Features

One editor for the whole job

From a raw recording to a captioned, multi-platform, accessible video — every capability below runs locally on your Mac, and most of it is driven by editing the transcript.

Text-based editing

The transcript is the timeline.

Cut by deleting text

Delete words in the transcript and the video skips them — gaplessly.

Strike & restore

Cuts stay visible as struck text; click to bring any of it back.

Scenes & chapters

Split with “/”, merge, and reorder — scenes drive chapters and framing.

Speakers

Label speakers from the script; color-tinted paragraphs.

Correct text

Fix a word’s spelling for captions without changing the audio.

Undo everything

Every edit is an undoable, crash-safe transaction with full history.

Transcription

Fast, local, word-accurate.

Local Whisper

~17× realtime on Apple silicon with word-level timestamps — no upload.

Cloud optionsKEY

OpenAI or Deepgram when you want them, behind your own key.

DiarizationKEY

Deepgram labels who spoke when, turned into project speakers.

Filler detection

“Um,” “uh,” and friends are flagged automatically for one-click removal.

Cleanup & precision

Tighten the edit, frame-perfect.

Remove filler words

Delete every flagged filler across the project in one pass.

Tighten pauses

Collapse long gaps with a slider; see the time you’ll save.

Dead-air sweep

Click a silence badge to collapse a gap, a scene, or the whole timeline.

Remove retakes

Find repeated takes of a line and keep just the best one.

Frame-nudge handles

Nudge a cut’s in/out by a frame to grab or release audio at the seam.

Confidence heatmap

Tint shaky words, jump between them, and fix one everywhere.

Audition the cut

Hold a key to A/B a deletion seam — words out vs in — instantly.

Audio quality

Sound pro on any mic.

Studio Sound

Denoise and even out loudness; the player hot-swaps to the cleaned audio.

Audio Doctor

A report card: quiet audio, clipping, hum, dead air, dual-mono — with fixes.

Per-guest leveling

Balance each podcast guest toward a target before the master pass.

Captions & subtitles

Reach, compliance, and style.

Styled captions

Color, font, and position with a live preview in the canvas.

Karaoke captions

Word-by-word highlighting that travels on social.

Compliance linter

Score cues against FCC / BBC / Netflix and reflow to fix in one click.

SRT & VTT

Side caption files written with every render.

The AI suite

An AI co-editor, built in

Describe the edit and approve the diff — plus speech, translation, and short-form coaching.

UnderlordKEY

“Cut the boring intro, remove fillers” — it edits a draft; you accept or discard.

Speech regenerationKEY

Fix a flubbed word by typing it; overdub seamlessly.

Voice cloningKEY

Clone a speaker’s voice from a clean sample, behind a consent step.

Translation & dubbingKEY

Translate captions or dub audio into 10 languages.

AI clip suggestionsKEY

Let AI surface the moments most likely to land, ready to batch-export.

Hook Doctor

Score your cold open on explainable signals and trim the dead pre-roll.

Pacing Inspector

A timeline lane that shows where the edit drags — WPM, dead air, filler.

Remove retakes (AI)

Underlord can detect and clear repeated takes for you.

Recording & import

Get media in, any way.

Built-in recorder

Screen, system audio, webcam, and mic — straight into a project.

Drag-and-drop import

Any video or audio file is normalized into editable artifacts.

Watch folders

Auto-import new recordings from folders you choose.

Project bundles

Back up or move a project as one integrity-checked archive.

Multitrack & podcast

Interviews, done right.

Auto sync

Drop 2–6 tracks recorded together; Cutrova aligns them to the frame.

Speaker-turn script

One interleaved transcript with a track legend and mute toggles.

Active-speaker video

Each segment shows whoever is talking.

Vertical reframe

Auto-build 9:16 framing that crops to the active speaker.

Titles, brand & layers

Make it look like yours.

Titles & lower-thirds

Drop, edit inline, and burn into export.

Brand Studio

Default colors, fonts, and a logo watermark.

Layout packs

Caption + title presets you can apply in a click.

B-roll & audio beds

Overlay clips and music with gain and ducking.

Export & publish

Every format, frame-accurate.

16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1

Aspect presets with per-scene framing baked in.

Clip from selection

Export just the words you selected.

Batch export

All presets at once, or one file per AI clip.

Audiograms

Turn audio-only projects into branded waveform videos.

Share pages

A local, chrome-less viewer with a copyable link.

YouTube kit & script

Chapters, description, show notes, and the script as MD/text/HTML.

Accessibility, search & local-first

Thoughtful by default.

Audio descriptionKEY

Author described narration into the gaps; export descriptive cues.

Global search

Find any phrase across every project’s transcript and jump to it.

Command palette

⌘K to run any action without leaving the keyboard.

Local-first privacy

Your media never leaves your machine; works offline.

Version history

Named snapshots and forward-only restore.

Editing as easy as typing

Bring a recording, edit the words, and ship a finished, captioned, multi-platform video today.

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