For agents filming listing videos between showings

The editing job

You've got the house for an hour before the open house. You film an intro on the front steps ("Hi, I'm Dana, and this is 14 Oak Lane") four times, because a truck went by on take two. Then you walk the rooms with your phone: kitchen, primary bedroom, the backyard. Later you need a vertical Reel, maybe a 4:5 post for LinkedIn, and a horizontal cut for YouTube.

Cutroom AI handles the intro and the room clips in one project, or the room clips by themselves as a montage.

Workflow for a narrated listing video

1. 01Rename your room clips and photos after what you'll say: kitchen.mov, backyard.jpg, primary-bedroom.mov.
2. 02Import the intro takes and the room files together as one Talking head project.
3. 03The best take picker keeps the strongest take of each line of your intro and shows why, such as fewer fillers or a better sound level.
4. 04Room clips without speech become b-roll and land over the line that names them. Anything that didn't match waits under "Photos to place" in the Overlays tab.
5. 05Add your logo or the asking price as a picture or text overlay.
6. 06Pick 9:16 for Reels and Shorts or 4:5 for LinkedIn, and export.

Workflow for a music-only tour

1. 01Choose Montage as the kind of edit.
2. 02Drop in five to fifty room clips and a song you have the rights to post.
3. 03Each clip is scored on sharpness, motion, exposure and shake. The best moment of each is kept, near-duplicates are dropped, and the cuts land on the beat.
4. 04Set Order to "Build up" if you want the pool or the view saved for the end, set the length, and export.

What to film

• Film the intro in short takes and stop between them, so each line can be compared across takes.
• Walk slowly and hold each room for a few seconds. Fast, shaky pans score low in a montage.
• Turn on the lights and open the blinds. Exposure is part of the clip score.
• Use a clip-on mic for an outdoor intro. Wind and traffic hurt the transcript, and the transcript drives the cut.
• Say the room names you used in the file names, so the b-roll lands where it should.

Honest limits

It doesn't recognize rooms. There's no image recognition, so IMG_4471.mov won't be placed over the kitchen line. Rename files first.

There's no stock music, no stock footage and no generated video. Bring your own song.

It doesn't post to Instagram, YouTube or your listing site, and it doesn't make property pages or flyers.

Photos can't go in a montage, only over a talking-head edit.

Shooting several listings a week? Batch editing takes up to 10 separate videos at once, and a saved recipe keeps your captions and format the same. Each video still uses one of your monthly edits.