Supacut

A closer look at Supacut

Supacut is a desktop app for video editors working with interview-heavy footage. It helps you explore themes, compare answers across interviews, surface strong soundbites, and build your selects before the edit, starting from interviews imported with their original camera files. You stay in control: Supacut is not an NLE and does not edit the story for you, and you finish the film in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro via XML or FCPXML export. Original files stay on disk and are never modified, and AI features run through an API key you provide rather than a Supacut media server.

Editorial guidance based on published documentation. The workflow below is a suggested starting point, not a measured product result.

When to choose Supacut

• Video editors who regularly work with multiple interviews and hours of unscripted footage, such as documentary, branded, corporate, or customer-story work, since Supacut is built for the work before the edit.
• Editors who want to stay in control of the story, since Supacut explores and organizes material but does not edit the story for you, and you finish the film in the editor you already use.

When to choose something else

• Editors who want an all-in-one editor that cuts the story for them, since Supacut states plainly it is not an NLE and does not edit the story for you.
• Editors who want Supacut to host or modify their media, since original files stay on disk, Supacut does not modify them, and footage, transcripts, and project files stay on your machine.

A practical starting workflow

1. Import interviews: add each interviewee with their original camera files; originals stay where they are.
2. Explore the story: analyze interviews to find themes (pillars), compare answers across interviews, and surface strong soundbites.
3. Shortlist and organize: build your selects before the edit, choosing Supacut-found themes or your own pillars.
4. Export XML for Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, or FCPXML for Final Cut Pro, and finish the film in your editor.

Check before committing

• AI features use an API key you provide; those calls go to that provider, not to a Supacut media server.
• The browser tools on the site are not the desktop app: they send transcript text to be analyzed, while the desktop app keeps media local.
• The desktop app is $39 per year with updates included while the subscription is active; the $ amount carries no named currency on the page read, so no charge fact is recorded.

Common questions

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