Slate plans YouTube videos from research to a Final Cut or Premiere timeline: titles, thumbnails, scripts in your voice. Plans start at $39/month.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Slate is a workspace for YouTube creators that carries a video from research to an editor-ready timeline inside a single project. It covers titles, thumbnails, hooks, scripts, and shot plans, and it finishes with an assembled timeline that opens in Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. The company describes it as YouTube expertise applied to your own channel.
Slate is built for long-form creators who are on camera, work in the edit, and want scripts that sound like them. The About page states it is not meant for channels that want a video made end to end without the creator. It is built and run by Juan Carlos Fontecha through Fontecha Creative Studios LLC, a small independent studio.
A project begins with research. Users save outlier videos, hooks, and thumbnail patterns, then carry them into a project where chat grounds its ideas in that collection. Slate then helps brainstorm titles and thumbnails together, letting users drag titles onto thumbnails to try combinations and validate each one against real competition before any script exists.
Scripting and shot planning come next. Chat writes in the creator's voice, using past scripts, saved videos, and project notes, and edits stream into the document where requested. A b-roll track under each paragraph holds planned shots and existing footage. For edit prep, Slate analyzes footage, removes bad takes and silences, cuts the A-roll to the script, overlays B-roll, and exports the result.
The packaging tools let users pair titles with thumbnails and test them against competing videos. A thumbnail studio turns a written concept into a sketch with framing and palette notes, and it can render a finished frame. Slate notes that nothing replaces a frame the creator shot, so the sketch works as a blueprint for the real shoot.
On the production side, the script editor includes b-roll tracks under each paragraph, and chat can surface matching clips from the library by description. The video library is searchable by what appears in the frame. Smart video edit produces a first pass for Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. A native Slate editor is listed as coming soon.
Slate is a YouTube production workspace that handles research, titles, thumbnails, hooks, scripts, and shot plans in one project. It ends with a timeline that opens in Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. It is aimed at creators who want strategy and prep done faster.
Slate Creator is $39 per month, Slate Studio is $89 per month (listed at a $69 founding rate for the first 100 subscribers), and Slate Pro is $159 per month. Annual billing is listed as 2 months free. The plans differ by volume, not features.
There is no free plan. Every new customer starts a 7-day trial that requires a card, and billing begins on day 8. Paid plans also carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Not the one you finish in. Slate picks takes, cuts the A-roll to the script, strips silences, and places B-roll, then hands off a starter project to Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. A native Slate editor is listed as coming soon.
Slate writes from the creator's own material, including past scripts, saved videos, and project notes. Users edit every line, and if a paragraph is off, they can tell chat what to change and it rewrites that paragraph.
Slate connects to YouTube for channel access and saved references, and to Notion to keep videos in sync. It exports timelines to Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro.
Slate suits long-form creators who are on camera, work in the edit, and want scripts in their own voice, including solo operators and small teams. It is not built for channels that want videos made end to end without the creator.
Yes. Users can cancel inside Slate whenever they want, and access continues through the current billing period.