Supacut is an AI-assisted tool for video editors, focused on exploring, organizing, and discovering the most valuable content in interview material before editing begins. It is suited to editing work involving large amounts of interview footage, including documentaries, brand videos, corporate communications, and unscripted programs.
Purpose
Supacut's core positioning is to help editors quickly find and organize the strongest material from hours of interview footage before they start editing. Interview footage is often disorganized, with the most valuable content scattered across different voices, repeated points, and unfinished answers. Supacut intervenes before the timeline, helping users discover stories and organize material.
Main Capabilities
- Import interview material: Import transcripts and footage into Supacut, where the material is organized and made explorable, while the original files remain in place. Users can add their original camera files by interviewee.
- Theme analysis: Analyze interview material to discover the main topic areas within it. Users can choose to let Supacut automatically discover themes and produce the most relevant thematic pillars, or provide their own themes and have Supacut classify clips into those themes.
- Theme grouping and navigation: Group interview material by theme, allowing users to see what people are talking about and quickly jump to the original footage behind each idea. Thematic pillars link original quotes with speakers and sources; Supacut does not just summarize interviews, it also helps users navigate the actual material.
- Interview comparison: Compare answers across different interviews.
- Soundbite discovery: Discover strong soundbites.
- Built-in preview player: Use the preview panel to play clips in sequence.
- Build selects: Choose the material you want to bring into the edit, preserving the original source, speaker, and timecode.
- Export editable sequences: Export XML with in and out points to Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro, supporting all three editing applications.
How to Use
After purchasing the app, users add their own API key. AI runs on the user's own account, rather than through a metered plan controlled by Supacut. Users pay usage costs directly to the model provider. After importing interview material, users can choose to let Supacut automatically discover themes or use their own existing thematic pillars, and the material will be classified into that structure. Users browse clips through the preview panel, build selects, and finally export them as editable edit sequences to supported editing applications.
Use Cases
Supacut is suitable for interview-intensive footageVideo editors working with footage, including documentaries, brand videos, corporate promotional videos, and unscripted programs. It reduces the tedious work of watching, logging, comparing, and searching interview footage, giving editors more time to shape stories and edit.
Limitations and Notes
- Supacut is not a video editor; it does not modify original files, nor does it edit stories for users. It helps users explore interviews, organize footage, and present possibilities, but the final decision about what content makes the cut is up to users themselves. Users always remain in control of the edit; Supacut only assists in exploring footage.
- Whether footage or metadata is stored, and whether projects are compatible with Avid, is not clearly stated in the materials.
- Whether the annual plan includes support is only listed as a question in the FAQ in the materials, with no clear answer given.
Pricing Model
Supacut costs $39 per year, billed annually, and includes app updates. Users need to provide their own API keys. Users pay for the software, not for tokens, credits, or usage limits. Users pay model providers directly for actual usage and can scale functionality or entire interview projects without requesting more seats.
Feature List
- Unlimited projects
- Topic pillars
- Interview comparison
- Soundbite discovery
- Built-in preview player
- Original source context
- Supports Premiere Pro
- Supports DaVinci Resolve
- Supports Final Cut Pro
- Bring your own API key
- Billed annually, includes app updates
