Why I built ScriptCut
Hi, I am Marvin. I have spent my career in unscripted television as an editor and director, with 13 Emmy nominations and 4 wins, and more than 200 hours of broadcast TV behind me.
Across all of it, one part of the process never got better: the paper edit. The stage before the real edit, where you and your client decide what the story actually is.
It was always the same. Transcripts dumped into PDFs. Highlighter pens and sticky notes. Clients marking up documents, sending screenshots, leaving notes in five different places. Long email chains. Version after version. Hours of an assistant copying timecodes by hand. Days, sometimes weeks, gone before a single cut was made.
So I built ScriptCut. It is the part of the workflow I always wished existed.
What ScriptCut actually does
ScriptCut sits before the edit. Your client reads the transcript and selects the moments that matter, right there, with no PDFs and no highlighters. You get a clean, frame-accurate timeline that drops straight into your editing software, whether that is DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or Avid.
You keep your editor. You keep your craft. You just skip the part everyone hates.
It works for any long, unscripted content: podcasts, documentaries, interviews, panels, vlogs, talking-head, reality, and more. If real people are talking and the story has to be found, ScriptCut was built for it.
Why this matters
I am not a software company that decided video looked like a good market. I am an editor who got tired of the same broken workflow and built the tool I needed. Every decision in ScriptCut comes from real time in the chair, on real deadlines, with real clients.
If you cut unscripted content for a living, I think you are going to feel right at home.