Problem[01]
Four cameras, one folder
The mirrorless writes DSCF, the GoPro GX, the drone DJI and the phone IMG. Copied into one folder, nothing says which clips belong to the morning at the market.
For Travel and adventure filmmakers
Any shot from the trip, without the rewatch
A mirrorless body, a GoPro, a drone and your phone. Two weeks of cards, sorted into days and scenes on your Mac. Ask for the market on day 3 or the take where you got the line right.
14 days free, then $59 a year or $7.99 a month. Works with your Claude or ChatGPT plan; timelines need DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1+. Clip descriptions are optional and use your own API key, billed by Anthropic or OpenAI.
Works withA Mac with Apple silicon · macOS 26+
ClaudeClaude Desktop and Claude Code
ChatGPTThe ChatGPT Mac app and Codex
DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1Timelines through its own MCP server
Any drive or NASThe Prewatch folder travels with the media
Problems
What slows Travel and adventure filmmakers down
Problem[02]
Six takes of the same line
You said the piece to camera six times by the harbor. One was steady, in focus and not buried in wind. Finding it means watching all six again.
Problem[03]
Home with 400 GB and a deadline
The sponsor wants a cut, or the channel needs its episode. Before anything gets edited, someone has to watch two weeks of footage from four cameras.
What Prewatch gives you
Your footage, already watched
Prewatch indexes every clip on your Mac, so Claude or ChatGPT knows what is in your footage and can build the cut with you in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
| What you get | Where it runs | What it does for you |
|---|---|---|
| Days and scenes, across cameras | On your Mac | Every camera's clips grouped by their own capture time, with a new scene when you moved more than a kilometer, if the file recorded where. |
| Pieces to camera, transcribed | On your Mac | Every take you talk in is transcribed on the Mac's GPU with its timecode, so you can search the words and line the takes up. |
| Locals, translated | On your Mac | The language of each clip detected and transcribed, with an English translation beside it: rough on the Mac, better with your API key. |
| Wind, shake and soft focus | On your Mac | Each shot marked locked off, steady, handheld or shaky, wind on the mic heard and timed, and soft or dark footage flagged. |
| Moments worth cutting | Claude or OpenAI | What happens in each clip, from the reveal to the reaction, with in and out points and a 1–5 usability score. With your own Claude or OpenAI API key. |
| The recap built in Resolve | Your AI app | Claude or ChatGPT lays the chosen moments on a timeline in DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1 or later, through Resolve's own MCP server. |
Prewatch · ClipsMac app
The screenshot arrives with the app
Ask it
One question instead of a day of scrubbing
You ask in Claude or ChatGPT. Prewatch answers with the clips, the seconds and the timecode, and your assistant builds the timeline in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
01
Find the steadiest shot of the sunrise on day 3.
The sunrise moments from that morning, from every camera, steadiest first, with in and out points.
Your AI app02
Which takes of my intro at the harbor have no wind noise?
Each take of the line, transcribed, with wind on the mic, shake and soft focus marked, so the clean ones stand out.
Your AI app03
Cut a 90-second recap, one beat per day.
A timeline in DaVinci Resolve Studio built from each day's best moments, in the order you traveled.
Your AI appDoes it handle footage from several cameras and my phone?
Yes. Prewatch reads the files macOS can decode, from mirrorless cameras, GoPro, DJI and iPhone, and places every clip in one run of days and scenes by its own capture time. Phones and Fujifilm cameras record their time zone; for other cameras the day comes from the file's UTC time, so a clip shot near midnight can land on the next day.
Does it use my locations, and do they leave the Mac?
It reads the location a file recorded, when there is one, and uses it to start a new scene when you moved. Locations stay as coordinates on your Mac: nothing is looked up over the network, and they are never sent to a description model.
Does it work on the road, without a connection?
Once its models have downloaded on first use, indexing, transcription, the rough English translation and every flag run on the Mac with no connection. Point it at a card, an external SSD or last year's archive drive. Descriptions and moments need a connection and your own API key.
Does it work with the free version of DaVinci Resolve?
Building timelines by chat needs DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1 or later, whose built-in MCP server lets your assistant work in Resolve. With the free version you can still index your footage, search it and ask Claude or ChatGPT about it, then place the clips yourself. A file handoff that the free version can import is planned.
How does the free trial work?
Prewatch is an App Store subscription with a 14-day free trial: $59 a year or $7.99 a month after it. You manage or cancel it in your Apple Account's subscription settings; cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged.
Try it on your own footage
Point Prewatch at a folder you have already shot, then ask about it in Claude or ChatGPT.
14 days free, then $59 a year or $7.99 a month. Works with your Claude or ChatGPT plan; timelines need DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1+. Clip descriptions are optional and use your own API key, billed by Anthropic or OpenAI.