Start free. Working alone, Producer is $49/month with $60 of credits included. For a cutting room, seats are $25 a week and Studio is $125 a week for the production, metered by the week and invoiced monthly, the same way the crew are paid.
Non-AI features with no time limit. Try AI transcription free for 5 minutes per month.
Includes $60 of credits every month. Unlimited paper cuts. Built for active documentarians.
Top up whenever you need to. Larger packs include bonus credits. Purchase $50+ to unlock unlimited paper cuts for 60 days.
For a cutting room. Seats are billed by the week like the crew holding them; Studio is one flat line for the production, however many people are on it.
Everything is metered by the week and invoiced once a month, the same way the people in the room are paid. Pause the project between shoots and those weeks cost nothing.
Invoiced monthly, covering the weeks that fell in the month, so a month with five weeks in it costs more than one with four, exactly as a weekly crew rate does.
Most productions already pay a transcription service by the minute, keep the selects in a spreadsheet, and write the beat sheet in a separate document. Those bills are the small part of it.
The hours go to moving quotes between the three. Every select carries a timecode and a clip name that somebody copies by hand, then copies again after the next revision pass.
PaperCuts charges for transcription and the AI work, by the minute or by the month. The paper cut editor, the beat sheets, and the character overviews come with every plan and read against the same footage.
You still cut the film in your NLE. What you pay for here is everything that happens before the timeline.
No subscription. Pay once for your project, use it within 90 days. Size it to your shoot and get full Producer features while your bundle is active.
No subscription. Pay once for your project and use it within 90 days. Size it to match your expected shoot. The price auto-calculates.
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Credits are drawn down by the minute during transcription or translation. Beat sheets, paper cuts, and character overviews consume a small amount per AI generation.
| USE | RATE |
|---|---|
| File transcription | 5/min5 credits per minute |
| File transcription + translation | 9/min9 credits per minute |
| Live transcription | 7/min7 credits per minute |
| Live + translation | 13/min13 credits per minute |
100 credits = $1 at standard rate.
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