Basecut turns a card dump into a culled, baseline-graded DaVinci Resolve project overnight, for wedding and event filmmakers on Mac and Windows
Carddump.Gradedcut.
Dump the card tonight. Open a culled, graded DaVinci Resolve project by morning.
It runs locally on your own machine, sorting and color matching while you sleep.
0 clips.
0.00 TB. One you need.
Six cameras, three days, a folder you'll never scrub by hand. The shot is in there. Somewhere. Good luck.
Then Basecut
watches every
frame for you.
No scrubbing. No spreadsheet. Drag the card in and walk away. By the time you’re back, the work is done.
How Basecut sorts and tags every clipSorted. Graded. Shipped.
Real footage, real app: one folder becomes a ranked, color-prepped library, then a DaVinci Resolve project ready to cut.
How per-camera color worksLog to graded, automatically. Cut by @sotoxvisuals, Basecut beta tester.
Drop a folder
Drag it in. Walk away.
First kiss · altar
Drone reveal · venue
Ring exchange
Aisle walk · slow-mo
Speeches · father
Reception · wide
Per-camera CDL
Color-match clips
matchingDrop a folder, files, or one clip
Click to pick files. Or choose folder. .mov, .mp4, .m4v, .mxf, .avi, .mkv
Basecut does the rest.
One folder in. A graded, sorted project out.
Drop the card in
Point Basecut at a folder of footage from any camera (mp4, mov, or mxf, Sony to ARRI). No naming, no spreadsheet, no scrubbing.
It watches every frame
A local model on your own machine (Mac or Windows) sorts and culls by what actually happens in the shot, then applies a per-camera log-to-Rec.709 color correction. A cloud option is there if you want it.
Open it in Resolve
Get back a ranked, color-prepped DaVinci Resolve project: heroes, keepers, and skips already binned. ALE and FCPXML export work for any other NLE.
A Resolve project.
Culled, color-matched,
searchable forever.
Heroes, keepers, maybes, skips: already binned. Flat log already pushed to Rec.709, every camera matched. Bins and baseline grades, straight into DaVinci Resolve.
What lands in DaVinci ResolveFlat log in. This out.
AI to amplify your craft,
not replace it.
Basecut doesn't make the creative calls. It clears the hours of sorting, culling, and color prep, so you spend yours on the work only you can do.
Found in one second.
You don't remember the filename. You remember the moment. So that's what you type.
Weddings. Action sports. B-roll libraries.
Runs natively on Mac and Windows. A local model on your own machine, or your own cloud key. Your footage, your hardware, your call.
Works with the cameras you shoot
“I shoot cars and bikes on Sony out of pure passion, and the grind after a shoot was turning that passion into a chore. Basecut ranks my keepers and hands me a color-prepped DaVinci Resolve project, S-Log3 already handled. Honestly one of the coolest tools I've ever used. It keeps the passion from becoming tedious.”
SotoAutomotive filmmaker · Basecut beta@sotoxvisualsFree until it earns its keep.
Cull and color your whole shoot free: 14-day full trial with 5 free exports, no card. You only pay once it has already worked on your own footage. Every purchase has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Pay once, own it forever, every update included. The math: two years of the $99 annual plan, then free for life. Launch pricing: $199 now, $499 after launch. Less than one hour of a wedding edit.
The full pipeline on both platforms, cancel any time. Subscribe now and the founder rate is locked for life; it rises to $19.99 after launch. Prefer yearly? $99/yr, two months free.
You keep rolling.
We find the moment.
Shoot Saturday. Open a culled, graded Resolve project Sunday morning. 14-day full trial, 5 free exports, no card.
No card to start. $199 lifetime (founder), $99/yr, or $9.99/mo when you’re ready.
On Windows, on-device AI needs an NVIDIA GPU; otherwise Basecut uses your own Google AI key. Mac runs fully on-device.
The Windows installer is code-signed by verified publisher Jonathan Wiltshire. SmartScreen may still show a first-time notice while our new certificate builds reputation; check the publisher name, click More info, then Run anyway. Every release’s SHA-256 is published at basecut.app/version.json so you can verify the download.
Everything you’d ask before you trust it with a shoot.
What footage formats does Basecut support?
Most camera mp4, mov, and mxf: Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, DJI, Apple, GoPro, and Insta360 all get first-class per-camera handling, including ProRes (ARRI ALEXA ProRes too), ProRes RAW, and BRAW on Mac. Sixteen log profiles are auto-detected, and a visual classifier covers anything it doesn't recognize. Native ARRIRAW and REDCODE R3D aren't supported yet.
Does it work offline?
On Mac, yes, fully: a local model runs the whole analysis on your own machine with no internet at all. On Windows it runs fully local when you have an NVIDIA GPU; without one, the AI step uses your own Google Gemini key instead (those clips go to Google under your key, not ours). The local path never touches the internet.
How much does the AI cost to run?
Nothing if you run the local model on your own machine. If you'd rather use the cloud option, you bring your own API key, around five cents per 10-minute project on Gemini Flash and around forty cents on Gemini Pro, so usage stays under your control.
Does it auto-grade my footage?
It color-corrects, not color-grades. Every clip gets a per-camera log-to-Rec.709 transform: predictable, inspectable, and reversible. The creative grade stays yours. No black-box AI deciding how your footage should look.
Does it work with DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, FCP, or Avid?
Yes. The Basecut Grade OFX plugin applies your per-clip grades live on the Resolve color page (works in free Resolve), and with Resolve Studio one click builds a graded project: bins, timelines, grades applied. ALE and FCPXML export work today, so Premiere, FCP, and Avid can ingest the metadata too.
Can I cancel my subscription?
Yes, anytime, no questions asked. Your local data stays yours. The library you built in Basecut is just files on your disk.
How is this different from cloud AI editors?
Cloud tools upload your footage to their servers and keep it there. Basecut runs a local model on your own machine (Mac, and Windows with an NVIDIA GPU), so your media never leaves your disk. Without a local-capable GPU on Windows, or if you prefer it, the cloud option processes clips through Google's Gemini API under your own key and account, never ours. Either way your library stays as plain files you own, not rows in someone else's cloud.
Is my footage used to train your AI?
We never train on your footage, and on the local path your footage never leaves your machine. Basecut does send anonymous usage and crash diagnostics (on by default, with no footage, filenames, or personal data, and a single switch to turn it off in Settings) so we can fix bugs and improve. If you use the cloud option, clips pass through Google's Gemini API under your own key; data handling there follows Google's API terms for your key's tier.