PAPERCUT AI

Your AI assistant editor.

Currently in invite-only alpha

Papercut AI is a panel for Premiere Pro.
It knows your footage. You give it direction.
It builds the cut.

Not a template engine. Not a black box.
You stay the editor.

Chat

Tell it what you're looking for.

Describe the cut in plain language - what it's for, what should be in it, how it should feel. It reviews the footage and asks before it assumes.

Papercut AI: Editor
EDITOR
Cut a 45-second teaser about the guitar restoration - open on the shop, end on why he does it.16:13
On it - reviewing your selects now. I will open wide on the shop, land the 1962 guitar arrival story, and close on Marco hearing it played again. Here is the story shape - adjust anything before I cut.
Ask for a cut - e.g. a 3-minute character pod about your main speaker ↑
Outline

It proposes the story shape before a single cut is made.

Read the beats, drag to reorder, delete what you don't want, or send notes in chat. Nothing generates until it reads right.

Papercut AI: Editor
TEASER OUTLINE
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▾1Cold open - the shop on Alder Street2 LINES−  ↑  ↓  ✕
Wide: workbenches under tungsten, guitars on the wall
Marco: forty years fixing guitars in this room
▾2The 1962 guitar arrives2 LINES−  ↑  ↓  ✕
It came to us in pieces, in a pillowcase
Grandmother played it in a church band for thirty years
▾3The craft1 LINE−  ↑  ↓  ✕
You cannot rush glue or seventy-year-old spruce
▾4Why he does it1 LINE−  ↑  ↓  ✕
The day we hear it played again - that is the reason
GENERATE SCRIPT
Search

"Find shots of the workshop. Find bites about the guitar."

Shots searches the visual log and returns picture. Bites searches what was said and returns spoken soundbites, word-accurate. Favorite the results and your pull-lists stay one click away.

Papercut AI: Editor
EDITOR
/search the workshop
🔍 search: the workshop — 2 shots · 2 bites
SCRIPT PANEL · 2 SHOTS
Workshop interior, wide
SCENE 100:00:00:00–00:00:09:23
WSSTATICWARM
Workshop interior, wide - workbenches under warm tungsten light, guitar bodies hanging along the back wall, hand tools on pegboards.
WORKSHOPCRAFTESTABLISHING
Rack focus across finished guitars
SCENE 400:00:41:22–00:00:51:22
CURACK_FOCUSREFLECTIVE
Rack focus across a row of finished guitars, warm lacquer catching the light, shallow depth of field.
GUITARSDETAIL
SCRIPT PANEL · 2 BITES
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MARCO BELL
"This is a 1962 guitar that came to us in pieces, in a pillowcase, believe it or not."
Papercut Walkthrough00:00:44:06 → 00:00:51:04
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2
MARCO BELL
"The owner's grandmother played it in a church band for thirty years before it got damaged in a move."
Papercut Walkthrough00:00:51:17 → 00:00:59:07
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Ask for a cut - e.g. a 3-minute character pod about your main speaker ↑
Create

Create Sequence builds the cut in your open project.

Every clip placed with frame-accurate in and out points, across mixed frame rates and multicam, with dialogue isolated automatically. You take it from there.

Papercut AI: Timeline
GUITAR_TEASER_V1 23.976 FPS • 00:00:45:00
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What it does
Reads
Word-level transcripts accurate to the frame, speaker profiles, narrative beats, hero soundbites, and a shot-by-shot visual log of your B-roll. All of it searchable in plain language.
Listens
You describe the cut: what it's for, what's in it, how it should feel. It proposes the story shape and takes your notes before a frame is touched. Give notes after, and it re-cuts.
Writes
Verbatim scripts from what was actually said. Every line attributed, every quote real, every timecode word-accurate. Alternate takes included, so you choose the best version.
Builds
Create Sequence cuts it into your open project, frame-accurate across mixed formats and multicam, with dialogue isolated automatically. Then it's yours.
Ask in your own words
"A 90-second trailer with a cold open"
Dramatic arc, built for impact from the first frame.
"Every mention of the accident"
An exhaustive stringout. Every reference, no length cap.
"A character pod on my lead"
One person, full arc, their story only.
"A 30-second social cut with a hook"
Fast payoff, sized for Instagram, TikTok, Reels.
"A scene built only from dialogue"
A coherent scene assembled from spoken moments.
"A 'previously on' recap"
Chronological episode summary in broadcast structure.
"A best-of sizzle with high energy"
Momentum-first montage from your strongest moments.
"Assemble the full episode"
Complete assembly from all raw footage.
…or anything you can say in a sentence
Tone, structure, length, and style are all fair game - comedy, drama, ironic. The editor reads your footage and builds to your ask.
Works where you work
Premiere Pro
Native panel for Premiere Pro. Runs inside your workspace. Builds sequences directly into your open project.
Avid Media Composer COMING SOON
The same editor, inside Media Composer.
System requirementsWindows 10/11 or macOS 13+Premiere Pro 25.6+Adobe Creative CloudInternet connection