FirstCut
Edit the story before you edit the video
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Rough cuts take hours because you have to watch everything before you can decide anything. FirstCut reads your footage for you, finds the stories inside it, and gives you a playable rough cut in the browser. Reshape it by beat, clip or word, with AI or by hand. Your video never uploads, only its audio, and the sequence exports straight to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or Avid.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%) · 0 views
Niche: ai video clipping and summarization tools · 163 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -12% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Video
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Could you build this?
Partial The editing interface and LLM-driven story and beat detection are vibe-codeable in a browser. Real rough-cut quality requires robust transcription, on-device or client-side media processing, and timeline rendering that are harder to get right.
What it would actually take: Use an in-browser or on-device speech-to-text model (for example Whisper variants) on extracted audio so video never leaves the device, then an LLM to segment the transcript into story beats. The timeline editor needs frame-accurate playback and export via WebCodecs or ffmpeg.wasm. Performance on long footage and accurate cut-point detection require media-engineering and ML tuning expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 635 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #273 of 636 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
- OpenField · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Editomata · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ROUGH//CUT · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Cutwords · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DoneCut · ph · 2026-10-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Cutline · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Cutaway · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- SayCut · ph · 2026-10-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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