FAQ
Common questions, answered
I'm not ready to commit to a monthly subscription.
$19 a month is a coffee — the kind you grab on a single shoot day, not the couture pour-over kind. Spliceway is cancellable from your dashboard at any time, and you keep access through the end of the billing period, no questions asked. If you only need it for one project, that's fine: most customers pay less than the cost of a freelance editor's lunch to spin up an account, get their rough cut, and bounce. There's no annual contract, no auto-renew trap, no retention-negotiation maze.
Why no free tier?
Post-production is an expensive backend to run. Every upload you've ever saved, every AI vision tag we've generated, every rendering second we've burned — it's all paying real money in storage and OpenAI calls. A free tier would either be a demo in name only (a few minutes, no real export) or it'd quietly get capped the moment a customer starts working for real. $19/month is how we keep the lights on, the storage honest, and the AI crew paid for without inventing an "Enterprise" tier that pretends the same product is worth $499.
Can my team share an account?
Yes. Multi-seat is included on the single $19/mo plan — no seat surcharge, no upgrade for that second editor you hired last week. The whole team shares the same workspace, the same review links, and the same billing. We didn't want a model where a three-person post house suddenly needs to re-budget for Spliceway, so we just didn't build one. If you need per-seat access controls, those are coming in a future update — but for now, any teammate you invite lands straight into the same project set.
What happens to my projects if I cancel?
Your exports stay downloadable. The moment we render a deliverable for you, it's yours — you can take the EDL, the FCPXML, the JSON manifest, and walk. We're not going to lock your work behind a reactivation fee or hold a final cut hostage for a retention audit. We genuinely think post-production tools are too important to be landlord-grade, so if Spliceway isn't for you, your reels should still go home with you. Media assets stay on cold storage for a reasonable grace period after cancellation in case you change your mind, but the export rights are yours forever.
How is this different from just using Premiere + DaVinci?
Premiere and DaVinci Resolve are excellent NLEs and we have nothing bad to say about them — they're the right tool for a hundred editing jobs. Spliceway sits on top of that kind of finishing workflow and does the work that comes before it: ingest organization, AI-driven rough cuts, automatic rough-cut assembly from a script or brief, and the repetitive exports for every platform at once. The 70% of edit time that isn't creative — labeling clips, syncing audio, exporting 12 versions of the same cut — is the part we automate. If you already love your timeline, keep it for the final pass; if you want to spend less time getting to that pass, that's what Spliceway is for.