From memory card to LTO tape. One app for ingest, analysis, assembly, and archive.
The Problem
Copying cards, renaming clips, building folder structures by hand. Every project, the same ritual. Time you should spend cutting.
12 cards, 400 clips, 3 cameras. What's sharp? What's usable? You won't know until you scrub through everything in the NLE.
LTO tapes without catalogs. Projects from 2019 somewhere on a shelf. Finding that one shot means mounting tapes and hoping.
The Pipeline
RushDeck handles everything before and after the creative edit. We call it Sandwich Automation: automate the bread, keep the meat manual.
Configurable folder templates with LTO-aware tape splitting. Briefing dialog captures client, project type, format, target length and tone — before the first clip lands. Define your structure once, reuse it on every project.
Verified copying with MD5 checksums and streaming pipeline — 148 MB/s sustained, beating tools like Canister. Health checks on every file via ffprobe. Auto-routing by camera, codec, or card. Resume after crash. Edit proxies and analysis proxies generated in parallel.
On-device scoring via Apple Vision Framework: sharpness, stability, exposure, motion. Whisper transcription on your GPU at 15x realtime. Interview vs. B-roll classification at 88% recall, 94% precision — no cloud needed. Optional: VLM tagging and semantic clustering via your own API key or local LLM.
AI-generated structure proposals based on your briefing and analysis. Select timelines and draft timelines with in-app preview. Export to Premiere XML, FCPXML, or DaVinci Resolve via OpenTimelineIO. Your rough cut is waiting when you open the NLE.
Frame.io integration with smart comment batching — configurable timeout or manual "done reviewing" trigger. Local playback for internal checks. Approve/reject workflow that feeds back into your timeline. Push drafts to clients, pull feedback into your edit.
32x8MB streaming ring buffer for sustained writes. Write-through catalog, tape-aware splitting for large projects. Resume after power loss or crash. Portable SQLite database that lives on the tape itself. Import foreign tapes from Canister or other tools. Search your archive without mounting a single reel.
What Makes It Different
Every shot scored by sharpness, stability, exposure, and motion at 6x realtime — entirely on-device via Apple Vision Framework. Sort 400 clips by quality in seconds. Optional VLM tagging adds semantic descriptions and CLIP-based similarity clustering.
Whisper transcription at 15x realtime on Apple Silicon. Identifies questions, groups repeated takes semantically, picks the best version by clarity and completeness. Multicam pairing across cameras via transcript matching. Start your edit with the best take, not the first take.
Search your LTO tapes the way you think. "Sunset drone shot over river" finds the clip — even if you never tagged it.
A SQLite database travels with every LTO tape. Hand a tape to another editor, and they get the full catalog — no external database needed.
Built for Pros
macOS native. No Electron. No browser tab.
Three AI tiers: run local with Ollama, bring your own API key, or subscribe to RushDeck AI. Same features, your choice. On-device analysis (Whisper, CV scoring, classification) works without internet. We never see your footage, your prompts, or your invoices.
Pricing
Full pipeline: Project Setup, Ingest, Analysis, Timeline Assembly, Review, LTO Archive. Includes local AI (Whisper transcription, CV scoring, classification) — no internet, no API key, no subscription needed.
Cloud AI — three ways, your choice:
Every option uses the same AI features. There is no feature gating — only a choice in how you connect.
Who's Behind This
RushDeck comes from Flavored Media — 13 years of video production, thousands of projects delivered, too many hours lost to file management. We're building the tool we always wanted. Not a startup chasing a trend, but a production company solving its own problems and sharing the result.