First Pass listens to your dialogue footage, finds the themes, and builds your sequences for you. Hours of raw footage to organised selects in minutes. Your clients don't need to know.
Built by Editors. For Editors.
Premiere Pro • macOS & Windows • DaVinci Resolve coming soon
Synced video or audio on your timeline. Interviews, documentaries, podcasts, speeches, vlogs. Anything with dialogue. That's all it needs.
Tell First Pass what you're looking for, or let it auto-detect the topics in your footage. Your call.
First Pass builds new sequences organised by theme, with captions and transcripts. Your selects are ready. Start the real edit.
You've got four hours of dialogue footage. Twelve topics buried across six contributors. And before you can start the creative edit, you have to sit through every second. Scrubbing, marking, sorting, cutting dead air. The first pass is the most tedious part of every edit and it hasn't changed in twenty years.
Drop your synced footage onto a timeline. Tell First Pass what themes you're looking for, or let it listen and detect them automatically. It goes through everything, finds the relevant moments, and builds new sequences organised by theme.
You go from zero to one without the grind. It's the secret weapon editors won't shut up about. To each other.
Interviews, documentaries, podcasts, conferences, vlogs, speeches. If someone's talking, First Pass handles it.
Twenty hours of interviews across six contributors. First Pass organises it all by topic before you even open a bin. Tell the producer it took all weekend.
Long-form interviews you need to cut into chapters or highlights? Themes in, sequences out.
Multi-topic conversations sorted into segments automatically. Stop scrubbing, start cutting.
Town halls, testimonials, conference talks, training interviews. Get to the usable footage without watching everything twice.
Every plan includes the full First Pass toolkit. The only difference is how much footage you can process. We won't tell if you won't.
First Pass currently supports Adobe Premiere Pro on macOS and Windows. DaVinci Resolve support is coming soon.
Yes. First Pass works with synced video footage and audio-only timelines. Anything with dialogue.
First Pass analyses the dialogue in your footage and identifies recurring topics and themes automatically. You can also provide your own themes manually if you'd rather guide it.
Of course. First Pass builds your starting point. The sequences are fully editable in your editing software. It gets you from zero to one. The creative edit is still yours.
The duration of the raw footage you process. A four-hour interview uses four hours of your monthly allowance.
7 days, full access, no credit card required. Pick any plan and start editing immediately.
We're filmmakers. Of course it's teal and orange.
First Pass is built by Trick Of The Light, a Clios Gold-winning video production and VFX company. We built it because we were tired of the grind ourselves.