Uploading a video or pasting a link

There are two ways in: paste a link from a video platform, or upload a file from your computer.

By link

Works with YouTube, Twitch (VODs), Kick, Google Drive and Car.Media. Other video sites may work, but those are the tested routes.

The link has to point at one specific video. These are rejected on purpose:

• Playlists or channels — paste the video's address, not the list or the profile.
• YouTube Shorts — Shorts are already clips; there's nothing to cut out of them.
• Private videos, or anything that needs a login to watch.
• A live stream happening right now — that's what live monitoring is for, and it's a different flow.
• Video with no video track (audio only) or with a tiny resolution.

Quick test for a rejected link: open the address in a private window. If you can't watch it without being logged in, neither can CutPro.

By upload

If the video isn't published anywhere — a meeting recording, raw podcast footage, a masterclass — upload the file directly. This route is also the most reliable when a link fails because of a restriction on the source platform.

• Formats: MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV.
• Maximum size: 5 GB per file.

If your file is bigger than that, export it at a lower resolution before uploading, or trim to the part that matters — which also costs fewer credits.

Duration

There's a maximum video length that depends on your plan. A video over the limit is rejected, and the message tells you what your ceiling is.

At the other end: a video that's too short won't produce cuts, because it's already the length of a clip.

What pays off best is content with good, continuous speech: podcasts, conversational streams, lessons, interviews. Mostly musical video yields little, because without speech there's no transcript for the AI to analyze.

Select the section before confirming

This is the adjustment that saves the most credits. Consumption follows the length of the selected section, not the whole file: sending 40 minutes of a 4-hour stream costs 40 credits, not 240.

The estimated cost always appears before you confirm. Details in how credits work.

After you submit

The video goes through download, transcription, analysis and clip assembly. You can close the page — processing continues on the server.

If it finishes without producing a single clip, it's almost always the content: not much speech, audio too rough to transcribe, or material with no moments that stand on their own. And when a job fails, the credits go back to your balance automatically.