200GB of B-Roll. One Cinematic Intro.
You shot 200GB of 4K drone sweeps and walking shots across three cities. The footage is stunning — but editing it means a week of timeline work. Drop the folder into Onset Engine, select the PRESTIGE preset, and let the AI seamlessly curate and sequence your footage to the subtle energy of a lo-fi track. Export a perfectly paced cinematic intro in 60 seconds.
The Problem
You spent two weeks in Japan. You shot 200GB of cinematic 4K — temples at golden hour, Shibuya crossing at night, FPV drone sweeps over rice paddies, handheld POV through Kyoto markets. The trip was magical. The editing is hell.
You've been home for a month. The footage is still on an external drive. Every time you open your NLE, the scope of the project paralyzes you. You have 600 clips and no idea where to start. Your audience is waiting for the video that's never going to ship.
AI-Curated Cinematic Sequencing
Onset Engine doesn't generate visuals — it curates and sequences yours. During ingest, OpenCLIP encodes every clip as a 768-dimensional vector. The engine understands the difference between "drone sweep over ocean" and "shaky handheld in a dark alley" semantically.
- ✓ Scenic Detection: CLIP identifies sweeping landscapes, cityscapes, food shots, and crowd scenes automatically
- ✓ Energy Mapping: Calm drone footage fills quiet musical sections. Fast POV walking shots land on energy builds
- ✓ PRESTIGE Preset: Cinematic letterboxing, teal-and-orange grading, smooth transitions — the YouTube travel vlog look
- ✓ Pointer-Only Ingest: Index 200GB from your external drive without copying a single file
The Workflow
Point at the Drive
Plug in your external drive. Pointer-only mode indexes 200GB of 4K in minutes without copying files. Your drone footage stays where it is.
Drop a Lo-Fi Track
Chill beats, ambient piano, or indie acoustic. Onset Engine maps the energy contours — gentle builds, soft drops, quiet outros.
Select PRESTIGE
Cinematic letterboxing, teal-and-orange color grade, smooth dissolve transitions. The preset that makes drone footage look like a Netflix travel doc.
Ship the Intro
Render a 2-minute cinematic intro. Use it as your YouTube cold open, then hand off the full OTIO timeline to your NLE for the rest.
Built for Massive Libraries
Travel creators accumulate footage fast. 200GB per trip, 4 trips a year, and suddenly you're sitting on a terabyte of unsearchable video. Onset Engine turns that dead archive into a searchable, reusable asset library.
Need drone footage of water? Type "ocean from above" and the CLIP vectors find every matching clip across every trip. Need that golden hour temple shot from Kyoto? Semantic search finds it in milliseconds — even if the filename says DJI_0847.MP4.
Every trip you ingest makes the library more valuable. Footage from Japan, Iceland, and Bali all live in the same searchable database. One engine, all your b-roll, forever.
Ready to Try It?
Download the free demo and see the results on your own footage. One-time purchase, no subscriptions.