Kino for editors

Your footage, editing, and reviews can all live in Kino.You can also adopt Kino as your video infrastructure piece by piece.

Footage

Store your organization’s whole library in Kino. Search every clip by what’s said or shown.

Editing

Import a Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut project into Kino and keep cutting.

Reviews

Send a link. Notes land back in the timeline.

For those coming from DaVinci, Premiere, or other pro tools

You call it	In Kino
Marker	Marker, a comment you can type into
Frame.io link	Review link
After Effects comp	Graphics clip you edit on the timeline
Assistant editor	The agent

Set up the team

Create one organization per client. Its media, projects and brand kits stay separate from your other clients’ work.

Role	Access	Seat
Admin	Edit, invite people and change roles	Paid
Member	Upload, edit and export	Paid
Viewer	Watch and comment	Free

Admin and Member seats need a Pro plan.

Shared projects

Several people can edit one project at the same time. Each change syncs to everyone as it’s made, and collaborators’ pointers and trims show on the timeline. You can follow a collaborator to see what they’re working on.

Agents edit the same project, and their changes arrive the same way.

Bring in footage

Drag files or folders onto Kino. Camera originals play without a transcode, R3D and BRAW included.

Kino uploads a 720p proxy of every clip by default, so your team can play it on any computer. The originals stay on your drive.

The shot as you play it, from the original on your drive.

The shot as everyone else plays it, from the 720p proxy.

Pull selects

Search every clip by what’s said or shown and drag hits into a bin, or ask the agent:

Watch everything in the Day 1 bin and make a Selects bin with the best answer to each interview question.

Cut

J, K and L shuttle, I and O mark in and out, and B splits at the playhead. Or have the agent build a stringout first:

Lay out the Selects bin as a six-minute stringout in story order.

Checkpoints

Press ⌘S to save a checkpoint. Kino also saves one whenever an agent changes the project. Click Checkpoints, the clock icon in the nav bar, to preview one, and choose Restore this version to go back to it. To try another direction, duplicate the project.

Graphics

Give the agent a client’s website and it builds a brand kit from the logos, fonts and photos on it. Mention the kit with @ and the agent makes titles and lower thirds in that brand.

To match an earlier video’s look and pacing, start a chat with Match a past video’s style and give it the project, a clip from your library or a YouTube link. YouTube links need the desktop app.

Use Claude for graphics.

Add a lower third for each speaker in the @Field Notes brand. Keep them clear of faces and hold each one for four seconds.

Generate shots

The agent generates images, video, music and voice through fal, billed at cost to your Kino plan.

Generate a six-second shot of a woman asleep on her side in soft morning light, then put the episode title over it in the @Field Notes brand.

Color and sound

Set a Source LUT in the viewer, and every clip you insert from that file gets it. To change one clip, use Look (LUT) in the inspector. Both menus import .cube files.

The agent grades log footage, matches cameras, evens out speaker levels and removes mic bleed between tracks:

Match the B camera to the A camera in this interview, then even out the levels between the two mics.

Review

Send a review link to whoever signs off. Their comments land on your timeline at the frame they were left on, where you can reply, resolve them or send them to the agent.

Press M to drop a marker at the playhead, and type into it to leave a note.

The C5R Launch Film project in Kino. Maya Chen’s comment, “Can the title hold a beat longer before the cut to the lab?”, is open on the timeline at 00:00:06:00, with buttons to reply, send it to the agent and resolve it.

The review link kino.ai/d/q8Fz3kT2 open in a browser: version 3 of C5R Launch Film from Sam Ortiz with a Download button, and Maya Chen’s comment at 00:06 in the Comments list.

Deliver

Once the cut is locked, ask the agent for other sizes. It reframes shots and moves graphics to fit.

Make a 9:16 version of this episode, then three vertical clips under 45 seconds with captions.

Export renders ProRes, H.264, H.265, VP9 and AV1. For graphics with alpha, set Background to Transparent, and Kino switches to MOV · ProRes 4444.

Clients download the final file from the same review link, which always opens the newest version.

More for editors

The DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, CapCut and After Effects icons.

Import from DaVinci, Premiere and more

Opens .drp, .prproj and .fcpbundle files and CapCut draft folders.

A Finder list of a RED, a BRAW, an MXF and a ProRes file.

Pro media formats

Every codec Kino plays without a transcode, and what it exports.

Key caps for J, K and L (reverse, stop, forward) and I, O and comma (in, out, insert).

Keyboard shortcuts

⌘K searches your media, transcripts and actions.

Proxies are uploaded, originals stay on your drives, and the Pro plan includes 20 GB per seat.

Footage and storage

What uploads, where originals live and how much space each plan includes.