Cinematic Footage Selects, Automated & Local
A local-first intelligence engine that finds the strongest continuous sections of drone, wildlife, and landscape video. Trims hovering edges, abrupt rotations, and camera shake, then creates an instant timeline for Adobe Premiere Pro.
How ClipCull Works
Engineered to automate the tedious first pass of video editing without discarding creative control.
Multi-Signal Optical Analysis
Evaluates sharpness, exposure, dynamic range clipping, and residual camera jitter. Separates background-consistent optical flow vectors from moving wildlife or foreground parallax.
Motion Boundary Trimming
Cuts around sudden yaw snaps, steering adjustments, and unstable hovering edges with configurable safety margins, while seamlessly preserving steady pans and orbits.
Premiere Pro XML Selects
Exports a ready-to-import AI-Selects.xml timeline linked to your original media with embedded source timecodes, plus CSV and JSON audit reports.
Built for High-Volume Creators
Eliminate hours of scrub time after long shooting days with drone fleets, action cameras, and telephoto rigs.
Gimbal Jerk Protection
Detects abrupt rotation spikes, wind buffeting, and hover settling time, slicing away unstable boundaries before footage hits your timeline.
Adaptive Retiming & Splitting
Plans source ranges for 100% normal speed or 50% slow motion. Takes exceeding maximum durations are iteratively split into balanced, usable sub-clips.
100% Private & Local
Zero cloud uploads, zero recurring subscriptions, and no paid third-party APIs. Your raw video assets remain strictly local on your workstation.
Non-Destructive Workflows
Original camera files are never deleted or modified. The XML references original source frames so you retain total authority over final cuts.
Optional Ollama Vision AI
Optionally connect a local Ollama vision model (e.g., Qwen2.5-VL) to extract semantic descriptions of subjects, composition quality, and lighting aesthetics.
Learned Taste Profiles
Import an XML of your own manual Premiere sequence. ClipCull mathematically learns your pacing and refines future cull thresholds to your unique aesthetic.
Launch Desktop App or CLI
Run the clean graphical desktop interface or integrate the high-speed CLI into batch scripts.
Launch the standalone desktop interface with light/dark appearance and folder pickers:
clipcullWhat ClipCull Produces
Every run leaves you with cleanly structured files ready for immediate editing or pipeline integration.
Final Cut Pro / Premiere Pro XML sequence referencing original media with precise in/out timecodes.
Tabular spreadsheet report detailing clip scores, retained lengths, and trim justifications.
Raw telemetry, sharpness measurements, optical flow vectors, and training features.
Reusable lightweight proxies and analysis hashes for ultra-fast subsequent re-culls.