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It edits by pressing
the same buttons you do.

Horoptic is a real multitrack video and audio editor. Its Director works as a second operator — calling the exact typed operations your buttons call, on one timeline, live in front of you. Generation and renders wait for your yes; conversation meters as you talk.

A native app for macOS & Windows — no browser editor Have an invite code?
Horoptic — Reel 03 · Dusk Skyline macOS
The Horoptic editor — multitrack timeline, inspector, colorist, and the Director dock. Recreated pixel-faithfully from the app. Reel 03 — Dusk Skyline · 16:9 · 1080p · 24p
A REAL EDITOR — NOT AN AI TOY

Everything a serious NLE has. The AI just respects it.

No prompt box bolted to a renderer. A genuine non-linear editor with the surfaces professionals actually reach for — running on a GPU playback engine, keyboard-first, and dark by design.

01
Multitrack timeline
Video, dialogue, music, SFX and ambient lanes on one canvas — with per-bus identity and structured captions.
02
The pro trims
Slip, roll, slide, ripple and blade — one trim grammar as typed operations, cut by hand or driven by the Director.
03
A colorist surface
Lift-Gamma-Gain wheels, scalar grade controls, and .cube LUTs, read against a live waveform and vectorscope.
04
Keyframe automation
Animate any parameter over time — transform, grade, opacity, audio — with real curves.
05
A real mixer
Per-bus faders, routing and loudness targeting — master to social −14, podcast −16 or broadcast −23, without leaving the room.
06
GPU playback engine
Grades, effects and generated clips composite live on the canvas — scrub without pre-rendering.
07
⌘K command palette
Jump to any clip, marker or track and run any action — the same operations the Director calls.
08
Structured captions
Real caption tracks with timing you can edit — exported as a .srt sidecar, not burned-in guesswork.
09
One write path
Hand edits and Director edits call the same typed operations on one op log — no hidden API, no second timeline.
THE SIGNATURE · SAME BUTTONS, SAME TIMELINE

Watch it work. Approve the spend. Own every cut.

The Director doesn't touch a hidden API. It proposes a set of operations with a credit total; nothing reserves until you approve; then it commits them to your timeline — as real edits you can trim, tweak, and build on like any of your own.

DIRECTOR ready
The rooftop opener feels flat. Make it breathe, and warm the dusk.
Six cuts in nineteen seconds and nothing holds longer than two — it reads rushed. I'll hold the wide and warm the dusk — those edits are free — then generate a short B-roll insert to cover the gap it opens. The generation is a proposal: nothing reserves until you say so.
PROPOSED · 18 CR 3 moves
1 Hold wide +0.8s rippleInsert · edit · free
2 Warm the dusk grade colorGrade · edit · free
3 Generate B-roll insert generateClip · plate for the gap
2 edits free · 1 generation Total18CR
Committed to your timeline
YOUR TIMELINEReel 03 · V1 1,240CR
V1 — Skyline the opener, recut
wide
dusk
b-roll
OPERATIONS · ONE OP-LOG same ops your buttons call
$rippleInsert(V1.wide, +0.8s)free
$colorGrade(clip14, warm +300K)free
$generateClip(insert, "rooftop plate")18 CR
Director committed the recut on V1.
Big spends wait for your yes

Generation and renders arrive as proposals with a credit total — nothing reserves until you approve. The conversation itself is metered: each Director turn draws what its reasoning used.

Failed generations cost nothing

If a job doesn't land, you aren't charged for it. A generation that fails releases its hold automatically.

A principled no

Ask for something off-limits — like a real person's likeness without their consent — and it declines before spending, then offers a route that works.

LOCAL-FIRST

Starts on your device. Free, offline, account-less.

A project lives on your machine — no sign-in, no connection, no credits. Clips decode on-device; nothing leaves it. The cloud is an upgrade you reach for when you want sync, the Director, generation, or a server-rendered master. It's an option, not a tax.

Local — the full manual editor, offline and free. No account needed to keep editing.
Cloud · Synced — promote when you want it. The Director, generation and sync come online.
Offline — lose connection and it keeps cutting, quietly queuing edits to sync on return.
RESIDENCY · TOP BAR
Local · offline · free no credits
Synced 1,240CR
Offline · will sync 3QUEUED
Residency is read by shape first — a drive, a connected node, a slashed cloud — never color alone. The same discipline runs through the whole editor.
THREE WAYS TO WORK
01
Talk only

Describe the goal and the Director builds it — free edits land live on your timeline as it works, and anything that generates is proposed for your approval first.

02
Hands only

Edit manually, start to finish. Free and fully offline — the Director never has to enter the room.

03
Both

Cut by hand and delegate the tedium: "color-match these three shots," "trim the dead air," "generate B-roll to fill this gap."

GENERATED CLIP → V2
GENERATING
Veo Kling Imagen ElevenLabs + more, chosen per job
GENERATION — A TOOL, NOT A SLOT MACHINE

Generated footage lands as real clips. You cut them like everything else.

Generation is multi-model — Veo, Kling, Imagen, ElevenLabs and more, chosen per job — and the result arrives as a real clip on your timeline. Trim it, grade it, key it, score it. It's raw material you arrange, not a finished thing you accept or re-roll.

ON THE WAY OUT

A real master — and honest about how it was made.

Export is a server-side render with platform conforms, structured captions, and an OTIO interchange — native in Resolve, beta in Premiere. And every master carries its provenance with it.

Server-side master

Conform to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, YouTube, X, or your project shape — encoded and loudness-targeted in the cloud.

OTIO interchange

Take your cut out as an .otioz file — Resolve opens it natively today; Premiere, via Adobe's OTIO beta. Nothing locked in here.

Provenance on record

Every master records a C2PA manifest by default — one composite AI declaration, every source clip fingerprinted with SHA-256, the delivered file hashed. Embedding and public verification ship with our signing certificate.

Your media stays yours

We don't train on your media. Local projects never leave your device unless you promote them to the cloud.

PRICING — SHAPE, NOT NUMBERS

The editor is free. The cloud is the subscription.

Two things to know, plus a top-up when you need it. Exact pricing lands with the beta.

Local editor
FREE FOREVER
OFFLINE · NO ACCOUNT · IN THE APP

The complete editor, and it stays free. It ships inside the desktop app — every cut, grade, keyframe and mix, on your machine. No account, no connection, no credits.

Multitrack timeline & the pro trims
Colorist, keyframes & the real mixer
Structured captions, authored locally
Offline playback & unlimited undo
Masters & .otioz export need Cloud
Cloud work — the Director, generation, server masters — is the paid part on the right. Everything else is yours, free.
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THE CLOUD PLAN
UNLOCKS EVERYTHING THE CLOUD DOES

One plan turns the cloud on — sync, the Director, generation and server-rendered masters — with a credit allowance each cycle. This is the primary paid path.

Project sync across devices
The Director, always on
Multi-model generation
Server-rendered masters & .otioz out
A credit allowance every cycle
Failed jobs cost nothing — a generation that doesn't land releases its hold.
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EXTRA USAGE · ON TOP OF A PLAN Credit packs

Heavy month? Top up with extra credits that stack on your cycle allowance. Not a standalone tier — a subscription comes first. Credits go on cloud work: generation and renders you approve, and Director turns metered as you talk.

ADD-ON
Tiers show the shape, not the price. Final numbers publish with the beta.
CLOSED BETA · INVITE-ONLY

Get in the room.

Request an invite to the closed beta. Horoptic is a native desktop editor for macOS and Windows — free and offline to edit, with the cloud on when you want it.

A native app for macOS & Windows — no browser editor Have an invite code?