Chapter 8

Review & Export

Read the finished cut, share it for approval, and hand it off.

Review presents your selection as a clean, readable script, exactly what your client will see on a share link. From here you share for approval and export to your editor.

The Review page: a clean read of the finished selection, with chapter headings, runtime, and the export menu.

Filters and runtime

The total runtime sits at the top. Click the timer to read All Selects, Must Have or Maybe, the same filter that decides what each export contains (the Export menu's Include choice). Each group shows its own runtime beside its heading.

Notes on a sentence

A sentence with a note carries a small grey notes icon to its right. Hover it to open a short thread beside the line, with a reply box, so a back-and-forth with your client or editor stays right where the note was left.

Editor notes

Below the script is an Editor Notes section you can expand. Anything you write here travels with the project: it appears in the editor download and the PDF, a single place to leave overall direction for whoever finishes the edit.

Beside Share sits Social, which carries this project straight into the Social Clips suite so you can cut short vertical versions of the same material. See the Social Clips chapter.

Sharing for approval

Click Share to open the shared-link settings. Copy the link and send it to your client; they can review and approve without an account. The Sharing chapter covers permissions and the client experience in full.

Shared link settings: copy the link, add password protection, or open advanced per-project permissions.

Exporting

The Export menu is how your work leaves ScriptCut. The filter (All / Must have / Maybe) decides what is included. Audio and video downloads are grouped into two rows, each opening a small panel of choices, your edit first and the whole file second. Publish kit, the first row of the menu, writes a summary, show notes, YouTube chapters, title ideas and a description from the edit as Review plays it; chapter times are where each line starts in your cut. Every part can be edited and copied, it is saved with the project version, and a run costs AI credits like the other AI tools. The kit is written in the transcript's language. Once the project has a translation, a Language dropdown sits under the filter; it is the same switch as the language button, and the kit is written in the language you pick there.

Formatted PDF: A polished, branded script document, ideal for clients and producers.
Editor download: A plain-text rundown of every selected line with timecodes, for your editor.
Timeline (XML): The big one: a real timeline that rebuilds your entire selection, in order, trimmed to the frame, with your groups as markers, ready to open in your NLE. It brings every sound channel of the recording: a stereo mix or two microphones on the left and right channel arrive as their own tracks, left and right as the file plays.
Subtitles: An SRT or WebVTT file of your selection, in the original language or any translation you have made. For a recording ScriptCut transcribed, ScriptCut checks the timing against the sound: each subtitle appears when its word is said, stays up until the word is finished, and long sentences are split at full stops and commas.
Send to your NLE: DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro, if you have paired that editor's panel (Settings > App Integrations): sends this timeline straight into your project with its footage already linked. On Starter and ProAI; Free and the Social plan do not include it.
Edited Video: An MP4 that renders your cut exactly as Review plays it, your selection, order, and word trims, as a real video file. It renders the moment you click it, so it is always current. Switch on Burn in subtitles in its window to put subtitles into the picture, in any of the Social caption styles (Clean by default) and in the original or a translated language. Not yet available for an edit made from several files. Switch on Clean up audio to remove low rumble, hum and background noise, even out quiet and loud passages so every spoken word lands at about the same level, gently balance the voice, and set the whole edit to one even loudness. It never cuts a word or a breath, and music in the recording is left as recorded. Loudness: Podcast (the Apple and Spotify standard), YouTube and social, or Broadcast TV. A long edit is made on a bigger machine and takes a while, with its percentage moving the whole time. An edit too long to make into one file (several hours at high quality) is refused before it starts and says so: split it into parts with groups, or export the timeline XML. If a render ever stops part way, ScriptCut says so within minutes.
Edited Audio, High Res: The same cut as a lossless audio file, taken from your original uploaded audio master rather than the everyday compressed copy, for podcast-quality delivery. Clean up audio works here too, and the file stays lossless.
Audio: A single MP3 of just your selected moments, spliced together. With Clean up audio switched on (Starter and ProAI) it is made on our servers and comes back cleaned and levelled.

The export menu. Free plans include the editor download; PDF, timeline, subtitles, and audio are on paid plans and are shown with a padlock.

Hovering Send to your NLE in the Export menu reveals DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro, once that editor’s panel is paired.

Hovering Video in the Export menu reveals Edited Video (your cut as a real .mp4) and Compressed Video (the whole file we store).

Subtitle options

Choosing Subtitles opens a dialog with the format (SRT or WebVTT) and a broadcast standard (Netflix, YouTube, EBU, and more). ScriptCut can automatically split long lines to fit the standard you pick, and tells you how many cues already fit.

Every cue is timed word by word. The subtitle file from the Download menu is timed to the recording you uploaded, so it lines up with your video in any player. The file from Review > Export is timed to your edit, the same timeline the XML export builds. A project with several recordings gets one file per recording, in a ZIP.

The subtitle export dialog: pick a format and standard, and ScriptCut fits every caption to it.

Audio options

Choosing Audio lets you keep the natural pauses between sentences (one continuous clip, exactly as spoken) or remove the gaps for a tight, back-to-back cut. ScriptCut uses your word timecodes to splice only the spoken parts.

The audio export dialog: keep natural pauses, or remove the gaps for a tight cut.

Download the whole transcript

Separate from the selection exports, the blue Download button on the Cleanup page exports the entire transcript: Text (.txt), PDF, Word (.docx), Subtitles (.srt/.vtt), or a word-timed transcript (.json). Every download follows Cleanup exactly as it reads: removed lines are out, removed words (filler words, AI Cleanup trims and word trims) are out, and your spelling fixes, splits and merges are in. Removed pauses are not applied here; they belong to Select and the Review exports. Once the project has a translation, a language dropdown at the top of the menu picks the language for Text, PDF, Word and Subtitles (it starts on the language on screen); the word-timed transcript stays in the recording's language, because a translated word has no timecode of its own. To choose which filler words come out, use Cleanup > Tools > Remove fillers, which gives you per-word control; the download follows whatever you left behind there. Every format is free.

Versions

The version chip (V1) in the header and on the project card holds a dropdown: switch versions, create a new version to explore a different cut without losing this one, delete a version, or lock one. Compare versions shows a redline of two versions: what was added, removed, re-prioritized, or reordered. When a client approves, the approved version locks; you can unlock it to keep editing.

Downloading the files we store

The Export menu also hands back the media itself, exactly as we hold it. Compressed Video appears when a video is attached, Compressed Audio when audio is attached, and High Res Audio when we still hold your original audio file. A line only appears when that file actually exists, so nothing here can lead to a dead end.

High res audio, for podcasts

When you upload an audio file we keep your original master and make a small compressed copy for playback and transcription. The master is the one you get back under High Res Audio. It is also the biggest file in the project. It is never removed on its own: Delete on the project's row in Settings > Storage removes it together with the video and audio, and your transcript and edit stay. In Settings > Storage a project with several files is folded; click its name to see each file with its own Remove, or use Delete all.