Narrative

Narrative is the next-generation AI assistant video editor engineered specifically for the demands of professional post-production. It fundamentally addresses the massive time sink of repetitive, mechanical work—the tasks that often consume up to 90% of an editor's time—by automating clip selection, sequence building, and rough cut creation. For professional video editors, corporate post-production teams, and high-volume specialists like wedding or sports videographers, Narrative delivers polished, usable rough cuts in seconds, drastically accelerating your entire workflow.

Key Features

Narrative integrates deep AI understanding into the editing process, transforming your raw footage into actionable sequences with speed and precision.

• Instant Rough Cut Generation ✂️ Describe the sequence you need using natural language and watch Narrative automatically find the perfect clips, build the sequence, and deliver a high-quality rough cut—all in seconds. This capability eliminates hours spent on the initial assembly phase, allowing you to move directly to creative refinement.

• Natural Language Footage Search 🔎 Stop scrubbing through terabytes of media. Search your entire footage library using conversational language to instantly locate specific actions, scenes, or objects. By describing what you need, you can pinpoint the exact moment across hundreds of hours of video, ensuring no valuable clip is missed.

• Contextual B-Roll Integration 🎬 When editing interviews, Narrative leverages the transcript to intelligently identify relevant b-roll footage and strategically place it on the timeline. This ensures visual context matches the audio narrative perfectly without manual alignment, saving significant time in documentary and corporate video production.

• Visual Similarity Matching 🖼️ Select any clip on your timeline and instantly find visually similar moments across your entire project library. This feature is essential for building cohesive montages, ensuring consistency in shot composition, or quickly locating matching camera angles for multi-cam projects.

• Rapid Selects and Stringouts ⏱️ Streamline your content preparation for both long-form projects and high-volume social media output. Perform batch iterations and quickly pull selects to generate essential stringouts via a conversational chat window, making repetitive preparation tasks fast and iterative.

Use Cases

Narrative is designed to deliver tangible efficiency gains across various professional workflows:

1. Accelerating Corporate Post-Production: Corporate teams managing large volumes of internal interviews or marketing content can use Narrative to automatically generate first-pass edits complete with intelligently placed b-roll, cutting hours from the workflow required to deliver polished, transcript-driven videos.

2. High-Volume Montage Creation: Wedding videographers or sports teams tasked with creating dynamic highlight reels can utilize the "Find similar clips" feature to instantly gather all footage matching a specific visual style or action, making the assembly of complex, visually consistent montages effortless.

3. Rapid Social Media Content Assembly: Editors creating short-form content can leverage the ability to pull selects and stringouts quickly via the batch iteration chat window. This allows for rapid testing and production of multiple versions of social content without manual, clip-by-clip selection.

Unique Advantages

Narrative is not simply an automated clipper; it is built on a foundation of professional editing intelligence, ensuring the output is immediately actionable.

• AI Understanding of Good Shots: Unlike generic automation tools, Narrative’s AI is trained to understand the principles of cinematography and what constitutes a "good shot" within a professional context. This insight means the AI selects clips based on quality and visual appeal, not just keyword matching.

• Near 100% Usability: Because the AI understands context and shot quality, the initial rough cut it delivers is nearly 100% usable from the first iteration. This eliminates the need for extensive cleanup and validation, ensuring that the time saved is genuine, not simply deferred to correction work.

• Focus on Creative Freedom: By automating the repetitive tasks that consume 90% of an editor's time (searching, organizing, stringing out), Narrative frees professional editors to spend their energy on creative decisions, color grading, sound design, and narrative refinement.

Conclusion

Narrative serves as a powerful, intelligent co-pilot, handling the mechanical heavy lifting of high-volume video editing. It delivers unparalleled speed and quality in rough cut generation, allowing professional editors to reclaim time and focus on creative storytelling.

Download Narrative for Mac and try it for free today to experience the future of assisted post-production.