Cuescribe

Video QC checker

Drop the export you are about to deliver. Every frame and every sample is checked on your computer for the mistakes that slip through: a one-frame gap or flash, a frozen render, black bars from the wrong sequence size, clipped or missing audio, a dead channel, the wrong loudness or shape. Each problem has a timecode, and the list exports as markers for Premiere or Resolve.

How to use it

  1. Drop the exportThe file you are about to deliver.
  2. Pick the deliveryYouTube, vertical, feed, broadcast, or just the file.
  3. Read the reportFails first, each with a timecode.
  4. Jump to each problemMarkers for Resolve or Premiere, or a CSV.

What you can download here

  • Resolve markers (EDL)red markers at every fail and warning
  • Premiere markers (XML)a sequence with the same markers
  • Report (CSV)level, check, timecode and note
Free Chrome extension

Cuescribe for Chrome

A transcript side panel on every YouTube and TikTok video, a library of everything you transcribe, and one click to open any of it in these tools.

Get the extension
Pro · early access

Pro keeps this free

Every tool stays free. Pro (early access, $9/month) adds batch delivery for client work and the extension's Pro features; longer files and multi-file projects are in development. Early subscribers keep their price and choose what gets built next.

What Pro includes

Next steps

Loudness checkerLUFS and true peak vs YouTube, podcast and broadcast targets.Compress videoFit a video under 10 MB, 25 MB or any size, no upload.Split subtitles into clips NewOne SRT per clip from the master SRT. Cut lists, EDL, XML.Filler word removerUm, uh, false starts and repeats cut; keeps your last take.Silence removerCut dead air; get the tightened video, an EDL or a WAV.Auto-reframe to vertical16:9 → 9:16 with a crop that follows the face.

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Questions

What exactly does it check?

Picture: black frames and black flashes, flash frames (a one- or two-frame shot between cuts), frozen picture over 2 seconds, black bars (letterbox, pillarbox, or an edge on one side), and long stretches of clipped highlights or crushed shadows. Sound: clipping, dropouts (digital silence with sound on both sides), silences over 3 seconds, a silent or out-of-phase channel, loudness and true peak against the target, and whether the audio and picture are the same length. File: shape and size for the delivery you pick, odd sizes, unusual frame rates.

How do I jump to a problem in my editor?

Download the markers: Resolve imports the EDL as timeline markers (Timelines, Import, Timeline Markers from EDL); Premiere imports the XML as a sequence with markers. The CSV opens in any spreadsheet.

Is a warning always a mistake?

No. A freeze can be a still you meant, and bars can be a cinema crop. Fails are almost always mistakes (a flash frame, a dropout, clipping); warnings are worth a look.

Is my video uploaded?

No. It is decoded in this tab, so there is no size limit and nothing leaves your computer. The progress bar shows how far it has got; long 4K files take a while.