Introducing Onset Engine
We’re excited to announce the public launch of Onset Engine — a local, AI-powered video editing and mixing engine that automatically creates beat-synced music video compilations.
What is Onset Engine?
Onset Engine analyzes your video footage using OpenCLIP (a state-of-the-art vision-language model), classifies clips by visual content, and then assembles them into coherent, music-driven edits. Everything runs locally on your existing hardware — no cloud uploads, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine. Works on CPU, accelerated with NVIDIA GPU.
Three Ways to Create
- 🚀 Autopilot — Describe your vision, and the AI builds a complete timeline in under a minute
- 🎛️ DJ Mode — Live-mix your video library with zero-latency, hardware-decoded MPV playback
- 🎬 Studio Mode — Full NLE-style control with timeline, inspector, library browser, and cinematic VFX presets
Why Local AI?
We believe your creative tools shouldn’t require uploading gigabytes of footage to someone else’s server. Onset Engine runs OpenCLIP inference directly on your NVIDIA GPU, performs audio analysis with librosa on your CPU, and stores everything in a local SQLite database.
Zero telemetry. Zero tracking. Zero cloud dependency.
What’s Included
- 9 cinematic style presets (Standard, Aggressive, Sensual, Raw, Prestige, Trailer, AMV, Hypnosis, VHS)
- Memory-safe chunked rendering pipeline with multithreaded encoding
- Triptych mode for TikTok/Reels 3-panel exports
- OpenTimelineIO export for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve hand-off
- Pointer-only ingest for massive libraries (zero extra disk space)
- Community-driven JSON driver system for content-agnostic AI direction
Pricing
Onset Engine is a one-time purchase with lifetime v1.x updates:
- Free Demo — Prove it runs on your hardware
- Core ($59) — Unlimited DJ Mode, 1080p rendering, full Autopilot
- Studio ($119) — 4K rendering, Triptych, OTIO export, premium presets
No subscriptions. No monthly fees. View pricing →
Get Started
Download the free Demo and see it work on your hardware. No GPU required — just your existing machine.
The rhythm is in the machine. Let it drive.