For course creators recording lesson after lesson

The editing job

Say you're building a course on bookkeeping for freelancers, twelve lessons long. Each lesson has a script. You film it in segments, redo the sentence with the tricky number, and end up with 20 minutes of footage for a 10-minute lesson. Then you do that eleven more times.

The cleanup is the same every time: cut the pauses, cut the flubs, keep the best version of each line, caption it, keep the look consistent across lessons. Repetitive work like that is where Cutroom AI earns its place.

The workflow

1. 01Paste the lesson script into the recorder at /record, set the 10-minute take length if it helps, and record in takes. Or film on your own camera, in segments.
2. 02Import the takes as one Talking head project. Lines are matched across files and the best take of each is kept.
3. 03Set Pacing to Natural. Teaching needs room to breathe, and Natural only trims gaps over half a second, down to 0.2 seconds.
4. 04Fix technical terms once in the transcript. Remembered spellings keep "accrual" and "Schedule C" right in every later lesson.
5. 05In the Clips tab, copy the chapters for the lesson page if your platform shows them.
6. 06Download the SRT for your course platform's captions and export the MP4 in 16:9.
7. 07Press "Save as recipe" and start the next lessons from it.

Batching a module

If each lesson is a single file, you can import up to 10 lessons at once with "Cut each file as its own video", one finished edit each, all from the same recipe. A lesson filmed as several takes is different: give it its own project, so its takes are compared against each other rather than cut into separate videos.

What to film

• One script per lesson, read in takes, with the camera stopped between takes.
• Horizontal framing if the lessons are watched on a laptop. You can still cut vertical promo clips from the same footage, with the crop following your face.
• The same spot, light and mic for every lesson. A recipe keeps captions and format consistent, but it can't match lighting you changed halfway through.
• A beat of silence before your first word, so the opening isn't tangled with your hand reaching back from the record button.

Lesson length and plans

A full cleaned lesson is limited by how much footage the edit uses: 3 minutes on Free, 30 on Starter, 60 on Pro. Check your longest lesson against those numbers before you choose a plan. Recordings up to 180 minutes open on any plan for making clips.

Honest limits

There's no screen recorder. If your lessons cut between you and a spreadsheet, record the screen with another tool. You can lay that recording over your talking-head edit as a video overlay, but Cutroom AI won't switch between the two for you.

It doesn't host your course, build quizzes or upload to your course platform. You export MP4 and SRT files and upload them yourself.

There's no XML export, so you can't send the timeline to Premiere Pro or Final Cut for finishing.

Caption translation is off. Captions come out in the language you spoke.