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Automatically create a rough cut from your raw footage by keeping the meaningful sections and removing filler, silence, or irrelevant content — based on your creative intent. This tile is useful when you want to quickly condense long-form footage into a cleaner baseline edit without manually scrubbing timelines.

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How It Works

The Rough Cut tile analyzes your footage and applies edits based on your prompt, not just simple silence trimming. You tell Mosaic what kind of cut you want, and it will:
  • Detect meaningful segments
  • Remove dead air or unimportant parts
  • Preserve emotional, narrative, or informational beats
  • Produce a condensed timeline you can build on

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Input Fields

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Creative Intent Prompt (Required)

This prompt defines the logic of your cut — what stays and what gets cut. Examples:
  • “Highlight only the parts where the speaker gives key takeaways.”
  • “Cut everything except the emotional or dramatic beats.”
  • “Make an efficient, fast-paced summary version under 90 seconds.”

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Quick Suggestions

For users who don’t know what to write, Mosaic offers preset buttons for common patterns like storytelling, narrative, tone, and mood-based cuts.

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Best Use Cases

  • Long podcast → short narrative episode
  • Interview → highlight reel
  • Commentary → tight opinion piece
  • Vlog → emotional storyline
  • Raw footage → clip-ready baseline

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What Comes Next

Rough Cut produces a clean foundation you can send to:
Informational:
“Keep only the sections where the speaker explains key concepts or answers questions.”
Emotional:
“Keep emotional reactions, laughter, suspense, and heartfelt moments.”
Motivational:
“Extract inspiring sentences and moments where the speaker offers wisdom.”
Clip Prep:
“Produce a high-signal rough cut that’s suitable for extracting shorts.”
  • The more specific your prompt, the better the cut
  • Mention what to keep, not just what to remove
  • Include mood cues if you care about emotional curation (e.g. “uplifting,” “funny,” “tense”)
  • If you want short-form highlights, combine Rough Cut with Clips