YouTube and vlogs: cut a video out of hours of recordings

B-roll without rewatching

Describe what was in the shot: "sunset over the city", "coffee on the table, close-up", "car on a mountain road, drone view", "cat asleep on the windowsill", "clouds from the plane window". Rescanzo understands what's happening in the frame, so there's no renaming files or tagging clips after the trip.

Lines for Shorts

A short vertical video often hangs on a single line. If you remember what was said on camera, find it with speech search in Pro mode: 2 tokens a search plus 1 for every started minute the cloud checks.

What it costs

A Mid search costs 2 tokens. If a video takes 25 searches, that's 50 tokens, exactly what a new account starts with, so your first vlog costs nothing. Low is half the price and fine for a rough pass, when you only want to know whether a shot exists at all.

Edit where you always do

A routine that works: add the folder with the day's footage, let Rescanzo index it, then write queries in the order of the video's script, from the intro and the drive to the main location and the ending. Mark shots you like as you go; they collect in a collection, and at the end the whole collection goes to your editing app.

If you edit in CapCut, Rescanzo cuts the marked moments into separate MP4 clips and opens the folder, so you just drag them into your project. Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve get a ready timeline instead. You can download Rescanzo for Windows 10/11 and for Apple Silicon Macs.

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