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title: "What Final Cut Hoops Does"
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date: 2026-09-20
category: "about-us"
summary: "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."
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## What does Final Cut Hoops actually do?

We take the film an athlete already has and turn it into something they can use now and still have in twenty years.

That covers a range. On one end is a single game cut down to the plays that mattered. On the other is a full career archive — every season we can account for, gathered in one place along with the stats, the photos, and the write-ups. Most people find us somewhere in the middle. They need a mix to send to coaches, and somewhere in the process of putting it together they realize their film is sitting in four different places and two of them no longer open.

## What can I order right now?

Three things, and all of them start from film you send us.

- **A single-game highlight.** One game, cut down to your plays.
- **A recruiting mix.** Four to five minutes, built to go to college coaches.
- **A transfer mix.** The same idea, assembled for the portal, where coaches are watching with a different set of questions than they ask about a high school junior.

Those three have a set process behind them, so they move quickly, and current pricing for each one is listed on the site. The archive is the exception — that one gets priced per athlete, and the next section covers why.

## How do I get a full career archive?

The full archive is custom order only. Email **info@finalcuthoops.com** or send us a message on Instagram, and the first thing we'll do is ask what you already have.

We handle it that way on purpose. No two careers are shaped the same. Four years at one school with a complete film library is a different job than eight years of club ball scattered across a stack of drives, a dead account, and a parent's phone. Some of it you'll have in hand. Some of it we'll help you figure out how to go get. Until we know which situation you're in, any answer we gave you about time or cost would be a guess, and we'd rather scope it with you first.

## Where does the film come from?

From you. Athletes and families send us their own film, and that is the only place we get it.

We're not pulling footage out of Synergy, Hudl, or a conference broadcast feed. Those are licensed to schools and programs, and that licensing does not extend to us. So the first step is always the same: whatever film exists of your career, you need access to it.

That part trips people up more than the editing does, which is why a good chunk of this Resources section is about nothing but that — how to get film from a high school, from a club or AAU program, and from college broadcasts. If you're stuck there, start with those.

## What Final Cut Hoops does not do

We're archivists. We are not scouts, we are not a recruiting service, and we do not evaluate anybody.

We don't contact programs on your behalf. We don't tell a coach you're worth a look. We don't grade your film or project what level you can play at. And we're not going to tell you a mix will get you recruited, because that isn't ours to control and nobody being honest with you would promise it. What we can tell you is that when a coach does open your file, what he sees will be clean, current, and easy to watch.

Your film is also yours. We don't post it anywhere without your permission, we don't sell it, and we don't put it in front of anyone you didn't ask us to. If you *do* want something out in the world — a clip posted, a mix tagged, a highlight sent somewhere — say the word and we're glad to. The point is that it's your call and not ours.

Your mix is for the coaches you're trying to reach. Your archive is for you, and for the people who sat in the stands through all of it.