Guide for filmmakers · Culling and sorting

How to sort wedding clips by moment

The fastest way is to let an AI watch every clip, place it in its moment of the day —getting ready, ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, party— and set aside the shots that don’t work. WedCut does it on your computer, on Mac or Windows, and brings the wedding into Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere already sorted, with or without a first cut.

Why sorting a wedding by hand takes so long

A wedding leaves you hundreds of clips from several cameras and the drone, with names like C0121 or DJI_0611 and clocks that don’t match. Before you cut anything you have to watch them, know what happens in each one, put them in order and pull out the shaky or out-of-focus ones. It’s the part of the job nobody sees in the delivery.

That cull is exactly what an AI can do: it doesn’t decide your edit, it gets the footage ready so you can.

Step by step

From the card to a sorted wedding, step by step

  1. Import the wedding folders

    Add the folders from every camera and the drone. WedCut counts the clips and tells you the price of that wedding before you start.

  2. Let the AI review every clip

    It looks at the scene, the moment, the emotion, the technical quality and the real recording time. A wedding of about 500 clips takes one or two hours of machine time, and you don’t need to sit and watch.

  3. Review the selection in the pool

    You see what was picked and what was discarded, clip by clip. Rescue what you want, throw out what doesn’t work and find a moment by typing “rings”, “kiss” or a line from the vows.

  4. Take the sorted wedding to your editor

    With Your wedding, sorted, you take every take, in folders by scene and already tagged, to Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere, without generating any edit. If you want, you can generate the first cut too.

What the AI looks at in each clip to sort it

Scene

Every clip in its part of the day

Getting ready, ceremony, cocktail hour, reception or party.

Moment

What’s happening

The “I do”, the rings, the kiss, the first dance or the speeches.

Time

The real order of the day

It rebuilds the recording time even when you mix several cameras with different clocks.

Quality

Out with what doesn’t work

It sets aside what’s out of focus, shaky or unusable.

Emotion

What moves people, on top

It scores every clip so the best of each moment comes first.

Drone and B-roll

Every shot in its place

It recognises aerial and B-roll shots so they go where they make sense.

What if I only want the wedding sorted, with no edit?

That’s what Your wedding, sorted is for. Some editors prefer to cut from scratch, just without the cull: they open their editor and find the wedding in folders by scene —ceremony, party, couple, drone…— and already tagged. If another day you want the teaser or the film, you generate them from the same analysis, which you only pay for once.

More detail in the footage analysis, how it exports to each editor and the first cut.

Quick questions

Is there software that sorts wedding clips by moment?+

Yes. WedCut analyses every clip with AI and places it in its scene and its moment of the day, in the real recording order even if you shot with several cameras. With Your wedding, sorted, you take it to Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere in folders by scene, without generating an edit.

How do I pick the best moments from a wedding’s footage?+

Let the AI do the cull: it scores every clip by moment, emotion and technical quality, sets aside the shaky and out-of-focus ones and keeps what works on top. Then you review it in the pool, rescue or discard whatever you want and you decide what goes in.

Does it work with several cameras and a drone?+

Yes. WedCut rebuilds the real time of each clip to put the day in order even if the cameras have different clocks, and it recognises drone and B-roll shots.

Are my videos uploaded to the cloud?+

No. Your videos are not uploaded: they are analysed on your computer and only individual frames of each clip go to the AI.

How long does it take to sort a wedding?+

It depends on the footage: a wedding of about 500 clips takes one or two hours of machine time, and longer if there’s more. It runs on your computer while you do something else.

How much does it cost to sort a wedding with WedCut?+

You pay per wedding based on the amount of footage (size S, M or L) and you know the price before you start. You only pay for the analysis, once per wedding: exporting the sorted wedding and generating edits are not charged separately.

Sort your next wedding with WedCut.

Create your account, download the app on your Mac or PC and open your editor with the cull already done.