Kino AI

Overview

Kino is a browser-native AI video editor and media asset manager designed to bring the entire editing workflow into a single, collaborative interface. It was built with a specific frustration in mind: the amount of time assistant editors and post-production teams spend manually logging, organizing, and searching through footage before any creative editing can begin. Kino automates that metadata work. Drop in footage and Kino transcribes audio, describes video content, detects people, and generates titles and highlights for every clip, all automatically. Once your library is indexed, you search it using natural language, visual content, or transcript keywords rather than scrubbing through timelines. The agentic editing layer lets you build rough cuts, refine edits, and add clips to your timeline through conversation. Motion graphics, including titles, lower thirds, and animated backgrounds, can be created from a text description without any design work. Kino integrates with DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro, so teams can bring existing project archives in directly. Real-time collaboration is built in from day one: projects, assets, and timelines are shareable as URLs. It's currently running pilots with production companies, creative agencies, and corporate video teams.

Features

• AI footage logging -- Auto-generates titles, descriptions, and highlights for every clip on import
• Natural language search -- Find any moment using plain-language descriptions of what happens on screen
• Transcript search -- Search audio content across your entire library by keyword or phrase
• People detection -- Identifies and tracks specific individuals across your full footage library
• Agentic editing -- Build rough cuts, refine timelines, and add clips through a chat interface
• Motion graphics generation -- Create titles, lower thirds, and animations by describing what you want
• Browser-native timeline -- Full video editing timeline in the browser with no install required
• Real-time collaboration -- Share projects and timelines as URLs, edit together without version conflicts
• DaVinci Resolve integration -- Import project archives directly from Resolve for AI search and editing
• Premiere Pro integration -- Import .prproj files with assets for AI-enhanced editing
• Final Cut Pro integration -- Drag in .fcpbundle libraries directly with no export needed
• Scalable library -- Handles multi-hour timelines and thousands of clips without performance loss
• Local and remote media -- Works with footage stored locally or on remote servers

Best For

Assistant editors who spend hours manually logging footage metadata before creative editing begins, Production companies and creative agencies running large video projects with many hours of raw footage, Corporate video teams that need real-time collaboration without file versioning chaos, Professional editors who want AI-assisted rough cut generation while staying in a familiar NLE workflow

How It Works

Import existing projects from DaVinci Resolve (.dra), Premiere Pro (.prproj), or Final Cut Pro (.fcpbundle). Your timeline and media get transferred into Kino's browser-native editing environment, instantly gaining AI search, logging, and collaboration features. For new projects, upload footage directly. Kino processes every clip automatically: audio is transcribed, video content is described, people are detected and labeled, and the system generates clip-level metadata including titles, descriptions, and highlights. With the library indexed, you search using natural language ('the scene where he discusses pricing'), visual content, or person name. Kino surfaces the relevant clips immediately. Editing happens through a combination of a traditional timeline interface and a chat panel. Tag people, drag in clips, and issue instructions through conversation. The AI builds rough cuts, refines sequences, and adds to timelines based on your direction. Motion graphics are generated by describing what you want: a lower third, a title card, an animated background, and Kino creates it without footage.