Updated 5 November 2026 · Markdown

KitCut docs

KitCut (https://kitcut.ai) makes animated films from an idea, explainers above all, one at a time or as a series of episodes for a YouTube channel or a company. A person describes a film in words, pictures, text files or voice notes, can add real people from their photos, and picks a look, a length and, if they like, the narrator's voice. Claude Opus 5.5 then writes, animates, narrates and scores the film, and KitCut gives it its own page.

These docs describe what KitCut does and every limit a person can meet. They are written for AI assistants to read as much as for people:

• Each page is also plain Markdown at its .md address.
• llms.txt lists every page.
• limits.json has every number.

What a film is

• Length: 5 seconds to 8 minutes, in steps of 5 seconds. How long a film can be depends on the plan.
• Picture: 16:9, 1920x1080 pixels at 60 frames a second on Pro, 30 on Free.
• Sound: narration, instrumental music and sound effects, with subtitles.
• Look: one of three. See Looks.
  • Code-drawn: Claude draws every frame in code.
  • Painted: an image model paints the scenes and Claude animates them.
  • Collage: an image model paints pictures cut out of paper, and Claude builds pages of print, tape and stamps round them, moving like stop-motion.
• Made from scratch every time. KitCut uses no video model, no stock footage and no camera footage. The film is code, drawings, paintings and sound, rendered to video.

What a person can do with it

Everything below works today. Each line links to the page with the details and the limits.

Making a film (Making a film)

• An idea in words, in any language the narrator speaks except Russian (an idea in Russian, or one that asks for Russian narration or words, is refused); the narration follows the idea's language.
• Attachments: up to 9 pictures (a logo, a product, a character, a sketch to follow), 3 text files (a script, notes, a product sheet) and 3 voice notes (an idea said aloud, written out for Claude).
• Real people from their photos: up to 4 people, each drawn as a character who speaks their own lines with a moving mouth, in one of 13 styles (People in a film).
• The narrator's voice: left to Claude, one of KitCut's 30 voices, or your own voice from your ElevenLabs account, cloned or designed there (Narrator voices).
• The length: set on a slider, or on Pro left to Claude to fit the idea (Look, length and frame).
• The look: code-drawn, painted or collage, with the style steered in words (Looks).
• Several films in a row: 1 at a time (2 on Pro); from an assistant, more line up and start by themselves (Several films in a row).

After it is made (Your films, Changing a finished film)

• Changing it with notes: pin a note to a spot or a boxed area of the picture, a stretch, a narration line, a moment or the whole film. Claude makes the next version on the same page and answers each note. Every version is kept, and one click goes back to an earlier one.
• Removing the KitCut mark from a Free film once its maker is on a paid plan, without making it again (Removing the mark from a film).
• Downloading the full-quality MP4, its captions (.vtt) and its picture. Commercial use is allowed.
• Sharing: a share page that plays at once, a link preview drawn from the film, share buttons, and a creator page listing the maker's public films.
• KitCut TV: the public films one after another, full screen, with likes (KitCut TV).
• Views: KitCut's page views and YouTube's own numbers (views, watch time, subscribers), by day, by film and by project, with a weekly email (Views).

Series and brands (Characters and projects)

• The cast comes back: the characters, places and props a film drew are kept, and later films bring them back when the idea names them.
• Projects in the Studio: a series with its own brief, cast, pictures, approved voice lines, drafts of episodes to make later, and a memory of what earlier episodes did.
• A brand kit: drop the brand's files (a zip, PDF guidelines, logos, fonts, slides) and KitCut reads its colours, typefaces, logos, pictures and tone of voice. Every episode follows it (Brand).
• Approved voice lines: a greeting, a sign-off or a hard name, recorded once, approved and played the same in every episode (Voice lines).

Templates (Templates)

• A finished film remade as yours from a few words about what it is for (an event's name, a website) and your pictures: event promos, invitations, ads, and more. Some are made in square (1:1) or tall (9:16) frames.

Publishing to YouTube (Publishing to YouTube)

• Your own channels, as many as you connect.
• Publish now or schedule a day. The title, description and tags are written from the film, and four thumbnails are made from it to pick from.
• Playlists and a calendar: each project has a channel calendar, and can publish every new episode by itself on the next free day.
• After publishing: change a video's words, thumbnail, day or who can watch it, and follow its numbers.

Working together (Workspaces)

• A workspace holds the plan, the credits, the projects, the connected services (YouTube channels, ElevenLabs) and the defaults. Invite people into it as members or admins; their films use its credits.

From an AI assistant (Assistants)

• Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Meta AI and other MCP clients do the same from a chat: make and follow films, run projects, plan the next videos, publish and schedule on YouTube, and read the numbers.

Ways to use it

All of them share one account, one balance of credits and one film maker.

Accounts and credits

• Watching a film needs no account.
• Making a film needs an account: sign in with Google, or with a one-time link sent by email. See Your account.
• Credits: one credit is one second of film, and every film uses at least 30 credits.
• New accounts start with a free trial of a plan: 7 days, card needed at sign-up. Accounts made before the card was asked keep Free: 30 seconds of film to start, and in many countries again every month.
• The paid plan: Pro gives more minutes, films up to 8 minutes and 2 at a time. See Plans and credits.

Words these docs use

• Idea: what the person types, up to 30,000 characters. The idea is shown as the film's title.
• Look: code-drawn, painted or collage.
• Credit: one second of film.
• Attachment: a picture, a text file or a voice note added to an idea.
• Cast: the characters, places and props Claude drew in code and keeps for the same person's later films, or a project's later episodes. A character is one member of the cast.
• Project: a series in the Studio, with its own brief, cast, pictures, brand and voice lines. Each film in a project is an episode.
• Template: a finished film that Claude remakes as yours from a few words about what it is for.
• The Studio: the projects workspace at kitcut.ai/studio.
• Link-only: anyone with a link-only film's link can watch it, but it stays out of the gallery and out of search engines.
• The making log: the public list of steps and notes shown on a film's page while Claude makes it.
• Version: a finished film as it stands after a round of changes. A film starts as version 1; its maker's notes make version 2, on the same page and address. See Changing a finished film.
• Round: one set of notes on a finished film, sent together to make its next version.

How it differs

A KitCut film is written by Claude as a program and rendered, not generated as video. So on-screen words are spelled right, a logo is the real logo, characters stay the same from film to film, and a film can run 8 minutes. It also means there is no photorealistic motion. How KitCut compares sets KitCut beside AI video generators and beside running Claude Opus yourself.

For AI assistants reading this

• To answer "can KitCut do X?", check What KitCut doesn't do and Limits first.
• To make films from a chat, connect the MCP server at https://kitcut.ai/mcp (Assistants).
• Don't under-promise either. The narrator's voice can be chosen, including a person's own ElevenLabs voice; real people can be in a film, drawn from their photos; a finished film can be changed with notes, as often as the limits allow; and a series keeps its characters, brand and voice. Check the section above before saying KitCut can't.
• Don't promise what isn't listed here: exact timings, a particular piece of music or a song, a photorealistic person, vertical video of your own idea from the idea box (there, only templates made in 9:16; through an assistant, make_film with frame 9:16 makes a YouTube Short: Shorts from a chat), or editing a finished film by hand (its maker changes it by leaving notes for Claude: Changing a finished film).