ReelScript Studio
A Mac app where video editors and documentary producers load hours of raw 4K footage and ask the AI to find every time a specific person appears, every time a particular sound bites, or every 'usable establishing shot,' with frame-accurate clips exported to Premiere or DaVinci.
documentary editors, sports-video producers, and news package editors
- Index a project folder of footage and get a searchable timeline: faces, on-screen text, scene types, camera angles
- Ask 'give me every wide shot of the harbor between golden hour and dusk' and get a marked EDL
- Generate rough assembly cuts from a written outline — AI picks and trims clips to match beats
- Detect repeated takes, dead air, and B-roll with no usable audio so editors skip the obvious cuts
The 1M-token context of this ported MoE finally makes hour-long video indexing on a Mac realistic, and editors are drowning in 6K/8K media from mirrorless bodies.
Incumbent Reelback quantifies the pain: 45 min/week wasted per editor, $150/hr billing, $5,850/year lost per editor; multiple competing products (Eddie AI, Invenio, ShotAI) target documentary/interview footage workflows directly.AI Video Search for Production Teams ↗Best AI Video Search Tools for Professional Footage Libraries ↗
The exact product — face search, transcript search, EDL/FCPXML export to Premiere/Resolve/FCP — already exists as Reelback ($99 pilot, $199-$1,499/mo), plus Invenio, ShotAI, ClipCatalog, Eddie AI, and Microsoft Azure AI Video Indexer all overlap on the core use cases.AI Video Search for Production Teams ↗AI Video Search for Editors — Find Footage Instantly | Invenio ↗Azure AI Video Indexer - Video Analyzer for Media ↗
Reelback's published tiers ($199 Starter / $599 Pro / $1,499 Studio monthly, $99 pilot) with frame-accurate EDL/FCPXML NLE export prove willing-to-pay at $200-$1,500/mo among production teams; per-footage-hour pricing ($15-30/hr overage) is validated.AI Video Search for Production Teams ↗
Footage volume from 6K/8K mirrorless bodies is growing and editors will always need search, but Adobe (Sensei) and Blackmagic (DaVinci built-in AI) are actively adding similar features — risk of native NLE commoditization within 2-3 years.DaVinci Resolve vs Premiere Pro for AI Video Editing ↗Eddie AI | The Assistant Video Editor for Pros ↗
Running hour-long 4K indexing (face detection + audio fingerprinting + transcript + semantic search) on-Mac via MLX is a massive engineering lift — competitors use cloud GPU clusters; MLX ports shown for video generation (LTX-Video Mac, HunyuanVideo MLX) but not for hour-long multi-modal indexing, and writing robust Premiere/Resolve/FCP export plug-ins is non-trivial.GitHub - james-see/ltx-video-mac: Native macOS app for AI video ↗MLX Studio — Chat, Code, Generate Images & More on Mac ↗