Synopsis
Powerful video analysis and tagging tools designed for filmmakers and content creators.

Cinematic Language
Synopsis is designed to improve workflows for filmmakers and content creators. Our analysis provides relevant, industry standard creative and technical terms to your shots.
We provide timed tags, as well as summary tags for your shots so you can save time searching and focus creative story telling.
Close Up
Clean Single
Center Composition
Shallow Depth of Field
Standard industry search terms let you find the perfect shot.
We've trained our custom machine learning system to identify over 300 terms of art from screen writing, storyboarding, cinematography, editorial, vfx and compositing. Using rigorous testing and real world validation, we worked with industry experts to ensure our analysis provides relevant results to help real professionals.
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- Creative
- Color
- Framing
- Composition
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- Shot Types
- Inserts
- Establishing
- Titles & Credits
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- Location
- Set
- Time of Day
- Lighting
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- Entities
- Faces
- People
- Slates & Charts


Use Cases
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Pre Production
Find content for mood boards, animatics and reference sequences. Turn around client rip-o-matics and sizzle reels in no time.
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Production
Manage large shoots and speed up dailies, ingest, and assembly by integrating natively with your on prem or cloud collaboration software.
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Post Production
Move fast and stay creative in post by having robust industry best tagging at your fingertips for every shot and frame.
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Distribution
Use cut detection and our analysis to find relavent shots quickly for cutting trailers and teasers.
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Marketing
Licensing your content? Add Synopsis metadata to help clients find the perfect shot they are looking for.
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Stock Footage
Provide powerful creative search terms to satisfy your discerning customers.
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Education
Teach students the language of film by analyzing classic motion pictures.
Asset Management
Synopsis integrates with your Media Asset Management platform of choice, either remotely in the cloud, on prem in your machine room, and even on your DIT cart on set.
Don't see your preferred integration? Let us know.
Custom Integrations
We provide SDKs as well direct cloud based API if you need custom solutions or are looking to add cinematic intelligence natively to your software or SAAS platform.
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macOS / iOS SDK
Synopsis.framework is optimized for Apple Silicon, Neural Engine and Metal. Faster than realtime cinematic predictions on desktop and mobile devices.
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Cloud API
Access our raw prediction results from our cloud based API, or host our GPU accelerated docker container on your own VPC instance.
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Custom Predictions
Need analysis we dont provide? We can help with customized machine learning solutions, data collection and training.

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Special Circumstances
Computational Cinematography R&D. We build next generation tools for film makers.