In development
Search footage across your drives and NAS. You or your AI assistant can inspect a promising moment frame by frame and prepare selects for DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Interface and capabilities are in development.
How it works
Start with the whole archive. Look closer where it counts.
FootageOS is designed to analyze footage at three levels, so broad search stays fast and detailed analysis goes where an editor is actually working.
1 frame / 5 s
01
Across the archive
Search every drive and NAS
Reads metadata, indexes timed speech on selected audio streams and samples visuals about once every five seconds, plus near cuts. Search a phrase, describe a shot, or filter by event, camera, date or language. Results show the source and the evidence that matched; a brief gesture can fall between samples.
selected clips
02
Inside the project
Prioritize the current work
Selected clips and timeline ranges receive closer analysis first. Prioritize the event you are cutting now, or pause background work during a grade or livestream.
25 fps
03
At the moment
Examine the chosen seconds
Inspect a bounded range at the source frame rate, see what was examined, play the surrounding context, hear the relevant track, adjust in and out points, and save a select with its source reference.
AI assistant
Ask your editing assistant a question it can check.
Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a compatible assistant can search an approved library, inspect a source range, and prepare selects for your review.
Editor
Find the line “we had to start over,” then show me the listener’s reaction.
Assistant · via MCP
Found the phrase at 00:12:48:10 on the interview angle. A candidate reaction on the listener angle starts at 00:12:49:02. Both are ready for your review.
Illustrative exchange. The editor reviews every plan before anything reaches the cut.
Spoken match · transcript
00:12:48:10
INT_WORKSHOP_A_C014.MOV · Camera A
00:12:44:18
…the whole first cut, gone. Three weeks.
00:12:48:10
“We had to start over.”
00:12:51:04
And honestly, it was better for it.
Visual observation · candidate range
00:12:49:02
INT_WORKSHOP_B_C014.MOV · Camera B
IN
— listener lifts her eyes
OUT
— proposed out-point
STATUS
Illustrative until the interview clip is attached. Mark a frame in the hero to see your own in-point here.
Resolve handoff
Review the ranges. Send the selects.
An assistant can propose an ordered selects plan. You check each range before approved selects are sent to a dedicated selects timeline in DaVinci Resolve Studio, the first planned host. The active cut stays under your control.
Proposed selects plan · 2 ranges
INT_WORKSHOP_A_C014.MOV
IN 00:12:48:10 · OUT 00:12:51:04
Spoken line, Camera A · illustrative range
Approved
INT_WORKSHOP_B_C014.MOV
IN
· OUT
Listener reaction, Camera B · illustrative range
Approved
Destination · workflow preview
Host
DaVinci Resolve Studio (first planned)
Project
Winter Voices
Timeline
Winter documentary selects
Active cut
Untouched
Send 2 approved selects
A source frame establishes what the camera recorded. Answering what appears in a cropped, retimed or multicam edit requires evidence from that version of the timeline.
Local storage and privacy
Your originals stay on your drives.
The catalog lives on your Mac
FootageOS reads local disks and mounted SMB storage. Originals are read-only; the catalog and cached evidence stay on the machine that made them.
Offline after installation
After model installation, local analysis works without internet access. Footage on a NAS still requires a connection to that storage.
Assistants are optional
Local-only is the default. If you connect a cloud-backed assistant, you authorize each library and choose what can be shared, such as metadata, transcript excerpts or requested thumbnails.
What’s the shot you can never find?
We are inviting documentary editors, production teams and cultural archives to bring one real editing problem to a pilot: a translated interview, a fleeting reaction, or a source clip buried across several drives. The first pilot is scoped to one editor, one Mac, local disks or mounted SMB storage, and selected video, audio and still-image formats.
We will use your information only to evaluate design-partner fit and contact you about FootageOS.
Frequently asked questions
Is FootageOS available today?
Where does my footage go?
What does an AI assistant see?
How does the DaVinci Resolve Studio pilot work?
Will other hosts follow?
How will it be priced?