Every action camera owner knows the feeling. You come back from a surf trip, a mountain bike ride, or a ski weekend with 200 clips on your SD card. You tell yourself you'll edit them this weekend. You never do. I've been sitting on GoPro footage from trips I took years ago. The editing process is just too painful: scrub through hours of shaky, boring footage to find the 30 seconds of gold, then figure out transitions, music timing, pacing. Most people give up and the footage sits on a hard drive forever. So I built FirstCut Studio to fix this. You upload your raw clips, pick a vibe, and the AI does the rest. No timeline. No editing skills required. Just a highlight reel that actually looks good. Here's how it works under the hood. The Pipeline FirstCut runs two separate pipelines: one for understanding your footage, one for creating the edit. Import Pipeline (what happens when you upload clips): Ingest - We extract metadata, compute file hashes, probe video properties, and detect orientation.…