Your footage already holds the story. Just say Hey Archi.
Archi watches every moment in your Archive, finds the ones that matter and makes the video with you, as a real project you can keep editing. Your footage stays on your computer.
Moments1.7 h · 1,063 moments
Blue Umbrella · FilmCraft3:03
Not another chatbot to learn. Archi joins the one you use.
Say “Hey Archi, find every moment from youth camp” in the chat you already have open. Archi is built on an open standard that more and more AI assistants support, so it isn't tied to one company.
You shot forty hours of footage. Somewhere in there is the kid laughing, the crowd erupting, and the one sentence that sums up the whole week. Finding them shouldn't take forty more.
Three steps from “where is that shot?” to a finished film.
Add a folder to The Archive
A trip, a camp, a wedding, or ten years of footage. Your files stay exactly where they are.
Archi watches everything
Every moment gets understood: what's in the picture, every spoken word, whether the shot is usable, what you can hear.
Just say Hey Archi
Describe the video you want, in the AI you already use. Archi finds the moments, shows you a storyboard, then builds it in FilmCraft.
Archi is your maestro, your conductor, your editor.
Every tool, one performance.
Finding, music, titles, colour, sound and review, brought together in one conversation. No exporting and re-importing between apps.
Everything in time with the music.
It maps the song, cuts on the phrase and lands the hero shot on the lift.
Plans like one. Checks like one.
A storyboard before it builds, a review of its own draft before you see it, and a project you can keep changing.
The Craft apps make it. Archi knows what to make.
The Craft apps are where the work gets made. Archi is the one who knows your footage, and it drives them for you: it picks the right app for each piece, asks before it opens one, and hands back files you can open and change.
A real timeline, not a render.
Archi builds the edit as a native, editable FilmCraft timeline: every cut, title, level and grade still yours to change.
Title sequences with full control.
Series openers and animated titles, saved as templates someone can tweak by hand, and dropped onto the timeline with a see-through background.
Thumbnails from your best frame.
Archi finds the frame, PhotoCraft makes the thumbnail or poster in your look, as a layered file.
Logos and lettering, sharp at any size.
Ready to animate in EffectCraft or place straight into FilmCraft.
Animated titles and effects that render on your computer, transparent, straight onto the timeline.
Love a graphic? Save it as a template. Next time, change the words and render.
It's a real project, not a render.
Archi doesn't hand back a flat video file. It builds the film in FilmCraft and leaves the project open: change a shot yourself, or tell Archi what to change next.
The real FilmCraft project from Blue Umbrella →
Find your footage the way you remember it.
Not by filename. Not by date. By what happened.
Find what's seen
Describe the shot the way you'd describe it to a friend. Archi finds it, even if nobody said a word.
Find what's said
Every word, timed — in English, Tagalog and dozens more.
Knows a good shot
Shake, whip pans, blur, bad exposure, someone walking past the lens — flagged four times a second.
Hears everything
Find the crowd erupting, a quiet stretch for a voice-over, or where the song kicks in.
Your taste comes first
Star, reject, tag, like Lightroom. Archi prefers your favourites and never touches a reject.
Cuts that never clip a word
Every word has a start and an end. Archi snaps each cut into the pause, so nobody gets chopped mid-sentence.
Checks its own work
Before you see it, Archi renders a draft and inspects every cut, every frame and the loudness, then fixes what it finds.
Built for a team
Everyone picks their name. Every star, reject and tag is credited, and anything can be undone. Run one Archive for the whole office.
Find the people you name
Optional face search: off unless you turn it on, never uploaded, never guesses who anyone is.
Everything for one video, together
A collection holds the moments, photos, songs, motion graphics, look and brief for one video. Say “Hey Archi, make the video from the ‘Maybe the best’ collection” and it starts from there.
Your look, every time
Looks (brand kits) set the fonts, colours and pace of every title. Five starters come with it, for weddings, missions, camps, churches and travel. Titles get a soft scrim only where the footage is too bright to read them.
This is the real app: The Archive.
Screens from a real Archive: one wedding, 62 videos and 7 photos, 1.7 hours, 1,063 moments.
Talk to it like an editor. It plans like one.
Archi doesn't just find. It breaks your idea into beats, finds the moment for each, and explains the plan. This is the real storyboard from a wedding film it cut to an original song.
| Time | Beat | Picture | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Opener | Monogram Reveal | The ring draws itself; the film ends the same way |
| 0:13 | Rain | Grey sky, location tag | “Grey clouds rolling slow across the valley” |
| 0:28 | The walk | Father and bride, blue umbrella | The hero shot, on the song's first big lift |
| 1:28 | The kiss | The kiss and the cheer | Natural sound raised so you hear the field |
| 2:27 | Lights | First dance, string lights | “Now the rain's turned to lights”, after a Light Sweep |
A song written for this footage. Cuts that land on it.
Archi reads what happened in your footage, writes lyrics about it, and plans every part of the song to the second. Then it cuts the film to those parts.
- Your own songs first: point it at your music folders. Every song is mapped for its feel, tempo, phrases and big moments.
- Or a new one, made to fit: ElevenLabs Music composes it in a minute or two, with parts as long as the edit needs. Archi shows the plan and the cost and asks before it spends anything.
- Cut on the beat or the phrase: every cut moves to the nearest beat, bar or phrase, and the hero shot lands on the lift.
- Revise without losing it: keep the parts you liked and redo the rest. Every version is a new file.
Only the words describing the song are sent to ElevenLabs. Never your footage or your music.
New song · Blue Umbrella3:00 · 7 parts
Animated titles. Made once, reused forever.
Archi designs motion graphics that render on your computer. Love one? Save it as a template, then anyone fills in the words and hits render. No code, same polish every time. Ten starters come with it, from a wedding monogram to counting numbers, and a template goes to another computer as one small file.
Sermon Series Title template · v3
Love a video? Remake it with your own footage.
Paste a link. Archi studies how it's built, then casts every shot from your Archive.
- Every shot, timed — the hook, the pacing, cuts per ten seconds.
- The music mapped — beats, phrases, and whether cuts land on them.
- Every title read — words, colours, position, how it moves — remade in your brand.
- Side-by-side compare of your cut against the original.
It copies structure and technique, never anyone's footage, music or words.
A study · shot lengthsfirst 24 shots
Cuts per 10 secondsfirst 4 minutes
From a real study of a 15-minute missions documentary. It also read 57 on-screen titles and graphics.
From one folder, anything.
1.7 hours of rainy-day footage, an original song written about the day, and a 3-minute film cut to it, delivered as a FilmCraft project you can keep editing. About 45 minutes, start to finish.
See how it was made →Starts quiet, builds to the biggest moment.
Their story in their own words, with b-roll.
Three hooks, captions, social loudness.
The best moment of every season.
What we did, one story, one thank-you.
Hero shot lands on the chorus.
One template, a new title every week.
The best frame, your brand, in PhotoCraft.
Your footage stays on your computer.
Archi watches your videos on your own machine. It's footage of real people, often kids, so we built it like it matters.
Finding, speech and descriptions run here. Your video files, face data and music are never uploaded. A new song sends only its words.
Your originals are never changed, moved or deleted.
Only on if an admin says so. Nobody is named unless a person names them.
Archi never names or identifies children, and flags private moments.
One honest note. When you talk to Archi through an online assistant like Claude, what Archi shows it goes to that assistant, like anything in a chat: descriptions, transcripts, your requests, and the still frames it looks at to choose shots. Your video files stay here.
Under the hood, an open standard.
Archi is an MCP server with 63 tools that gives your AI eyes and ears on your footage: finding, watching, transcripts, music maps, edit lists, review and the Craft apps. It's one program for Mac and Windows, and the models that watch your footage run on your computer.
Today it's set up and tested with Claude Desktop and Claude Code, as the connector archi.
// claude_desktop_config.json { "mcpServers": { "archi": { "command": ".../storylib", "args": ["mcp", "--user", "Your Name"] } } }
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Just say Hey Archi.
Runs on Apple Silicon Macs and Windows 10 & 11. Set up in one script.
Built in about a week in Manila, for a ministry's media team, by a dad who retired to do exactly this. Read the story →
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