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.

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!