AetherCut™ for legal & regulated teams
If your footage is privileged, regulated, or simply not yours to upload, every cloud video editor is a compliance problem. AetherCut keeps the file on your machine — editing and export run entirely in your browser, so there is no server-side copy to secure, subpoena, or breach.
Why regulated teams can't use cloud editors
Most browser-based editors upload your footage to their servers to process it. For a regulated workflow that single step creates an additional data processor you now have to vet, contract with, and account for — one more place your sensitive media lives and one more party that can be breached or compelled to produce it.
AetherCut removes that step entirely. The file is read into your browser via an Object URL, processed in your browser, and exported from your browser to your local disk. Our servers never receive the media, so there is nothing on our side to retain, subpoena, or lose.
Who this is for
- Legal teams — depositions, body-cam, surveillance and trial exhibits where chain-of-custody matters.
- Healthcare & life sciences — patient-facing or PHI-adjacent recordings that must not leave a controlled environment.
- Finance & insurance — recorded calls, claims footage and internal reviews under data-handling and records-retention rules.
- Government & public sector — FOIA responses, investigations and briefings edited without a third-party cloud in the loop.
Chain of custody stays intact
Because AetherCut adds no processor between you and the file, your chain of custody is the same as if you had used offline desktop software — except you didn't have to install or license anything. You can hand opposing counsel or an auditor a straight answer: the footage was never uploaded.
You can prove it, too. Open DevTools, watch the Network tab while you import, cut, caption and export, and count the outbound video bytes — the number is zero.
Redact and caption without exposure
- Trim a four-hour recording down to the relevant few minutes for an exhibit or a records request.
- Black out a region of the frame or mute a passage of audio to produce a redacted version.
- Generate captions from testimony or an interview for accessibility-compliant output.
- Note the one deliberate exception: opt-in AI tools (e.g. auto-captions) send only the clip you choose to a named subprocessor. Privacy Mode disables them for a verifiably zero-upload editor.
What to confirm before you standardise on it
- That editing machines have enough disk + RAM for the files you handle (4K footage benefits from 16 GB).
- That your policy permits browser-based editing — functionally it's just a web page, with no install and no outbound media.
- That your case or records system accepts the output format (MP4 / MOV / WebM).
- For the strongest posture, pair this with Privacy Mode so even the opt-in AI tools are switched off.
Why we built this
AetherCut's founder, Robert J. Corn, holds a BS in Computer Forensics alongside BS degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. The chain-of-custody and data-handling concerns on this page are not a marketing afterthought — they are the reason the product exists. A forensics background teaches you to treat every extra copy of sensitive media as a liability, so AetherCut was designed from day one to make zero of them: the footage is processed where it already lives, on your machine.
That's also why the privacy claims here are written to be verified, not trusted — open DevTools and watch the network. Read the founder's full background at /about.
Read the proof, not just the promise
The no-upload claim on this page is backed by pages that spell out the exact data boundary, the named subprocessors, and the legal-specific workflow in more depth:
Work in a regulated field? Share your story
If AetherCut helped your team keep sensitive footage in-house, tell us — approved stories appear on this page (nothing is published until you confirm and we review it).