{"slug": "cut-express", "title": "Cut Express", "summary": "Cut Express launched as a video editing MCP server that connects to Claude and ChatGPT, letting the model decide every cut, caption, color grade and sound while Cut Express renders the MP4. The tool gives Claude contact sheets and timestamped transcripts of uploaded clips, then writes a timeline with word-by-word captions, 73 cinematic looks, 21 transitions and 20 animated title recipes, rendering in 1080p or 2K on its Ultra tier. Cut Express positions the product against timeline-based editors and template-driven one-click tools, arguing a 30-second reel otherwise takes an afternoon to edit.", "body_md": "\n\n```\n4 min of gameplay\n20 s reel\n```\n\n### The timeline tax\n\nScrub, split, trim, nudge, render, notice the caption is off by a frame, render again. The tool is powerful; the hours are yours.\n\nThe video editor for Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code · MCP\n\nCut Express is a video editing MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: you send your clips in the chat, Claude decides every cut, caption, color grade and sound, and Cut Express renders the MP4. No timeline to drag, no templates.\n\nWhat you can make\n\nAsk for the job in your own words. Claude looks at the footage first, so the same chat handles a two-minute fix and a finished reel.\n\nGameplay, streams, podcasts and vlogs. Cut Express finds the moments where something happens and ranks them as highlights, so Claude cuts the plays and lines worth posting.\n\nTrim a clip, drop the pauses, join takes, turn a horizontal video vertical, fix a clip shot sideways or just add music. Small jobs take one sentence.\n\nWord-by-word captions timed to the speech, on a video you already finished or a new edit, so people follow with the sound off.\n\nAnimated titles, kinetic text, charts, counters, price tags, checklists and end cards, written for your video and rendered with it. Twenty ready recipes to start from.\n\nDrop the reel next to your clips. Claude breaks it down shot by shot and rebuilds it with your footage, on the same pace.\n\nLonger edits with b-roll, lower thirds, split screens, picture-in-picture and a progress bar, in 1080p or 2K on Ultra.\n\n01The problem\n\nA 30-second reel is an afternoon in a timeline. A weekly YouTube video is a weekend. So the clips sit in your camera roll, or the edit goes to someone else and comes back in a week.\n\nOne-click editors pick the cuts for you, on a beat, from a template everyone else uses too. Your story doesn't fit a template.\n\nCaptions in one app, a voice-over somewhere else, music from a library, then back to the editor to put it together.\n\n02How it works\n\nCut Express connects to Claude through MCP, the standard it already supports. Claude does the thinking: it looks at your clips, reads what's said in them and decides every edit. Cut Express gives it eyes on the footage, the tools, and a render farm.\n\nConnect Cut Express once, then drop videos, photos and music into the upload panel right in the chat. In Claude Code, it uploads local files for you.\n\n\"A 30-second reel, hook first, bold captions, warm look.\" Claude scans the contact sheets and the transcript, finds the moments, adds a voice-over or sound effects, and writes the timeline.\n\nThe video renders while you watch the player in the chat. \"Shorter intro, captions yellow, music lower\" makes version 2. Every version stays in your account, ready to download.\n\n03What's in the box\n\nNo presets deciding for you. Every cut, word and sound is chosen for your footage, and every choice is in a timeline you can ask to change.\n\nClaude reads contact sheets of every clip and a timestamped transcript. It cuts on the sentence that lands and drops the pauses and false starts, so you get the part you asked for. Speed ramps, reverse, boomerang, freeze frames, punch-in zooms and 21 transitions are there when the edit needs them.\n\nWord-by-word captions timed to the speech: pop, karaoke, boxed, bold, clean or minimal, in any font, color, size and position, so people follow with the sound off. Text boxes for titles, labels and calls to action.\n\n73 cinematic looks (teal and orange, golden hour, noir, film, pastel and more) with an intensity, plus color sliders: temperature, contrast, highlights, shadows, vibrance, vignette, grain. Per scene or for the whole video, so you get a finished grade without opening a color tool.\n\nDrop a reel you love next to your own clips. Claude breaks it down shot by shot: every cut, its length, the camera movement, the beat it lands on, the text on screen. Then it rebuilds it with your footage, so you get the same pace with your video.\n\nA natural voice-over from any script, with captions that follow it word for word. 63 built-in sound effects cost nothing, and new ones come from a description. Background noise comes out, voices get an EQ, and music ducks under the voice by itself, so you never mix levels.\n\nAnimated titles, kinetic text, charts, counters, lower thirds and end cards, as a full scene or over your footage. Split screens, picture-in-picture, green screen and a progress bar too. Reels, Shorts and TikTok in 9:16, YouTube in 16:9, 1080p on Pro and 2K on Ultra.\n\nEvery video comes from a small JSON timeline: scenes with their in and out points, texts, captions, sound tracks and color. Claude writes it, Cut Express renders it. \"Make the intro tighter\" or \"now a 16:9 version for YouTube\" edits the same timeline and renders the next version, in seconds of your time.\n\nNothing is locked inside a template. Download the timeline from any version, or ask Claude to start a new video from it.\n\n```\n{\n  \"format\": \"9:16\", \"quality\": \"2k\",\n  \"scenes\": [\n    { \"media\": \"m_a1B2c3D4e5\", \"in\": 12.4, \"out\": 15.1,\n      \"transition\": { \"type\": \"zoomin\", \"duration\": 0.3 } },\n    { \"media\": \"m_k3v9q2xw7d\", \"in\": 2, \"out\": 4.5, \"speed\": 0.5 }\n  ],\n  \"captions\": { \"source\": \"auto\", \"style\": { \"preset\": \"pop\" } },\n  \"audio\": [\n    { \"media\": \"m_voice0001x\", \"role\": \"voice\" },\n    { \"media\": \"m_music0001x\", \"role\": \"music\", \"duck\": 0.25 }\n  ],\n  \"grade\": { \"looks\": [{ \"key\": \"golden_hour\", \"intensity\": 0.6 }] }\n}\n```\n\nMade with Cut Express\n\nEvery example was made by asking Claude in the chat. No timeline, no template: open one to watch it and read exactly what was asked.\n\n04Works with\n\nNothing to install. Cut Express is a remote connector: Claude does the editing on your Claude plan, and Cut Express does the rendering on its own servers.\n\nAdd a custom connector and sign in. The upload panel and the video player show right in the chat.\n\nOne command with a key from your account. It uploads local files and folders for you.\n\nA custom connector or one block in your MCP settings. Uploads go through the upload panel on the web or Claude Code.\n\nOther AIs that support remote MCP servers connect the same way.\n\n05What you get\n\n06Pricing\n\nPlans count render minutes: the length of the videos you render each month, re-renders included, failed ones never. Credits pay for the audio AI (voices, sound effects, transcripts). Looks, captions and transitions are included.\n\nEdit by chatting. Ship every week.\n\nMore minutes, more voice, 2K masters.\n\nCredits\n\nA voice-over spends 1 credit per 1,000 characters (about a minute of speech), a sound effect 0.1 per second, a transcript 0.1 per minute of audio. Pro gets 200 a month, Ultra 500; unused ones roll over for three months. Members can add packs that never expire: 50 for $4 or 200 for $12.\n\n07FAQ\n\nClaude can edit videos once a video editing MCP server is connected: it can't render video by itself. With Cut Express it watches your clips through contact sheets and a transcript, writes the edit, and Cut Express renders the MP4.\n\nChatGPT can edit videos by driving Cut Express as a custom MCP connector. Uploads go through the Cut Express upload panel on the web, and ChatGPT writes the edit the same way Claude does.\n\nCut Express works in Claude Code with one command and a key from your account. Claude Code then uploads local files and folders for you, so you never open an upload page.\n\nYou don't need Remotion, FFmpeg or any code: Cut Express renders on its own servers. There's nothing to install on your computer.\n\nCapCut, Premiere and Descript are editors you operate yourself. With Cut Express you describe the edit and Claude makes every decision, so you give notes instead of dragging clips.\n\nCut Express cuts long videos into Shorts: it finds the stretches where something happens in a gameplay, stream, podcast or vlog and ranks them as highlights. Claude zooms into the best ones, picks the in and out points, and renders each Short with captions.\n\nSimple edits take one sentence: trim a clip, remove the silences, join takes, turn a horizontal video vertical or add captions to a finished video. You don't need a full edit to use it.\n\nMCP (Model Context Protocol) is how AI assistants use outside tools. Once Cut Express is connected, Claude calls it by itself when you ask for an edit, the same way it searches the web or reads a file. You never leave the chat, and there is nothing to install.\n\nClaude decides: which moments to keep, where to cut, what the captions say, which look and music fit. Cut Express gives it what it needs to decide well (contact sheets of your clips, transcripts, voices, sound effects) and renders the result. No AI runs on our side to second-guess your instructions.\n\nIn Claude.ai and Claude Desktop, ask Claude to open the Cut Express upload panel and drop your files into it. Several files go at once, up to 2 GB each on Pro and 4 GB on Ultra. In Claude Code, Claude uploads files from your computer itself.\n\nCut Express doesn't use templates or beat-matching: every timeline is written for your footage. Caption styles and looks are starting points Claude can change in any detail.\n\nCut Express renders 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, and 16:9 for YouTube. Pro renders 1080p; Ultra also renders 2K (1440×2560 or 2560×1440). MP4, H.264, ready to post.\n\nRender minutes are the length of the videos you render each month. A 45-second reel spends 45 seconds; rendering it again in another format spends another 45. Failed renders never count. Pro has 60 minutes a month and Ultra 180; they reset on the 1st.\n\nCredits pay for the audio AI: voice-overs, sound effects and transcripts. A voice-over spends 1 credit per 1,000 characters (2 with the Advanced voice), a sound effect 0.1 per second, and a transcript 0.1 per minute of audio, once per file. Pro gets 200 a month and Ultra 500, and unused ones roll over for three months. Packs of 50 for $4 or 200 for $12 never expire.\n\nA render usually takes less than the video's own length at 1080p: a 30-second reel is ready in well under a minute. The player in the chat follows it, and the video page shows the progress.\n\nEvery video keeps its timeline, so you can change it after it renders. \"Make the captions yellow\" or \"now a 16:9 cut for YouTube\" renders the next version without starting over, and every version stays in your account.\n\nBoth plans start with 14 days free, then $19/mo for Pro or $49/mo for Ultra; cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing. Yearly gives 2 months free: $190/yr for Pro or $490/yr for Ultra, with the same minutes and credits every month. Cancel any time from your account.\n\nYour files are stored privately for your account and used only to render your videos. Remove any file from the Media page or by asking Claude; deleting a video deletes its files.\n\nWho builds Cut Express\n\nCut Express is built by [nxcturnez](https://nxcturnez.com), the studio behind Valta, Karou, Klevo, Copix and Nexin. We made it because we were tired of editing video by hand and wanted to work with motion and vector video instead. Now we edit our own reels, demos and YouTube cuts with it.\n\nIf something breaks or a render looks wrong, write to [support@cut.express](mailto:support@cut.express). We usually reply within one business day.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cut-express", "canonical_source": "https://cut.express/", "published_at": "2026-10-22 09:30:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 09:41:31.977640+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "generative-ai", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Cut Express", "Claude", "ChatGPT", "Claude Code", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cut-express", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cut-express.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cut-express.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cut-express.jsonld"}}