SightRoll Lifetime
$79.00 one-time
Unlimited on-device AI for private, offline video analysis, yours forever.
- Perpetual license
- Unlimited on-device AI
- Private offline processing
- Natural-language archive search
- Batch scene export
v0.6.2 · macOS · iOS IN BETA · EARLY ACCESS PRICING
Don't search your footage.Get the selects.
Hundreds of hours on a drive you'll never open again. SightRoll watches all of it on your Mac — any camera, any file — and hands you the shots: trimmed, in beat order, ready for your timeline.
300 videos free · no time limit · no credit card
A-Roll/Entertainment
A young woman in a black dress leans over a blue-felt table, cue in hand, mid-shot in a vibrant indoor pool hall. Other players move through the colorful lighting behind her.
Footage stays on your Mac by default
Any Apple Silicon Mac
300 videos free, no time limit
Scene-level search precision
Plan the cut before you open the timeline.
Describe the video you want to make. Director writes the brief, breaks it into beats, and pulls the strongest scenes from your library. Hand it to your timeline, or push back and try again.
Not the kind of AI director that makes the video for you. The kind that hands you the selects and gets out of the way — your trimmed source clips, no music laid over them, nothing to get copyright-claimed. The cut stays yours.
SightRoll — DirectorDemo
You
⇧↵ to send · Enter for new line
Point. Wait. Cut.
Three steps from a folder of unwatched dailies to a searchable, scene-aware library.
01
Point at a folder.
Drop in a project folder, an SD card dump, an external drive, a decade of footage. SightRoll scans recursively. No tagging. No organizing. No prep.
~/Footage/Project_Aurora/
~/SDCards/CARD_007/
→ 1,247 clips · 184 hr · 2.3 TB
02
SightRoll watches.
A vision-language model describes every clip and breaks each into labeled scenes. A-Roll, B-Roll, Interview, BTS, sorted automatically. Run it overnight.
C0089.MP4 · AI analysis (734/1247) · 58.9% · ETA 2:14
overheadfast-cutprepinteriorgolden-hourhandheld
03
Search like you talk.
Type a thought. Get the moment. Drag scenes straight into your NLE, or batch-export trimmed clips with your codec of choice.
"the golden-hour shots"
Search by meaning,
not filename
Your clips are indexed semantically. Ask for "on the coast" and SightRoll surfaces the scenes that look like it, not just files whose name contains those words.
on the coast⌘K
Scene match · 2:34
B-Roll · Coastal Landscapes
A woman in a red tee stands on a seaside pier, facing a harbor at sunset, warm golden light on the water.
Scene match · 0:45
A-Roll · Beach Lifestyle
A blonde woman in a blue swimsuit sits on a rustic beach swing, smiling at camera as the sun sets.
Scene match · 1:12
Establishing · Coastal Landscapes
A wide aerial sweep over a lush forested mountain slope above a coastal town meeting the ocean.
Scene match · 0:08
B-Roll · Boat and Sea
Four people ride a small decorated wooden boat across a turquoise sea, islands rising behind them.
Every clip, already broken down.
A two-hour interview becomes thirty discoverable moments. Each scene gets a title, a description, a timestamp, and its own semantic embedding, so you can pull the laugh, the pour, the reveal, without scrubbing.
C0142.MP4·09:00 total·6 scenes detected·2 selected
A-Roll · Entertainment
A young woman in a black dress leans over a blue-felt table, cue in hand, mid-shot in a vibrant indoor pool hall.
00:00 → 02:14
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6SC 01
A-Roll · Entertainment
A young woman in a black dress leans over a blue-felt table, cue in hand, mid-shot in a vibrant indoor pool hall.
SC 02
B-Roll · Boat and Sea
Four people ride a small decorated wooden boat across a turquoise sea, islands rising behind them.
SC 03
B-Roll · Automotive
A vibrant red Mazda concept car on a white turntable at a busy indoor auto show, camera tracking the curves.
SC 04
A-Roll · Beach Lifestyle
A blonde woman in a blue swimsuit sits on a rustic beach swing, smiling at camera as the sun sets.
SC 05
Interviews · Talking Head
A woman in a tan dress sits against a tree trunk in a lush tropical setting, speaking directly to camera.
SC 06
B-Roll · Automotive
A light-blue Porsche 911 GT3 rotates on a white platform at an indoor auto show, camera tracking the wheels.
Drag the moments out. Keep the rest.
Select scenes across any number of clips. Batch-export trimmed, codec-configured, ready for the timeline.
Search results · 5 scenes
C0142.MP4 00:06
A young woman in a black dress leans over a blue-felt table, cue in hand, mid-shot in a vibrant indoor pool hall.
C0019.MP4 00:06
Four people ride a small decorated wooden boat across a turquoise sea, islands rising behind them.
C0067.MP4 00:14
A vibrant red Mazda concept car on a white turntable at a busy indoor auto show, camera tracking the curves.
C0078.MP4 00:28
A blonde woman in a blue swimsuit sits on a rustic beach swing, smiling at camera as the sun sets.
C0211.MP4 00:07
A woman in a tan dress sits against a tree trunk in a lush tropical setting, speaking directly to camera.
Export queue
Drag scenes here · ProRes 422 · 3840×2160 · 25 fps
C0142.MP400:06
C0067.MP400:14
2 scenes · 00:20
Three kinds of editor, one workflow.
Pick a story. Each one is the same product seen from a different chair: the questions you'd actually ask, and the clips you'd actually pull.
For Creators
Cut from a weekend's worth of footage. Without watching it back.
You shoot more than you'll ever sit down to log. SightRoll watches every card overnight, and the next morning you search by what's in the shot, not what you named it.
- Search 3 trips of footage in one query
- Surface forgotten B-roll automatically
- Build shorts without rewatching anything
Your library,
finally making sense
From raw footage dumps to a fully searchable, organized archive. SightRoll handles the analysis so you can focus on the work.
On-Device · Private
AI Video Analysis
A vision model runs entirely on your Mac. Every clip gets a natural-language description, content tags, and an editorial category.
Timestamp-accurate
Scene Detection
Every video is sliced into labeled scenes with precise timecodes, titles, and semantic embeddings, so you can find a 10-second moment inside hours of footage.
Semantic
Director Search
Describe a shot in plain English. Director ranks matching scenes across your whole archive.
Apple Silicon
On-Device Processing
Point it at a folder and walk away. Frames are analyzed locally on Apple Silicon. Pause, resume, and cancel anytime. Nothing uploads.
Drag to NLE
Beat Sheet
Director assembles selected scenes into a beat sheet (Hook, Build, Payoff), ready to drag onto your timeline.
Batch · Lossless
Scene Export
Export selected scenes as trimmed clips, batched across videos. Configure codec, resolution, and bitrate.
Auto-sorted
AI Folder Organization
Every clip is filed into a nested tree (A-Roll, B-Roll, Establishing) with content subcategories and live counts. Browse your archive by what's actually in it.
Edit Planning
Director Plans the Cut
Describe the video you want to make. Director returns a ranked stack of scenes with the reasoning behind each pick: a starting edit before you ever open a timeline.
0
bytes of master footage ever leave your Mac
Every frame is processed locally. In Cloud Sync mode, compressed HEVC proxy copies are end-to-end encrypted on SightRoll Cloud — only you can read them. Your master footage never moves.
Cut on the go
The Mac does the work.
The phone comes along.
Analysis happens on your Mac, where the horsepower and the footage are. What travels is the catalog and a set of compressed proxies — encrypted, small enough for cellular, enough to actually work from.
01Friday, 6pm
You get back with full cards
Four hours of footage across three cards, and no intention of logging any of it tonight. Drop them on the Mac and walk away.
02Overnight
Your Mac watches all of it
Every clip described, split into scenes, indexed. On your own hardware, on AC power, while you sleep. Nothing uploaded.
03Monday, on the train
You pull selects on your phone
The catalog is already there — encrypted, synced. Search it, star the shots you want, build the rough order with your thumbs.
04Monday, at the desk
They are waiting on the timeline
Sit down, open the project, and the clips you picked on the train are trimmed and ready. The masters never left the drive they live on.
How it actually works
Encrypted catalog
Scene data, descriptions, and embeddings are end-to-end encrypted on SightRoll Cloud. We never see your content.
Proxies, not masters
Compressed HEVC copies and thumbnails are what sync. Your original files never move from the drive they live on.
Background sync
Transcodes on AC power, unmetered network, when the machine is cool.
On-device AI included
Every subscription includes on-device processing. Use the hosted models when speed matters, Apple Silicon when privacy does.
Basic · Pro · MaxSightRoll CloudiPhone app in beta
The Mac app is what you can download today. The iPhone half is in beta and we're inviting testers now — if the train part is the reason you're here, come and get it early.
Privacy first means on-device first.
SightRoll runs entirely on your Mac by default: no keys, no servers, no frames sent anywhere. Cloud analysis is opt-in. Cloud Sync keeps your catalog, embeddings, proxies, and previews end-to-end encrypted on SightRoll Cloud — only you can read them. We tell you exactly what crosses the wire.
SightRoll searches footage you actually shot. Not stock libraries. Not other people's clips.
On-Device · Default
Runs entirely on Apple Silicon
A vision-language model runs locally through Apple's MLX framework. No keys, no servers, no video or content ever uploaded. Pull the cable and SightRoll keeps working.
Speed
Moderate
~1x, depends on chip
Privacy
On-device
No video or content leaves. Only anonymous crash diagnostics.
Hardware
Apple Silicon
M1 or newer; 16 GB recommended
Token limit
Unlimited
Process archives of any size
Cloud Mode · Opt-In
5-10x faster. Honest about the tradeoff.
For overnight runs across thousands of clips. SightRoll extracts a handful of preview frames per scene and sends them to a hosted vision model. Your master video files never leave your drive, but the sample frames do. Off by default.
Speed
5-10x faster
Heavier models, more parallelism
What's sent
Sample frames + prompts
~3-6 stills per scene, JPEG
What stays
Your master files
Originals never copy off-disk
Retention
Purged on delivery
Derived text deleted from our servers the moment your Mac receives it; master files never leave
Billing
Credits or subscription
Basic/Pro/Max include monthly token allowances. Pay-as-you-go credits also available.
Your MacPreview frames + promptVision model
Master videoNever copiedstays local
Working with NDA'd or sensitive material? Stay on-device. It's the default for a reason.
How it compares
Five questions
worth asking.
Not a feature checklist. These are the things that decide whether a tool still works for you in two years, when the trial is over and the drives are full.
Where it runs
Does your footage leave the building?
SightRoll
On your Mac. Masters never move, in any mode.
Cloud AI video tools
Uploaded and processed on their servers.
Built into your NLE
On your machine, inside one app.
What footage it takes
Only their hardware, or anything you shot?
SightRoll
Any camera, any file already on your drives.
Cloud AI video tools
Anything you upload, within their limits.
Built into your NLE
Whatever you have imported into that project.
What you pay over time
What happens the month you stop?
SightRoll
Buy once and keep processing. Subscription optional.
Cloud AI video tools
Monthly, forever. Stop and you lose access.
Built into your NLE
Bundled with a licence you already bought.
What comes out
A list of results, or something you can cut with?
SightRoll
A beat sheet and trimmed clips, into your NLE.
Cloud AI video tools
Search results, or a finished render with music on it.
Built into your NLE
Clips highlighted in that app’s own bin.
Does it follow you
Can you work away from the edit suite?
SightRoll
Encrypted proxies to iPhone. Mac does the analysis.
Cloud AI video tools
Usually phone-first, desktop rarely.
Built into your NLE
Wherever that application runs. Usually one desk.
Worth saying plainly: SightRoll reads what the camera saw, not what anyone said. If your work turns on finding a spoken line, a transcript-based tool will beat us at that today.
Pricing
Own the AI.
Don't rent it.
Buy the AI once and work entirely on your Mac, or subscribe and get the same on-device AI plus your catalog synced across devices. Pick one — they don't stack. Prices below come straight from our live catalog.
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Add cloud sync
Choose the archive size and cloud processing capacity that fits your work.
Basic
$5.99/month
Secure cloud sync and essential AI capacity for smaller personal archives.
- On-device AI included
- 2.5M cloud inference credits/month
- 100 GB cloud proxy storage
Pro
Featured$12.99/month
More encrypted archive space and cloud AI capacity for demanding editing workflows.
- Everything in Basic
- 7M cloud inference credits/month
- 300 GB cloud proxy storage
Max
$24.99/month
Our largest archive and highest cloud AI capacity for intensive production workloads.
- Everything in Pro
- 18M cloud inference credits/month
- 500 GB cloud proxy storage
Not sure which tier? Choose based on the archive size and cloud processing capacity shown in each live plan. You can manage an active subscription through the customer portal.
Checkout is handled securely by Polar. Apple Silicon is required for on-device AI. Sync requires macOS 14+.
iOS · Close Beta
SightRoll for iPhone.
Close beta, starting now.
Search, browse, and organize your synced catalog from your iPhone. Your Mac does the AI analysis. Your iPhone gets the results.
Requires a subscription (Basic, Pro, or Max) and Cloud Sync enabled on your Mac.
Limited spots. Mac app + Cloud Sync required.
Built with creators
No logo wall.
Not yet.
SightRoll is in public beta. We don't have a review score to show you or a row of company logos, and we're not going to borrow either. What we have is a small number of editors using it on real projects and telling us what breaks.
That's the whole plan, honestly. We'd rather spend the next year building what working editors ask for than outspend anyone on ads. If you shoot more than you can log, you're exactly who this is being made for — and the fastest way to change it is to tell us where it falls down.
Try it
300 videos, free
No time limit and no card. Point it at a folder you've been ignoring and see what it finds.
Break it
Tell us what's wrong
Bugs, missing formats, a workflow that doesn't fit — info@sightroll.com reaches the people writing the code.
Watch it
See what ships
Every release is written up on what's new — the actual record, not a roadmap promise.
Tech specs
Native macOS.
Built on Apple's stack.
PLATFORM
macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Native SwiftUI app. Universal binary. Notarized for Gatekeeper.
HARDWARE
Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
16 GB unified memory recommended for on-device VLM. No external GPU required.
AI FRAMEWORK
Apple MLX
Vision-language model runs locally. No external dependencies in on-device mode.
FORMATS
MP4 · MOV · M4V · AVI · MKV · ProRes
Reads H.264, H.265, ProRes 422 / 4444, R3D via system codecs.
EXPORT
Configurable codec, resolution, bitrate
ProRes 422 · ProRes Proxy · H.264 · H.265. Frame-accurate trims.
DATA
Local SQLite library
Embeddings stored on your drive. No account required for on-device mode.
SYNC
SightRoll Cloud · end-to-end encrypted
Cross-device catalog + HEVC proxy copies on SightRoll Cloud. Basic/Pro/Max subscription required.
Questions
The honest answers.
Your master video files stay local in every mode. In on-device mode, no video, frame, or content leaves your Mac. Only anonymous crash diagnostics (no filenames, no content) to help us fix bugs. In cloud mode, only sample preview frames (~3-6 stills per scene) are sent to a hosted vision model for faster processing.
On-device processing requires Apple Silicon (M1 or later) for the MLX-based vision-language model. Cloud mode works on any modern Mac, but Apple Silicon gives the best experience.
Depends on your chip and footage length. A rough guide: a one-hour clip takes ~30-90 minutes on an M2 in on-device mode, or under ten minutes in cloud mode. You can leave it running in the background.
Resolve's AI IntelliSearch finds clips inside a single project. SightRoll finds scenes, the exact 10-second moment inside a 2-hour recording, across your entire archive, every card you've ever shot. And Director plans the cut before you open any timeline: describe the video you want to make, get a scene stack, drag it to Resolve or Premiere. They're complementary tools.
Yes. SightRoll exports trimmed, codec-configured clips you drag straight into any NLE. Individual scenes or batch selections with consistent codec/resolution/bitrate settings.
Public beta, and we say that plainly. Analysis, scene detection, search, and export are the parts we lean on daily; beta means we're still polishing edge cases and adding features fast, and that we'd rather hear what breaks than pretend nothing does. Beta pricing locks in for early users.
No. Cloud Sync stores your catalog (descriptions, scene data, embeddings) and compressed HEVC proxy copies on SightRoll Cloud, end-to-end encrypted with a passphrase only you hold — we cannot read them. Your master footage never moves from the drive where it lives. Only compressed proxies and metadata cross the wire.
Yes. iOS close beta is starting now. The iPhone app lets you search, browse, and organize your synced catalog from your phone — your Mac does the AI analysis, your iPhone gets the results. Requires a Basic, Pro, or Max subscription with Cloud Sync enabled. Request access in the iOS section above.
No. SightRoll is your assistant editor: it finds, organizes, and prepares the moments. The cut is yours. Director helps build edit plans and pull clips, but exports go to your timeline, your tool, your call.
The archive that
watched itself.
300 videos free. No time limit. No credit card. See what SightRoll finds hiding in your footage.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon required · M1 and later