Edit the words. The footage follows.
Cut Lab turns your raw recording into a transcript you can edit like a doc. Delete a rambling sentence, the video cuts itself. No scrubbing, no timeline, no waiting.
The problem
You have the footage. You don't have three hours to cut it.
Most gaming sessions record way more than they need. The dead air between rounds, the "wait let me restart," the tangent that went nowhere. Scrubbing a timeline to hunt for those moments is the slow part of every upload. Cut Lab skips the hunt: your words are the edit surface.
- +Record long, ship tight, without dragging playheads around
- +Find the rambles by reading, not by scrubbing frame by frame
- +Built for creators who would rather be playing than editing
How it works
Read your video. Delete what drags. Done.
Cut Lab transcribes your recording, then lets you edit the transcript directly. Strike a sentence and the matching footage is gone. Trim a filler word, trim the silence after it. The cut you read is the cut you get, so the work is reading and deleting, not nudging clips on a track.
- +Transcript loads next to your footage, fully searchable
- +Delete a line and the audio plus video cut together
- +Kill dead air and "umm" stretches in a couple of passes
- +Jump to any moment by searching what you said
Why text-based
This is not a timeline editor. That is the whole point.
Cut Lab is deliberately not Premiere or DaVinci. It will not color grade, key, or composite. It does one job: get a long raw recording down to the tight cut, fast, by editing words instead of frames. When you want the polish layer, take the cut into your NLE. When you just need it trimmed and out the door, you stay in the text.
- +No multi-track timeline to learn or babysit
- +Trimming a 40-minute raw down is a reading task, not a scrubbing marathon
- +Hand the rough cut to your full editor later if you want, or upload as is
The bigger pipeline
Cut Lab is stage one of the packaging studio.
LaunchLens takes you from raw footage to a packaged upload across four stages. Cut Lab gets the long edit done. Shorts Lab pulls clip moments, burns captions, and reframes to vertical. Optimize turns the real video into 10 titles plus a description and tags. Thumbnail Director handles the last 5 percent everyone judges. Every plan includes all four.
- +Cut Lab: trim the raw by editing the transcript
- +Shorts Lab: auto-detect moments, caption, reframe 16:9 to 9:16
- +Optimize: real video in, titles plus description plus tags out
- +Thumbnail Director: generate, place your face, reshoot, polish
Try it
25 credits on signup. No card.
Start free with 25 credits. No watermarked previews held for ransom, no blurred results, no card to begin. Plans run Starter $9 for 900 credits, Pro $15 for 1500, Premium $25 for 2500, and every plan includes all four stages. Rival single-surface tools charge $17 to $69 a month for one piece of this.
- +Free: 25 credits, no card, real output you keep
- +Starter $9 / Pro $15 / Premium $25, all four stages on every plan
- +One studio instead of a stack of single-tool subscriptions
Questions, answered straight.
How does text-based video editing actually work?+
Cut Lab transcribes your recording and shows the transcript as editable text. When you delete a sentence, the matching audio and video are cut together. You edit by reading and deleting words, so there is no timeline to scrub.
Is Cut Lab a replacement for Premiere or DaVinci Resolve?+
No, and that is intentional. Cut Lab does one job: get a long raw recording down to a tight cut fast by editing the transcript. For color, effects, and fine polish, take your cut into your usual editor. For trim-and-ship, you stay in the text.
Can I cut dead air and filler with it?+
Yes. Reading the transcript makes the dead air, the long silences, and the "umm wait" stretches obvious. Delete those lines and the footage cuts with them, so a long raw session tightens up in a couple of passes.
How fast is editing a long gaming video this way?+
Trimming a 40-minute raw becomes a reading task instead of a scrubbing marathon. You skim what you said, delete what drags, and the cut updates. Most creators find reading faster than dragging clips across a multi-track timeline.
Do I need to be on camera or have a facecam?+
No. Cut Lab works the same whether you are on camera or fully faceless. It edits based on what was said in the recording, so commentary, voiceover, and pure gameplay sessions all work.
What happens to my cut after Cut Lab?+
It flows into the rest of the pipeline. Send the trimmed video to Shorts Lab for vertical clips, to Optimize for titles and tags, and to Thumbnail Director for packaging. You can also export the rough cut to your own NLE for final polish.
What does it cost to try?+
You start with 25 credits free, no card required, and no watermarked or blurred output. A generation runs 20 to 30 credits. Paid plans are Starter $9 for 900 credits, Pro $15 for 1500, and Premium $25 for 2500, with all four stages on every plan.
Is this only for big channels?+
No. Cut Lab is built for gaming creators at any size, from bedroom setups to full-time channels. The value is the same whether you upload weekly or daily: less time hunting through footage, more time making videos.
Stop scrubbing. Start reading.
Get 25 free credits, no card, and turn your next raw recording into a tight cut by editing the transcript. Then take it through the rest of the packaging studio.
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