NoteCut
Client and producer notes arrive as messy text — an email, a Slack dump, a call transcript. NoteCut reads the timecodes, places a marker on each one, and hands you a file that imports straight into your timeline. No retyping, no scrubbing, no markers an hour off.
Your notes never leave this device — parsing and export run entirely in the browser.
Four steps, one paste
Drop your notes in and you leave with a marker file. The whole loop takes under a minute.
Paste the notes
Any line with a timecode becomes a marker. 1:23, 00:03:47, and 01:00:12;05 all work. Lines without a timecode are set aside, never guessed.
Set the timing
Choose your frame rate, your timeline start, and how the notes are timed. This is the step that keeps markers on the right frame — see below.
Review & adjust
Every marker shows its source TC beside the resulting timeline TC. Recolor a dot, retype a note, nudge a timecode — all inline.
Export
One click gives you a marker file for Resolve, Premiere, Avid, or Final Cut — or a universal CSV. Import it and the notes are on your timeline.
The offset is the whole game
Clients almost always write against a review link — Frame.io, Vimeo, a QuickTime — whose clock starts at 00:00:00:00. But your timeline in Resolve or Premiere usually starts at 01:00:00:00.
Paste those notes into a naive tool and every marker lands an hour off. The file imports cleanly, looks fine, and puts every note in the wrong place — and you don't find out until the third round of revisions.
NoteCut makes the offset an explicit choice: Relative to 00:00:00:00 (adds your timeline start), Absolute timeline TC (passthrough), or a custom offset. The review pane shows source TC next to timeline TC so you can confirm the first marker at a glance, and it flags anything that lands before your timeline start or more than four hours past it.
Categories & colors
NoteCut reads keywords in each note and assigns a marker color. Everything is overridable — click a dot in the review pane to cycle it.
FIX · Red
fix, change, wrong, typo, broken, incorrect
CUT · Orange
cut, lose, remove, trim, shorten, delete, drop
AUDIO · Blue
audio, mix, music, sound, level, dip, sync
VFX · Purple
title, super, lower third, graphic, color, grade
QUESTION · Yellow
can we, what if, thoughts — or any line with a “?”
APPROVED · Green
love, great, perfect, approved, locked, no notes
Export formats
Five targets. CSV always works; the NLE formats import markers directly.
| Format | File | How to import |
|---|---|---|
| DaVinci Resolve | .edl | Timeline → Import → Timeline Markers from EDL. |
| Premiere Pro | .xml | Import the sequence; the markers come in on the timeline. |
| Avid Media Composer | .txt | Import as a tab-delimited locator list onto your sequence. |
| Final Cut Pro | .fcpxml | File → Import → XML; markers land on the project. |
| Universal | .csv | Open anywhere — a plain record of TC, category, and note. |
Frame rates from 23.976 to 60 are supported, with drop-frame handling at 29.97 and 59.94. NoteCut does the drop-frame math on an absolute frame count, so a semicolon timecode round-trips exactly.
Working with the rest of the suite
NoteCut is standalone — no account, nothing to sync — but it slots into an editorial workflow already covered by other DVP tools.
CineSync →
Mark beats and cuts on a shared audio/video timeline and export a timing sheet. Pair it with NoteCut when your review round is about pacing and timing, not just fixes.
CineScribe →
Whisper-powered SRT/VTT subtitles. When notes call out caption or spelling errors, jump to CineScribe to fix the subtitle file at the same timecodes.
All tools →
NoteCut lives in the Planning & Routing group of the DVP toolset — the browser-based utilities that prep and finish an edit without leaving the tab.
Stop retyping notes.
Paste the round you just got. Leave with a marker file.