CutBay AI Video Agent: Complete Guide to Chat-Based Video Creation and Editing

CutBay is an AI Video Agent that creates and edits videos through natural-language conversation. Users can begin with an idea, text prompt, presentation, document, spreadsheet, webpage, product information, images, video clips, audio, or other media. 

CutBay analyzes the supplied material, prepares a script and scene structure, assembles visuals, voiceovers, captions, music, animations, and motion graphics, then lets the user refine the result through chat or direct canvas editing. 

The service is aimed at marketers, businesses, educators, ecommerce teams, YouTube creators, social media creators, and people who need video without building every scene through a traditional editing timeline.

CutBay Began as a Content-First AI Video Agent

CutBay was officially announced by PearlMountain Limited on October 14, 2026. The product was introduced around a content-first idea: video creation can begin with the information a person already has, rather than requiring that person to build a project scene by scene from an empty timeline.

PearlMountain describes CutBay as an AI Video Agent rather than only an AI video generator. That distinction describes the intended workflow. The system does more than generate a single video clip from a text description. It can read supplied material, identify important information, organize a script, plan scenes, create a working video, accept revision requests, and support direct editing of individual visual elements.

CutBay is developed by PearlMountain Limited, a graphics and multimedia software company. The CutBay website identifies PearlMountain as the developer and lists offices in Hong Kong, Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and Chengdu in China.

The product's stated purpose is to help people explain products, lessons, campaigns, business information, and other ideas through video while reducing the need to learn complex editing operations before creating useful content.

As of October 31, 2026, CutBay is positioned around four connected activities:

• Understanding the user's idea and supplied files
• Planning the script and video structure
• Producing scenes with media, narration, captions, music, and animation
• Refining the generated project through conversation or direct editing before export

Quick Facts About CutBay

CutBay combines content analysis, AI video planning, automated production, conversational editing, and direct visual editing within one online video workflow.

• Product type: AI Video Agent and AI-assisted video editor.
• Official launch: October 14, 2026.
• Developer: PearlMountain Limited.
• Starting material: Prompts, documents, presentations, spreadsheets, webpages, images, video, audio, and other supported media.
• Production elements: Scripts, scenes, visuals, subtitles, voiceovers, music, animations, and motion graphics.
• Editing methods: Natural-language chat plus direct canvas controls for selected elements.
• Export formats shown across current CutBay pages: MP4, MOV, and WebM. Some workflows advertise output resolutions up to 4K.
• Main audiences: Marketing teams, ecommerce teams, businesses, educators, trainers, YouTube creators, social media creators, and other users producing communication-focused video.

CutBay Can Start With More Than a Text Prompt

CutBay's input system is one of the main parts of its AI Video Agent model. A project does not have to start from a written video prompt. Existing business, educational, marketing, or creative material can become the source material for the video.

The current privacy documentation lists a broad set of file types that can be processed as user content. Document formats listed include PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, RTF, Markdown, HTML, EPUB, ODT, JSON, PPT, PPTX, and ODP. Image formats include PNG, JPEG, JPG, WEBP, and GIF. Video formats listed include MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, and FLV, while supported audio content can include MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, and FLAC.

The main CutBay workflow groups the starting material into several practical categories.

Ideas and prompts can provide the subject, purpose, audience, style, or message. CutBay can then source relevant stock material or create AI images for scenes.

Presentations can be used as structured source material for narrated videos that include charts, graphs, captions, and animation.

Web links can supply information and images from webpages such as articles, news pages, product pages, or landing pages.

Documents and spreadsheets can provide written explanations, reports, numerical data, teaching material, procedures, or other structured information.

Uploaded brand and media assets let creators work from their own photography, product shots, logos, graphics, footage, or other approved material.

This approach makes CutBay particularly relevant for content repurposing. A company that already has a presentation, report, article, product page, or marketing brief can use that material as the starting point for a video rather than rewriting the entire project manually.

How the CutBay AI Video Creation Process Works

CutBay organizes video creation around understanding, planning, production, and revision. The AI agent first studies what the user supplies, then creates a production structure before generating the finished visual project.

The first stage is content understanding. CutBay analyzes the prompt, documents, links, and uploaded files to determine what the video should communicate.

The second stage is video planning. The AI agent identifies useful information and prepares a structured script with the elements needed for production. The company describes the system as creating both a script and scene plan from supplied content.

The third stage is production. CutBay can assemble visuals, captions, AI voiceovers, music, animation, and motion graphics around the planned scenes.

The fourth stage is review and editing. Users can ask CutBay to rewrite text, change scenes, adjust pacing, modify visuals, change music, alter styling, or make other edits through natural-language instructions.

The final stage is export. Output controls vary by project and plan, but current CutBay pages reference MP4, MOV, and WebM exports, multiple aspect ratios, adjustable resolution, and frame-rate options. Some workflows advertise output resolutions up to 4K.

The result is an iterative workflow. Generation is not necessarily the end of the process. Users can review a draft, describe another change, preview the result, and continue refining it.

Conversational Editing Is the Main Interaction Model

Conversational editing allows a user to describe an edit in ordinary language rather than locating every control manually. CutBay interprets the request and applies changes to the project.

For a YouTube project, for example, supported instructions can cover trimming footage, removing unwanted sections, adding captions, changing pacing, changing music, and refining the visual style.

Other CutBay pages describe chat controls for text, timing, layout, fonts, motion, transitions, effects, visuals, voiceovers, subtitles, and scene order.

The interaction model can be useful when users know the result they want but do not know which editing control would normally produce it.

A useful instruction should state the target and the requested result clearly. For example:

• Shorten the opening section.
• Move the product image to the first scene.
• Use shorter captions.
• Replace the background music.
• Make the narration more formal.
• Remove the third scene.
• Change the text size on the closing frame.
• Add a chart after the sales summary.
• Reorder the images by date.
• Create a vertical version for short-form publishing.

Specific requests generally provide clearer editing intent than broad instructions such as "make the video better."

Canvas Editing Adds Direct Control When Chat Is Not Precise Enough

CutBay also provides direct canvas editing, which gives users a second method for correcting individual elements. Users can select items and modify properties such as text, font, color, size, and position.

This combination matters because conversational editing and direct manipulation solve different problems.

Chat works well for intent-based changes such as changing pacing, replacing a visual direction, revising wording, or rearranging content.

Canvas controls are better suited to precise visual changes such as moving text, resizing an object, correcting placement, changing a font, or adjusting a specific element.

Some current CutBay creation pages also describe manual drag-and-drop changes and the ability to reposition or delete selected items.

Users therefore do not have to regenerate an entire scene merely because one text box, image, caption, or graphic needs correction.

Motion Graphics and Data Visuals Expand the Type of Video CutBay Can Produce

CutBay places significant emphasis on motion graphics rather than limiting projects to a sequence of AI-generated images or basic clips.

The platform currently lists animated charts, infographic videos, presentation videos, typography videos, product demos, data visualization, text animation, flowchart animation, number animations, and several other motion-focused formats among its creation options.

This makes structured information an important CutBay input category.

A spreadsheet or business report can contain figures that need visual explanation. A presentation may contain charts that need animation. An educational document may require diagrams, labeled steps, captions, or animated concepts.

CutBay's current product pages describe workflows that can convert supplied data into bar charts, pie charts, other graphical overlays, and animated visual explanations.

For business communication, motion graphics can help present comparisons, processes, milestones, product features, report findings, or numerical changes without requiring every graphic to be animated manually.

Accuracy remains a user responsibility. Numerical labels, chart values, units, dates, percentages, and conclusions generated from source documents should be checked against the original material before publication.

Templates Provide a Starting Structure Without Locking the Project

CutBay includes templates for business communication, marketing, education, training, social media, data visualization, presentations, and other video categories. Templates provide an existing scene and design structure that users can modify with their own material.

The current creation directory includes formats such as presentation videos, explainer videos, infographic videos, slideshows, animated charts, marketing videos, educational videos, introductions, typography videos, product demos, photo videos, and short-form video.

The broader directory also covers product launches, tutorials, courses, training content, sales videos, real estate videos, recipe videos, travel videos, webinars, podcasts, social videos, comparison videos, data presentations, promotional videos, and many event-based formats.

Templates are most useful when a creator wants faster structure while retaining the ability to revise scene content, design, animation, text, and presentation through the AI agent or canvas.

CutBay for YouTube Video Creation

CutBay's YouTube workflow is designed to take a creator from source material to a structured video draft with script, scenes, visuals, voiceover, captions, music, and animation.

A YouTube creator can start with an idea, document, webpage, photos, clips, or another supported input.

CutBay first organizes the information into a script and scene plan. The generated draft can then combine narration, captions, visual material, music, and animation.

The creator can use conversation to revise individual parts of the video. Current product documentation gives examples such as trimming clips, removing footage, adding captions, adjusting pacing, changing music, and changing the visual treatment.

CutBay identifies several YouTube audiences, including vloggers, brands, educators, and gaming creators. Example workflows include using travel footage and notes for a vlog, product information for launch content, lesson material for educational videos, and gameplay clips for gaming content.

CutBay can support production, but YouTube performance still depends on factors outside the editor. Topic demand, packaging, title quality, thumbnail quality, opening hook, viewer retention, watch time, audience satisfaction, and distribution all affect results. CutBay's own terms do not guarantee views, engagement, ranking, revenue, or other business results from generated content.

Marketing, Advertising, and Ecommerce Video Workflows

CutBay supports video creation from campaign briefs, product pages, product photos, landing pages, catalog material, documents, and uploaded media. This makes marketing and ecommerce one of the clearest use cases for its content-to-video workflow.

Current commercial-video workflows support product ads, promotional content, product demonstrations, launch videos, social advertising, branded content, and related formats.

A marketer can supply a product concept, approved images, key features, source text, target audience information, and preferred style. CutBay can then build a script and scenes with visuals, captions, narration, animation, and music.

The platform also supports multiple project ratios. Current documentation references vertical, square, and horizontal output for channels that use different video dimensions.

For ecommerce, URL-based input can reduce repetitive content preparation. A product page or catalog can provide product names, descriptions, images, features, and other material that can be reorganized into a video project.

Human review is particularly important for advertising. Prices, discounts, specifications, warranty statements, product benefits, testimonials, comparisons, and regulated advertising statements should be checked before publication. CutBay's terms place responsibility on the user for ensuring that commercial material complies with advertising rules and third-party rights.

Education, Training, Reports, and Business Communication

CutBay can also work as a document-to-video and presentation-to-video system for information-heavy content.

Educators can supply lesson notes, PDFs, presentations, images, or other learning material. The AI agent can prepare a script and produce a narrated video containing captions, supporting visuals, and animation. CutBay currently states that learning-video workflows can support multiple languages.

Training teams can use similar workflows for procedures, onboarding material, instructional documents, tutorials, and internal communication.

Business users can work from presentations, reports, spreadsheets, company material, product information, or written explanations. The primary website lists pitch decks, onboarding videos, recruiting material, presentations, and internal communications among business applications.

Data-oriented projects can use animated charts, graphs, diagrams, and other graphical elements to explain numerical information.

The strongest use case is not simply converting every page of a report into a scene. Good informational video requires prioritization. The script should identify the points an audience actually needs, then use graphics, narration, and motion to explain those points clearly.

Talking-Head Editing Can Remove Repetitive Manual Cleanup

CutBay includes AI-assisted editing for talking-head footage. Current product material describes automatic detection and removal of silence, filler words, repeated takes, and some unwanted spoken sections.

The workflow uses speech analysis to identify pauses, hesitation sounds, and repeated phrases. Users can preview the processed video and request additional edits through natural-language instructions.

CutBay can also add B-roll based on the spoken transcript. The system analyzes the content and can select stock clips, images, graphical overlays, or AI-generated images relevant to the subject being discussed.

Caption generation can include animated subtitles, font controls, highlighted words, and other presentation options.

This workflow is relevant to interviews, educational recordings, presentations, creator videos, product explanations, internal videos, and other projects built around a speaker.

Automated deletions should still be reviewed. A repeated phrase may be intentional, a pause may carry meaning, and an automatic cut may affect context or speech continuity.

Export Formats, Ratios, Resolution, and Publishing

CutBay's export options vary across tools and plans, but current product pages consistently reference MP4, MOV, and WebM as output formats.

Common project ratios shown in current documentation include:

• 16:9 for standard widescreen video
• 9:16 for vertical short-form video
• 1:1 for square publishing formats

Some CutBay workflows advertise resolution options up to 4K, while other workflow pages reference output up to 1080p. This means maximum export quality can depend on the specific feature, project, or account plan.

Frame-rate controls are also referenced in several current tool pages.

Creators should therefore check the export settings for the specific workflow they are using rather than assuming that every project supports the same resolution, file format, frame rate, or account entitlement.

CutBay Pricing Uses Plans, Credits, and Usage Entitlements

CutBay can offer free services, paid subscriptions, AI credits, usage limits, and plan-based features. Exact plan conditions can vary and are presented through the pricing, checkout, account, or product interface.

The current terms explain that AI credits can be consumed according to factors such as the generation type, selected model, processing complexity, output duration, resolution, regeneration, and other usage rules.

Free accounts or promotional credits can have limits related to generation quantity, export quality, storage, project access, output resolution, watermark removal, model access, or other features.

Subscription credits can refresh according to the selected plan. Unused credits can expire or reset under the applicable plan rules. Credits have no cash value and cannot be transferred or converted into money.

Because pricing and credit rules can change, exact current plan prices should be verified from the live account or checkout interface before purchase.

Privacy, Uploaded Content, and AI Processing Need Careful Review

CutBay processes prompts, uploaded content, project context, generated intermediate material, images, audio, video, scripts, subtitles, and technical metadata when providing AI features.

CutBay states that user projects are generally private to the account unless the user chooses to share, publish, export, or otherwise disclose them.

The privacy policy also states that certain AI functions can send prompts, uploaded material, project context, or generated content to third-party AI or infrastructure providers when needed to provide a requested function.

CutBay states that it does not use prompts, uploaded files, or generated outputs to train its own AI models unless separate notice and consent are provided where required by law. Third-party providers can have their own processing policies.

Users uploading confidential business material, unreleased product information, personal information, customer data, or licensed media should therefore review CutBay's current privacy terms and any relevant internal data policy before using that material.

Ownership, Commercial Use, Copyright, and Likeness Rules

CutBay states that users retain ownership of their user content, subject to the licenses required for CutBay to operate the service and process that content.

Exported videos and AI-generated outputs can be used for personal or commercial purposes subject to the account plan, applicable law, CutBay's terms, and any third-party licensing restrictions.

Users remain responsible for having rights to uploaded photographs, videos, music, logos, trademarks, voices, likenesses, personal information, copyrighted material, and other third-party content.

CutBay's terms prohibit unauthorized impersonation, misleading synthetic media, fake endorsements, fake testimonials, and use of another person's face, likeness, voice, image, or identity without proper permission.

The terms also state that AI output can contain factual, visual, linguistic, technical, or legal errors and may not be unique. Users are responsible for reviewing and approving AI-generated material before publishing or commercial use.

These rules matter for marketers, political communicators, advertisers, educators, publishers, brands, and creators working with real people or copyrighted material.

How to Evaluate CutBay for a Real Video Workflow

CutBay should be evaluated by the quality of the complete workflow, not simply by whether the system can generate a video.

A useful test should begin with material that reflects the creator's real work, such as a product page, article, PowerPoint deck, report, training document, campaign brief, or set of recorded clips.

The evaluation can then check:

• How accurately CutBay understands the supplied source.
• Whether the script preserves important facts.
• Whether the scene order communicates the message clearly.
• Whether chosen visuals match each scene.
• Whether captions are accurate and readable.
• Whether the voiceover pronunciation and pacing are acceptable.
• Whether charts reproduce source numbers correctly.
• Whether brand colors, fonts, logos, and visual rules can be maintained.
• Whether conversational edits produce the requested changes.
• Whether canvas editing provides enough precision.
• Whether revisions require unnecessary regeneration.
• Whether the selected plan provides enough credits for normal production.
• Whether export resolution and file formats meet the publishing requirement.
• Whether the final project still needs significant work in another editor.
• Whether generated videos remain consistent across multiple projects.

Marketing teams should also compare total production effort. The useful measurement is not an unsupported promise such as "10x faster." It is the actual time required for source preparation, generation, correction, revisions, approval, rendering, and publishing in the team's own workflow.

Where CutBay Fits in AI Video Production

CutBay represents a move toward agent-based video production where the user gives the system source material, goals, and editing instructions while the AI manages several production stages inside one project.

The key idea is continuity.

A document can become a script. The script becomes scenes. Scenes receive visual material, narration, captions, music, and motion. The user can then continue giving instructions without treating every stage as a separate production task.

CutBay also keeps direct visual controls available when a conversational request is not specific enough.

That combination of content understanding, video planning, generation, chat editing, canvas control, templates, motion graphics, document conversion, talking-head cleanup, and export is the core of CutBay's current product position.

For creators and organizations evaluating the service, the main question is therefore not whether AI can produce a first draft. The more useful test is whether CutBay can carry a real project from existing source material through repeated revisions to an output that meets factual, visual, brand, legal, and publishing requirements with acceptable human effort.

CutBay brings AI-assisted planning, content analysis, video generation, conversational editing, motion graphics, canvas controls, and export tools into one video creation workflow. 

Users can begin with prompts, documents, presentations, webpages, images, spreadsheets, audio, or existing video, then develop that material into structured scenes with scripts, visuals, captions, voiceovers, music, and animation.

Its strongest value is the ability to work from existing content and continue refining the same project through natural-language instructions. 

This makes CutBay relevant to YouTube creators, marketers, ecommerce teams, educators, trainers, businesses, and other users who want to reduce repetitive production work without giving up direct editing control.

CutBay is still a relatively new product, so real-world testing remains important. Users should review factual accuracy, visual quality, credit usage, export limits, privacy requirements, copyright permissions, commercial-use rules, and the amount of manual correction required for each project. 

For teams that regularly convert written or visual material into video, CutBay offers a practical agent-based approach that can manage many stages of the production process within a single workspace.

CutBay AI Video Agent: FAQs

What is CutBay?

CutBay is an AI Video Agent that helps users create and edit videos through natural-language conversations. Users can provide ideas, text, documents, presentations, webpages, images, audio, spreadsheets, or existing video, and CutBay can organize that material into a structured video project.

How does CutBay create videos?

CutBay analyzes the supplied content, prepares a script and scene structure, selects or generates relevant visuals, and combines elements such as captions, voiceovers, music, animations, and motion graphics. Users can then review and refine the generated video.

What types of content can be uploaded to CutBay?

CutBay can work with multiple content types, including documents, presentations, spreadsheets, webpages, images, audio files, and video clips. Supported formats can include PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, PNG, JPEG, MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV, and other commonly used formats.

Can CutBay turn a webpage or article into a video?

Yes. CutBay can use a webpage or written article as source material, identify important information, create a script, organize scenes, and generate a video using relevant visuals, narration, captions, music, and motion elements.

Does CutBay support conversational video editing?

Yes. Conversational editing is one of CutBay's main features. Users can describe changes in ordinary language, such as shortening an introduction, changing music, rewriting captions, removing a scene, adjusting pacing, replacing visuals, or rearranging content.

Can users manually edit videos in CutBay?

Yes. CutBay also provides canvas-based editing for selected elements. Users can directly adjust properties such as text, fonts, colors, size, placement, and other visual components when more precise control is required.

Who can use CutBay?

CutBay is designed for YouTube creators, marketers, ecommerce teams, businesses, educators, trainers, social media creators, and other users who regularly convert ideas or existing content into video.

Can CutBay create YouTube and social media videos?

Yes. CutBay can create YouTube videos, short-form videos, promotional videos, educational videos, product videos, presentations, and social media content. Current workflows support common formats such as widescreen, vertical, and square video.

What video export formats does CutBay support?

Current CutBay workflows reference formats such as MP4, MOV, and WebM. Available resolutions, frame rates, aspect ratios, and maximum export quality can depend on the specific workflow and subscription plan, with some features supporting output up to 4K.

Can CutBay videos be used commercially?

CutBay permits personal and commercial use of generated outputs subject to its current subscription terms, applicable laws, and third-party rights. Users remain responsible for checking copyright permissions, trademarks, music rights, likeness permissions, factual accuracy, advertising requirements, and other legal obligations before publishing commercial content.