The prep station between your camera and your editor
Cutting Board turns a camera card into an ordered review queue. The editor is the kitchen. This is the board you work on first — where the day's video gets screened, sorted, trimmed, and labelled before anything reaches a timeline.
Built because the sorting was the slow part. A weekend of event video is hours of scrubbing before a single cut gets made, and no tool owned that hour. Analysis accelerates attention, and stops there. It does not edit automatically. It does not decide what is good, identify athletes, coach players, or replace editorial taste.
Before the editor
Untouched footage does not need rescuing. It needs a clear review pass, a record of your decisions, and an organized next step.
Ingest
Choose a camera card or local folder. Cutting Board prepares review copies and thumbnails locally while your source footage stays unchanged.
Review
Play each clip, flag and tag what matters, then mark it Keep, Highlight, Reject, or Undecided. Add a note when the reason matters later.
Deliver and Handoff
Use saved decisions and confirmed tags to create local deliverables or an organized package for continued manual editing.
The human review loop
Cutting Board gives you a useful starting order. The final decisions, tags, rationale, trims, and corrections remain yours.
Default workspace
Work directly on playable cards. Keep a clip, highlight it, reject it, or leave it undecided without losing your place in the event.
When you need a closer look
Open a selected clip larger for frame-accurate playback, bounded trims, and corrections. Then return to the same place on the Review board.
What remains yours
Cutting Board organizes the work around your decisions. It does not turn a queue order into a creative verdict.
Sources stay unchanged. Cutting Board works locally and does not upload footage on its own.
Analysis can suggest an order or explain a signal. Your decisions remain operator-authored: you decide what to keep, why, and what needs more work.
Cutting Board prepares local work; nothing uploads, publishes, or reaches an editor automatically. You choose when and where the organized work goes next.
Download
Free, and open source under AGPL-3.0. Choose your platform, verify the checksum if you need it, and keep the creative calls in your hands. This is an alpha, not a support promise.
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