CALLIOPE

An AI video editor that watches every take, so the first cut is ready when you sit down. IN BUILD

The machines that edited film before software.

THE FIRST OF THE NINE

Calliope was the eldest of the nine Muses. The steam organ that took her name played the circus into town. We gave the name to our editor: it goes through everything you shot and tells you what is in it.

An engraving of Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry, with a trumpet and the mask of Hercules. — Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry. Johann Theodor de Bry, 1601. Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain.

HOW IT CUTS

IT WATCHES THE RUSHES.
IT LOGS EVERY TAKE.
IT PROPOSES THE FIRST CUT.
YOU DECIDE WHAT STAYS.

Calliope takes what you shot: camera files, transcripts, slates, notes. It assembles a rough cut with its reasons attached, then leaves the final decisions to you.

The rushes reel feeds the strip through the reader and the punch to the blade. What you splice winds toward the take-up reel; what you pass is trimmed into the bin.

Cinema projector running, La Fonderie, Brussels. CC BY 3.0.

THE TIMELINE

Long before Calliope, film was cut on machines like these.

A 16mm Moviola editing machine, its reels and film gate seen close.

Moviola, 16mm editing machineBiswarup Ganguly. CC BY 3.0.

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CALLIOPE IS IN BUILD.

Write to us and ask for the first look. One email when it opens, nothing else.

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