Selects Reviews & Product Details

For editing talking head videos, the text editor is very simple to use. Removing pauses, repeated phrases, restarts, etc. is very easy. The AI is very good at taking several large files and creating shorts, focusing on the best shots. I usually don't have to edit the result at all. I LOVE the fact that it works off my external hard drive where my clips live. It's SO much faster than working in the cloud like I had to do with Descript. The MCP works well with Codex. I'm still experimenting with Selects to create rough drafts of our longer travel vlog videos. This is a much more complex task than creating talking head or scripted videos. My suggestion to the team at Selects would be to post more on YouTube. It seems like they keep using the same podcast example in all their YouTube videos. If you want more people to buy Selects, show them what it's capable of in multiple video styles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The editor is a little confusing to use, when it comes to editing the output of the AI. In other words, if I don't like where the AI edited a particular clip, how do I modify it easily? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I mainly use Selects for podcast assembly, and it's become the fastest part of my workflow. Long-form interview footage is the worst thing to log manually — you're scrubbing through an hour of two people talking to find the eight minutes that actually make the episode. Selects does that pass for me.

Since the MCP update I can drive it straight from Claude, and that made a noticeable difference in both speed and quality of results. I point it at the footage folder, it scans and probes everything, and I get a draft back before I've opened a single bin.

The biggest upgrade is that it can now actually see and analyse the video instead of only reading the transcript. I've tried transcript-only tools and they're fine for finding a quote, but useless for finding a moment. Now that Selects understands what's happening on screen, I can use it to cut highlight reels for events, where the good stuff is visual and nobody says anything that would show up in a transcript.

Handoff to Premiere is clean too — I get something I can open and start cutting, not just a list of timecodes to go re-find myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My main request is support for stills as B-roll. A lot of my projects have a photo library alongside the video — event photography, product shots, headshots — and right now that material sits outside the process entirely. I have to bring photos in manually in Premiere afterwards, which breaks the flow of an otherwise automated assembly. Since Selects can already analyse video visually, extending that to images feels like a natural next step, and it would significantly help for event recaps and podcast episodes where we cover gaps with stills. That's the one gap I keep hitting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Several things: the first is the ease of starting a project simply by dragging my material from the finder. From the start, Selects gives three options to begin working, and once the analysis runs (which takes time but is well worth it), it works incredibly well. I love that within the app it uses Claude models (not only because I use Claude, but because Claude models are ideal for "reasoning" everything that involves narrative). I have noticed that it is better to operate everything from Selects (I have had some issues managing the app from Claude with the MCP (which for some reason I have to manually reconnect and sometimes Claude gets "stuck thinking infinitely" from Claude co-.work. I prefer to use Claude to ask it to help me think about narrative structure through the transcription from Selects (but I see that within Selects it also works well). I even tried in Selects to ask for suggestions on what type of stock images I should use for b-roll in an interview, and the suggestions on what to look for were quite coherent and less general and literal than those proposed in Claude co-work. I tried importing 23 hours of material (interviews with two cameras) for a documentary that I will start editing, and Selects did an excellent job transcribing, classifying the material, etc. The support is very good. When I have had doubts, not only have I had the chat with the software's help AI, but I have also managed to communicate with a human (in this case nani@cutback.video) who resolves my doubts in Spanish and with a very good attitude. I feel that with the use I give and this communication with support, I can contribute a bit to help implement improvement ideas. I like being able to integrate with Final Cut Pro and eventually with Davinci Resolve. I was about to migrate to Davinci Resolve for the transcription and text-based editing tools, but I don't like Resolve. Selects gives me the opportunity to continue in Final Cut X with a tool that also has the magnetic timeline, so I don't feel like I'm changing interfaces so abruptly. Regarding the price, I think the product is well worth it. I'm not clear if after the month the new credits are added to the previous balance or not (I haven't completed the first month yet), but I think it's well worth it. I also think it's excellent that they offer different languages available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to be able to import material and close the app without losing sync if I haven't analyzed it. The first time I imported 13 hours, it synced, and since I didn't have enough credits to run the analysis, I decided to continue the next day and exited the app. The next day the project didn't exist (it hadn't been saved) and I had to start over. The project should be saved from the moment the first clip is imported. There could be a power outage or something else, and time could be lost. It would be good to have some manual options like choosing to lower the preview quality when working with material directly from a camera that works in a very compressed codec so that the video doesn't freeze. I would like to have the option to save projects wherever I want. For organizational and efficiency reasons, Selects should give the option to delete clips from the project, not just from the timeline. When I add additional video clips that need to be analyzed, I have to click on each clip (one by one) for the analysis to run (when I select more than one, it doesn't give me the option to analyze the selection). I have an idea: it would be great to have a smartphone app that allows interaction with Selects on the computer (just like Claude now has co-work for mobile). So if I have to leave and want to make operational decisions that take time for the software but continue interacting, I can keep doing it remotely, especially responding to questions the system asks. Editors spend many hours sitting in front of the computer. In my case, I like to go for a walk or go to the gym, but if I could keep progressing during those activities by responding to Selects' questions so the software keeps working from my computer, it would be ideal! Another thing I notice is that the magnetic timeline lacks precision. Sometimes I want to move a clip a couple of frames to the left or right, and it pushes the videos to a track above or below because the clips don't fit. I think that's called "snap" in Final Cut. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has changed my life in terms of editing multiple clips and multi camera footage for me. I am a fairly light user, but it hasn't saved me hours, it has saved me weeks of my time, taking the toil out of complex editing tasks, and freeing me to be more creative with the end edits rather than trying to keep my eyes open! The captioning is brilliant, and really intelligent too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At present - absolutely nothing! The team at Selects have been immediately at the end of an email request with any questions, they are actually real people that care/ I had a 1-2-1 session with Tom who is amazing, and was able to get answers to my questions rather than the usual running to a script. Very versatile, very brilliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, multilingual facility, being able to identify, separate key moments, separating them, automatically At this moment, I am on a trial free account, have not moved to paid account yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't say if I dislike anything right now, as I have not used too extensively. Yes, I am trying to figure out if my videos in google photos or google drive can directly be imported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that Selects is pretty good at transcription and understanding what my video is saying, then giving me an edit based on that. It's truly a time saver, which really helps me when I have so many tasks like podcasts, content creation, and online courses. The chat feature is great because I can just tell it what I want, like creating vertical reels, and it's awesome for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like every time I log in, it's a different interface or something has changed, and that's really difficult for me because the learning curve is ever-changing. With AI products, I bumped into it last week where essentially, I had a deadline, and I couldn't make it because the software was down. So I understand AI products are like that, but I think the reliability factor is also something that could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like Selects for its MCP functionality, which allows me to bring my own agents into projects and provide all the necessary context. It structures the video on its own, which I think is as close as we've come to having agent workflows for video. The ability to sort through footage really quickly is incredibly useful, especially during fast-paced, compressed time horizon shoots where a same-week edit is needed. Selects saves a ton of time on the editing back end, cutting down about 80% of the a-roll editing time. I also appreciate the auto-selecting feature for finding the best clip out of all takes, which works really well. I'm really pro Selects for these functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it's the problem of b roll and editing a full video on its own. But I don't think that's what it should be. I think that's pushing the program too far. The underpinning technology just isn't there yet, and I think that's too much to ask too early. I'd love for it to get better over time. I can at least see features like auto-categorizing b roll clips and auto-trimming clips to be the best portions, and all that stuff would be fantastic to have in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I find most helpful about Selects is that I don’t really need to do anything. I just upload my raw video, and the AI cuts everything together—pulling out the highlights, taking care of the intro, and basically handling the whole podcast.

Another thing I want to mention is the price: it’s very cheap, especially when I think about how much time it would cost me to do it manually. The performance of the program is perfect, the support answered me very quickly, and the UI is simply the best. The integrations are also very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to change—everything is perfect just the way it is right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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it still has bugs to work on until its working well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.