How to Edit Video from Transcript on macOS
A guide to text-based video editing on Mac: seek video by clicking text and remove clips by rejecting transcript lines.
How does text-based video editing work on macOS?
Text-based video editing on macOS connects speech-to-text transcripts directly to timeline media, enabling creators to edit video by editing text in Passcut’s native Swift application.
Clicking any word in the transcript seeks the playhead to that frame; rejecting a sentence removes those video frames from the assembly timeline.
Download Passcut for Mac
Native macOS. Apple Silicon. Transcript-first rough cuts, then hand off to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Premiere Pro.
Requires macOS 26 or later and Apple Silicon. Footage does not go to a Passcut cloud.Compare plans.
#Frequently Asked Questions
What is text-based video editing?
Text-based video editing allows you to edit video timeline clips by interacting directly with a time-indexed speech transcript: striking out words removes corresponding video frames.
Download Passcut for Mac
Native macOS. Apple Silicon. Transcript-first rough cuts, then hand off to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Premiere Pro.
Requires macOS 26 or later and Apple Silicon. Footage does not go to a Passcut cloud.Compare plans.