Snapshot
Continue to About ↓- What it does
- Cardboard is an AI video editor that builds an editable first cut from a prompt, your footage, or both, on a browser or Apple Silicon Mac timeline.
More detail
- You refine it by chat or by hand, share review links, or export up to 4K and send timelines to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
- Best for
- Podcasters, YouTubers, marketers and founders who already have footage and want a fast, captioned first cut from long recordings or product demos.
More detail
- Freelance editors and agencies that finish in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve also fit.
- Pricing
- Straight subscription with consumption limits, no disclosed platform fees, commissions or revenue shares
More detail
- overage is handled by upgrading rather than metered billing.
- Lite is $8/month ($5 first month) or free in the Mac app, capped at 3 watermarked 1080p exports and no generative credits.
- Starter is
- Main limitation
- Phone or tablet editors, Safari/Firefox users, Windows users wanting a native desktop app, and anyone expecting a free web trial.
More detail
- Teams with no footage wanting a generated avatar presenter, or very-high-volume clipping of finished long videos, are better served by dedicated tools.
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About
- Cardboard is an AI video editor that builds an editable first cut from a prompt, your footage, or both, on a browser or Apple Silicon Mac timeline.
- You refine it by chat or by hand, share review links, or export up to 4K and send timelines to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
What it helps with
- Turning long interviews, podcasts and screen recordings into finished short videos without manual timeline assembly
- Removing dead air, filler words, false starts and retakes while keeping the meaning
- Finding specific spoken or visual moments inside long footage
- Repurposing horizontal footage into vertical or square cuts with captions and speaker-aware reframing
- Producing a fast first cut that editors can finish in a professional NLE
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Natural-language editing | Yes | Prompt or chat requests are translated into timeline operations on an editable multi-layer timeline. |
| Transcript-first cutting | Yes | Removes fillers, stutters, repetitions and retakes from transcripts. |
| Auto captions and reframing | Yes | Word-level captions with presets and per-caption editing, plus speaker tracking for vertical and square formats. |
| Generative video, image, music and SFX | Limited | Requires generative credits from Starter up; not included on Lite. |
| Voice cloning | Limited | Available from the Creator tier and above. |
| 4K export | Limited | Creator and Pro only; Lite and Starter cap at 1080p. |
| Watermark-free export | Limited | Lite exports carry a Made with Cardboard watermark; Starter and up do not. |
| NLE timeline export | Limited | Premiere Pro (XML) and DaVinci Resolve (FCPXML) from Starter up in the web editor; Final Cut Pro support is unconfirmed due to conflicting first-party sources. |
| Mobile editing | No | Phones and tablets are not supported for editing; mobile access is only through the ChatGPT and Claude connectors. |
| Windows desktop app | No | The Mac app is Apple Silicon only; Windows users must use the web editor. |
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