You create. We wrap it.
Drop in your camera and mic files. WrapShot syncs them, cuts between whoever is talking, mutes the filler, and hands back a finished episode: clips, captions and a transcript. Six stages, one pass.
Full quality from day one. Keep the WrapShot mark on your exports and that is your contribution.
The usual way
A day. Sometimes two.
Hire an editor
Weekly, that is $5,000 to $8,000 a year.
With WrapShot
One pass, then you publish.
A revision cap is the back and forth, sold by the unit
The reason people stop hiring editors is rarely only the money. It is writing notes, waiting two or three days, and watching a pass from someone who does not know the show, the guest, or what the episode was for. More time goes into talking about the tweak than the tweak would have taken. A capped revision count is that loop, priced by the unit, and it is not in the sticker price. In WrapShot you slide the tweak yourself and watch it apply.
The good conversation stops being the expensive one
Those rates are priced per minute of footage, so a longer episode, or a third guest, costs more to finish. WrapShot costs the same either way. Your part is 10 to 20 minutes of hands-on time, a quick review, marking the moments worth clipping, sliding a tweak or two. Then it renders on its own, and how long that takes is your Mac’s business, not a queue you are waiting in.
Editor figures are typical of what freelance listings quote for podcast editing. They move around; treat them as a range, not a quote.
What the job actually was
Nobody writes this list down. Everybody has it anyway, and none of it is about the edit. The edit was never the thing that killed a show. Not publishing was.
“I want to make four cuts a month without buying a license to do it.”
“I already trim clips on my phone. I do not want to learn a suite that has a certification path attached to it.”
“Two guests, two rooms, two mic setups. I want one show out of that, and I do not want to learn what a compressor is first.”
“I want to stop spending longer explaining a tweak to an editor than the tweak would have taken to do.”
“Fifty dollars, half an hour, up to two feeds. I want to stop hoping nobody interesting turns up.”
“I want to record for as long as the conversation is good, with however many people showed up, and have that not change what it costs me to finish it.”
Six stages, start to finish.
The app moves you forward one stage at a time, and lets you stop at any of them to change your mind.
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What you bring
- The video from every person on the show, however many of them there are
- Recordings that started at different times, which is what normally happens
- A combined video or a combined audio track, if your recording platform made one. Either helps and neither is required
Add Files
Drop the recordings in and say what each one is: a speaker, the room mix, or a camera. Nothing is transcoded yet.
- Riverside, StreamYard and Zoom files are recognized from their filenames
- Want to use your multiple camera angles for speakers?A camera with no microphone of its own borrows the sync of the person it is pointed at, so extra angles line up without you doing anything.
Process Tracks
Loudness, color and previews, handled without you watching. Leave the screen if you like; it keeps running.
- Every speaker at the same volume, set to what platforms expectThe technical version: audio is normalized to broadcast loudness, so nobody has to reach for the volume in the middle of your episode.
- Color balanced across feeds so a cut doesn't jump
- Lightweight previews built so playback stays quick
Transcribe & Align
Different people join the show at different times? Automatic alignment so they all start together.
- Offsets reported in milliseconds, per feedEvery feed is matched to the others by audio correlation, and the exact gap it closed is shown, so you can check the work instead of taking it on trust.
- Transcription and diarization run on your machine
- Switching rules set here carry into the review
Review Cut
The interesting one. You get a proposed sequence to react to rather than a blank timeline to fill.
- A live pane and a cued pane, so you always see what is coming nextTake the cued camera with the mouse, with the trackpad, or with the T key. Everything in this stage works all three ways.
- Filler words flagged in the transcript, muted in one click
- Mark the moments worth clipping as you watch
Clips & Enrich
Each marked moment becomes a clip. Safe zones are painted over the preview so you can see the crop before you commit.
- Guides for Instagram, TikTok, Shorts and LinkedIn
- A vertical, square and wide version of every clip
Wrap It Up
Choose the outputs once. Everything is written from a single master render instead of re-encoding per platform.
- 720p or 1080p video, MP3 audio, or a quick review draft
- Transcript, SRT subtitles and chapters, all included
What you end up with
- A finished episode, cut between whoever is talking
- A vertical, square and wide clip for each moment you marked
- A transcript, subtitles and chapters, all written from the same render
“I quote per episode. I am not selling an edit, I am selling a date my client can stop worrying about. My hands are on it for about fifteen minutes, and the machine finishes without me.”
Nothing leaves your machine
Transcription, the cut and the render all happen on the machine in front of you. An episode nobody has heard yet does not have to go anywhere first, which is both the reason it is private and the reason it is quick: there is no upload to wait out before the work can start.
- It stays on your disk
- Your footage, your guests and your transcript never leave the machine. There is no account to upload to and no copy on someone else's server.
- No upload, no queue
- Work starts the second you drop the files in, not after a few hundred gigabytes finish climbing your connection, and never behind somebody else's render.
- The internet is optional
- A connection is for downloading WrapShot and contributing to it. Finishing an episode does not need one.
What else it handles for you
Frame-accurate sync
Audio correlation lines up every feed and reports the offset, so you can verify it rather than trust it.
Cuts on who's talking
Set a minimum and maximum shot length and a room threshold. WrapShot proposes the sequence; you approve it.
Cameras without mics
A second angle inherits its speaker's sync, so B-cams and phone shots make it into the timeline too.
Filler detection
Ums, likes and false starts are flagged in the transcript. Mute them all, or keep the ones that sound like you.
Loudness and color
Audio normalized to broadcast, color balanced between feeds so cutting cameras doesn't shift the picture.
Safe zones you can see
Vertical, square and wide crops drawn over the preview before you commit to a clip.
One render, every format
Pick the outputs once. They're all written from a single master pass instead of a re-encode each.
Nothing is final
Every stage stays reachable. Change a rule at stage five and the cut updates when you apply it.
An episode, and everything around it
One render. Every file below is written from it, and the text ones are included whichever way you contribute.
The master
- Video master
- 720p or 1080p H.264, or a quick draft for review copies
- Audio
- MP3, 192 kbps stereo, podcast ready
The left page is the episode itself and never grows. Anything written alongside it lands on the right.
Everything around it
Social clips
One vertical, square and wide clip per marked moment
Transcript
Speaker-labelled .txt with timecodes
Subtitles
Standard SRT for any video player
Chapters
YouTube chapters plus a WebVTT cue file
The list grows as WrapShot ships, and what is not built yet is on the roadmap, with its status.
Everyone contributes. You pick the currency.
Keep the WrapShot mark on your exports, and that’s your contribution. Or contribute a few dollars a project and the mark comes off, unless you want to keep it.
Nothing is locked either way. Every format, full quality, every stage. A contribution starts at $5 and covers the whole project, not one export: re-export in any format as many times as you want. Nothing renews.
Edited in WrapShotEvery dollar is a vote on what gets built next.
$5 puts an idea on the board. Votes are yours to spread however you like. Once you spend them, they’re spent.
Votes come from contributions only. A project exported with the mark on earns none, which is fair: that path costs you nothing. Each whole dollar you contribute is one vote, so the $5 minimum is five of them. Cents round down.
Votes tell us what matters most. They don’t buy a delivery date.
$5 is the floor for a dull reason worth saying out loud: card processing takes a fixed fee off every payment, and under $5 that fee eats too much of what you gave to be worth taking.
Keep the mark if you want it
Contributing takes the WrapShot mark off your exports. Plenty of contributors leave it on anyway. It tells other creators what you used, and it is the reason someone else gets to finish their first episode without paying anything.
Get the guest. Show up. Record. Then as little as possible.
That is the job, said the way people actually say it. Everything after the conversation is overhead, and the overhead is what decides whether a show keeps going. Same job, five ways of arriving at it.
First-timers
I have never cut multicam and I am not starting on a blank timeline. I want to know this one comes out before I book anybody.
Solo podcasters
I record it and I edit it. I want to stop dreading the part that starts the moment I stop recording.
Podcasting for leads
My guests are referral partners and prospects. I want to look like somebody who finishes things, to exactly those people.
Side hustle
An hour on a Sunday is the whole budget. I want to spend it on the episode, not on the edit.
Agencies
I want every episode to look like the same show, across a client's whole back catalog, without setting it up again each time.
“The hardest part of podcasting happens after the podcasting. Nobody quits. They just quietly stop finishing.”
The person who built this could not finish his own show
WrapShot is written and maintained by Peter, who recorded two shows and published almost none of either. Hey, Good Chat! stopped with five conversations sitting on a drive. Pitchslap! got to roughly twenty episodes recorded and almost none of them went out. Thousands of dollars went to editors and software along the way, and the episodes still did not.
The guests were friends, referral partners and prospects. An hour of their time each, and nothing back. Not publishing did not cost him an edit. It cost him those, and that is the bill nobody itemizes.
So the promise here is not speed. Speed is something you only get to check afterwards, which makes it a hope rather than a promise. The one worth making is the one you can check before you book anybody: the episode comes out. The months and the money stop being a bet on whether the show exists at all, and the only question left is whether you like it. Pitchslap! is publishing now, finished in WrapShot.
There is no company behind it, no subscription, and no plan to get bought. Contributions decide what gets built next: captions, lower thirds, motion graphics, cloud rendering, and the Windows version. They arrive for projects you have already backed too.
In final testing on macOS. Join the list for early access.
It runs on the Mac you already have
Most video software asks for a new machine with plenty of memory. WrapShot does not. It is built and tested on a 2020 MacBook Air, M1 chip, 8 GB of memory, bought used for $200. A full episode runs start to finish on that machine. A faster Mac just gets there sooner.
- Chip
- Apple Silicon, M1 or newer. Intel Macs are not supported.
- Memory
- 8 GB is enough. More memory only shortens the wait.
- macOS
- Version 13 or later.
- Internet
- Not needed for the work. Transcription and rendering run on your machine.
Questions
Does my footage leave my machine?
No. Transcription, diarization and rendering all run locally. Cloud rendering is on the roadmap as an option, not a requirement.
What files can I bring in?
MP4, MOV, MKV, WAV, MP3 and AAC. Riverside, StreamYard and Zoom exports are recognized from their filenames.
How many cameras?
As many as you recorded. Cameras without their own audio inherit a speaker’s sync, so they need to start at the same moment as that speaker.
Can I override the automatic cut?
All of it. Swap the camera on any block, split it, extend it, trim it, or delete it. The proposal is a starting point, not a verdict.
What does it cost?
Supporting WrapShot is all we ask, and you choose how. Keep the small WrapShot mark on your exports and you owe nothing: full quality, every format, no card, no trial, no time limit. Or contribute from $5 on a project and the mark comes off.
What does contributing get me?
The mark comes off that project, which stays yours to re-export forever, in any format. You also get votes on what gets built next: every dollar is a vote, and $5 puts a new idea on the board. Exports that keep the mark earn no votes.
Is there a subscription?
No. A contribution is a one-off on one project. Nothing renews and there’s nothing to cancel. $5 is the minimum only because card processing takes a fixed fee off every payment, and below that the fee eats too much of it.
Mac only?
Yes. WrapShot needs an Apple Silicon Mac to run the whole pipeline on-device (Intel isn’t supported). Windows is on the roadmap, no date yet.
Finish your next episode the day you record it.
WrapShot is built and in final testing on macOS. Leave your email and you’ll get one message the day downloads open.
No spam. Just an email when WrapShot is ready to download.
Windows is not ready yet. Want to know when?
A Windows build is one of the things contributions are paying for. It’s on the roadmap, gated on macOS demand. Leave your email and you’ll hear when it ships.