Does Cutroom AI upload my video?

What runs on your device

When you drop clips on the Projects page, the browser reads them where they sit. The speech model runs in the browser too, on your graphics card through WebGPU, or on the processor if there is no graphics card it can use. Face tracking, the clip finder, captions and the final MP4 are all made on the same machine.

The first time you transcribe, the browser downloads the speech model. That is a download to you, not an upload of your footage. After that, the model is cached and the step is quicker.

Because your video never uploads, a big file never waits on your connection. If you go offline, you can still edit and export, and sync picks up again when you are back online.

What does leave your device

A copy of each project's cut list and transcript text syncs to our server under a random id. That is how a project opens in your other browsers. It is text, not video or audio. Nobody at Cutroom AI can watch your footage, because it never reaches us.

Your original files are never changed. If the browser loses track of them, it asks you to choose them again and matches them by name and size.

Features that would send text are off

Cloud text features, such as AI-written titles, chat editing and caption translation, are turned off.

The full detail of what is stored and where is on the privacy page.