Vicuda Join the waitlist

That was a diagram. This is the app, unedited.

Five searches, each recorded in one take on a project of 1,335 stock clips. No result was picked by hand and nothing is composited.

A sentence nobody tagged. The result opens on the frame that matched.
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Mark in
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Mark out
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Put the range on the stack
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More shots like this one
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Hold and say a note

Ten hours of footage is 864,000 frames. You remember one of them.

10 h × 3,600 s × 24 fps

Past ten hours, finding the shot stops being part of the edit and becomes the edit. Whole days go to scrubbing, pulls and culling, and the energy the cut needed goes with them.

Vicuda takes that part of the job, so the creative part gets its day back. That is the whole idea: keep creatives creative.

Results in 133 ms

Median time from the last keystroke to a grid of shots. About as long as a blink.

Specifications

Reads
ProRes, HEVC, H.264, XAVC S. Anything macOS can decode.
Raw
BRAW, R3D and ARRIRAW are planned for the December 1 build.
Hears
Every spoken word, transcribed on the Mac. Search by what was said.
Exports
Final Cut Pro (FCPXML), Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. Selects in order, notes as markers.
Runs on
macOS 26 on Apple silicon. Indexing runs on the Neural Engine.
Network
Once, to activate. After that, only to renew a subscription.

Works with the Wi‑Fi off.

  • Nothing is uploaded.

    Indexing and search happen on your Mac. The footage stays on the drive it came off.

  • Nothing is generated.

    The models are there to find shots. They never make a frame or a sound.

  • Your footage trains nothing.

    Not our models, not anyone’s. What you shot stays yours.

Buy it once. Keep it.

Or subscribe, if that suits you better. Either way the footage and the index stay on your Mac.

Once
One payment, and that version is yours to keep. It comes with 12 months of updates, and renewing them is up to you.
Subscribe
By the month or the year, for yourself or a seat per person on your team. Stop, and search and review keep working.
Try it
14 days with everything on. Use it on two Macs at once.
Price
Announced at launch on December 1. The waitlist gets a founder’s price.

Questions

Does it really work offline?

Yes. Indexing and search run on your Mac, so once it is activated you can turn the Wi-Fi off and nothing changes. Unplug the footage drive and you can still search and skim it from a small proxy Vicuda keeps while it indexes. Full-res playback and export need the drive back.

What formats does it read?

Anything macOS decodes: ProRes, HEVC, H.264, XAVC S and the usual audio formats, plus photos. Raw support (BRAW, R3D, ARRIRAW) is coming in the December 1 build. If your camera is something else, tick the drive box when you join and I will test against your footage.

Which editors does it send to?

Final Cut Pro as FCPXML, and Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve through the XML both of them import. Several stacks go out in one file, a sequence each, with your selects in order and voice notes as markers on the clips.

How much does it cost?

Two ways. Pay once and that version is yours to keep, with 12 months of updates; renew when you want another year of them. Or subscribe by the month or the year, and if you stop, search and review keep working. You sign in once to activate, and the account holds your email and your license, never your footage. The price is announced at launch, and the waitlist gets a founder’s price.

What does on-device mean here?

The models that read your frames and your audio ship inside the app and run on your Mac. Your footage is never uploaded, nothing is generated from it, and it trains nothing. The index is one SQLite file on your disk that you can open yourself.

Join the waitlist.

I’m building Vicuda on my own, as a native Mac app, because the footage I want to search sits on a drive next to me and should not have to go anywhere to be found. Everything on this page was captured from the build I use every day.

Anything else: hello@vicuda.com

Brandon Young

Early access opens December 1. Join before then and the founder’s price is yours.