Free local video editor · macOS and Windows

Your footage. Your edit.

Import footage, transcribe it, cut from the transcript, and export your video. Local editing runs on your machine, with no footage upload required.

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CueFrame desktop app with the EXTRAORDINARY title selected over the speaking Yosemite ranger — The real Yosemite Peregrines project in CueFrame.

Make the cut. Refine the details.

Work directly with the transcript and timeline, or ask the built-in Director to help with a change. Both keep the project editable.

Cut with words.

Import your footage and transcribe it on your machine. Select a spoken phrase to cut the matching clip while the transcript and timeline stay in sync.

CueFrame transcript and timeline aligned to the Yosemite ranger’s spoken words — The Yosemite ranger’s spoken words aligned with the timeline

Direct the next change.

Ask the AI Director in plain language. It reads the composition, makes the patch, and reviews real rendered frames before suggesting what comes next.

CueFrame AI Director adding a PHENOMENAL title behind the speaking Yosemite ranger and verifying the preview — A lower third changed from a direction in the CueFrame editor

From source footage to finished video.

Keep your media local, add captions and titles, then export a finished video or a timeline for another editor.

Local and private

Preview and transcribe footage on your machine. Local projects are not uploaded.

Yosemite Peregrines footage and its generated subject cutout in CueFrame’s local media library

Word-synced captions

Caption timing comes from the transcript, so each word lands when it is spoken.

Titles that stay editable

Adjust the text, placement, and timing of motion titles and lower thirds in your project.

A timeline you can take with you

Export MP4, subtitles, EDL, or FCPXML for Premiere, Final Cut, and Resolve.

CueFrame export controls over the Yosemite Peregrines project

Already working with an agent?

Open its CueFrame project in the desktop editor and keep refining the same layers and timeline. MCP and API cloud workflows are optional paid services; the local editor stays free.