Edit Mind

Edit Mind is the open source project behind Orcah Studio, a Mac application that lets users search a personal video library in plain English and jump straight to the moment they want. The product is local first: indexing and search run on the user's own machine by default, with no cloud model involved, and files are not moved or copied. It is built for video editors, creators and anyone holding years of footage across drives, SSDs and network storage. Orcah transcribes speech and labels speakers, so a quoted line can be found at the exact second it was said. It detects faces and groups them by person, counts objects per scene, reads on screen text and writes a plain language description of each scene. Visual Match finds scenes that resemble a dropped screenshot or a chosen dominant color. It also reads telemetry and camera metadata, including GPS data and Strava matching, and results carry a source file and timecode so clips can link into DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut, with Premiere Pro by request. It requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 14.0 or later. Pricing is a single offer: a 249 dollar one time lifetime license with every feature, unlimited on device indexing and no subscription. The vendor lists it as a public beta price and offers a 30 day refund. The founder explains that the project started as open source, then moved toward source available, and that a packaged Mac app was created for users who did not want to run Docker.