# Final Cut Athletic Archives (Final Cut Hoops)

> Final Cut Athletic Archives is a basketball film editing and archiving service.
> Athletes and families upload their own game film; Final Cut edits it into
> professional highlights and organizes careers into private archives. Final Cut
> is an archivist — not a scouting service, recruiting agency, or exposure platform.
> Archives and film are private to each athlete.

Site: https://www.finalcuthoops.com

## What Final Cut offers

- Single Game Highlight: a polished highlight edit from one game the customer uploads.
- High School & Transfer Mix: a multi-game recruiting mix the athlete uses in their own recruiting process.
- Legacy Archive: a private, organized archive of an athlete's career, built from the film, photos, stats, and articles the athlete or family provides. Custom priced.

## Resources

Guides for athletes and parents. Each is also available as raw markdown at the same URL with ".md" appended.

- [The Story Behind Final Cut Hoops](https://www.finalcuthoops.com/resources/the-story-behind-final-cut): Two former players walked up after a game and asked if I still had any of their film. What I could find fit on one thumb drive. That afternoon is where Final Cut Hoops started.
- [Why Final Cut Hoops Exists](https://www.finalcuthoops.com/resources/why-final-cut-hoops-exists): Game film doesn't vanish in one moment — it leaks away a school account and a closet hard drive at a time, because keeping it was never anyone's job. That gap is the reason Final Cut Hoops exists.
- [What Final Cut Hoops Does](https://www.finalcuthoops.com/resources/what-final-cut-hoops-does): Final Cut Hoops turns an athlete's own game film into highlights, recruiting mixes, and full career archives. Here's what you can order, how the archive works, and what we deliberately don't do.