Now in private beta. Limited spots.
The story
is already
in there.
You shot 200 hours. Your deadline is tomorrow. Xappio searches your footage like a search engine, finding the moments that matter in seconds, not days.
50 spots available.
Documentary filmmakers, editors & story producers only.
Search your footage...
200+
Hours indexed in beta
4,800+
Interview clips searchable
0
Footage leaves your drive
The problem
You're drowning
in your own footage.
The logging trap
Hours of transcribing, marking selects, color-coding bins. You become an archivist instead of a storyteller. And it still takes days to find one usable line.
The memory problem
That perfect moment your subject said something real. You remember it happened. You don't remember when. You spend an hour hunting a 10-second clip.
The cloud isn't an option
Uploading 4K archives to the cloud? Your footage is proprietary. Your footage is sensitive and cannot leave your drive.
The deadline is always now
The longer assembly takes, the less creative energy you have left for editing. You arrive at the timeline exhausted before you've cut a single frame.
How it works
From archive chaos
to rough cut.
In three steps.
Ingest
Point it at your drive. Walk away.
Xappio indexes your footage locally: transcribing, tagging, and building a semantic map of every interview, B-roll label, and sync take. No uploads. No cloud. Your files stay exactly where they are. Average indexing time: 4 hours per 100GB.
Search
Ask it anything. Get every relevant moment.
Type the way you think. "Every time Maria talks about leaving the country." "B-roll of hands. Any hands." Xappio returns ranked clips with timestamps and transcript excerpts, searchable by meaning, not keywords.
Export
Send your selects straight to your NLE.
Select the clips you want. Adjust in/out points. Export an XML sequence file that opens directly in Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro with your clips already on the timeline, in order, ready to cut.
Who it's for
Built for people who
live inside footage.
Documentary Editors
You're handed a hard drive with 300 hours of field interviews and six weeks to picture lock. The logging alone would eat half your timeline.
→ Find every usable line without watching everything twice.
Story Producers
Your job is to find the arc inside the chaos. You need to know what was said, when it was said, and whether it matches the narrative you're building.
→ Build your paper cut in hours, not weeks.
Archival Filmmakers
Decades of tape. DV, DVCPro, ProRes. Footage you didn't shoot, in formats you didn't choose, with zero metadata and no transcripts.
→ Make your archive searchable. Finally.
FAQ
Questions we'd ask
if we were you.
Nope. No video uploads to the cloud. We built it this way specifically because documentary and archival footage often involves sensitive subjects, NDAs, and material that must remain private.
Xappio currently supports ProRes, H.264, H.265/HEVC, MXF, MP4, MOV, and MKV containers. We're actively adding more formats based on beta feedback. We're prioritizing format support based on what the beta cohort actually needs.
Multi-language support is a first-class feature, not an afterthought. Xappio currently handles dozens of languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German with high accuracy.
You get an XML file that conforms to Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro's import format. When you open it, your selected clips are already on a new sequence timeline in the order you arranged them in Xappio, with your in/out points applied.
It depends on your footage volume and your machine's specs. As a rough benchmark: a modern M-series Mac indexes approximately 100GB of ProRes footage in 3 to 5 hours. You run it overnight, and in the morning your entire archive is searchable. Indexing only needs to happen once per project. Adding new footage to an existing index is incremental and much faster.
Beta access is free. We're selecting the first cohort of 50 documentary filmmakers and editors to use Xappio in production, give us real feedback, and help shape the product. In exchange, beta users get heavily discounted pricing when we launch, early access to new features, and direct access to the team. We'll be transparent about pricing well before beta ends and you'll never be surprised by a sudden paywall.
That's exactly who we want in beta. If you're in the middle of an assembly with a drive full of footage you're still working through, you're our ideal user. We want to see Xappio solve real problems on live projects, not just be tested on historical footage. Tell us what you're working on when you apply.
Apply for beta access
50 spots.
One question.
We're not accepting everyone. We're looking for working documentary filmmakers, editors, and story producers with real footage problems right now.