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Shot, but not edited

Your script.
Your footage.
That is all.

Long-form and shorts from one take — fast, and simple.

Make your first video without a key. No watermark, no locked features.

macOS 12+ · Windows 10/112 GB disk2 min setup

AUTO EDIT A001 · 4K 16:9AUTO
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  • Transcribe, word by word07:32
  • Align to the script1,184
  • Find the cut points9 cuts
  • Burn word-synced subtitles18 lines
  • Place callouts clear of the face2
  • Drop in inserts and music3 · A/B
  • Render shorts and long-form42.4s
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Shorts 9:16YouTube 16:9Word-synced subtitlesImage insertsA/B musicLocal render

What it actually took

Half a day of an editor’s time, done in 13 minutes

One 7:32 4K take. Script and brief supplied, emphasis words given, then hands off until it was done.

42.4sfinished length
13m 09stotal, final quality
9cuts, clause-level
18subtitles, script-aligned
2 · 3callouts · inserts placed

Made for

If the video runs on what someone says, it fits

Interview, lecture, product tour. What goes in is the same: a script and the footage. What comes out is the long cut and a vertical short.

Interviews

Interviewer and subject get their own subtitles; faces can be blurred.

Talks and explainers

With a script the subtitles are exact, and callouts stay clear of the face.

Shorts at volume

Shoot once, get the long cut and the vertical short together.

Site and product

Add stills and they drop in on the line that talks about them.

What it does for you

One day to shoot. A week to edit. That week is what we remove.

Two minutes of footage becomes a finished cut in about one. All you choose is the pace and the frame.

01

Subtitles, written for you

They land on the voice. Add your script and misheard words get fixed too.

02

Cut points, found for you

Cuts fall where sentences end. No scrubbing a timeline by hand.

03

Four editing rhythms

Straight, rapid, breathing, plain — one take, four different paces.

04

Callouts that miss the face

It finds the quiet part of the frame. Nothing lands on eyes or mouth.

05

Face blur

Four strengths, tracking the face across cuts — for people who would rather not be recognised.

06

Who is speaking

Interviewer and subject each get their own subtitle style.

07

Inserts, placed for you

Your stills land on the line that names them. If you have none, free images are fetched.

08

Two music picks, ready

Two freely licensed tracks arrive with the footage. Music ducks under speech on its own.

09

Multi-camera cutting

Several files are synced by their audio, then cut to whoever is talking.

10

Four languages

Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese — line breaks tuned to each.

11

Post from the editor

Publish to both without leaving the editor. No download-and-re-upload.

12

It never leaves your machine

Footage never leaves. No per-video fee, no render queue.

From script to cut points

A line of script becomes a cut, a subtitle, a callout

Each line is matched to where it was actually spoken, and the cut, the subtitle and the callout land on that timecode. This is the same pass the tool runs.

Script
    Timeline · auto
    00:0000:1000:2000:3000:42
    V1
    SUB
    FX
    MUS
    cuts 9 subs 18 marks 2 by hand 0

    The editor

    Try it — every switch in the editor changes the frame

    These are the same controls you get after installing. Move between the tabs and watch the frame respond.

    How it works

    Drop the files in, come back to a finished cut

    A seven-minute take is a finished vertical cut thirteen minutes later. Use that time to prep the next shoot.

    PANEL 01
    01 · SRC Load footage and documents

    Video is required; script and brief are optional. Point at a local path to skip uploading entirely.

    PANEL 02
    02 · SET Choose the output

    Shorts 9:16 or YouTube 16:9, a template, subtitles on or off, and the speech model.

    PANEL 03
    03 · MARK Mark emphasis and inserts

    Type the words to emphasise, or leave it blank and they are picked for you. Add stills, or let it fetch them.

    PANEL 04
    04 · OUT Collect the cut

    You get the mp4 and the edit decisions (plan.json) — tweak the timings and re-render.

    Formats

    Shoot once, publish to YouTube and shorts

    Crops assume a 4K 16:9 source. Smaller footage is handled by fitting the crop box to what you gave it.

    TITLE 420
    1:1 VIDEO
    EMPTY 420
    Shorts 9:16

    Banded frame

    frame_1x1 · 1080×1920

    420px bands top and bottom — title above, callout card below.

    9:16 FULL
    (title over)
    Shorts 9:16

    Full bleed

    full_9x16 · 1080×1920

    Picture fills the frame with the title laid over it. Best for close-ups.

    16:9 FULL
    Long-form 16:9

    YouTube

    youtube_16x9 · 1920×1080

    Uncropped, subtitles only.

    Pricing

    59,900 KRW a year. No per-video fee.

    Make ten videos or a thousand — the price does not change. Less than one outsourced short, for a year.

    Early bird

    Regular 89,900 KRW

    59,900KRW / year

    • Unlimited renders
    • Post straight to YouTube and TikTok
    • Multi-camera auto-editing
    • Subtitles in several languages, free fonts
    • A year of updates
    • Runs on your machine — footage never leaves it

    Pay by card and the licence key arrives by email right away. It renews every year at the same price, and you can cancel any time. Refund policy

    Try first

    1free video

    • Install and make one video without a key
    • No watermark, nothing held back
    • Check the result with your own footage
    • Buy the licence only if it earns it
    See how to install

    The download is free. After the trial video the editor asks for a key.

    One key, one machine. Moving computers? Press Release this machine in the editor and paste the same key on the new one. Simultaneous machines need one key each. Keys verify offline.

    Install

    Install today, publish today

    Download, double-click, done. Python and ffmpeg are already inside the app — nothing else to install, no terminal. The speech model (about 1.5 GB) is fetched once, while you make your first video; after that it runs offline.

    v1.1.6 · macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon

    On macOS

    1. 1Download below112 MB, a minute or two
    2. 2Drag 13mincut into Applicationsthe usual install
    3. 3Right-click the icon → Openfirst time only
    Download for macOS (dmg)

    The first launch shows an unidentified developer warning. Right-click the icon and choose Open once; after that a normal double-click works. A plain double-click the first time will not open it.

    Intel Mac, or the terminal install

    The dmg above is for Apple Silicon (M1 and later). On an Intel Mac use the method below — it works exactly as it always has.

    Still works exactly as before. To move to the app, install the dmg above — your licence and your work carry over.

    curl -fsSL https://13mincut.com/mac.sh | bash
    13mincutstart and open the editor
    13mincut stopstop
    13mincut sharefree public link
    13mincut updateupgrade to the latest
    Download the zip for macOS
    v1.1.6 · Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit (ARM64 too)

    On Windows

    1. 1Download belowa single installer
    2. 2Double-click itno Python, no ffmpeg to install
    3. 3Then 13mincut on your desktopclick and edit
    Download for Windows (setup.exe)

    If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”, click More info then Run anyway. It appears for any newly published program that is not code-signed yet.

    Using the old zip install?

    It keeps working. To move to the app, run the setup.exe above — your licence and your work carry over.

    Download the zip for Windows

    On either platform, new versions install themselves — the app tells you and takes care of it. Your licence, settings and finished videos stay put.

    Questions

    Before you install

    Does this replace my editor or the agency?

    It takes the repeatable volume — weekly shorts, interview digests, internal training clips where the format repeats. Brand films that need real direction still need a person. Use it to clear the routine work so your editor spends time where it counts.

    How do I get the key, and where does it go?

    Apply for the early-bird price and we send payment details plus a single line starting with AC1. Click Licence at the top right of the editor and paste it in. The key is stored only on that machine and verified without any network call. Moving machines? Release it in the editor and paste the same key elsewhere.

    Can I see the result before paying?

    Yes — install and make one video without a key. No watermark and nothing held back, so you can judge it on your own footage. After that the editor asks for a key.

    Do I need a script?

    No. Without one the transcript is used as-is. With one, the transcript is corrected against your sentences, which matters a lot when the material is full of technical terms.

    How long does it take?

    Transcription dominates: roughly half the runtime of the take on the default model — 3–4 minutes for a 7-minute video. Edit points and rendering add another minute or two.

    Does my footage get uploaded?

    No. It runs on your machine; this site only hosts the installer. The one exception is automatic image fetching, which sends the search term to a public image library.

    Can the team use one machine?

    Run the share launcher (share.cmd on Windows) to get a temporary public address. Anyone with the link can upload and render on that machine’s CPU, so close it when you are done.

    Are the fetched images safe to publish?

    Only freely licensed ones are fetched, and author, licence and source URL are written to inserts/credits.json. Credit CC BY works when you publish.

    Feedback

    Tell us what to build and what broke

    Everything you send lands in one of two lists — feature requests and bugs — and ships through auto-update. No sign-in needed, and a screenshot makes the cause far easier to find.

    Feature request

    Something you wish it did

    An editing style you keep wanting, a subtitle look, an export format — write it as you'd say it.

    Bug report

    Something isn't working

    Where it stopped, what you expected instead, and up to three screenshots of the error.

    This week’s shorts can go up today

    Start with the footage already sitting on your drive. Two minutes to install, thirteen to the first cut.