01 Find
Every take, found
Search a shoot by what was said and what is in frame. The best read of each line, ready to use.
The assistant editor for DaVinci Resolve.
Acecut reads your footage, builds the first cut inside Resolve, and checks it before you press play. You keep the taste. It does the logging, the laying up and the checking.
02 Build
A first cut in Resolve
Laid up on a new timeline, tight on the words. Your own edit is never touched.
03 Check
Checked before you watch
Dialogue levels, music under talk, captions, framing and flash frames, measured against a finishing standard.
04 Private
Your footage stays yours
Footage is read on your Mac. Bring your own AI key and model; only text and small stills ever leave.
How it works
From the card to a checked cut, inside Resolve.
- 01
Point it at the shoot
Acecut transcribes every take and logs every shot on your Mac, so a whole card is searchable by what was said and what is in frame.
- 02
Ask for the cut
Say what you want in plain words: a 30 second ad from the founder interview, best read of each line. Your AI model plans it from the transcript and small stills.
- 03
Open it in Resolve
Acecut lays the cut onto a new timeline and checks it before you watch. You get the cut and a short list of what to look at.
00:00:30:00Founder ad, 30 s, v1
New timeline. Your edit is untouched.
- Dialogue levels matched, 9 linespass
- Music under talk at -40 LUFSpass
- Captions inside the safe widthpass
- No cuts inside a wordpass
- No flash framespass
- B-roll ends 2 frames early00:00:14:12
Illustration of a check report
What you need
Three things on your desk.
Mac
Apple silicon
Any M-series Mac. Transcripts and the shot log are made on it.
Resolve
DaVinci Resolve Studio
Acecut builds and checks inside Resolve, so the beta needs the Studio version.
AI
Your own model
Bring your own AI key, or run a local model through Ollama and keep everything on the Mac.
Questions
Straight answers.
Does it edit for me?
It does the assistant editor's work: logging, pulling the best takes, laying up a first cut and checking it. The taste and the final cut stay yours.
Will it touch my timeline?
No. Every cut is built on a new timeline. Your own edits are never changed.
Where does my footage go?
Nowhere. Footage and audio are read on your Mac. Only text, like transcripts and your instructions, and small still frames go to the AI model you choose, under your own key. With a local model, nothing leaves at all. Read the privacy page.
Whose taste does it cut with?
It starts from a finishing standard built on shipped client work: levels, captions, framing, pacing. Then it reads your own notes folder, so your rules come first.
Premiere, Final Cut, Windows?
The beta is DaVinci Resolve Studio on Mac only.
How do I get in?
The beta is invite only. Invites go out directly to a small group of working videographers and editors.
Built by working editors, tested by working editors.
Acecut is in a private beta with a small group of videographers and editors. Invites go out directly.