NEW IN 0.2.0Photos, cut to the beat Private beta · Apple silicon · macOS 14+

A rhythmic video editor for music videos.

Drop in a track and some footage. Beatknife cuts it to the beat.

The whole Beatknife window: monitors, beat grid, clip lane and the dock

The whole instrument, mid-reroll. No sound.

How it works

  1. 01

    Drop a track

    It finds the tempo and the downbeats, like your DJ software would, and lays a grid over the song.

  2. 02

    Select video sources

    Your own footage, or anything from archive.org, straight from the app.

  3. 03

    Arrange clips with one click

    One click fills every slot. Hate a cut? Reroll it.

  4. 04

    Play with FX and mutations

    Stack VHS, glitch and weirder things. Fire them every slot, every bar, or hit Surprise me.

  5. 05

    Export or continue in Premiere

    Render an mp4 up to 4K, or open the whole cut in Premiere as XML.

The Video sources browser: keyword search across archive.org collections
Sources

Dig through archive.org

Bring your own video, or search the public archives from inside the app. Can't decide? Add random.

The bar ruler, waveform and BPM panel: 91 BPM, 441 cuts
Sequencer

Your whole video done in one click

Scenes dealt into every slot of the track in under a second. Hate a cut? Reroll it.

The same cut opened in Adobe Premiere, a marker on every beat
Output

Finish it in Premiere. Or don't.

Render an mp4 up to 4K, or hand the whole cut to Premiere as XML, a marker on every beat.

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Demo · 14:49

See it in action!

One track, one tape, all the way to a finished video and on into Premiere. Sound on.

Watch the demo →

Gallery

Made with Beatknife

Exports straight out of the app, untouched.

MotoGP tape, VHS master. 16:9.
A vertical cut. 9:16.

See all four in the gallery →

Make something weird.

Free while it's in beta. All we ask back is feedback.

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