Cuepup

AI scoringIn development

AI scoring drafts for an episode, from your own library.

Cuepup helps decide where music should start and stop, choose tracks from a project’s library and edit them to the scene. The composer reviews the draft and makes the final decisions.

Today: our production scoring workflow runs in a third-party audio workstation. Drafts are reviewed on a timeline at picture timecode; our own review editor, Cuepup Local, is in development and moving the full workflow into it is still in progress.

A scoring draft on screen: an episode timeline with scene boundaries, music cue regions labelled by family, dialogue tracks and library music placed on the scoring tracks.
A scoring draft at picture timecode: cue regions, dialogue and library music placed to picture. Development view; accent colours matched to the site.

Pipeline

From the picture to a draft you can edit.

Claude-based scene analysis works alongside dedicated audio and editing tools. Together they prepare suggestions for the composer to review. These scoring steps currently run in a third-party audio workstation; we are bringing them into Cuepup Local.

  1. 01

    Picture

    Analyze picture cuts and dialogue to describe what is happening in the episode.

    Scene analysis
  2. 02

    Scene book

    Claude helps write and check scene descriptions, giving the scoring tools context for their suggestions.

    Scene descriptions
  3. 03

    Spotting draft

    Suggest where music could enter and leave, and the kind of music each scene may need, such as tension, comedy or a love theme.

    Proposed music cues
  4. 04

    Track selection

    Choose tracks from the project’s library, consider earlier uses and prepare edits that fit the scene. Choices and repeats remain open to review.

    Family · energy
  5. 05

    Composer review

    The composer reviews the prepared session, changes music and timing, and decides what goes into the final mix.

    Composer review
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Review and improveCompleted-episode reviews record which choices were kept, changed or removed. These records help guide later selections and development; they do not retrain the underlying model.

Spotting draft

Illustration of a spotting draft: picture cuts, scene changes, dialogue and music regions with their families, and the in and out of one cue.

How we check it

Compare the draft with the composer’s decisions.

We review song choices, music entrances and exits, and the edits needed to reach the final version. These are internal checks on our own work. They help us find what needs improvement.

Dated internal measurements and their limits
  • Song selection: in episodes 23–25 of one in-house drama, the proposed song remained the dominant final song in 88 of 100 compared regions (28/29, 27/33 and 33/38). A retained song covers at least 30% of its region. Timing, source edits and level may still change. This is not an unchanged-edit rate.
  • Music or silence: the 13-episode production baseline recorded on 7 October 2026 averaged 84.7% agreement with the final project, sampling once per second and averaging each episode equally. This measures music presence, not the quality of the song or edit.
  • Boundary proposals: a frozen 27 September 2026 evaluation over 21 episodes measured exact matches to human-marked interior picture cuts. Mean F1 was 0.798; pooled precision was 0.913 and recall 0.710. Episode starts and ends were excluded. This is a boundary test, not a measure of overall scene understanding.

These dated checks describe the in-house scoring workflow. They are not external customer results, a current release certification or proof of complete production use in Cuepup Local.

Review & delivery

Every cue at picture timecode, ready to review.

The draft opens on a timeline with scene boundaries, cue regions, in and out points and the source of every track. The composer or music supervisor changes what they want and approves the final cues before delivery.

Film scoring session: a mix stage with a drama scene on the big screen at burned-in timecode and the scoring draft on the desk monitor.
Picture and timecode on the big screen, the scoring draft on the desk.

Next

What we are developing next.

Our focus is improving music choices and edits, bringing the scoring workflow into Cuepup Local, and testing more real project conditions. The current workflow uses recordings supplied for the project; music permissions must be checked by the project team.

Explore an AI scoring pilot.

Tell us about your workflow. We agree the pilot scope before requesting project material.