Why
Short-form editing is a pipeline, not a canvas. Most of the work — pulling the script out of a source, grabbing the screenshots, transcribing, cutting to the transcript, rendering — is mechanical, and a timeline UI makes you do it by hand. ReelCut runs the pipeline and leaves you the parts that need judgement.
The pipeline
One command takes an article through to a publishable Reel:
- Script — turn a source article into a spoken script.
- Screenshots — capture the visuals the script refers to.
- Transcribe — record the voiceover and align it.
- Cut — trim to the transcript, drop the dead air.
- Render — burn captions and export.
Each stage is a separate step you can re-run on its own, so a bad take costs you one stage rather than the whole video.