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Weeknight Kitchen — rough cut / Clips from Wren's Kitchen Publish
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Clips from Wren's Kitchen

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/ Next up, a favourite of mine — one decent knife.

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/ Contrary to what the catalogues tell you, you only need one good knife per person in a house. So because there are two of us, we own / two decent knives.

/ Picking a good one is a bit fiddly. But remember that this is going to be your multi-tool.

It becomes an extension of your arm in the kitchen. / So you really want a handle that feels right in the hand. You want to chop as long as you need to.

/ I use it for everything. / I open tins with it. / If I'm making toast in the morning, I spread butter with it. /

Stirring. / Flipping. / Chopping. / What else have I used this for? / I don't recommend it, but I have used it as a back scratcher.

Cook preparing food in a warm kitchen — photo by Nam Quan Nguyen on Pexelsit becomes an extension of your
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More than 4.1 million creators and teams cut in Cutline, including:

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Edit video like a doc — just by typing

Cutline is unlike any editor you have used before. Instead of dragging blocks around a timeline you get an auto-generated transcript, and then you edit that to edit the video. That is the whole trick.

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Deep Time: What the Seafloor Remembers

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/ Welcome back to the show, where we dig into the remarkable record of the seabed, follow the sediment cores, and work out what the mud has been keeping from us. I'm your host, Marguerite, and…

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  • Tidy for clarity
  • Room tone
  • Remove filler words
  • Remove retakes
  • Shorten word gaps
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Meet Gaffer, your AI editing assistant

Gaffer takes the tedious jobs at every stage of the edit. Swap or drop a background in one click with AI green screen. Kill a retake instantly. Hold the camera's eye even when you were reading your notes. Get a hand with the social post, or the script itself. Gaffer does all of that, and keeps going.

Turn one recording into a stack of social clips

Gaffer reads your footage for the moments most likely to travel, then cuts them to any ratio, size and format. After that the flourish is yours: branded templates, animated subtitles, stills, loops or music, so the clips still sound like you made them.

Podcaster recording in a bright studio — photo by Jeremy Enns on Pexels16:9and then I said we should try it
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What do you think about swapping this shot out?

Yes — much better.

Collaborative editing, without the chaos

Invite the team to build alongside you, live, with comments, version history, a shared media library and branded templates. All of it sits in the browser, so nobody is downloading a 4 GB file and posting it back at midnight.

Grab-and-go templates for quick, consistent video

Take a ready-made template — animated captions, titles and considered backgrounds included — so your video lands on any social platform. Or build your own, so people know in a half-second glance that this one is yours.

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If you can picture it, you can cut it in Cutline.

From a nine-second clip to a forty-minute screen recording, Cutline gives you what you need to make whatever the video is.

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Repurpose one recording into clips sized for every short-form feed you post to.

How to edit video in Cutline

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Drag and drop, or hit record

Upload the project files, or start recording — or start writing — without leaving Cutline.

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Edit the transcript

Use the transcript Cutline writes for you to cut the video. Backspace in the script to trim. Paste layers straight onto a moment. Or highlight a passage to spin out a clip.

Between the Slates

Katie

/ Katie here with another diary from the set of the film we've been shooting. Today I want to show you a little of what the production side actually looks like for a…

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Call in Gaffer

Ask Gaffer to speed the pass up. Strip retakes, spin out social clips, pull the hum out of the room — your assistant handles all of it and rather more.

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We have a whole team whose job is gathering the props and dressing the set to make each scene to make each scene look like a real place. The lighting crew spends hours spends hours nudging and…
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Publish it

Download the file, push it straight to the platforms you post on, or embed the whole thing anywhere with the Cutline web player.

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Between the Slates

Katie

Katie here with another diary from the set of the film we've been shooting. Today I want to show you a little of what the production side looks like on a feature. There are over two hundred people working flat out to…

Everything in your dad's video editor. And more.

Text-based editing

Cut faster by editing an automatically generated transcript. All you need is a keyboard, a mouse and a couple of fingers.

Gaffer: the AI editor that works for you

Your assistant takes the tedious jobs and leaves the creative calls entirely with you.

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Media library

Reach a deep stock library of footage, stills, sound effects and music, plus everything you have uploaded, right inside the editor.

Hold eye contact

Reading off-screen? Shift your gaze back to the lens in one click. So useful it is very nearly unsettling.

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AI speech generation

Fix a fluffed line by typing the correction — no rerecording, no rebooking the room.

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Repair audio errors

Flatten clipping, hiss and room rumble, so a kitchen-table recording sounds like a treated booth.

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Studio sound

One toggle lifts a voice out of the room it was recorded in and puts it in front of the mix.

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Subtitles and captions

Burn in captions that people actually read, styled to match whatever the rest of the frame is doing.

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Translate video

Reach an audience past your own language and move your captions into 20-plus of them in a few clicks.

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Automatic filler-word removal

Detect and erase long gaps, doubled words and the "um", "uh" and "like" that make a confident take sound uncertain.

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Automatic multicam

Work out who is talking and cut the layout to them, even in a fast four-way conversation.

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Recording built in

Capture webcam, microphone or screen, with up to ten guests dialling in remotely. All of it inside Cutline.

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With a 4.6 out of 5 rating and a run of category wins on Fieldnote, Cutline is named a leader in video editing and podcast production.

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"Cutline is a change of gear for video work. Editing by cut-and-paste is genuinely a bit magic."

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"Cutline has cut the time I spend editing video and podcast in half. It's so easy that I now use it on every single project I take."

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Handset Review / Field Test

Field Test

Lisa

/ Hey everyone — today we're looking at the newest handset in the range. I've had this thing in my pocket for a fortnight and I have some thoughts.

/ Let's start with the good news. The camera on…

Presenter recording a review to camera — photo by George Milton on Pexels