Edit YouTube videos faster, without watching every hour back.
Long-form, weekly-upload YouTube channels lose the most time to footage review. RECAP is being built to review and organize your recordings automatically, and let you flag takes and cuts out loud while you shoot.
Long-form editing is bottlenecked by review, not cutting.
For talking-head YouTube formats — tutorials, podcasts-to-video, vlogs, commentary — the editing bottleneck usually isn't the cut itself. It's reviewing an hour of footage to build a fifteen-minute video, finding the one good take of an intro you recorded four times, and remembering what you actually said before you can decide what to keep.
That review time compounds on a weekly upload schedule, and batch-recording multiple videos in one sitting makes it worse, not better — you end up with hours of unreviewed footage and no natural break to organize it.
RECAP is built to remove that specific bottleneck: transcribing and organizing footage automatically, and capturing your editing decisions the moment you make them, instead of asking you to reconstruct them later. For the full breakdown of where YouTube editing time actually goes, see how to edit YouTube videos faster.
Made for long-form, high-frequency uploads.
Cut review time on long recordings
A one-hour recording gets transcribed and organized automatically, so you're not re-watching the full hour before you can start cutting.
Handle multiple takes without the rewatch
Flag the take that worked the moment you record it — “Editor, keep this take” — instead of comparing every attempt later.
Mark cuts while you're still rolling
Say “Editor, cut this out” after a stumble or a bad section, and RECAP removes it from the draft automatically.
What footage review is designed to look like.
Concept preview — not a live product screen.
Raw footage
- cam_a_take1.mp412:04
- cam_a_take2.mp409:41
- lav_mic.wav21:10
- b_roll_desk.mp4B-roll03:22
AI transcript
- 00:41...and that's basically the whole setup process.
- 00:47Editor, cut this out.
- 00:49Okay, let me start that part again.
- 01:10So once you've got the API key, you'll drop it into the config file.
- 01:246s of dead air detected — flagged for review.
Generated draft
You said
“Editor, cut this out.”Generated draft
RECAP for YouTube — common questions
- Is RECAP available for YouTube creators yet?
- Not yet — RECAP is in early development, and this page exists partly to hear from YouTube creators about their actual editing workflow before we build. Early access signups get updates as it comes together, and we may reach out to a few for a short conversation.
- Can AI edit YouTube videos end to end?
- AI can reliably handle transcription, organizing footage, and assembling a first-draft cut. Final pacing, storytelling, and polish for a published YouTube video still benefit from a human editor's judgment.
- Will RECAP work for long recordings, like podcasts or streams?
- That's the plan — long-form, spoken-content footage is where transcription and take-flagging should have the most impact, since manually reviewing hours of recording is the slowest part of that workflow.
- Will I still edit in my usual software?
- Yes. RECAP is designed to hand off an organized project and a first-draft assembly — you'd finish editing in your existing tool of choice. It's not meant to be a replacement timeline editor.
Spend less time reviewing. Spend more time creating.
RECAP is early — we’re just starting development, and want to build it around how creators actually work. Get early access and help shape what it becomes.