The paper edit should become the cut.
A documentary paper edit can reveal the story, but someone still has to rebuild it from footage in the editing timeline. We wanted the act of shaping the transcript to do that work too.
Creative tools
PaprCut / Created by 23 Pacific
From written words to a Premiere rough cut.
PAPRCUT.
The thinking behind the work
Your written edit becomes a footage edit.
Every sentence carries its footage.
Every passage stays attached to its original clip and exact timing. Selecting and rearranging sentences builds the edit itself. Export brings those decisions into Premiere as a sequence of the original footage and audio.
From transcript to timeline.
We designed and built a native Mac application around the full journey: ingest, transcript review, story structure and Premiere export. Directors and producers can develop the rough cut in words, then hand an editable sequence to the editor.
- Select and arrange source-linked passages
- Build and compare complete story structures
- Export an editable Adobe Premiere Pro sequence
A closer look
IN THE WORK.
The result
A rough cut, ready to keep editing.
The exported edit opens in Adobe Premiere Pro as a complete rough-cut sequence, with the selected footage and audio already in order. The editor can continue shaping the film from those decisions, with every cut linked to its source.
Pitch Dept
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