A multi-track timeline for the edit. Color wheels, curves and scopes for the grade, inside OpenColorIO. Fixes for shaky, flickering and noisy shots, clean dialogue, and a render to H.264, H.265, ProRes or 10-bit HDR.
Both are the app itself: a lake clip graded on the wheels, then the cut it sits in.
The jobs that come in every week, and how each one is done here. Every step stays a node you can open again when the notes come back.
Lay clips on video and audio tracks, then trim, slip and slide them, cut at the playhead and ripple delete. Dissolves, dips, wipes and pushes go between clips, titles sit on their own Text clips, and a clip can run from 0.01x to 16x with speed keys.
Push shadows, midtones and highlights on the color wheels, shape curves per channel and bend hue, saturation and brightness by color. A histogram, a waveform and a vectorscope with a skin tone line sit under the picture. Grade the shot, a single clip on the timeline, or every track below an adjustment clip.
Pull a cold shot toward a warm hero frame in one step, then trim the rest by eye on the wheels.
Load the show LUT or the colorist's CDL, build a film look with grain, and bake your grade into a .cube file for the monitor on set or another grading app.
Track a flat surface and steady the shot with it, keeping the slow drift and losing the bounce. Paint a passing bus out with a local model, or build a clean plate from the shot itself.
Even out the pumping brightness of an old newsreel, and bring a small clip up to four times its size with detail that holds from frame to frame. The models run on your machine.
Learn the hiss or hum from a quiet stretch and take it out, tame harsh S sounds, then set the mix to -16, -14 or -23 LUFS and check it on a loudness meter.
Quick Export opens the render set to H.264 1080p. Pick a preset, a vertical 1080 by 1920, or your own size, and the whole timeline, the in to out range or the selected clips. ProRes, 10-bit and HDR go out through a Video file output.
The picture stays color managed from the file you load to the screen you grade on. Every step is a node on the canvas, so the grade is there to read, copy to the next shot, or change later.
Sound lives in the same file as the picture, so a song can ride the grade. Good for music videos, lyric videos and anything cut to a track.
The graph that grades a clip can grade a camera as it comes in. Put a lower third over it, mix two looks on a fader, and send the program to a stream, a projector or the vision mixer, recording every take as it goes.
The formats your camera, your client and the next app in line expect, in and out.
Two lines of Python in the app write the cut as a CMX 3600 EDL for Resolve or Premiere, and every Text clip as an SRT subtitle, in time order.
ui.editor_video_timeline_export_edl("timeline", "cut.edl")
ui.editor_video_timeline_export_srt("timeline", "titles.srt")See the color space, bit depth and HDR tags a clip says it has before you trust it. Then run the same look over every clip in a folder, a few at a time, each written under its own name.
$ kinematic probe A001_C003.mov
$ kinematic run look.kin --each in.file_path='dailies/*.mov' \
--set out.file_path='graded/{stem}.mov' --jobs 2Short lessons that each end with something finished, and demos that come with the app. Open one, take it apart and keep what you need.
Edit tutorialCut a short videoYour clips in order and trimmed, with fades, dissolves and a title, out as an MP4.
Edit tutorialMake a photo popA clearer, brighter picture with a deeper sky, a level horizon and soft dark corners.
Edit tutorial · 8 minGive a photo a film lookWarm, soft color, fine grain and a red glow around bright spots, like a printed film frame.
Play tutorial · 12 minTidy a podcast episodeLong pauses and stumbles cut, harsh S sounds softened, and the level set to -16 LUFS.
Play tutorial · 8 minTurn a creak into a whooshA swelling whoosh for a cut, made from a creak, a scrape or a drawer sliding shut.
Play tutorialMake a visual that pulses to your musicA field of glowing bokeh that zooms in on every loud beat of a song you pick.
Perform tutorialPlay a video on a wall of LED lightsA video playing on a 32 by 18 panel of LED lights, every light the color under it.
Develop tutorial · 10 minRender a demo to pictures from the terminalEvery frame of a demo rendered to numbered pictures from one command, with no window.
Video file playbackA clip looping from disk. Swap in your own file and add a grade after it.In the Demos browser
Film look chainA film grade built as a chain over a moving fractal: teal shadows, warm highlights, halation, fringing, grain and a vignette.In the Demos browser
GPUSix ways to tone map one pictureOne HDR picture through six tone maps side by side: Reinhard, Hable, ACES, ACES Filmic, a warmer white and a contrast curve.In the Demos browser
Retro neon effectsA title built from stacked text effects: a glowing outline, a gradient subtitle and a tagline that slides along the bottom.In the Demos browser
WebcamHidden face effectThe graph keeps an empty background and paints it back over a face as it moves. A clean plate, live.In the Demos browser
WebcamAudio glitch pipelineA live camera glitched by the music: pixel sorts pulse with the volume and the hits fire color fringing.In the Demos browserBetter to know before the job starts. Need one of these for your next project? Reach out.
Free, even for commercial use. No account, no license key and no watermark on your exports. macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi.
