Phone first
Your originals live on your phone. All the analysis — transcripts, beats, scenes, highlights — runs there too. On Free, footage isn’t uploaded at all; only the compact results of analysis sync with your account.
Cloud backup
On paid plans you can turn on Cloud Backup in Preferences, and your originals copy up to your cloud library. It’s optional and off until you say otherwise. Storage depends on your plan — see pricing.
Backup earns its keep twice: your footage survives your phone, and cloud jobs start with what they need — generation and cloud enhancement work on uploaded media.
Uploads for jobs
When a cloud job runs on footage that isn’t backed up, the upload is transient: Cuts uploads only the piece the job needs and deletes it right after. Large uploads stay off cellular unless you flip the Cellular Data switch in Preferences. Files run up to 10 GB each.
A new phone
Sign in with the same account and your projects come along — the structure, the chat, the analysis. Media follows only where it can: what was backed up re-downloads on demand; originals that lived only on the old phone are wherever you keep them, usually Photos. On Free, that means moving footage yourself.
If you downgrade
Nothing is held hostage. Your work is on your phone and stays there. Cloud backup stops syncing new footage, but what’s already backed up remains downloadable. Unspent pack credits keep working. We never delete your work without notice.