cuts · mac & iphone

Editing is choosing what matters.

The film lives in the words.
Edit there.

01 · the gesture

Your video, as a page of text.

This one is real — flip the auto toggles, or click any word. Watch the runtime.

take 01 · transcript

auto:

So, um, I started making videos because I thought, like, I had something to say. ¶ 0.6s It took me years to learn— let me try that again. ¶ 0.4s It took me years to learn that the story is, you know, whatever survives the cut.

Delete the word. The cut is made.

02 · the thread

We think in sentences — not in frames. What you want to say exists before the first take. The timeline is an old metaphor. The sentence is the true one.

Cutting isn't removing seconds. It's keeping only what still matters. Every word carries the silence around it.

So: edit where the meaning lives. In the word. The rest — the video, the rhythm, the cut — follows.

03 · two rooms, one desk

On the Mac. On the phone. The same sentence.

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“I’ve spent twenty years cutting film — for car brands, for beauty brands, for myself. Cuts is what happened when I got tired of the timeline and went back to the sentence.”

— Brenno Castro · brennocastro.com