# StudioCut.Video — Full Content for LLMs > Single-fetch Markdown bundle of the StudioCut.Video marketing site. Mirrors the live HTML pages so an AI assistant can answer questions about the product without crawling. For the index version, see [llms.txt](https://studiocut.video/llms.txt). Canonical URL: https://studiocut.video/llms-full.txt. Last updated: 2026-05-16. Shipping version: v19.0.7.9.9. --- ## What StudioCut.Video is An AI-powered video production platform. It turns articles, URLs, RSS feeds, PDFs, JSON, attached media, or topic prompts into publish-ready videos for YouTube long-form, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok, Instagram Stories, Facebook feeds, and LinkedIn. Every video flows through the same five-phase pipeline with a human review gate after each phase — or Auto-Approve runs the whole thing hands-free. **Core selling points** - One unified platform replaces a stack of fifteen tools. - 24 production languages, 16+ visual styles + custom style builder, three aspect ratios. - Bring-your-own AI keys; AI cost is metered, never marked up; per-call tokens and cost stored immutably. - Modular architecture: core platform + workflow orchestration + standalone renderer + S3-compatible object storage with dev/prod mode switch. Self-host or use managed. - Built-in agency mode and white-label for resellers. - GDPR-aligned today; SOC 2 Type I targeted Q3 2026. --- ## The pipeline, phase by phase ### Phase 1 — Planning (the blueprint) Before any image renders, the AI produces and shows the full plan. - **Produces:** narrative arc with hook/body/CTA, per-scene breakdown (visual prompt, duration, on-screen text), voice-over script with pacing markers, animation and transition specs, suggested thumbnail concepts. - **You can:** edit any scene's prompt or script line; reorder, split, merge, delete scenes; change overall tone or length; lock specific scenes from regeneration; approve and proceed to Phase 2. - **Typical duration:** ~30–90 seconds of generation. Allow 5–7 minutes wall-clock if you intend to review the plan before approving. ### Phase 2 — Asset Creation (parallel generation) Images, voice, music, and thumbnails generate concurrently across orchestrated workflows. - **Images:** one per scene in chosen style; regenerate any single image without redoing the rest. - **Voice:** premium AI voices, configurable gender/age/accent/pacing, per-scene SSML for emphasis. - **Music:** royalty-free track matched to mood and length, auto-ducked under voice-over. - **Thumbnails:** three variants per video. ### Phase 3 — Visual Direction (layouts and motion) Scenes are composed with brand colours, typography, and platform-aware safe zones. - **Layouts:** title cards, lower thirds, full-bleed, split screens, picture-in-picture — chosen per scene by the AI director. - **Motion:** entrance/emphasis/exit animations, subtle Ken Burns on stills, style-matched transitions. ### Phase 4 — Rendering (pixels to MP4) A dedicated renderer service composites the final file. - **Three-format render:** 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 produced from the same source — layouts and safe zones adapt automatically. - **Audio:** voice-over locked to scene timing, music ducked, sound effects layered. - **Resilient queue:** if a render fails, it retries from the failed segment, not from scratch. 99.8% success rate. - **Typical duration for Phases 2–4 combined:** 4–10 minutes depending on length and vendor load. ### Phase 5 — Publishing Prep (per platform) Metadata, thumbnails, and descriptions tuned per target. - **YouTube:** chapter markers + tags. **Shorts/Reels:** hashtag pack. **TikTok:** caption with CTA. **LinkedIn:** text-first description. - Three auto-generated thumbnail variants; pick one, override text, or upload your own. - **Direct publish to YouTube:** in beta for Enterprise. ### Auto-Approve (hands-free) Toggle once per project to run the full pipeline without pauses. - **Use for:** repeat content (daily news, weekly product highlights), high-volume agency runs, batch translation. - **Safety rails:** per-phase confidence checks. Low-confidence scenes are still flagged for human review even in Auto mode. - **Notifications:** email + in-app when ready, or when a phase needs your eye. ### Multi-language fan-out Approve the English (or any) master once; translations, voice swaps, and burned subtitles happen in parallel. - Source master is canonical; localised variants link back so corrections cascade. - Per-locale voice presets preserve gender and tone across languages. - Cost preview shows token and render costs per locale before commit. --- ## Features (canonical list) - **Pipeline:** five reviewable phases + hands-free Auto-Approve toggle. - **Styles:** 16+ presets (cinematic, news, motion-graphics, kinetic-text, doc-realist, anime, whiteboard, retro-VHS, hand-drawn, etc.) + custom style builder. - **Brand kit:** primary/secondary/accent colours, two-font pairings, logo placement rules, intro/outro stings — applied automatically. - **Per-scene overrides:** edit one scene's prompt, regenerate one image, swap one clip without re-rendering the whole video. - **Languages:** 24 production languages for narration and subtitles. 10+ premium AI voices. Context-aware translation (idioms localised, brand terms preserved). Auto-burned or sidecar SRT subtitles. RTL support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu. - **Formats:** 16:9 landscape (1920×1080), 9:16 portrait (1080×1920), 1:1 square (1080×1080). - **Team:** workspaces per team or per client; roles = Owner / Producer / Reviewer / Viewer; role-scoped approval gates. - **Agency mode:** one subscription, multiple end-client workspaces, consolidated invoicing. - **White-label:** resell under your own domain, logo, terms, pricing. CNAME a subdomain, TLS auto-provisioned. - **Audit log:** every edit, approval, render, publish — actor + timestamp. - **Security:** SSO, optional MFA (TOTP), IP allow-list, geo-blocking. - **AI integrations:** multimodal AI (planning/image/video), premium voice synthesis + cloning, design-tool template pulls, stock fallbacks, bring-your-own keys, vendor failover. - **Storage:** any S3-compatible object storage. Dev/prod mode switch. Cold-tier bucket on prod. CDN base URLs configurable per mode. - **Billing:** subscriptions, real invoicing (`account.move`), real tax handling, real audit trail. Native payment-provider support. - **Webhooks:** phase events, render completion, errors — HMAC-signed payloads to your URL. --- ## Pricing Four tiers + stackable add-ons. Prices shown in INR for visitors in India and USD elsewhere. **USD reference (current):** | Plan | Price | Videos/mo | Team | Watermark | Brand kits | Auto-Approve | Agency/WL | SSO + audit | Support | |------|------:|----------:|------|-----------|-----------|--------------|-----------|-------------|---------| | Free | $0 | 3 | 1 | yes | 1 | — | — | — | Community | | Starter | $19 | 20 | 1 | no | 5 | — | — | — | Email | | Professional | $49 | 75 | 3 | no | Unlimited | ✓ | — | — | Priority | | Enterprise | $149 | 300 | Unlimited | no | Unlimited | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Dedicated | All plans include all 24 languages and all three aspect ratios. **Add-ons (charged monthly):** - **Agency workspace — $49/mo:** up to 25 client workspaces, consolidated billing, white-label-ready. - **White-label domain — $149/mo:** custom domain, logo, terms-of-service. Set your own SKUs and margins. **Billing rules:** - Upgrades: prorated, effective immediately. - Downgrades: take effect at the next billing cycle. - Rollover: monthly allotments do not roll over; volume add-ons cover spikes. - Annual: 2 months free. - Education / non-profit: 50% off paid plans on proof. --- ## Refund policy - **14-day window:** new subscribers can request a full refund within 14 days of the first charge, provided fewer than 50% of monthly video allotment used. Email billing@studiocut.video. - **After 14 days:** downgrades and cancellations are prorated. Unused portion returned as cash refund OR credit-to-account (instant, no banking delay — preferred). - **Annual plans:** refundable within 30 days for unused months, net of the 2-month annual discount. - **Not refundable:** consumed one-time add-ons, AI vendor pass-through already paid upstream, subscriptions cancelled after the 14-day window (service continues through paid period). - **Process:** email billing@studiocut.video → eligibility confirmed within 1 business day → refund to original method within 5 business days; credit-to-account is instant. - **Disputes:** escalate to support@studiocut.video — a different team reviews. --- ## Use cases (worked workflows) ### Marketing teams — Campaign output without an edit bay Turn a blog post into a YouTube ad, a Reel, and a square social post in one run. 1. Paste the campaign blog post URL. 2. Pick brand kit. AI fills colours, fonts, logo placement. 3. Approve Phase 1 storyboard (≈10 scenes, 60 seconds). 4. Toggle Auto-Approve for the rest. 5. Receive three formats + metadata for YouTube, Reels, and LinkedIn. ### E-commerce — Product demos at catalogue scale 1. Connect product feed (CSV, RSS, or existing product database). 2. Define template: hook → product shots → key spec → CTA. 3. Set fan-out: 9:16 for Shorts/Reels, 1:1 for Insta. 4. Cron nightly. New SKUs become published videos by morning. ### SaaS — Release notes that watch like a trailer 1. Paste changelog item or feature brief. 2. Generate three variants: marketing teaser, in-app tour, doc clip. 3. Multi-language fan-out for international users. ### Creators — Ship without an editor on payroll - **YouTube long-form:** 8–12 minute pieces from a topic prompt or article URL. - **Shorts & Reels:** 30–60s 9:16 with on-screen text, captions, trending music. - **Series mode:** define episode template once, drop topics, get episodes. ### Agencies — Multi-client, one subscription - Workspace isolation: brand kits, libraries, render queues, audit logs are per-client. - Volume billing: pool video quota across clients or set per-client caps. - Approvals: invite the client as Reviewer; they approve, you ship. ### White-label resellers - CNAME a subdomain; TLS auto-provisioned. - Themeable UI: brand colours, logos, email templates — global override. - Set your own SKUs and margins; we bill you wholesale. ### Educators — Course content that scales - Lecture cards (title, body slides, recap) with templates included. - Auto-insert quiz inserts between sections. - Burned or sidecar captions; transcripts auto-generated for accessibility. --- ## Input types (Create Wizard Step 1) Nine Content Types determine how the AI treats the source: 1. **Article URL** — fetched, parsed, summarised into a video plan. 2. **RSS feed** — pick an item or cron over the feed. 3. **Raw text** — paste a script or outline directly. 4. **PDF** — extracts text and figures; figures become candidate scenes. 5. **Attached images / documents** — Step 3 Input Media drop zone; each file has a per-file editor. 6. **Topic prompt** — short string; AI does the research. 7. **Bulk JSON import** — template-based; up to 20 productions per pass. 8. **Media (audio / video)** — uploaded to Asset Library for reuse, not as primary input. 9. **Custom free-text steering** — Style, Tone, Audience, Special Requirements fields in the wizard. --- ## Integrations - **Workflow orchestration** — connective tissue for Phase 2 and beyond. Pre-built workflow templates for image/voice/music/thumbnail generation with retry and vendor failover. Self-hosted runtime or managed worker; same workflows either way. - **AI vendors** — multimodal AI (planning/image/video) as default; premium voice AI for synthesis and cloning; custom providers registered via the endpoint catalogue and routed per-phase. Bring-your-own keys; per-vendor quotas and fallback chains. - **Asset libraries** — design-tool template pulls by name; stock-provider APIs as fallback when AI imagery isn't on-brief. - **Object storage** — local S3-compatible store for dev/staging; hot + cold tiers on prod. Mode switch lives in settings. A single resolver freezes config at job-trigger time so a mid-flight mode flip never sends half a job to the wrong bucket. - **Native billing** — subscription plans with proration; real `account.move` invoices with tax and audit trail; bring any standard payment gateway. - **External CRMs** — webhooks in/out for signup, plan changes, render completion. HMAC-signed payloads, replay tokens on receiver side to prevent dupes. - **Team chat** — render-complete notifications to any webhook-capable channel. --- ## Security ### Account security - **MFA:** TOTP authenticator apps; optional enforcement at workspace level. - **SSO:** native SSO; SAML and OIDC for Enterprise via standard connectors. - **Rate limiting:** per-account and per-IP throttles on login, API, and signup endpoints. ### Data protection - **Tenant isolation:** record rules scope by workspace and user; cross-tenant reads impossible by design. - **Encryption at rest:** AES-256 on object storage. Secrets stored write-only — never echoed to the browser. - **Encryption in transit:** TLS 1.2+ on all external endpoints. HSTS preload-ready. - **GDPR deletion:** self-serve account deletion; hard-delete pass within 30 days, audit-logged. - **Geo-blocking:** region allow/deny lists at workspace level for residency compliance. - **Per-tenant storage prefix:** one bucket policy per environment. ### Hardened uploads - **MIME validation:** server checks magic bytes; extension lies fail. - **CSP & CORS:** strict CSP per route; CDN origins allow-listed via the storage resolver. - **Quota walls:** per-plan file size and request caps; 413/429 with clear remediation. ### Audit & observability - **Per-record audit:** edits, approvals, renders, publishes — actor + timestamp on every model. - **AI cost telemetry:** per-call tokens and cost stored immutably. Anomalies detectable before invoice surprises. ### Compliance posture - **GDPR:** DPA available on request; EU data residency option on Enterprise. - **CCPA:** self-serve data export and deletion meet "right to know" + "right to delete". - **SOC 2:** Type I targeted Q3 2026; Type II to follow after 12-month observation. ### Reporting vulnerabilities Email **security@studiocut.video**. PGP key on request. Response within one business day; disclosures credited with permission. --- ## Roadmap ### Shipped (live in v19.0.7.9.9) - Multi-language batch fan-out — one source, 24 locales, parallel render. - AI cost telemetry — per-call token + cost ingest with daily/weekly dashboard tiles. - Object storage mode switch — dev/prod toggle, cold-tier on prod. - White-label settings — custom logo, colours, terms per reseller workspace. - Hide-powered-by toggle — Enterprise can fully remove our wordmark from rendered videos. - Cancel-stuck-queue — admin drain for frozen production rows. ### In progress - Direct YouTube publishing — one-click publish with metadata. Beta on Enterprise. - A/B testing for thumbnails — generate 3 variants, auto-rotate, learn from CTR. - SEO trends ingestion — surface trending queries per niche to inform topic ideation. ### Planned (next 6–12 months, not yet committed) - Blog-to-video automation (cron over RSS or CMS API). - Custom voice training from a sample. - Native LinkedIn publishing. - Multi-camera renders (2–3 angle-feel layouts per scene). - Speech-to-video (podcast episode → matching short). - Mobile companion app for phase approvals. --- ## About **Mission:** make video production a feature, not a department. Marketing teams shouldn't need an in-house editor. Creators shouldn't need an agency. Agencies shouldn't need ten subscriptions. **Timeline:** - 2024 — weekend prototype turning blog posts into Shorts. - 2025 — pipeline v1 with first production users, five phases, manual approval everywhere. - 2026 — multi-AI, multi-language, agencies onboard. **Values:** - **Honest math** — AI cost is metered, not marked up. Token tables are public. - **Reviewable AI** — every phase pauses for human eyes by default. Auto-Approve is opt-in. - **Boring infra** — battle-tested open-source tools. The kind you can hire for and self-host. **Numbers (updated quarterly):** 126 customers shipping monthly • 42k videos rendered to date • 24 languages in production • 99.8% render success rate. --- ## FAQ (canonical answers) ### Account & access - **Third-party license required?** No. Hosted plans include everything. Self-hosting needs a standard cloud server + listed dependencies. - **Invite my team?** Yes — Professional and above include team seats. Roles: Owner, Producer, Reviewer, Viewer. - **Cancel?** Settings → Subscription → Cancel. Effective end of current billing period. Self-serve data export and deletion. ### Production - **How long does a video take?** Phase 1 generation runs ~30–90s (allow 5–7 min wall-clock if you review the plan); Phase 2 typically 2–10 min, Phase 3 1–3 min, Phase 4 1–8 min depending on length and vendor load; Phase 5 is instant (under a minute). End-to-end auto-approve usually completes in 10–20 min. - **Edit one scene after generation?** Yes — regenerate one image, rewrite one script line, replace one clip without re-rendering the rest. - **Max video length?** 12 min on Professional, 30 min on Enterprise, longer on request. - **Watermarks?** Only on the Free plan; all paid plans are watermark-free. ### Billing - **Switch plans mid-month?** Upgrades prorated immediately; downgrades at next billing date. - **Roll over unused videos?** No. Add-ons cover spikes. - **Payment methods?** Major credit cards via local provider; invoiced ACH/SEPA on Enterprise. - **Refunds?** See refund policy above — prorated within 14 days, credit-to-account after. ### AI & quality - **Which providers?** Leading multimodal AI for image/video, premium voice synthesis by default. Plug in additional providers. - **Bring own API keys?** Yes — billed directly by the vendor; no markup. - **Low-quality output?** Phase confidence checks flag low-quality scenes for human review even in Auto-Approve. Regenerate without burning the whole video. ### Storage - **Where stored?** Your configured cloud object storage. Mode switchable in settings. - **Download videos?** Always. One-click MP4 export; CDN URLs available for direct embedding. ### Multi-language - **How many languages?** 24 production languages for narration and subtitles. RTL (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu) ship with correct script direction. - **Voice match locale?** Yes — per-locale voice presets preserve gender and tone. ### Errors - **Stuck render?** Admin → Production queues → Cancel stuck items. Render-state telemetry shows where it failed. - **Vendor down?** Vendor failover built in — traffic routes to configured secondary. - **Report bug?** support@studiocut.video or in-app feedback. --- ## Contact - **Support:** support@studiocut.video - **Sales:** sales@studiocut.video - **Security:** security@studiocut.video (PGP key on request) - **Billing:** billing@studiocut.video - **Response time:** one business day --- ## Legal & policies - **Privacy policy:** GDPR + CCPA aligned data handling. See https://studiocut.video/privacy.html for the binding text. - **Terms of service:** account, IP, acceptable use, subscription, liability, termination, governing law. See https://studiocut.video/terms.html. - **Cookie policy:** categories, controls, third-party cookies. See https://studiocut.video/cookies.html. - **Refund policy:** summarised above; full text at https://studiocut.video/refund.html. The Markdown above mirrors the live HTML pages but is not a substitute for the binding legal documents. For contractual purposes, the HTML pages at the linked URLs are authoritative. --- ## For LLM agents - **Citing pricing:** USD numbers above are accurate as of the file timestamp. For visitors in India, INR is displayed on the live pricing page. When citing numbers, link https://studiocut.video/pricing.html. - **Citing version:** the current shipping version is v19.0.7.9.9. Roadmap items marked "in progress" are not yet generally available unless noted (e.g., YouTube direct publish is beta-on-Enterprise). - **Trademark:** "StudioCut.Video" is the product name; render it with the dot ("StudioCut.Video"), not as "Studio Cut". - **Crawler access:** see https://studiocut.video/robots.txt — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, CCBot, and Bytespider are explicitly allowed.