The AI Tools

On the ProAI plan, ScriptCut’s AI tools read your entire transcript and propose a finished selection or story, which you are always free to refine. They are a starting point that can save hours, not a replacement for your judgment.

The shared brief

Each AI tool opens with a short brief: the platform you are cutting for, your goal (convert, educate, or entertain), a target runtime, and an optional prompt where you can say exactly what you want. ScriptCut remembers the brief across the project.

AI Select

AI Select reads the transcript and marks the strongest moments for you, on topic and never over your target runtime. It selects in place, so you can adjust every pick afterward on the Select page.

AI Story

AI Story goes further: in one pass it designs the finished edit, which lines to keep, the order they should play in, sentence-level trims, and even an optional cold-open hook. When it finishes, it drops you on the Arrange page with the story laid out. For a long-form piece, the story arrives broken into chapter groups you can see and reorder, and each chapter carries its own Rebuild with AI button, so you can regenerate just one part without starting the whole story over.

AI Clips

AI Clips lives in Social, not on the Select page of an editing project. On Review, press Create Social Clips to make a copy of that version (your original is never touched), then choose Use AI. AI Clips turns a long recording into several short, social-ready clips. You choose how many; ScriptCut first assesses how many genuinely strong clips the material can support and recommends a number, then builds each one as its own story. Each finished clip carries its own score, so you can see at a glance which are the strongest before you build them out further in the Social Clips suite. A Social clip can be up to 2 minutes long: a longer one is marked Too long and cannot be made, downloaded or posted until it is shorter. AI Clips makes clips from 10 seconds up to 2 minutes: type the length (it starts at 60 seconds), then pick Max runtime (never longer than that, and a clip can come in shorter when that makes it better) or Exact runtime (each clip lands on that length, within 5 seconds either way). Each clip is scored 0 to 100 in four parts of 25 (hook, makes sense alone, story, ending); the length never counts, and a clip a top social editor would post unchanged scores 92 to 100. Pressing Cancel in the AI window makes nothing.

AI Arrange

On the Arrange page, AI Arrange takes the lines you have already selected and orders them into a coherent story, optionally grouping them into titled acts. It works from your picks rather than choosing for you.

Cutting style: natural, balanced, or tight

AI Story, AI Select, and AI Clips share one setting for how many small internal edits they make inside a line you keep: Natural flow makes the fewest cuts for the smoothest-sounding result, Tight makes the most for the shortest and punchiest one, and Balanced sits in between. It lives in each window's Advanced options, remembers your last choice, and is hidden on AI Clips when you pick “Trim ends only,” since that mode makes one continuous take with no interior cuts to style.

Keeping the interviewer out

“Don't include Interviewer” now works the same way on AI Story and AI Clips as it always has on AI Select: with it on, the AI still reads the interviewer's questions to understand the conversation, it just never uses their lines in the finished result. It is off by default, since a short setup question is sometimes the only way to make an answer make sense on its own.

AI credits

Each AI run shows its price in credits on its button before you click, computed from the length of the transcript (and, for AI Clips, the number of clips). The price shown is the price charged, never more, and a run the AI fails to finish is refunded in full. Covers are priced per image by model, captions per caption. Your ProAI plan includes a monthly allowance (1,500 credits by default), and you can see your balance and top up in Settings > AI Credits. Pricing for top-ups is current at the time of writing and is subject to change.

Undo an AI run

The moment Story, Select, Arrange, Clips, or AI cleanup finishes, a small box offers a one-click Undo back to how the project looked right before that run (on a phone, it is the top item in the ⋯ menu instead). It disappears as soon as you make your own edit. For an older rollback, use Settings > History.

AI Personalisation: the AI learns how you edit

The AI tools get better at working the way you work. Every time you run one, ScriptCut notices what it suggested and what you then changed about it, lines you kept, dropped, added, reordered, trimmed further or trimmed less. Once several finished edits agree on something, it starts taking that into account on later runs. Typical things it picks up: whether you put the interviewer's questions back in, whether you end up shorter than the length you asked for, whether you loosen the AI's word trims, and where in a recording you like a piece to start.

It waits before it concludes anything. Nothing is learned from fewer than five finished AI runs, one conclusion needs at least three of those runs to agree, and a run you undid never counts as a preference, so one unusual project never becomes a rule. A brand new account gets exactly the same AI it always did. Whatever you type in the prompt, and the goal and length you set, always outrank anything that was learned.

You can read it and change it. Open Settings > AI (below your credits): every line ScriptCut has learned about you is listed in plain English, with how many runs it rests on. Delete any line you disagree with using the round x beside it, restore it later from Removed by you, or turn the whole thing off with one switch, after which every AI tool behaves exactly as it does for a new account. Nothing is lost while it is off.

Shared defaults. Separately from what it learns about you, ScriptCut looks at whether many other ScriptCut accounts changed the same thing about the AI's work. When enough of them agree, that becomes a better default for everyone, and it appears under From other editors on the same page. Anything ScriptCut has learned about you always beats it, and you can delete it the same way. It is still counts only: no model is trained on anybody's material, and nothing from one account is used in another account's edits.

AI Clips learns from your posts. Every clip you post is filed by the kind of opening it has (a number, a question, a reversal of what people expect, a bold claim, a personal story, a tip) and the shape of its story, next to its real results from the platform. Once five posted clips have a week of results, AI Clips compares them against each other, per client (one client never learns from another), and steers your next run toward the openings and story shapes that held that audience, with your best-held openings as examples to beat. The score learns too: when past scores did not match how clips really did, scoring leans on what your audience rewards. The more you post, the more it knows. A brand new account starts from what worked across many ScriptCut accounts (averages only, no words). It is listed under From your posts on the same page, and every line can be deleted or restored.

What is stored. For how you edit: counts and seconds only, how many lines the AI picked, how many you kept, how many you added, how long the result ran. For AI Clips: the opening words of your own posted clips, kept with their results. They steer only your own AI Clips, are never shown to or used for another account, are never used to train anything, and are deleted with your account.

AI Translate

Open AI Tools > AI Translate from the Cleanup page to translate the whole transcript into one or more other languages, so you (or a client) can read and select in a different language even though the recording was spoken in another. Pick one or more languages from a searchable list; each one runs with an automatic proofread pass. Once done, a small language button (a globe, top right) appears in the Select, Arrange, and Review headers (clients see it on a share link too) to switch between Original Language and any translation. Playback, timecodes, and the exported timeline always stay in the language that was actually spoken; the Text, PDF, and Word downloads follow whichever language the language button is set to. Translated subtitles work too: the Subtitles export has a Language choice that starts on the language on screen, and every line keeps its own timing. In Social Clips, the Subtitles step has a Caption language choice for the burned-in captions and the clip's subtitle file. A line you edit after translating stays in the original language until you translate again: when you pick that language, or open AI Translate, Export Subtitles or the download menu, ScriptCut tells you how many lines changed, and a Re-Translate button re-translates only the changed lines, priced on those lines alone. AI Translate never drops a spoken word: numbers, capitalised terms such as API and names always stay in the line. Hover a language in the language menu to reveal a trash icon and remove it; you cannot delete Original Language or the language you are currently viewing. Pricing is shown before you run it and is charged in AI credits, based on the transcript's length.