IS THERE A WAY TO MAKE MY CUTSCENES LESS OF A HASSLE TO MAKE [RMMV]

In a common event you have a check to see which character is in which slot of the party and equate that with a variable. Thus, Variable 1 = party member 1, Variable 2 = party member 2, Variable 3 = party member 3.

Say you have 5 viable party members:
1 - Alice
2 - Tina
3 - John
4 - Rico
5 - Levi

Then if your party is John, Tina and Levi (picked in that order) when you change your party make up you'd change the variables to something like this:
Variable 1 = 3 (John)
Variable 2 = 2 (Tina)
Variable 3 = 5 (Levi)

You'd then have to make the visual events. The first one would have a page for each character and have them check if Variable 1 = x, where x is the number of the party in the database. So page one would say Variable 1 = 0 (empty), page two would have Variable 1 = 1 (Alice), and so on for all 6 pages (you'd have one page extra for if nobody was in the party but the hero).

Copy that event, then change it to Variable 2 = x, and the third event Variable 3 = x.

Every time you change your party, make sure to change the variables to the correct person. Done.

I usually fade the screen black and remove everyone from the party and just use actor events with the same image and place them where I want then fade in screen.