u/Getshaky

I grew up in the Casey Neistat era of YouTube. That's where my love of filmmaking started, and it's the reason I shoot everything — phone, drone, camera, doesn't matter. If something's happening, I'm recording.

The problem? I have years of footage I've barely touched.

Every time I sit down to edit, I hit the same wall: I know the shot exists somewhere, but I can't find it. I'm scrubbing through folders at 2am, scanning thumbnails, trying to remember which SD card had that golden hour drone shot over the river. It kills the creative momentum every time, and honestly it's the reason I haven't posted a YouTube video in five-plus years.

I looked at what was available — every DAM I tried was either built for photos, required cloud uploads, or just gave you basic tags like "beach" and "dog." Nothing that actually understood how a frame was shot.

So I built my own.

What it does:

• Runs a custom fine-tuned vision model entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no uploads, no internet required during analysis
• Analyzes every extracted frame with a structured 7-field caption: scene, subjects, shot type, composition, mood, lighting, setting
• Transcribes audio with word-level timestamps so you can search for what was said, not just what was shown
• Hybrid search (semantic + keyword) — type "handheld tracking shot at golden hour" and the exact clips surface in seconds
• Export directly to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or EDL — it relinks to your original raw files, no transcoding
• Build storyboards by pulling selects into Boards with custom in/out points

The MCP thing (for the nerds):

I've also connected it to Claude via MCP, so I can describe a narrative I want to tell and have Claude search my entire library, pull the frames I'd need, and lay out a rough edit — "use the wide drone shot from here to here, then cut to the close-up at this timestamp." It's basically an AI director that knows my footage.

The honest version:

This isn't the next Adobe, or apoope as I call them. I'm not trying to sell anyone sh!t. I'm a solo dev who had a real problem — couldn't find my own footage, couldn't be bothered to edit because the organization step was too painful — and I solved it. If you're sitting on a hard drive full of raw clips you've never cut into anything, this might be useful to you too.

• $69 one-time perpetual license (includes a year of updates)
• Mac only (Apple Silicon)
• 30 minutes of free cloud processing included if your machine can't handle local inference
• You own it forever

If this post gets taken down, fair enough. If not — daaam.media

I grew up in the Casey Neistat era of YouTube. That's where my love of filmmaking started, and it's the reason I shoot everything — phone, drone, camera, doesn't matter. If something's happening, I'm recording.

The problem? I have years of footage I've barely touched.

Every time I sit down to edit, I hit the same wall: I know the shot exists somewhere, but I can't find it. I'm scrubbing through folders at 2am, scanning thumbnails, trying to remember which SD card had that golden hour drone shot over the river. It kills the creative momentum every time, and honestly it's the reason I haven't posted a YouTube video in five-plus years.

I looked at what was available — every DAM I tried was either built for photos, required cloud uploads, or just gave you basic tags like "beach" and "dog." Nothing that actually understood how a frame was shot.

So I built my own.

What it does:

• Runs a custom fine-tuned vision model entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no uploads, no internet required during analysis
• Analyzes every extracted frame with a structured 7-field caption: scene, subjects, shot type, composition, mood, lighting, setting
• Transcribes audio with word-level timestamps so you can search for what was said, not just what was shown
• Hybrid search (semantic + keyword) — type "handheld tracking shot at golden hour" and the exact clips surface in seconds
• Export directly to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or EDL — it relinks to your original raw files, no transcoding
• Build storyboards by pulling selects into Boards with custom in/out points

The MCP thing (for the nerds):

I've also connected it to Claude via MCP, so I can describe a narrative I want to tell and have Claude search my entire library, pull the frames I'd need, and lay out a rough edit — "use the wide drone shot from here to here, then cut to the close-up at this timestamp." It's basically an AI director that knows my footage.

The honest version:

This isn't the next Adobe, or apoope as I call them. I'm not trying to sell anyone sh!t. I'm a solo dev who had a real problem — couldn't find my own footage, couldn't be bothered to edit because the organization step was too painful — and I solved it. If you're sitting on a hard drive full of raw clips you've never cut into anything, this might be useful to you too.

• $69 one-time perpetual license (includes a year of updates)
• Mac only (Apple Silicon)
• 30 minutes of free cloud processing included if your machine can't handle local inference
• You own it forever

If this post gets taken down, fair enough. If not — daaam.media