KitCutDocs

Updated 5 November 2026 · Markdown

What KitCut doesn't do

KitCut makes animated films, code-drawn, painted or collage, with narration and music, from an idea. This page lists what it doesn't do, so nobody is promised it. "Not yet" marks things that may come later; the rest are outside what KitCut is.

The picture

  • No camera footage or video clips. A film can't be made from, or include, a video someone uploads. Pictures are the only visual material a film takes, and they are shown as still images, not animated.
  • No video-generation model. Films are drawn, painted or cut out and animated in code, not generated as video. Photorealistic motion of real people is not possible.
  • No frames beyond wide, square and tall. A film is 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16 (Look, length and frame); there is no 4:5, 21:9 or other shape.
  • No choosing a drawing style from a list. There are three looks; inside them Claude chooses the style, which the idea can steer in words (Looks).
  • The painter takes no reference picture. A painted scene can't copy a person's photo or keep a character exactly the same between paintings.
  • No lettering inside paintings. Words appear drawn on top of them.
  • On-screen text in Latin and Cyrillic alphabets only. No Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi or Thai script on screen.

Language

  • No ideas in Russian, and none that ask for it. An idea, a template's prompt, a draft, a project's brief or a note on a finished film is refused at once, on the website and through an assistant, and no credits are used, when it is written in Russian or asks for Russian in any language: "narrate this in Russian", "Russian subtitles", "captions: Russian", "en ruso", "російською", Russian words or lessons. A film that is only about Russia, Russian history, a Russian doll or a Russian character, narrated in another language, is fine. Ukrainian and every other language, Cyrillic or not, are taken as before; a Russian name inside an idea in another language is fine. A finished film is not made into Russian either, and a film that is in Russian is not made in other languages (A film in other languages).

The sound

  • No songs or sung vocals. The music is instrumental, played on sampled instruments.
  • No choosing a music track from a list. Describe the music in the idea, and Claude picks. The narrator's voice can be chosen: Narrator voices.
  • No uploading your own music or voice-over. A voice note is written out as text for Claude to read; the recording is never used in the film's sound.
  • No cloned voices of KitCut's own. A cloned voice can narrate only from your own ElevenLabs account (Narrator voices). Otherwise the narrator is one of the voice model's own voices, and a line the voice model refuses to read is read by a backup voice (ElevenLabs), which sounds a little different.

Length and timing

  • At most 8 minutes, and only on Pro. Free goes to 1 minute.
  • The length is set before the film is made, in steps of 5 seconds, and Claude times the film to it. On a paid plan it can be left to Claude instead, within the plan's longest film and the credits left (Look, length and frame). Either way it can't be changed once the film has started.
  • No guaranteed delivery time. A film takes minutes to hours depending on its length and the queue (How a film is made).

After a film is made

  • No editing a finished film by hand. There is no timeline, no cutting and no replacing a picture or a sound yourself. The person who made a film changes it by leaving notes for Claude, which makes the film's next version (Changing a finished film); and a Free film can be drawn again without the KitCut mark once its maker is on a paid plan (Removing the mark from a film).
  • No changing a film from an AI assistant. Notes are left on the website. An assistant can make the film again with its idea changed, as a new film.
  • No rewriting the words of a film told in your own ElevenLabs voice. Its picture, timing and music can be changed. Not yet.
  • No deleting a film or an account from the website. Write to [email protected]. Not yet.
  • No subtitles in the website's player. The video file carries them, off by default. Not yet.

Everything else

  • No questions back. Claude doesn't ask the person anything while it works; it decides, and says in its notes what it left out.
  • No web research. Claude doesn't look anything up; the film is made from the idea and its attachments.
  • No shared logins. An account is one person's. People work together by inviting each other into a workspace instead (Workspaces), each with their own account.
  • No notifications other than email. There are no push notifications or text messages; a finished film is announced by email (Your account).
  • No public API other than the MCP server for AI assistants (Assistants).
  • YouTube is the only place a film can be published to from KitCut, and that is limited for now (Publishing to YouTube).