, your video on the right, and anything crossed out in the transcript has been cut.
- 0:52Captions are already on.
- 0:54To change the look, open captions and move your mouse over the styles.
- 0:58There are 40 and each one shows up on your own video before you click anything.
- 1:02One click and it's the style for the whole video.
- 1:05From there, you can make the text thicker, choose how it moves, still, soft, or hard, and where it sits.
- 1:10Moving puts every line in a new spot, so it never covers your face.
- 1:14You can change the colors too from 16 swatches.
- 1:17Want one line to stand out?
- 1:18Drag across those words and give just them a different style.
- 1:21And if it misheard a word, double click it and type the right one.
- 1:25The b-roll is already in.
- 1:26Cutroom read what was said and put a clip on the words that needed showing.
- 1:30Click any clip to choose where it shows.
- 1:32Full screen, a small card, a band along the bottom, or a card that slides in under the chin, and how it comes in.
- 1:38A cut, a whip, a punch, a glitch, or a sweep.
- 1:42Don't like a clip?
- 1:43Swap in one of the ready alternatives or search.
- 1:46The box is already filled with what's being said, and you get free stock clips next to your own library.
- 1:51Plus, you can upload your own footage.
- 1:53Need a clip somewhere new?
- 1:54Drag across the words, say what we should see, and pick one.
- 1:57In the emoji tab, you see the emojis Cutroom already put in, now and then on a word that earns one.
- 2:03Tap any word to add one of 40 and swap or remove them from the list.
- 2:07Then music.
- 2:08Open the music tab, play a track, switch it on, and set the volume to low, medium, or high.
- 2:13The music goes quiet by itself every time someone talks, so the voice always comes through.
- 2:18And on the music page, you can make your own track just by describing the sound.
- 2:22Hit export video, give it a name, and a couple of minutes later, your MP4 is ready to download.
- 2:28Vertical, 1080 by 1920.
- 2:32Ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
- 2:34One take in, a finished video out.
- 2:37Your first video is free.
- 2:38Try it at cutroomai.com.
Try it on your own take
Upload one clip of you talking and get the finished vertical video back.