Cut a film

Cut is the film's own step — the Cut tab, after Day and Story (/cut, on a phone /m/cut). Day's Ready to cut section and Story's Cut film → open it with their shots picked.

Part of the page	What it does
What's in it	Tick Day, Story or both — one film can mix the two
Watch the cut	The cut as it will come out, before anything is encoded — it updates a moment after each change
Timeline	Every shot as long as it plays: click to jump, drag a shot to move it, drag a still's edge to hold it, a clip's edges to trim it; drag on the ruler to scrub. Under the shots, the sound lane shows the music's waveform against the cut (and says when the track runs out early or runs over), the spoken lines and the narration. The round badge on each join picks how the next shot comes in — Cut, Crossfade, Fade through black, Flash of white or Slide (default: the Crossfade option)
Shots	One card per shot, with its picture and what happens in it — drag to reorder. + From Gallery adds any still or clip of this Cast, + Text card a line of words on black, Duplicate the shot under the playhead again, Split at playhead cuts a clip in two (each half its own trim). Added shots have Remove
Options	Shape, size, length, music, subtitles, titles — kept between visits
Versions	Save the edit under a name (a long cut, a 30 s one for Reels) and open it again
Your films	Every film of this Cast: re-cut in another shape, export for an editor, share

After a cut: Watch on Cast, Start tomorrow on Day or Continue as a story.

Keys

Space play / pause · ← → previous / next shot · Alt+← → move the shot · Delete leave it out (again: put it back) · Ctrl+Z undo · Ctrl+Shift+Z redo

Stitch a season is on the Cast page → Film & media → Seasons.

The film saves to the Gallery and to the Cast as an episode.

Before it cuts

Cut checks every shot first (Checking the shots…): missing, black, a talking clip with no sound, or a still that missed its pose or face. Then choose Retry them first, Leave them out or Cut anyway.

Cut options

Option	Choices
Shape	Widescreen 16:9 · Vertical 9:16 · Square 1:1
Size	720p · 1080p
Length	As the shots hold · Fit to the music · 15 / 30 / 60 s
Music	Upload, paste a link, or Score this film (an original track)
Levels	Music and Lines — the music ducks under speech
Look	Crossfade · Slow zoom on stills · Title & captions
Subtitles (on)	What is said in each talking clip — else the shot's narration — burned in at the bottom

Shots

Each shot is a card with its still (or the clip's first frame — hover to play it), the beat and what is said. Drag a card by its ⠿ grip to move it (or ↑ ↓), untick to leave it out, edit its caption, hold a still longer, frame a still (waist up, chest up), trim a clip, pick the poster, set a still's move (push in, pull out, hold still) and a clip's sound (as recorded, louder, quieter, muted).

Sound

Sound	Where it comes from
Lines	Talking clips — the Cast's voice
Narration	Each slot's (or Story scene's) Narration, recorded when the film is cut
Room sound	Under talking clips, and Add sound on silent ones
Music	Your track or Score this film

Dub into another language

Day's Dub (beside Animate all) translates every line and reply with your LLM, then makes the talking clips again with the lines said in that language — lip-synced, like English. Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

• The translated lines show in each slot's Line — fix any wording there and Animate again.
• As written puts the original lines back.

Use a capable LLM

An 8B model translated well in testing; a 3B one changed the meaning of some lines.

After the cut

On the Cast page → Film & media → Films, under each film:

Button	What it does
Re-cut	The same film at another shape (vertical, square, widescreen) or size
Export for an editor	A zip with FCPXML (Resolve, Final Cut), an EDL, subtitles and the clips
Share for review	A read-only link that expires — anyone can watch it without an account

Note

These need a film cut in 2.6 or later (it keeps the recipe). For an older film, cut the Day again.