Footage and storage

The Kino drive on a burst of blue light, beside the places footage comes from: a Mac Studio, an external drive, an SD card, Dropbox, Google Drive and Shade.

Kino indexes everything you bring in with AI: it transcribes every clip, describes each shot and recognizes the people in it. Agents are much better at editing when they know what’s in all your footage.

Kino keeps a 720p proxy of every clip in the cloud by default, so your team can play it on any computer. Originals stay on your drive until you upload them.

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

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

Search and filter your library

Type in the search field at the top of the media panel to find clips by what’s said in them or what’s on screen. Each clip marks where the match is on its strip, and Add to timeline puts just those moments on your timeline. Choose Says or Shows to search only the transcript or only the picture, and add a person to find the clips they’re in. ⌘K searches transcripts, people and bins across your whole organization.

The Kino media panel searching for “singing the national anthem”. Each matching clip, from a crowd singing to the stage with a Canadian flag, has a blue mark on its strip where the singing happens.

Click Filter to narrow the library by type, duration, codec, camera, lens, frame rate, shoot day and more. Each value shows how many clips have it. Save a filter and it becomes a smart bin in your bin tree, which fills in as new footage arrives.

The Filter menu in the Kino media panel, open on Codec, with how many clips use each: 82 H.264, 22 HEVC, 46 ProRes and 64 Blackmagic RAW.

When the drive isn’t connected

Other editors show Media offline when a drive is unplugged. Kino keeps playing from the proxy, so projects still open and play.

Upload the originals to let your teammates render in full quality.

Media offline

メディアオフライン

Média hors ligne

Offline-Medien

脱机媒体文件

Medios sin conexión

Oggetto multimediale non in linea

미디어 오프라인

Медиаданные в автономном режиме

Mídia offline

Every legacy editor

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Storage per plan

Free includes 5 GB. Pro includes 20 GB per editor, shared by the whole team. Proxies, uploaded originals and imports from Dropbox, Google Drive or Shade count toward it; originals on your own drives don’t.

More about footage

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

Pro media formats

RED, BRAW, MXF and ProRes play from your drive without a transcode.

The three roles: Admin and Member seats are paid, Viewer seats are free.

Teams and billing

Who pays for a seat, and what each plan includes.