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A-roll & B-roll ingest
Drag in interviews and coverage. Sidekick keeps them organized by role, probes every file, and gets your project ready to cut in minutes.
THE AI ASSISTANT EDITOR FOR VIDEO PROS
Sidekick AE transcribes your interviews, tags your B-roll, and builds sentence-perfect rough cuts you direct through chat — then exports a real timeline to Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut.
SIDEKICK_AE — ROUGH_CUT_v1
00:04:32:18
› Hey Sidekick, cut a 90-second story from today's shoot.▌
TRANSCRIBED ✓ B-ROLL TAGGED ✓ ROUGH CUT READY →
// WHAT SIDEKICK DOES
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Drag in interviews and coverage. Sidekick keeps them organized by role, probes every file, and gets your project ready to cut in minutes.
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Every A-roll clip is transcribed with word timestamps, so cuts snap to sentences — never mid-word, never mid-thought.
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Your coverage is watched and tagged in rich detail — subjects, settings, motion — so the right shot surfaces the moment the story needs it.
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Tell Sidekick the story you're after. It assembles selects into a sentence-snapped rough cut with B-roll placed over the talking heads.
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Watch the cut before you commit. Sidekick renders fast preview files of every rough cut so you can iterate in chat, not in your NLE.
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One click hands the edit to your NLE: FCPXML 1.11, Premiere XML, EDL, and SRT — frame-accurate, ready for the real craft.
// HOW IT WORKS
STEP 01
Drop raw A-roll and B-roll straight from the card. Sidekick probes, transcribes, and tags everything automatically.
STEP 02
Chat with Sidekick like a junior editor who watched every frame. Ask for a 90-second cut, a different opening, tighter pacing.
STEP 03
Export the timeline to Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut and spend your hours on craft — not on logging footage.
Premiere Pro · DaVinci Resolve · Final Cut Pro
Timecode-true exports, mixed frame rates handled.
Your footage, your keys, encrypted at rest. No training on your media.
// FAQ
Sidekick AE is an AI assistant video editor. It takes your raw interview footage and B-roll, transcribes and tags everything, then builds rough cuts you direct through chat — and hands the result to your editing software as a real timeline.
Sidekick exports FCPXML 1.11 for Final Cut Pro, XML for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, plus industry-standard EDL and SRT subtitle files. Your rough cut opens as an editable timeline, not a baked video.
Sidekick transcribes your A-roll with word-level timestamps, tags your B-roll, and then uses AI to select and order soundbites that tell the story you asked for. Cuts snap to sentence boundaries, and B-roll is placed over the interview automatically.
No. Your footage is processed to build your edits and nothing else. Media lives in private storage, jobs run in isolated workers, and your content is never used for model training.
Sidekick uses OpenAI for transcription and Anthropic's Claude for story work. You can plug in your own API keys in Settings — they're encrypted at rest and used only for your projects.
No — it replaces the worst afternoon of their week. Sidekick does the logging, syncing, selects, and assembly so human editors start at the rough cut instead of at a bin of raw cards.
// READY WHEN YOU ARE
Create a free account, upload a shoot, and see your first AI-assembled rough cut today.