Video editing

Keep every cut, review copy, and note under one version number, so the next pass starts from the thing the client actually approved.

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Media / AUTOMATE.md

When a cut is marked ready for review, post the assets it is still missing, such as the logo, the music, or a clip, and email the request to whoever supplies them.

Ready-made: Rough Cut Asset Request

The job, and what good looks like.

Editing a video job is mostly waiting. The editor needs a logo, the client needs a music bed cleared, and the sound mixer needs a locked cut that does not exist yet, so a rough cut sits at eighty percent while four people email each other. The version that was approved disappears into a folder called finals_new_v3, and the next pass opens the wrong file. This workflow numbers and dates every version, keeps the review copy and the working copy in one project, and posts the assets a cut is still missing the moment it is marked ready. Comments attach to a frame and a version, so a note about a title at two minutes cannot be misread as a note about the ending. A transcript is generated for each cut so captions and voiceover start from the words. The editor still decides the running order, and the producer still decides when a cut is allowed to leave the building.

When it is handled

  • Every version tied to a named approval
  • Notes attach to the frame itself
  • Missing assets named before the cut stalls
  • Approved sections left unedited

Works with tools like

  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Descript
  • Frame.io
  • Dropbox Replay

Ready-made automations. Pick the one that fits.

Each one is a plain-language document. Run it as it is, or change the timing, the rules and the tools to match your team.

Rough Cut Asset Request

When a cut is marked ready for review, post the assets it is still missing, such as the logo, the music, or a clip, and email the request to whoever supplies them.

When a cut is marked ready for review

You stay in charge.
At every step.

It checks and files. Every creative call stays yours.

  • It never deletes on its own

    It checks, lists and files. Deleting or formatting anything waits for your OK.

  • Undo a move you don't want

    Every step is recorded, and files it moved or renamed can be put back.

  • Your drives stay yours

    It works on the folders you point it at, on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to a new library.

Rough Cut Asset Request

Approve before it posts in Slack and sends the email?

ReviewApprove

Before you download.

Where does it run?
On your Mac or Windows computer, in the background. It keeps working after you close its window, and only reaches the folders and apps you connect for each automation.
How does it connect to our CRM and other tools?
Through each app's own connection where it offers one, signed in once by you, or by using the app in a browser the way you would. Each automation gets only the connections you give it, and the tools a page names are examples you can swap for your own.
Does it run when my computer is asleep?
It keeps your computer awake while a job runs and just before a scheduled one. While the computer is closed or off, nothing runs; when it wakes, it checks the inbox, calendar and other sources it watches for anything that arrived meanwhile.
How does my team use it?
Each person who runs automations installs the app. Keep a project in a shared folder, such as Google Drive or a network drive, and teammates can open it and follow every run, while one person owns it and runs it.
Do I need anyone technical to set it up?
No. Download the app, add an automation in plain words, and connect only what that job needs. Nothing runs until you switch it on.

Already have tools for this? Here is the difference.

Presets and actions in your editor

Repeating the same edit across many files.

They can't check a delivery against an approval or tell you a card didn't copy.

Flowchart automation tools

Moving data between cloud apps.

They rarely reach local drives, and every exception becomes another branch.

Doing it by hand

Knowing exactly what happened.

It is the part of the job that waits until midnight.

AUTOMATE.md

Your routine, written in plain words. It runs on its own, follows your rules, handles the exceptions a flowchart can't, and asks you when it matters. The file stays yours, whichever AI model runs it.

Start with one job.
Make it your own.

macOS — coming soon
  1. 1

    Get the app

    It runs on your computer, next to your files.

  2. 2

    Add the automation

    Paste the instructions into the app, or save them as a file next to your work.

  3. 3

    Try it, then turn it on

    Run it once and check the result. It only runs on its own once you switch it on.

macOS — coming soon