TempoCut

Description

TempoCut is an automatic editor for short-form vertical video. It takes a folder of source media and produces finished, beat-matched drafts from either a reference edit, an audio track, or a repeatable content format.

The product began as an internal system for producing creative work around Lumii. The office is now separating the editor from that original use so it can be evaluated as a standalone product.

Audience

TempoCut is being built for creators, small brands, and content teams that produce many short edits from the same body of footage. Its purpose is to remove the repetitive first assembly without removing the operator’s final judgement.

It is not intended to replace a general-purpose professional editor. The product aims to complete the first eighty per cent of a repeatable social edit quickly, produce several credible variations, and leave the strongest draft ready for review.

Method

A reference-led edit is decomposed into scenes, cut points, beats, text regions, and timing. TempoCut then ingests the operator’s own images and video, divides longer footage into usable clips, scores the available material, and fits it to the detected structure.

Audio-led and beat-map modes construct the timeline directly from a track. Format mode preserves a repeatable title-and-example structure while replacing its media and, where required, its text. Each run can produce multiple variations from the same inputs.

Particulars

The present application is a browser interface backed by a Python and FFmpeg rendering pipeline. It produces 1080 × 1920 H.264 video with editable timeline metadata beside each render.

The draft editor permits the operator to replace media, change transitions, amend text, adjust duration, reorder segments, and re-render. Processing is local by default. Optional vision-assisted clip ranking can be disabled without preventing a render.

Status

TempoCut entered the company’s register in June 2026. It is in internal alpha and is not publicly available. The office is testing whether the system is reliable and legible enough to distribute outside its original Lumii workflow.

No public release date or price has been set. A distribution build will require packaging, account and storage decisions, clearer rights controls for imported media, and a supportable installation path.

Disposition

TempoCut is built and held directly by the company. The office intends to develop the product on its own balance sheet and will decide whether to release it after internal use has established a sufficiently dependable workflow.

Correspondence

Creator, operator, and distribution enquiries concerning TempoCut are addressed to office@hfjoandco.com.