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Generate

Sometimes the shot doesn’t exist. On paid plans, Cuts can make it — everything here starts in chat.

What you can ask for

  • A clip from words. Describe the shot; Cuts generates it.
  • A still, animated. Give Cuts a photo — a product shot, a poster — and it moves. The most common ask, and usually the right one.
  • A match for your footage. Hand over reference images or clips, and the generation follows their style or keeps a character consistent.
  • More of a clip. Extend a shot past where you stopped recording — new seconds grow from the out-point.
  • The same clip, changed. Restyle existing footage, add and remove things.
  • Images. Generate stills, or edit the ones you have with plain instructions.

Music and narration are generation too — and they’re included on every plan, Free too; they live in Music and Speech & captions.

A generation in chat — the prompt, the credit quote, the yes, and the job running in the panel

Quality and cost

Video generation comes in two tiers: fast (720p) for drafts, standard (1080p) for the version you ship. When you’re choosing between variants, explore fast and re-render only the winner at standard — Cuts will suggest the same.

Video generation quotes its cost in credits and waits for your yes; cheap jobs like images just run. Either way, you’re only charged when a job succeeds — the rules are in Credits & plans.

Generated video arrives in clips of 4–15 seconds — you build a reel from generated moments, not generate a reel.

Jobs

Generation runs in the cloud. Leave the app and the job keeps going; its progress lives in the jobs panel, and you can cancel there anytime — reserved credits come back. Jobs that start from your own footage — restyling, extending — upload just the piece they need; see Your library.

Are you an agent?
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