Coming soon · macOS
Paper Cut turns your unscripted footage into scenes and structure — with as much or as little direction as you give it. From a blank slate to your exact storyline, assemble the narrative before you open the timeline.
Coming to macOS first, then Windows — we’ll email you when it ships.
First frames first
The problem
Knowing your footage cold — logging every clip, transcribing the interviews, remembering the exact look on someone’s face when they said the thing — is the groundwork a good cut is built on. It’s also the first thing the schedule cuts. The brief just says “dive in.”
The principle
Paper Cut surfaces what’s in the footage — the themes, the moments, the through-line — and hands it to you. It never decides for you. Every cut, every call, stays yours.
What’s inside
Story Sense
Point Story Sense at a shoot day and it comes back with proposed scenes — named, summarized, and ordered the way the story wants, not the way the camera rolled. Promote the ones that land. Reject the rest.
✦ Here’s what I’m seeing — Day 6
Intimate moments, reflective drives, and the practical rhythm of RV life — strong emotional beats, a mix of verité and context.
Establishes the dynamic between Brian and his subjects — the human connection, the Americana setting.
A more intimate, artistic portrait — widens the range of subjects in the project.
The landing
Every clip clustered by what it’s actually about — theme, region, shoot day, visual quality. Your strongest material rises to the top. Filter, and the whole board recomputes on the spot.
Top picks — your strongest material
By theme
By region
By visual quality
Per-clip intelligence
Open any clip to a full read: narrative value, visual craft, a timecoded list of its best moments, and the entire transcript. Mark IN and OUT right there in the player. Nothing left unseen.
Highlights
00:00 Opening close-up — masked Elvis, full glitter. The image is the thesis.
00:21 “So that’s why the king’s wearing the mask.”
Transcript
brian You live in Vegas?
subject Twenty years. First time I’ve put the suit on in a month.
Story Center
Acts, scenes, beats — the arc laid out, clips dropped into beginning, middle, and end. When it’s right, send it straight to your NLE.
Ask for “wide shots, golden hour, one subject.” Get them.
JKL shuttle, I/O marks, draggable IN/OUT — the keymap you set.
Run fully private on-device, or switch on managed cloud AI with Sync. Either way, the footage stays yours.
Collaboration
A cut is a conversation — between you and the footage, and between everyone with a stake in the film. Paper Cut keeps that conversation in one place, wherever the work happens.
With Sync, every project lives where you do — the edit bay, the hotel room, the kitchen table. Open any machine and pick up on the exact frame you left.
Invite a director or producer in as a collaborator. They shape a scene, hand it back, leave a note on a clip — the story moves between you, instead of living in one person’s head.
When a cut is ready, load it onto your active Premiere or Avid sequence from the in-app panel. No exports to chase, no round-trips to untangle.
Questions
No. Paper Cut runs locally. Only AI requests — thumbnails plus a small set of frames per clip — are sent to Anthropic during analysis, using your own API key. Your original media stays on your drive. When cloud sync ships, it’s opt-in and encrypted, and you choose what to share.
Paper Cut runs on simple monthly plans — from $12/mo Standalone (local-only, fully private) up to the Sync tiers with managed cloud AI and remote collaboration. See Pricing for the full breakdown.
Paper Cut ships with dedicated Premiere and Avid panels that load your stringout straight onto the active timeline — no round-tripping. It also exports AAF and FCPXML, covering Avid, Premiere, Resolve, and Final Cut. The catalogue itself is editor-agnostic — you can use Paper Cut purely as a logging tool even if you cut elsewhere.
Anything ffmpeg reads — ProRes, H.264, H.265, BRAW, R3D, DNxHR, ARRIRAW (via proxies). Mixed-framerate projects are handled. The catalogue tracks source timecode so AAF relink is reliable.
Paper Cut is the first software product from Supergiant — a documentary post-production specialist and software label. Built by a working editor, for anyone who has to find the story in a mountain of footage.
macOS first. Windows is on the table once 1.0 ships. Linux later, maybe.
Plans
Standalone
$12/mo
Everything runs on your machine.
Sync Solo
$20/mo
Managed cloud AI + your projects, anywhere.
Sync Teams
$50/mo
Bring the whole room into the project.
Enterprise
Let’s talk
For large teams and companies.
Need more hands? Add remote collaborator seats to any Sync plan — $8/mo each.
Paper Cut · coming soon to macOS, Windows to follow