60 seconds, not 60 minutes  ·  Your footage never leaves your Mac  ·  The fastest beat-sync tool on earth

The fastest beat-sync tool on earth — built for editors who own their footage

60 SECONDS.
NOT 60 MINUTES.

Drop your clips. Drop your music. Smith Cut finds every beat, matches every clip, and places a complete beat-sync edit in Premiere Pro — in under 60 seconds. On your Mac. Offline. Your footage never touches a server.

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From drop to Premiere timeline
100%
Local — zero uploads, ever
4hrs
Saved per project vs manual
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Why editors choose Smith Cut

OWN YOUR
FOOTAGE.

Other tools upload your footage to a cloud server and take an hour to process it. Smith Cut runs entirely on your Mac — no uploads, no waiting, no NDA violations. Your client's footage is yours alone.

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Music Videos
Hard cuts on every beat. Rapid-fire edits that feel like they were built for the track — because they were.
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Social Media Reels
Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts. 60 seconds. 8 clips. Done in under a minute instead of two hours.
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Brand Highlight Reels
Client deliverables that need to land on the beat. Drop your footage, drop their track, hand them a rough cut.
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Sports Edits
Action, energy, impact. Beat-sync edits are the standard in sports content — Smith Cut makes them automatic.
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Event Recaps
Conference, concert, wedding. Rapid turnaround rough cuts your client can react to before you refine.
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AI Story Edits
Import your Premiere project. The AI analyzes your footage, writes the story, and rebuilds the edit for you.

Smith Cut vs the cloud

WHY LOCAL
WINS.

SMITH CUT
✓ Under 60 seconds from drop to Premiere timeline
✓ Runs 100% on your Mac — zero uploads
✓ Client footage stays under your NDA — always
✓ Works offline — no internet required after setup
✓ Beat-sync specialist — owns this workflow completely
✓ $20/month — transparent, no waitlist, no upload fees
CLOUD-BASED TOOLS
✗ 1 hour of footage takes ~1 hour to process in the cloud
✗ Your footage is uploaded to third-party servers
✗ Client NDAs may prohibit cloud processing of raw footage
✗ Requires fast internet + active connection throughout
✗ General-purpose AI — beat-sync is an afterthought
✗ Pricing undisclosed — waitlist required

Cloud processing times sourced from published reviewer benchmarks. Smith Cut timing based on a 98.6s audio track with 8 clips on Apple M-series hardware.

“Smith Cut saved us hours on every project. Half a day of manual beat-cutting is now under a minute — and it all runs on our machine, so there's no question about client footage security. It's become a core part of our production workflow.”

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RBTV
Video Production Client

The pipeline

FOUR STEPS.
ONE CLICK.

01
Beat Detection
Librosa analyzes your music locally — no upload needed. Finds every beat, onset, and rhythmic hit. Energy levels mapped per beat for smart placement.
02
Clip Metadata
FFprobe reads every clip on your local drive — duration, frame rate, codec, creation date. Your footage path never leaves your machine.
03
Beat Matching
Each clip is assigned to a beat slot and trimmed to exactly that duration. Loop, shuffle, vary — full control over pacing.
04
Premiere Import
Every clip placed on the Premiere timeline at its exact beat position. Music track placed. Project saved. Total time: under 60 seconds.

Pricing

SIMPLE.
TRANSPARENT.

Core Plan
$20/month
Everything you need for fast, professional beat-sync editing. Unlimited simple generations and 5 AI generations per month. Includes a 3-day free trial with 0 AI generations.
  • Unlimited Simple Generations
  • 5 AI generations / month after trial
  • 100% local — zero cloud uploads
  • Beat detection (librosa)
  • Clip metadata sorting
  • Loop, shuffle, chop controls
  • Beat subdivision (1, 2, 4, 8 beats)
  • Cut length variation
  • Premiere Pro automation
  • Sound effects & UI polish
  • macOS — Apple Silicon + Intel
Subscribe — $20/mo
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AI Add-On
$3/generation
Need more than 5 AI generations in a month? Top up instantly. Each AI generation runs the full story analysis pipeline.
What an AI generation includes:

Imports your Premiere Pro project → extracts frames from every clip → describes each clip visually using moondream → generates a 3-paragraph story narrative → suggests optimal clip order, chop positions, and beat sensitivity → fires the full pipeline with one click.
  • Full AI story analysis
  • Clip visual descriptions
  • Narrative + vibe report
  • AI-suggested clip order
  • Requires active Core Plan
  • Runs locally — no cloud
  • Ollama / moondream powered
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Also available

SMITH CUT:
EDUCATION
EDITION.

The only beat-sync tool with a classroom edition. No competitor has touched this market. Decision checkpoints, lesson reports, three learning modes, and a 12-week curriculum — built for teachers who want students to understand the edit, not just produce one.

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3
Learning Modes
Guided · Assisted · Pro
12
Week Curriculum
Ready to teach from day one
30
Student Seats
Classroom plan from $49/mo
PDF
Lesson Reports
Per student, per session
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