What is NotchFrame?
A video editor that makes the first cut for you. Drop in raw footage and it takes out the filler and dead air, keeps the best take, places the zooms and styles the captions, then hands back a finished cut to review. Fix what you'd have done differently and it learns, so the next cut lands closer to yours.
What does NotchFrame actually hand back?
A rendered, watchable cut — not a list of suggestions. You review it, correct anything you disagree with, and export to MP4 or hand the timeline to your NLE for finishing.
What footage does it handle best today?
Talking-head video, webinars, screen shares and teaching content are strongest. Beat-locked social montages are close behind. Fast-cut narrative and music-video work is the weakest fit right now.
Does my footage get uploaded?
No. Your video and audio never leave your device — transcription and rendering both run locally. Planning an edit sends the text transcript of your footage, with cut timings, because that's what the edit decisions are made from. That text is used to produce your edit plan and for nothing else: we don't store it once the plan comes back, we never use it to train anything, and it isn't sold or used for advertising or profiling. The model that reads it is a frontier model, accessed through a major cloud provider — and that provider has its own data terms, which we don't control, so be as open with the transcript as you'd be with any cloud AI service and choose what you run through it accordingly. Everything you'd want to know before deciding is on one page, the privacy policy.
Do I need a powerful machine?
No GPU required. It was built and validated on a modest 8 GB Windows box, working one heavy media process at a time. More memory mainly helps with 4K source material.
What does it cost?
Free to download, no card and no account needed to start, and there will be a free tier to use. Heavy use — or a lot of files running in parallel — will at some point reach a cap that sits behind a subscription; where that cap lands and what it costs isn't settled yet, and is announced at launch. Anything you'd be charged is shown clearly before you pay — nothing bills you by surprise for a cut you haven't seen.
