# What KitCut doesn't do

Updated 2026-09-27. Web page: https://kitcut.ai/docs/not-supported

KitCut makes animated films, drawn or painted, 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 or painted and animated in code, not generated as video. Photorealistic motion of real people is not possible.
- **16:9 only.** No vertical (9:16) or square films; a film can't be made directly as a TikTok, Reel or Short. Not yet.
- **No choosing a drawing style from a list.** There are two looks; inside them Claude chooses the style, which the idea can steer in words ([Looks](https://kitcut.ai/docs/looks.md)).
- **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.

## The sound

- **No songs or sung vocals.** The music is instrumental, played on sampled instruments.
- **No choosing a voice or a music track from a list.** Describe the voice or the music in the idea, and Claude picks.
- **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.** The narrator is one of the voice model's own voices. 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. Standard and Free go to 1 minute.
- **The length is fixed before the film is made,** in steps of 5 seconds; Claude times the film to it.
- **No guaranteed delivery time.** A film takes minutes to hours depending on its length and the queue ([How a film is made](https://kitcut.ai/docs/how-films-are-made.md#how-long-it-takes)).

## After a film is made

- **No editing a finished film,** and no "change this scene" or re-render of the same film. Make a new film; its characters, look, voice and music can come back. Not yet.
- **No download button on the website.** An assistant can give the full-quality file's address (`download_url`). Not yet.
- **No deleting a film or an account from the website.** Write to hello@kitcut.ai. Not yet.
- **No making a website film link-only from the website.** Only an assistant's `set_film_public` switches it. 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 team or shared accounts.** An account is one person's, and so are its characters and projects.
- **No film-ready email or other notifications.** The film's page shows progress.
- **No public API** other than the MCP server for AI assistants ([Assistants](https://kitcut.ai/docs/assistants.md)).
- **YouTube is the only place a film can be published to** from KitCut, and that is limited for now ([Publishing to YouTube](https://kitcut.ai/docs/youtube.md)).