Eddie AI
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What Eddie is and your first ten minutes in it. Import to first cut.

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Add media to an existing projectClick + Add next to Media in the project sidebar — new clips upload with live progress in place and join the project seamlessly.Add your own footage when you work from Claude or ChatGPTClaude and ChatGPT cannot upload your files. Add footage in the Eddie web app or desktop app, then go back to your chat.Bring Eddie into your Premiere ProductionsInvite Eddie to your LucidLink filespace and it joins your Premiere Production as a collaborator — reading footage off the mount and delivering new projects into an Eddie folder.Bring a Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve timeline into EddieEddie imports footage, not project files. Bring a Premiere sequence or Final Cut project through the desktop app, or use your edit as a reference.Can Eddie ingest files from a drive, server or storage device?Eddie ingests footage through upload, connected cloud storage, or the desktop app, not by reaching into an arbitrary drive or server on its own.Connect cloud storagePull footage straight from connected cloud storage into a project — and what to check when the connection fails.Does Eddie have a free trial?There's no separate trial signup — every new account starts with free credits and pay-as-you-go pricing, so you can import footage and edit before paying anything.Eddie for iPhoneThe Eddie iPhone app: watch your edits, prompt changes, import footage from your phone, and get a ping the moment things finish.Edit a podcast or other audio-only recordingImport audio with no video, such as a podcast, an interview recording or a voice memo. Eddie builds, plays and exports the edit like any other.Footage logs for smaller projects are generated on demandInterview projects under 90 minutes of A-roll skip logging at import. Open Export, choose Footage logs, click Generate footage logs (free), then export bins to your NLE without making a cut.Get notified when your project is readyImports take a while — you don't have to watch. Get a ping on your iPhone and one email the moment your project is ready.Getting started with EddieFrom footage to a timeline in your editor in four steps: watch what's new in Eddie v4, add your footage, get a first cut, and hand it to your NLE.Import from DropboxImport footage from Dropbox by pasting a shared link or connecting your account — Eddie transfers the files server-side, folders included.Import from Frame.ioBring footage in from Frame.io — browse your workspace's connected Frame.io account, or import from a public share link — and send finished cuts back for review.Import from Google DrivePull footage straight from Google Drive into a project — pick files with Google's own picker, or paste a shared link, and Eddie transfers everything server-side.Import from LucidLinkConnect a LucidLink filespace once, then browse it or paste a lucid:// link to pull footage straight into Eddie — no local download needed.Import from Premiere, Final Cut or ResolveSend footage from Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve into an Eddie project via the desktop app's integrations.Import from ShadeConnect Shade to your workspace once, then browse your Shade drives and pull originals straight into Eddie — no local download needed.Import from iconikConnect iconik with an application token, then browse, search or paste an asset/collection URL — Eddie imports the best available proxy or original from your MAM.Import your footageCreate a project and add footage — upload, cloud import or desktop — and Eddie transcribes and analyzes every clip in the background.Importing a podcast or multi-camera conversation with separate micsWhen each speaker was recorded on their own camera and microphone, Eddie needs a file that actually contains every voice, or it will only play whoever's camera it's cutting to.Install the desktop appInstall the Eddie AI desktop app for native local playback, uncapped MP4 rendering and the NLE integrations — same account as the web.Languages: transcription and captionsEddie transcribes 100+ languages and detects the spoken language automatically. Transcripts, search and editing work in each language’s own script.Make your first AI editImport your interviews, ask Eddie for a rough cut with a target length, then revise it and cover it with b-roll.Manage your email preferencesTurn any category of Eddie email on or off — onboarding tips, project notifications, invites — from the account menu or straight from an email footer.RAW footage and codecsIn the desktop app Eddie decodes Blackmagic BRAW and RED R3D directly; Canon and Sony RAW work through proxies.Supported file formats, import limits and frame rateWhich video, audio and photo files Eddie imports (MXF, XAVC, HEVC, ProRes and more), how much one import and one project hold, and the frame rate your edit exports at.The editor explained: player, transcript, timelineThe player, transcript and timeline stay in sync — understanding the three panels makes prompting far more precise.Uninstall the desktop appYou can uninstall the Eddie desktop app the same way you remove any other application on your operating system.Use Eddie from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or any MCP clientConnect Eddie to Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client, and reconnect it if it stops working or asks you to sign in again.Use your own voice recording as a voice-overRecord your voice on a phone or a mic, add the audio file to your project with + Add, and ask Eddie to place it. Eddie cannot open a link or a code from a recording app.What is Eddie AI?Eddie AI is an AI video editor you direct in plain language — import footage, describe the cut, refine by conversation, export anywhere.What logging is, and why you would want logsLogging is writing down what is actually in your footage before you cut it — an outline of each interview and a shot log for your B-roll. Eddie does it automatically at import, so the map exists before the edit starts.What's new in Eddie v4Eddie v4: reach it from ChatGPT, Claude, your phone, or the desktop app; native Premiere, Resolve, Avid and Final Cut hand-off; and enterprise SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA support.When the desktop app skips transcodingThe desktop app uploads a file as it is, with no transcoding, when the file is already a light, playable proxy. There is no setting to turn on.Where the desktop app keeps files on your computerWhere the desktop app puts its working copies, settings and logs, how to move the working copies to another drive, and how to free space.Work in your DaVinci Resolve cloud project with EddieShare a Blackmagic Cloud project library with Eddie and it joins as a collaborator — transcribing, logging and cutting inside your own DaVinci Resolve project.

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