Edit a video by editing its transcript
Reading is faster than scrubbing. Your video becomes text; delete a sentence and it is cut from every track, with the music, overlays and captions moving along.
Three steps, a couple of minutes
Drop in your video
An interview, a talking head, a lesson. AI writes the transcript in 17 languages, including Arabic.
Delete words, not frames
Select the words you don’t want and press Delete. Fillers, long pauses and retakes have their own one-click clean-ups.
Export or keep editing
The cut is a normal timeline edit — add captions, titles and music, then export the MP4.
Why use CutLuma for this
Ripple across every track
A cut in the transcript removes that stretch from the video, the music and the overlays alike. Nothing drifts.
Fillers, pauses, retakes
Um, uh, you know, يعني, este — found and removed with a preview. Pauses longer than a second shrink to a beat; a sentence said twice keeps the last take.
Nothing is lost
Cut words stay struck through in the transcript. Restore or Ctrl+Z brings them back.
Questions? Answers.
Which languages can it transcribe?
Seventeen, including English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Arabic flows right to left.
Is it free?
The editor is free. Transcription is an AI feature included in the paid plans, with hours of AI time every month; the transcript is kept on the clips so you only pay once.
Does it work on long recordings?
Yes. Hour-long podcasts and webinars render as flowing text, and the current word follows the playhead.
Edit a video by editing its transcript
Included in every paid plan · The editor itself is free
Edit as text