Cutback offers Selects and Premiere Assistant for AI-assisted video editing in Adobe Premiere. Free plan; paid plans from $8/month billed yearly.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Cutback is a video editing software company that builds two products for editors and creators: Selects and Premiere Assistant. Its premise, stated on its About page, is that every finished hour of video hides roughly ten hours of syncing clips, sorting files, cutting, trimming and revising. Cutback aims to automate that work.
Selects takes the first shift of an edit. The company says it handles syncing, transcripts, footage organization and even pre-selects in minutes. Premiere Assistant then steps in to automate captions and animations inside Adobe Premiere.
Cutback Corporation is based in San Francisco and Seoul. It describes itself as an Official Adobe Video Partner, states SOC 2 Type II compliance, and says thousands of editors and creators already use its tools.
Premiere Assistant runs inside Adobe Premiere. An editor transcribes a video, edits the resulting captions, and applies actions such as animated captions, silence removal, trimming or multi-cam editing without leaving the editing environment.
Selects approaches the problem earlier in the process. The homepage describes it as a tool where the editor talks and gets an edit, with the system doing the preparation: syncing footage, creating transcripts, organizing files and producing pre-selects.
Usage is metered. Premiere Assistant plans set monthly limits on transcription hours and on how many times features like silence removal and caption translation can be used, with limits rising on higher tiers.
Premiere Assistant groups its features into captions and video editing. On the caption side are transcription, caption editing, animated captions, caption translation, and caption import and export. On the editing side are trimming, multi-cam edits and silence removal. The pricing page also lists clip animation and AI image edits.
Multi-cam is tiered: Basic supports up to 3 cams, while Pro lists auto multi-cam without a stated cam limit. Silence removal grows from 10 uses per month on Lite to 30 on Basic and unlimited on Pro. Caption translation allows 10 uses on Basic and is unlimited on Pro.
Selects adds the preparation layer: syncing, transcripts, footage organization and pre-selects, intended to give the editor an organized starting point.
Cutback is a video editing software company with two products. Selects preps raw footage with syncing, transcripts, organization and pre-selects. Premiere Assistant automates captions, silence removal, multi-cam edits and animations inside Adobe Premiere.
Premiere Assistant has a free Starter plan, Lite at $8/month billed yearly, Basic at $13/month billed yearly and Pro at $30/month. Monthly billing is $9 for Lite and $15 for Basic. Enterprise requires contacting sales.
Yes. The Starter plan is $0 and includes limited transcription and silence removal (max 3 per month each), caption editing, trimming and animated captions. Only one Starter account can be registered per device.
It automates captions and workflows inside Adobe Premiere. Features include transcription, animated captions, caption translation, trimming, multi-cam edits and silence removal.
The source pages name Adobe Premiere, where Premiere Assistant runs. Cutback also describes itself as an Official Adobe Video Partner. No other integrations are listed.
It suits video editors, creators and small teams who edit in Adobe Premiere and want to automate repetitive tasks such as captioning and silence removal. Larger organizations can ask about Enterprise.
Cutback states that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant. The source pages give no further detail on security practices.
The company's About page says it is based in San Francisco and Seoul. Support can be reached at support@cutback.video.