For freelance editors
Your client watches the real cut, not an export
Send a link instead of an export. Your client opens the actual cut in their browser and leaves notes on the exact frame, and those notes show up on your timeline. No more matching timecodes from an email.
Notes that land on the frame
Reviewers write on the frame they are looking at. You see it on your timeline, and an edit never deletes a note.
Multicam that holds up
A dozen cameras and a sound recorder, cut live from a grid. Angles you can switch after the fact.
Exports that come out right
Set up each platform or client spec once, and every export from your cut follows it. No re-checking settings on deadline night.
Bring your projects with you
B/side opens the Avid and Premiere projects you already have, so moving over does not mean starting over. A Premiere reframe arrives as the move it is, with its keyframes. Anything that does not come across is named on the frame.
Collect Hi-Res
Gather just the footage your cut uses, then export from anywhere. The drives can go back on the shelf.
Everything you get
All features →- 01
Start cutting the moment the card goes in
Drop a camera card, a folder or a recording into B/side for Mac or Windows and start cutting, picture and sound. Nothing has to finish uploading first.
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Never lose your raw
Point the free desktop helper at two drives and plug in a card. It copies every file to both and checks each copy against the card. Then it tells you whether the card is safe to format.
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Stop shipping drives
Offload on location with a decent connection and the footage goes up as the day goes. The edit room starts cutting before you wrap, and the originals follow at their own pace.
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Cut on the computer in front of you
Edit from home at full speed, on your own machine. No remote desktop, and no workstation in the building that exists only so someone can drive it from somewhere else.
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Your camera originals stay on your own drives
Cut in B/side and keep your rushes where they are. Camera originals stay on your own drives unless you choose otherwise, and the free desktop helper ingests the footage for the whole team.
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The Media Composer keyboard and layout you already know
Source and Record monitors with three-point editing, on the keys your hands already know. Cut in B/side the way you cut in Media Composer.
- Trim mode with a live two-up
- Frame accurate, from the first cut to the last
- Anyone can cut multicam
- A vertical version of your cut, in one step
- Notes on the exact frame, from anyone with a link
- Every take of a line, straight from the script
- Mic names on the tracks, where they belong
- Transcripts you can cut from
- A real mixer, and voice-over recorded in the browser
- Finish the picture without leaving the cut
- Open an Avid or Premiere Pro project and keep cutting
- Hand off to sound and colour
Questions people ask
More answers →- AAF or EDL: what should you send to sound and colour?Sound almost always wants an AAF, because it carries the audio tracks with their clips and levels in a form a sound editor can open and work from.
- Can you edit video in a browser without uploading your footage?Yes.
- How do producers review cuts remotely?Most producers now review cuts from a link that plays in a browser, writing notes as they watch instead of sitting in the edit suite.
- How much storage do I need for video editing?Multiply the hours of footage you shoot by how much space your camera’s format uses per hour, then at least double it so every file lives on two separate drives.
- How do you edit a multicam podcast?Group every camera and the separate sound recording into one multicam clip.
- How do you edit a podcast?Bring every microphone and camera into one project and line them up.
Built in the cutting room
Made by someone who has sat in your chair.
B/side is built by an assistant editor with 15 years in post, across scripted and unscripted television, game shows, features and VFX-heavy shows. Every rule in it comes from a real night in a real cutting room.
Nominated for a Children's & Family Emmy for editing on The Muppets Mayhem.
Selected credits
- Shark TankLead assistant editor
- Wheel of Fortune
- Big Brother
- Dancing with the Stars
- The Goldbergs
- The Muppets MayhemEmmy nominated, editing
The maker’s own credits. These shows are not B/side customers.
What happens to my client work if I stop?
Your media stays on your drives and your originals are yours. Everything you export is an ordinary file, and nothing is held hostage.
Ready to try it on a real project?
Start for freeNot you? i make my own content or i run a post house or a show.