Make a reel from my Vietnam clips, on the beat of this one.
What Taalcut does
It reads a reel you saved, sorts your camera roll, keeps the reel as a template, makes the video with you in a chat, and leaves the timeline open for you to change. Each one works below, on a reel from a trip to Vietnam.
Read any reel
Paste a link or drop a file. Taalcut finds the cuts and music beats, and you can fix what it got wrong before it’s used.
- Takes
- Reels, Shorts and TikTok links, or a video file (on Ubuntu, a file for now)
- Finds
- Cuts, music beats, on-screen text and its timing, transitions, speed ramps, pacing
Reels, Shorts and TikTokRead a reel
- Slot 1, Airport walkway, from 0:00.00 to 0:06.53
- Slot 2, Red lanterns, from 0:06.53 to 0:07.13
- Slot 3, Temple flags, from 0:07.13 to 0:07.73
- Slot 4, Neon heart, from 0:07.73 to 0:08.27
- Slot 5, Resort deck, from 0:08.27 to 0:08.83
- Slot 6, Jungle path, from 0:08.83 to 0:09.40
- Slot 7, Night lights, from 0:09.40 to 0:09.97
- Slot 8, Rain and neon, from 0:09.97 to 0:10.57
- Slot 9, Temple front, from 0:10.57 to 0:10.87
- Slot 10, Neon street, from 0:10.87 to 0:11.20
- Slot 11, City towers, from 0:11.20 to 0:11.63
- Slot 12, Starry arches, from 0:11.63 to 0:12.27
- Slot 13, Dusk lanterns, from 0:12.27 to 0:13.30
Scroll the lanes sideways to reach every cut.
Your camera roll, sorted
No more scrolling through a thousand clips. Each slot says what it needs, and Taalcut finds it in your footage.
- From
- Your phone over Wi-Fi with a QR code and PIN, or folders read in place
- On your Mac
- Shots, what’s in them, on-screen text and speech, indexed on the device
From your phone over Wi-FiCamera roll
13 clips from a trip to Vietnam.
Vietnam trip
- 6.5 sAirport walkway
- 0.6 sRed lanterns
- 0.6 sTemple flags
- 0.5 sNeon heart
- 0.6 sResort deck
- 0.6 sJungle path
- 0.6 sNight lights
- 0.6 sRain and neon
- 0.3 sTemple front
- 0.3 sNeon street
- 0.4 sCity towers
- 0.6 sStarry arches
- 1 sDusk lanterns
Reels become templates
The reel you saved last month is a template you keep. Fill it with this weekend’s trip, then next month’s.
- A template keeps
- The slots, the music beats, the text and its timing
- Starters
- 8 starter templates in your language, 14 in all
Fill it again and againTemplates
One template
13 slots13.3 s107 music beats a minute- Hook0:00Red lanternsRed lanterns on a night street
- Build0:067 slotsNeon heartA neon heart and an orange car
- Peak0:104 slotsNeon streetA narrow neon street
- Outro0:12Dusk lanternsLanterns overhead at dusk
The editor you talk to
Say what you want in a sentence. The agent cuts, checks its own work against the reel, and shows you the result.
- You do
- Paste a reel, point at your footage, approve
- It checks
- Every cut against the reel before you see it
Checks the cut against the reelAgent
The agent at work
The chat is finished.You: Saved reel: Vietnam, walking away on every beat Make the Vietnam reel4 of 4 done
- Done:Read the reel
- Done:Pick a clip for each slot
- Done:Cut on the beat
- Done:Check the cut against the reel
- Cuts on the beat, passed
- Each shot shows what the reel’s moment needs, passed
- Faces shown or hidden as in the reel, passed
- Captions clear of the app’s buttons, passed
- Shape (9:16), passed
Fine-tune when you want
The agent’s work is on the timeline, marked as its own. Swap, move or slip a clip, and it is marked as yours.
- Timeline
- Split, trim, speed ramps, transitions, colour, fades
- Captions
- Word by word, and as an SRT file
Trims land on the beatEditor
1 Airport walkway2 Red lanterns3 Temple flags4 Neon heart5 Jungle path6 Rain and neon7 Dusk lanternsPlayhead at 0:03.20, the cut is 0:13.30 long.
Make your first one when the beta opens.
Taalcut is free. One email when it’s ready for your computer, and nothing else.