#CutZal Docs

CutZal is a Mac editor that makes cutting talking-head videos, such as lectures, reviews, vlogs and podcasts, fast. AI reads the transcript and picks the cuts first, and you review and confirm them with the keyboard. Your original video files never change.

Using an AI agent? Give it one address: https://cutzal.ai/llms.txt. See AI agents below.

#User guide

If you're new, start with Get started. It walks you through one flow, from opening a video to exporting your first finished video.

• Get started: install, open a video, transcribe, review and export for the first time.
• Review loop and AI cut grades: check the cuts AI picked from the keyboard and bring back the wrong ones quickly.
• Transcription options: credits, your own ElevenLabs key, free local transcription and subtitle import, and when money is spent.
• Layout, B-roll and sound effects: arrange the camera and the screen, add images and B-roll, and add sound effects.
• Export: the finished video and subtitles, and continuing in another editor.
• Chat and your agent: connect your own Claude Code or Codex and hand it edits.
• Original files and privacy: how your originals stay unchanged, the edit/ folder and what leaves your Mac.

#Reference

• Keyboard shortcuts: every keyboard shortcut and mouse gesture in the editor. It's built from the same definition table as the shortcut list in the app.

#AI agents

• CutZal for AI agents: how agents such as Claude Code and Codex read and edit a CutZal project with the cutzal command, the order of work and what needs your confirmation. https://cutzal.ai/llms.txt lists these docs as Markdown, starting with CutZal for AI agents.