Every edit deserves an assistant editor.
Drop the track. Drop the rushes. The project opens as a synced first cut. Verses held. Choruses driven. Every cut on the beat. No take twice in a row. Ready for Premiere Pro, Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve.
Drop everything here. Any order.
Track + camera files — or drop the whole card, folders welcome. MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, WAV.
Your rushes never leave your machine · No install · Free to analyze
Analysis and sync are free and need no account. Taking the result out does — free for a week, no card.
Analyzing is free and needs no account. Create one and your first week is free — full access, no card. After that, $39 per project or $99/month.
The formats their makers officially import.
100%
local. Your footage never leaves your machine — no upload, no account, no cloud queue.
Then it cuts. On the beat, with receipts.
PimCut assembles a first edit from your synced takes: every cut on the grid, verses held, choruses driven, no take twice in a row. Each cut names its reason in the receipt. Re-roll for alternates. Keep it, recut it, or ignore it; the synced timeline is yours either way.
Every take stays on its own lane, already cut at the same edit points. Want another angle? Switch the active take. No rebuilding the edit.
Your NLE already has sync. It fails on real shoots.
Premiere, Final Cut and Resolve sync clean waveforms. They give up when the speaker is far, when voices cover it, when a take starts mid-song, when forty rushes land at once. PimCut is built for exactly the shoots native sync gets wrong: filmed already, no timecode, no prep. The reference is yours to choose — a song on the PA, a recorder on the table, a board mix — because sync asks only that every camera can be heard against the same audio.
It checks its own work the way you do
PimCut doesn't trust a single waveform match. It checks the lock across the take before calling it verified. Anything it can't prove gets flagged for you to confirm by ear. Your timeline is never quietly wrong.
Every lock is probed at up to 12 points across the take.
Field-proven: 142 clips, 154 GB, two camera bodies, frame rates to 100 fps — 38 takes synced and verified take by take.
The track is unreleased. The footage is under NDA.
Uploading either could cost you the job. PimCut never asks: analysis runs entirely in your browser, on your machine, from the free tier to enterprise. Not a setting. The architecture.
Sync needs one audio reference every camera can hear — the song, a field recorder or a board mix. Given that, it works on any multicam shoot: interviews, live sessions, events. The beat-matched first cut is for music, today.
Sync needs one shared audio reference, not a song. The beat-matched cut is music-first — vote for what's next.
Now — sync on any shoot · the cut for music videos · Next — podcasts (multicam) · Later — the cut for documentary · broadcast
| PimCut | Assistant-editor and social editing tools | |
|---|---|---|
| A first cut, assembled on the track's grid | Yes — verses held, choruses driven, with receipts | Not supported |
| Runs in the browser | Yes, nothing to install | Desktop app, per-OS |
| Works on Windows, Mac, Linux | Yes | Mac-first |
| Footage uploaded | Never | Varies |
| Account required to start | Only to export | Usually |
| Free to analyze | Always — no time limit | Trial-limited |
| Finishes in your editing app | Yes — Premiere, Final Cut, Resolve | Ends inside their app |
| Unreleased audio and embargoed footage | Never leaves your machine | Cloud processing |
| Sync you can prove | Verified with audio evidence | One-shot guess |
Built to deliver the first cut to professional editors. More workflows are coming.
Timecode boxes are great when every device has one. PimCut is for the shoots where they don't.
Your footage never leaves your machine. No frame, no audio, no filename is uploaded, ever.
Three things do reach a server: content-free usage counts, nameless until you sign in, with no switch to turn them off; Google Drive, only when you connect it yourself; and ad measurement, which sees which pages you visit and what you buy, never your files, never your media.