Supacut

Supacut is a tool built for video editors that helps them explore, organize, and find the strongest material inside hours of interview footage before the edit begins. It is designed for editors who spend hours going through interviews to find the right material, and it is made for video editors working with interview-heavy footage — documentary, branded, corporate, and unscripted projects. Its stated purpose is simple: explore hours of interview footage, find the strongest soundbites, and organize your selects before you start cutting, so you can spend less time searching through footage and more time shaping the story. Supacut positions itself as a starting point for the edit — not a replacement for it. Interviews are messy, and the strongest material is scattered across hours of raw footage, different voices, repeated ideas and half-finished answers. The work before the edit is where editors lose the most time: watching hours of raw interview footage, searching through transcripts, taking notes manually, logging soundbites, comparing interviews, building spreadsheets, and jumping back and forth between transcripts and footage. Supacut was created to reduce this tedious work of watching, logging, comparing and searching through interviews, helping editors find and organize the material before they start cutting. By surfacing and organizing the strongest material across interviews, it lets editors shape the story faster instead of spending their hours hunting for the right clip. The workflow begins with Import & Sync. You bring transcripts and footage into Supacut so the material is organized and ready to explore, adding each interviewee with their original camera files. Original files stay where they are, and you stay in control of your material. From there, the Explore the Story stage analyzes your interviews to discover the main topics across your footage. Supacut groups your interview material by theme, so you can see what people are talking about and quickly jump to the original footage behind each idea — an approach that keeps you navigating the actual footage rather than reading a detached summary. Central to that exploration are thematic pillars. Supacut lets you choose how the pillars get created: you can let Supacut find the themes, in which case it analyzes the interviews and creates the most relevant thematic pillars, or you can use your own themes by providing your own pillars, and Supacut will classify segments into them. Suggested pillars are described as the main areas of material found across your interviews — not a story structure. Throughout, themes, quotes, speakers, and timecodes stay together: thematic pillars keep original quotes attached to the speaker and the source, so every idea remains connected to its origin. As the site puts it, Supacut doesn't just summarize interviews — it helps you navigate the actual footage. Once the material is explored, you build your selects in the Shortlist stage. You select the material you want to take into your edit and keep the original source, speaker and timecode attached. A built-in review player lets you use the preview panel to play through your clips in order, and you can export a Shortlist PDF. This shortlist becomes the foundation of the edit, capturing the strongest soundbites in an ordered, reviewable form before any cutting begins. The workflow is presented as Import, Explore, Organize, Compare, and Shortlist, and it also supports interview comparison so you can review different answers side by side. The final stage is Export XML. Supacut exports an editable assembly to Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro, and you start with a rough cut that you can refine yourself. The export is described as blocks with an estimated duration and XML with in/out points, so your selections arrive in your editing software ready to continue in your existing workflow. The finishing is still yours: Supacut begins the assembly, and the editor carries the story forward in the NLE they already use. The benefits are framed around time and control. Supacut reduces the tedious work of watching, logging, comparing and searching through interviews, so you can spend less time searching and more time editing and shaping the story. With Supacut you can explore themes across interviews, compare different answers, find strong soundbites, jump directly to the source footage, group material by theme, and build your selects for the edit. Crucially, Supacut doesn't decide what makes the cut. It helps you explore your interviews, organize the material and surface possibilities, while you decide what matters. You stay in control; Supacut helps you explore the material — you decide what makes the cut. Supacut is intended for interview-heavy projects such as documentary, branded, corporate, and unscripted work. In practice, an editor can bring an interview project into Supacut and start finding the material worth cutting: exploring hours of interview footage to find the strongest soundbites, organizing material by theme, comparing answers across interviews, building a shortlist of selects, reviewing clips in order with the built-in player, and then exporting an assembly to Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut to finish the story. It also supports letting Supacut analyze the material and propose narrative directions, and generating an editable rough cut that the editor then refines. The primary target users are video editors, specifically documentary and interview editors working with interview-heavy footage. Supacut integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro through XML export. Pricing is 39 dollars a year, billed annually, with app updates included. The yearly plan includes unlimited projects, Explore the Story, thematic pillars, interview comparison, soundbite discovery, selects, a built-in review player, original source context, XML export, and support for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro. Notably, Supacut uses a bring-your-own-API-key model: after purchase, you add your own API key, and the AI runs on your account rather than on a metered plan the company controls. You pay for the software, not the tokens, and you control the cost by paying the model provider directly for what you use. You can scale a feature or a full interview project without asking for more seats. In summary, Supacut's core value proposition is helping editors explore their interviews, organize the material, and find the strongest material before the edit begins. It reduces the tedious work of watching, logging, comparing, and searching through interviews so editors can spend more time editing and shaping the story, while remaining fully in control of what makes the cut and of the AI costs behind the analysis.