Line|Cut
AAF → cut detection → AAF
Finds the cuts in a line cut and writes them into a copy of the sequence's AAF, as edits on V1. Every other track comes back exactly as Avid wrote it.
macOS 12 or laterApple siliconTested with Avid Media Composer 2025.12
Footage: Charge © Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org/charge, CC BY 4.0. Excerpt, shown inside Line|Cut's window.
The problem
The director cut the show live. You have the recording and the cameras, but no list of the switches, so you rebuild every cut by eye.
How it works
01 · in Avid
Export
The sequence as an AAF, and its video mixdown. Drop both on Line|Cut.
02 · in Line|Cut
Find cuts
One scan finds the shot changes. Then look over the cuts it isn't sure of.
03 · back in Avid
Import
A copy of the sequence's AAF, cut on V1, every other track as Avid wrote it.
Up close
Cuts to check
The cuts it isn't sure of, six at a time. Click the real ones, double-click any you're not sure of for Review. The rest go, like the two flashes inside one shot here. V1 follows.
Footage: Charge © Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org/charge, CC BY 4.0. Excerpt, shown inside Line|Cut's window.
Move a cut
This one was found two frames late, on a flash. Click the frame before it, a frame at a time, to move it to the real cut; V1's edit moves with it.
Footage: Charge © Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org/charge, CC BY 4.0. Excerpt, shown inside Line|Cut's window.
Switch cameras
On a multicam line cut, Line|Cut names each shot's camera. Click a shot to see the mixdown beside every camera: keep its pick, or pick another.
Footage: “Camino Fuente”, Cinestudy Edit Challenge – Multicam
Song: “Camino Fuente” written by Peter John Ross · © littleBIGMAN Music/Sonnyboo.com
Performed by Ian Ross & Peter John Ross
Camera Operators: Jerod Nawrocki & Scott Spears · Gaffer: Jerod Nawrocki · Grip: Joe Fuller
Sound Recordist: Micah Jenkins · Sound Mixer: Robin Gulcher/Magnetic Studios · Clapper Loader: Mike Maletic
Filmed live in Rossland · © Sonnyboo™ All Rights Reserved · #Cinestudy
Used with permission. Cinestudy and Sonnyboo don’t endorse J|K|L.
What it makes
Recut the show and your answers carry over: bring in the new AAF and mixdown, and it asks only about the cuts it can't match.
- Price
- In beta: free for testers
Request Beta - Needs
- macOS 12 Monterey or later · Apple silicon
- Reads
- The sequence's AAF and its video mixdown
- Privacy
- Your media and projects never leave your Mac
Questions
Does it need my switcher, or a log from it?
No. It works from the recorded line cut, so any switcher, and shows that wrapped weeks ago.
What if it misses a cut, or finds one that isn't?
The cuts it isn't sure of come to you six at a time. Click the real ones; the rest go. V1 follows. Like any detection, it can miss a cut or mark one that isn't there, so watch the result before it goes anywhere.
Which Media Composer?
Tested with Avid Media Composer 2025.12: multicam at 29.97 fps and markers at 23.976.
Does anything leave my Mac?
Your media and projects never do. Line|Cut checks for updates (sending only its name and version), and sends a problem report only when you choose to. Studio mode turns these off.
