Your AI assistant editor.
Vidi watches your footage, remembers everything, and takes direction in plain English. Add a folder. Start talking.
Find the strongest shots from last week's shoot
From chaos to rough cut.
You
Build a ceremony highlight from Saturday's shoot.
You
Pacing drops after the vows. Tighten it up?
You
Perfect. I'll take it from here.
I'm in the plugin whenever you need me.
Resolve 
Premiere March 
Final Cut March Raw footage from 3 cameras Vidi understands every clip You give the direction Rough cut assembled Refine until it's right Export to your NLE
What Vidi understands about your footage.
Visual AI
Scene, camera, lighting, composition. Every clip described in plain English.
Transcripts
Every word indexed. Search what was said, find exactly where and when.
Face Recognition
Detected, grouped, named. All on-device. No data uploaded.
Know Your Library
Every folder, every drive, one intelligent library. That B-roll from two years ago — surfaced.
NLE Integration
Resolve plugin at launch. Premiere and FCP on the roadmap. Reveal in Finder works today.
NDA-safe
Your source files never leave your machine. Cloud AI is always opt-in.
One assistant. Every workflow.
See how editors, videographers, and creators use the same conversation.
For freelance editors
You
I have a client pitch tomorrow. Find my best shots from everything I've ever filmed.
Searched 2,340 clips across 6 projects. Here are your strongest shots:
6 projects · 2 drives · Ranked by composition, lighting, and camera movement
Aerial over coastline at golden hour, tracking shot
Brand shoot Sep 2024Slow-motion pour with steam, macro lens, backlit
Kickstarter Mar 2024Gimbal walk-through, neon reflections on wet street
Venice shoot Jun 2023You
Find the emotional peaks from Saturday's wedding. I need a 60-second highlight by tomorrow morning.
Here's your 60-second highlight. Three segments from the strongest moments of the day:
Scanned 412 clips overnight · 3 cameras · Built from ceremony, toasts, and reception
Seeing each other
CAM_BHe turns around and sees her. Four seconds of pure reaction, then the embrace.
The speech
CAM_AEveryone laughing. Loudest crowd reaction of the night.
Walking out
DJIDrone pulls up as they walk through the sparklers. The whole crowd is cheering.
You
Sarah's birthday is tomorrow. Make something emotional from all our footage together.
Found Sarah in 84 clips across 3 years of footage. Here are your strongest moments together:
Recognized Sarah across 12 events · 3 years of footage
Both laughing in the car at golden hour
Road trip Aug 2023Her Thanksgiving toast: "You're literally my person"
Thanksgiving 2024Running into the waves together, drone wide shot
Last weekendFor freelance editors
Your best work
You
I have a client pitch tomorrow. Find my best shots from everything I've ever filmed.
Searched 2,340 clips across 6 projects. Here are your strongest shots:
6 projects · 2 drives · Ranked by composition, lighting, and camera movement
Aerial over coastline at golden hour, tracking shot
Slow-motion pour with steam, macro lens, backlit
For wedding videographers
Wedding highlights
You
Find the emotional peaks from Saturday's wedding. I need a 60-second highlight by tomorrow morning.
Here's your 60-second highlight. Three segments from the strongest moments of the day:
Scanned 412 clips overnight · 3 cameras
Seeing each other
He turns around. Four seconds of pure reaction.
The speech
Everyone laughing. Loudest crowd reaction of the night.
Walking out
Drone pulls up through the sparklers. Crowd cheering.
For personal projects
Birthday surprise
You
Sarah's birthday is tomorrow. Make something emotional from all our footage together.
Found Sarah in 84 clips across 3 years. Here are your strongest moments together:
Recognized Sarah across 12 events · 3 years of footage
Both laughing in the car at golden hour
Her Thanksgiving toast: "You're literally my person"
Offline intelligence
Every clip. Every drive.
Disconnect a drive. Search, browse, and tag everything as usual. Vidi tells you which drive to connect when you're ready to export.
Connected drives
Macintosh HD
142 clips
Shoots SSD
891 clips
Archive RAID
3,204 clips
Connect Shoots SSD when you're ready to export to your timeline.
SUNSET_DRONE_4K.mov
Golden hour aerial over coastal cliffs, slow tracking shot revealing beach below
A007_C012_ext_house.mov
Exterior establishing shot of farmhouse at sunset, warm tones, static tripod
GH010089_park.mp4
Handheld walk through park at golden hour, lens flare through trees, exterior wide
C0034_magic_hour.braw
Rooftop exterior at golden hour, city skyline silhouette, 60fps slow-motion
Search and organize anytime. Connect the drive only when you're ready to cut.
Local-first by default
Your footage. Your machine.
Working under NDA? Your source files never leave your machine. Cloud AI is always opt-in, per clip.
Always stays on your machine
- Your source files never leave your machine
- All previews generated and stored locally
- Face recognition runs entirely on-device
- Search and organize offline after first scan
Only with your permission
- Extracted frames and audio sent over encrypted connection — source files never included
- Analysis processed and discarded — not stored on cloud servers
- We opt out of provider training programs. Data processed and discarded.
Default is always the most private option. Cloud AI is opt-in, per clip.
How much time do you spend just looking for footage?
Built by Jonathan Palma — AI Engineer. Former Disney, ESPN, Telus. Every founding member gets a direct line to the person building Vidi.
Free
- Unlimited scanning & organization
- Unlimited face detection & grouping
- Natural language search
- 2 hours of Deep Analysis / month
- 1 hour of Cloud Transcription / month
Founding Member
Locked forever
No charge until launch
- Everything in Free
- 20 hours of Deep Analysis / month
- 10 hours of Cloud Transcription / month
- 300 AI assistant messages / month
- NLE plugin (DaVinci Resolve)
- Priority support: direct line to the founder
Organize unlimited footage for free. Scanning, metadata, faces, and collections run on your machine — no cloud cost. Deep Analysis uses cloud AI for richer scene descriptions and natural language search — that's what's metered.
If Vidi saves you 2 hours on one project, it paid for the year. 25 founding spots. When they're gone, the price is $39/month.
Cancel anytime
No contracts. No lock-in.
macOS first
Windows coming soon. Join the waitlist.
Your footage stays local
Source files never leave your machine.
Questions
Your original footage files never leave your machine. Vidi gives you two ways to analyze your clips so you can choose the privacy level you're comfortable with.
With Local Analysis, all AI processing runs directly on your device. No footage data is sent anywhere. The only things that reach the cloud are account sign-in, anonymized usage analytics, and crash reports.
With Deep Analysis (opt-in), Vidi sends processed data derived from your clips to our cloud over encrypted connections for higher quality results. Your source files are never included. This data is only used to generate your analysis and is not stored or used for anything else. Our cloud providers are contractually prohibited from training AI models on your content.
In both modes, face recognition data stays entirely on your device and is never uploaded.
Vidi supports all major professional formats including ProRes, H.264, H.265, BRAW, R3D, MXF, and more. Color profiles from Sony, Canon, DJI, GoPro, RED, ARRI, and Blackmagic are detected automatically.
It depends on the mode you choose. With Local Analysis, each clip typically takes 15 to 60 seconds depending on your hardware, with more powerful hardware being significantly faster. With Deep Analysis, each clip takes roughly 10 to 15 seconds since the heavy lifting happens in our cloud. If you include transcription, that runs at about twice the speed of playback so a 5-minute clip transcribes in around 2 to 3 minutes.
You'll need an internet connection to download Vidi, sign in, and complete a one-time setup where Vidi downloads AI models tailored to your computer's hardware. After that, Local Analysis runs entirely on your device and works without a connection. Deep Analysis does require internet since it processes data through our cloud. Either way, once your clips are analyzed, browsing and searching your library always works offline.
The footage is piling up.
Point Vidi at a folder. Search your entire library in plain English. Ask the agent to build your rough cut.
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