Drop in any wide-format video — podcasts, gameplay, news, sports, lectures, livestreams, interviews. On-device AI finds the moments, follows whoever is talking, and renders 9:16 shorts you can ship. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Type the kind of moment you want — "Stephen A losing it", "the bit where Naval explained the framework", "the wing-6 breakdown" — and Cutfarmer surfaces ranked candidates from anywhere in the source. Examples below are hypothetical; the ranking math is real.
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Most clippers center the biggest face and pray. Cutfarmer runs an active-speaker model on the audio + the mouths and pins the 9:16 window to whoever is actually delivering the line — and re-pins it the moment someone else jumps in.
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Twitch gameplay, Karpathy lectures, ChatGPT walk-throughs, anyone with a face cam over a screen recording. Cutfarmer auto-detects the cam, pulls it out, and stacks it under a 9:16 of the screen so nothing important gets cropped.
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Source · 16:9 · Lecture
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The whole product is one Mac window. Drop a video into the library, pick clips in Edit, ship to TikTok, Shorts, or Reels in Export. No timelines, no project files, no second monitor.
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8:244:109:318:174:46Hit Export and Cutfarmer posts the finished 9:16 short straight to your accounts. No re-upload, no manual aspect-tweak, no waiting for SaaS rendering queues.
Six built-in caption templates. Tap a word to fix it; new timing interpolates from the neighbors without redoing the track. Three shown.
Transcribe, diarize, and analyze shot composition entirely on-device. Local Whisper for speech; vision models tag who's on screen and which speaker has the mic.
Two modes, one page. Find clips — type the moment you want ("the funniest 30 seconds") and Cutfarmer surfaces the worthwhile candidates it'd ship. Or Summarize — condense the whole 2-hour video into a single 60-second cut. Tweak framing, captions, audio per clip; every override teaches the next pick.
AVFoundation renders straight to MP4. The crop tracks the active speaker through shot changes and only emits keyframes where the framing actually shifts — so vertical motion stays smooth.
If you've got long-form footage and you're not posting daily shorts, you're leaving the biggest audience on the platform on the table. The math is brutal — and one-sided.
YouTube Shorts hit 70 billion views per day. Long-form alone gets a fraction of that reach.
TikTok and Shorts feeds push to non-followers. A short can out-reach your subscriber count by an order of magnitude.
Users open the app and don't leave. The platforms reward creators who feed that loop with constant uploads.
Of marketers using short-form video, 90% plan to increase or maintain budget. The demand isn't slowing.
Top channels (MrBeast, MKBHD, every breakout in the last 18 months) post one to three shorts a day. Cadence is the moat.
Hiring a shorts editor runs $500–2000/mo. Cutfarmer cuts that to a fixed one-time cost and a Mac you already own.
A typical 1–2 hour podcast or stream yields 8–12 postable shorts. Drop it in, ship a week's worth in an hour.
Short-form sees roughly 2.5× the engagement rate of long-form posts. It's the cheapest growth lever you have.
Built for podcasters, streamers, lecturers, vloggers, comedians, news desks, sports talk — anyone whose source is wide and whose audience lives on a phone. If you've ever paid an editor, missed a clip window, or watched a guest interrupt your best bit and ruin the crop — this is for you.
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