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Cutpoint

Software handles the turnover. You handle the storytelling.

Version control for post-production. Automating Conforms, platform migration and round-trips, with fine grained tracking in a web-based dashboard. Every department works from the same cut, in parallel.

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Project graph / v07 → v08 propagation

live · cut moved at 01:24:18:02 · 8 downstream timelines affected

picture

sound · fx

sound · dialogue

vfx

music

colour

captions

M&E

localisation

00:00 00:30 ▼ cut moved 01:30

Cut point

Stale

Preserved

VFX shot

Sound cue

Caption timing

M&E split

Localisation offset

v07 → v08 · 42 changes packaged automatically

The problem01 / 05

Skilled people spend their days reconciling versions.

A feature is one timeline moving through the loop. A season is the loop running on every episode at once, each against a delivery date that won't move.

▼ The loop

Fine cut → notes → turnover → change → reconform.

In film and episodic, downstream work starts before picture is finally locked. Sound, VFX, music, colour, captions, M&E, localisation, finishing, and delivery all move in parallel while cuts keep changing — across reels, episodes, scenes, tracks, and versions. One trim can make yesterday's mix stale.

▼ The questions

The same questions, every turnover.

What changed?
Which version is canonical?
What work is preserved?
What needs to move?
Who is stale?
Who has been served?
What deadline does this affect?

▼ The cost

Today, the canonical version lives in people and notebooks.

EDLs, AAFs, bins, change notes, Slack, Frame.io, ShotGrid, Airtable, email threads, sticky notes. Skilled teams spend hours reconstructing where the work should land — not once, but across every note cycle, every turnover, every reel, every episode, every version.

The dashboard02 / 05

One live view of the whole post.

A post board for every moving cut, reel, episode, department, and deliverable. A source of truth.

TimelineThe canonical cut, plus every downstream timeline derived from it.
StatusWho is working, waiting, served, or stale.
ServedWhich teams have received the latest change package.
PreservedWhat survives the move and stays exactly where it belongs.
RiskWhat the change touches before it reaches the next room.

cutpoint · PROJECT_2601 / post board

v08 canonical

Canonical timeline · v08

Offline editorialResolve / Premiere / Avid

canonical

Sound FXPro Tools

stale

DialoguePro Tools

served

VFX14 shots affected

working

Music3 cues shifted

served

ColourPending turnover

waiting

CaptionsRe-time needed

stale

M&ESplit prep affected

working

LocalisationSubtitles + dubs waiting

not served

DeliveryNext milestone at risk

review

What Cutpoint does03 / 05

Every change carries itself to every room.

Cutpoint analyses each new cut against the previous version and produces a precise, traceable change package for every department downstream.

Preserved

Effects, split screens, frame resizes, dissolves, pans, dialogue edits, room tone, ambience beds, music anchors, caption timings, and valid M&E work — the work already done stays done.

Prepared

Slipped shots, fresh handles, VFX pulls, ADR pickups, music shifts, caption re-times, M&E changes, localisation offsets, and suite-ready sessions — prepared from the cut change instead of rebuilt by hand.

Served

Offline to sound. Sound back to offline. VFX pulls to vendors. Captions to finishing. M&E and localisation to delivery — every team gets the version that matters to them.

Traceable

What changed. What was preserved. What was reworked. Who received it. Who is stale. Which deadline is exposed — every turnover leaves a map.

First integration · Offline ↔ Sound

Everything is preserved. Ingest the offline timeline. Analyze the change. Auto-deliver a suite-ready session.

An end to conforms: Hard effects, dialogue, room tone, ambience, music, and M&E elements each follow their own deterministic rule — so the sound editor's work lands where the new cut needs it, not where the last version left it.

↑ ingest · offline

Offline
(Resolve / Premiere / Avid)

v07 → v08 · diffed

↓ deliver · session

Sound
(Pro Tools)

v08 · suite-ready

Hard sync

DLG

Preserve

TONE

Extend

AMB

Stretch

MUSIC

Anchor

M&E

Split / protect

Why it matters04 / 05

Give post its capacity back.

◆ Creative time

Skilled hours go to the work that moves the story.

Reconforms, version chases, and manual change notes stop eating the day. Editors, supervisors, mixers, artists, and producers get more time for the decisions that actually shape the film or episode.

◆ Visibility

Every department can see where the cut stands.

The post team knows what is canonical, who is working from it, who has been served, what is stale, and where the risk is — across sound, VFX, colour, captions, M&E, localisation, finishing, and delivery. See the dashboard ↑

◆ Schedule

Downstream can start earlier and stay current.

Work can begin at fine cut without the usual penalty of losing the map every time the cut moves. Late changes become controlled changes, not budget shocks.

◆ Delivery

The final mile stops being a guessing game.

M&E, captions, localisation, QC, marketing, and delivery all depend on knowing exactly which version they are touching. Cutpoint keeps those dependencies visible before a missed change becomes a missed deadline.

Who it's for·

Built for the people who live the turnover.

For post teams across film and episodic: supervisors, producers, editors, assistant editors, sound, VFX, colour, finishing, captions, M&E, localisation, QC, delivery, facilities, and workflow teams.

Anyone who has had to ask: what changed, who's stale, what's preserved, and which version is canonical?

Where we are05 / 05

Status · Early

Founder-led, looking for real validation.

Running internally on DaVinci Resolve and Pro Tools. Conversations underway with Adobe, Avid, and more. We are validating Cutpoint with people who live real turnovers: film, episodic, trailers, sound, VFX, colour, captions, M&E, localisation, finishing, and delivery.

This is early. The goal is not to demo a fantasy workflow — it's to put Cutpoint against the messy one you already have.

What we're looking for

Design partners.

Post houses, productions, studios, facilities, and post teams to test Cutpoint against real turnover pain. Start with a mock project. Then a real one. Design partners get a standing line into the roadmap and a lifetime discount.

Moving cuts Reconforms Offline-to-sound round-trips VFX pulls M&E prep Localisation Version confusion Delivery risk

Fifteen minutes of your time

Show us where the turnover hurts.

Tell us how your post runs and where the cut starts to drift from the work around it. Feature or series. Resolve, Premiere, Avid, Pro Tools. Sound, VFX, colour, captions, M&E, localisation, finishing, delivery. We read every note.

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