For cinematographers who'd rather be shooting
You keep rolling.Basecut finds the moment.
AI sorting, color prep, and search that run on your own machine. Drag a folder, come back to a sorted DaVinci Resolve project. Fully local, on Mac and Windows.
Metadata-aware for the cameras you shoot
Drop a folder
Drag it in. Walk away.
First kiss · altar
Drone reveal · venue
Ring exchange
Aisle walk · slow-mo
Speeches · father
Reception · b-roll
Per-camera CDL
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.
ingest a wedding, not 4 hours
camera brands with first-class log support
per project fully local on Mac (about $0.05 if you opt into cloud Gemini)
on your machine, on Mac
What it does
Everything between the shoot and the cut.
Drop a folder, get a Resolve project
Bins, ratings, clip colors, names, markers, and a stringout timeline. Walk away during ingest, sit down to a finished sort.
Find any moment, ever
Semantic search across names, subjects, tags, and spoken audio. Months of footage become one Cmd+F.
Color prep that explains itself
Per-camera log-to-Rec.709, inspectable and reversible. Bring your LUTs, export CDL sidecars.
Save a grade, reuse it everywhere
Grade one clip, save it as a look, apply it across the shoot. Learns your style on your machine.
A rough cut from one line
Type what the piece is. The auto-cut leads with the shots that match, sent straight to Resolve.
Duplicate takes, handled
Shot it five times? Basecut groups the retakes, keeps the strongest, flags the rest. All on your machine, nothing uploaded.
Color, corrected
Flat log in. Rec.709 out. Grab it.
Per-camera correction you can see and reverse. Drag the handle to scrub between the source log and Basecut's baseline.
Editors with a hard drive full of footage.
Wedding cinematographers
200-clip weddings. The kiss, the first dance, the vows. Tagged the moment ingest finishes.
Action sports + multi-cam
Drone, GoPro, action cam. Find the wave you dropped into at sunset across three cameras.
YouTubers + B-roll heavy creators
Find that aerial from last year. Find the slow-mo coffee pour. Find the time-lapse of that sunset.
Editors who hate sorting
Sit down to coffee, come back to a curated cut. Spend your bench time grading, not bin-sorting.
From the beta
“I shoot all-day events and used to lose a full day after to sorting. Basecut hands me a sorted, color-prepped Resolve project before I've finished my coffee. The longer the shoot, the more it saves me.”
Pricing
Pay monthly, or buy it once.
Same app, same updates, same support. Pick the structure that fits the way you work.
Monthly
Subscribe- ·Full Basecut (ingest, library, color)
- ·All future updates included
- ·Cancel anytime, no questions
- ·30-day refund if it doesn't sort your footage right
- ·Direct support from the developer (reply to your receipt)
Lifetime
One time- ·Perpetual license, your machine forever
- ·Perpetual updates included
- ·Founder price locked forever (regular $499)
- ·30-day refund if it doesn't sort your footage right
- ·Direct support from the developer (reply to your receipt)
Every purchase is covered by the 30-day money-back guarantee. Questions after you buy? Reply to your Gumroad receipt and you get a fast answer.
Mac: Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and 16GB RAM for the local AI backend. Windows 10/11: cloud analysis under your own Gemini key.
Local by design
Every other AI tool uploads your footage. Basecut doesn't have to.
On Mac the work happens on hardware you already own. Local runs take a little longer than a cloud farm. They also never leave the room. Cloud analysis (optional on Mac, the default on Windows) runs under your own Gemini API key.
Your footage stays on your disk
On Mac's local backend, analysis runs entirely on your machine. The library you build is plain files you own, not rows in someone else's database.
Bring your own key
Use the local model on Mac and run fully offline. Or point the heaviest analysis at a cloud model under your own API key and account.
No training on your work
We never train a model on what you shoot. Telemetry is opt-out and never carries footage. Cloud analysis follows Google's API terms under your own key.
The questions editors ask first.
What footage formats does it support?
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Most camera mp4, mov, and mxf. DJI, Sony, Apple, Canon, GoPro, and Insta360 are all covered out of the box, with metadata-aware handling per camera.
Does it work offline?
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Mac, yes. There's a local Qwen backend so you can ingest with no internet at all. Windows is cloud-only for now while the local model port is in progress.
How much does the Gemini API cost?
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Around five cents per 10-minute project on Gemini Flash, around forty cents on Gemini Pro. You bring your own API key so usage stays under your control.
Does it auto-grade my footage?
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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 Premiere, FCP, or Avid?
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DaVinci Resolve plugin ships in v1. Premiere and FCP integrations are planned. ALE and FCPXML export already work today, so any NLE can ingest the metadata.
Can I cancel my subscription?
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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?
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Cloud tools upload your footage to their servers and keep it there. With Basecut's local Mac backend the work happens on your own machine and your media never leaves your disk. If you opt into the cloud backend (or use Windows, which is cloud-only for now), clips are processed 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?
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We never train on your work and telemetry is opt-out and carries no footage. The local Mac backend sends nothing anywhere. If you use the cloud backend, clips pass through Google's Gemini API under your own key; data handling there follows Google's API terms for your key's tier.
Stop sorting. Start shooting.
Drag a folder tonight. Sit down tomorrow to a sorted, color-prepped Resolve project. Fully local on Mac, so your footage never leaves your machine.
$19 / mo or $149 lifetime · 30-day refund