How do I get my video scored from 0 to 100?
A 0 to 100 score turns a vague "is this good?" into a number you can trust, because it comes from measurements, not mood. Here is what the number means, how it is built, and the fastest way to get one.
By Thomas, founder of CutScore · Updated June 2026
"Is this good?" is a terrible question, and I say that as someone who asked it about every video I shipped for years. The answer you get back is always the same: "yeah, looks great." Friends are kind, comment sections are random, and your own gut is compromised because you have watched the thing forty times. None of those give you anything you can act on. A score does. It replaces a shrug with a number, and a number you can move.
A 0 to 100 score works because most of video quality is measurable. Loudness is a number. True peak is a number. How long your shots hold before a cut, how dark the shadows have gone, whether the captions sit inside the safe zone, all measurable. Stack those measurements up and you get a craft score: a single figure that says how well the video is built, separate from whether the topic is interesting or the algorithm is feeling generous today.
The part people get wrong is what the score is for. It scores the craft, not the views. A 90 does not promise a million plays, and a 60 does not mean nobody will watch. What the number does is remove the reasons a viewer bails in the first ten seconds, the quiet audio, the muddy picture, the slow open, so the work has a fair shot. Here is how that number gets built.
What a 0 to 100 video score is made of.
The score is not one judgement. It is a stack of measurements across the things a viewer actually reacts to, each with a target you can hit or miss.
| What it scores | The target it checks against | What drags the number down |
|---|---|---|
| Loudness | ≈ −14 LUFS | Too quiet and the video feels weak the second it starts playing. |
| True peak | ≤ −1 dBTP | Hot peaks crackle after the platform re-encodes the file. |
| Voice vs music | voice on top | Music burying the speech is the most common amateur tell there is. |
| Exposure + colour | neutral, not clipped | Dark or green footage reads as a raw clip nobody finished. |
| Focus + stability | sharp, no wobble | Soft or shaky shots read as a mistake, not a choice. |
| Pacing · shot length | fits the genre | Too slow and the scroll wins; too frantic and the viewer tires. |
| First 3 seconds | one reason to stay | Most of your early drop-off is decided right here. |
| Captions + safe zones | readable, in-frame | Roughly half watch on mute, so unreadable text is dead weight. |
| Export + compliance | matches the platform | A clean edit can still upload soft if the settings are wrong. |
Measuring all of this by hand takes longer than the edit did. CutScore runs every check in one pass and hands back your 0 to 100 score with the fixes, ranked by how many points each one buys back.
Three ways to score a video, honestly.
1. Score it by feel (free, and not really a score)
You can sit down, watch your video, and give it a number out of 100. People do this constantly. The problem is that "feel" is not repeatable: watch it tired and it is a 70, watch it after coffee and it is an 85, nothing changed but you. A by-feel score is fine as a gut check, useless as a measurement. If you want to go this route, at least review your own video objectively against fixed targets instead of vibes, and watch it on someone else's phone, not your editing monitor at full brightness.
2. Score it with meters and scopes (accurate, slow)
This is how a colourist or audio engineer actually does it. A loudness meter tells you where you sit against −14 LUFS for YouTube. A true peak meter catches anything over −1 dBTP before the platform makes it crackle. A waveform and a scope tell you whether the exposure is clipped or the colour has drifted. It is honest and precise. The catch is that there is no single "out of 100" at the end, just a pile of readings you have to interpret, for every video, every time. Great if you love this. Most creators do not.
3. Score it with a coach in one pass (the point of all this)
Hand the file, or just a link, to CutScore. It runs every measurement above against the right standard for your genre, weights them, and gives you one number from 0 to 100 with timestamped evidence behind it. No three tools open at once, no remembering that a Short wants a tighter average shot length than a tutorial. You get the score, the breakdown by family, and a ranked list of fixes. If you want to know whether an AI tool can actually rate your video in a way you can trust, this is the version that shows its working.
Here is a full CutScore report for an everyday vlog: the 0 to 100 number, the family-by-family breakdown, the timestamps, and the fixes that buy back the missing points.
What your score actually means.
A number with no context is just a number. Here is how I read a craft score, and the band you actually want to be in before you publish.
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