Twelve videos a month,
three clients, one folder each.
Nothing sits in a queue behind you.
Agency work is not harder editing — it is the same editing twelve times, with a client asking why a shot was dropped. Studio runs the volume in parallel, ingests a whole shoot from one folder, and writes down every decision so the answer to that question is a link rather than a shrug.
Studio Business is $100 a month — 5,000 minutes of footage, a third processing lane reserved for it, and the bulk folder workflow. It works out at $0.020 a minute.
Eighty-three hours of footage a month, and twelve of them at a time.
Every lever below is a setting the product already reads at run time, so none of this is a roadmap item. There is one thing on this tier that is a roadmap item, and it is called out underneath.
Point it at the folder. It works out what is inside.
A whole shoot arrives as a folder: the audio, the transcript, a brief, and a pile of stills. Instead of sorting that by hand for every client, you hand the folder over and Studio decides which file is which.
- The audio — the first file with a video or sound extension becomes the recording. mp3, wav, m4a, aac, flac, ogg, mp4 and mov all count.
- The transcript — md, markdown, txt or json. A json transcript with segments keeps its timecodes instead of being flattened to text.
- The context — any text file whose name contains context, brief, brand, knowledge or summary is treated as the brief rather than as a transcript.
- The assets — pictures and clips found anywhere under the folder are attached as local assets, up to the per-bundle limit.
- The folders themselves — the whole tree is searched recursively, so a client's nested export folder works without being flattened first.
If the folder holds neither audio nor a transcript, the call is refused with the reason rather than creating an empty project — “No audio or transcript files found in bundle folder”, app.py:570.
run: true starts the pipeline in the same call. Leave it false and the job is staged, so a batch of client folders can be ingested at six in the evening and started deliberately. The runner also exposes /jobs/<id>/run and /jobs/<id>/retry-low-confidence, which re-runs only the parts the transcription was unsure about.
app.py:11184-11208 · folder discovery app.py:537-585 · kept as an API with no interface, which is why this page has to describe it — FEATURE-INVENTORY.md §14
Where this sits in the legacy surfaceTwo things that turn a delivery into a conversation.
The awkward part of agency editing is never the cut. It is the sentence “why did you drop that shot?” asked by somebody who has not read the transcript.
Give Studio a video of how you would have cut it, and it lays the two edits out beside each other: where they agree, where yours is tighter, where the machine kept something you would have dropped. It is stage eight of the pipeline and it only runs when you upload a reference.
For an agency this is the useful half of the argument. You are not showing a client that the machine is right — you are showing them the two versions and the reason each one exists, and then charging for the one they pick.
“Compare with your own edit” is the stage label shown in the app — studio/pipeline.py:31 · reference upload — studio/web.py:859,865
Every cut, card, zoom and pause is recorded with the timecode, what was done and the reason it happened, in the order it happened. You can read the whole edit before watching it, and you can send the log to a client instead of a paragraph explaining yourself.
It is also how a revision gets written. “Remove the card at 1:20” is a sentence you can only write if you can see that there is a card at 1:20 and why it was drawn.
decisions are written as they are taken, not reconstructed afterwards — docs/studio/ops/DECISIONS.md · how we prove it
From $0.083 a minute down to $0.020.
One line answers the question every agency asks: what does a minute of footage cost at our volume? The subscription rates sit beside the pack rates, because the honest comparison is between them.
| What you are buying | Price | Rate per minute | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-minute top-up pack | $5 | $0.083 | One episode, without a subscription |
| 300-minute top-up pack | $20 | $0.067 | A project that arrives without warning |
| 1,000-minute top-up pack | $50 | $0.050 | A shoot, bought once |
| Creator — 300 min a month | $10 / month | $0.033 | 2.0× cheaper than the $20 pack |
| Pro — 2,000 min a month | $50 / month | $0.025 | 2.7× cheaper — shorter videos go first |
| Studio Business — 5,000 min a month | $100 / month | $0.020 | 3.4× cheaper — the agency tier |
Plans are billed month by month. The same packs on the pricing page.
Three clients. Twelve videos a month. 408 minutes.
The arithmetic is the whole argument, so here it is with nothing rounded in our favor. Twelve videos at an average of thirty-four minutes each is 408 minutes of footage in a month.
| Line | Minutes | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Client A — 5 videos a month | 5 × 34 = 170 | Weekly talking-head series |
| Client B — 4 videos a month | 4 × 34 = 136 | Monthly webinar cut into four |
| Client C — 3 videos a month | 3 × 34 = 102 | Product explainers |
| Total footage | 408 | Twelve videos, twelve jobs |
| Shorts from those twelve | 0 | Free from footage already paid for |
| Revisions across the month | 0 | A job is charged once, whatever you ask afterwards |
| Charged on Studio Business | 408 of 5,000 | About 8 % of the allowance, or 6× headroom before the tier is full |
Twelve videos at 34 minutes each also fits inside Creator's 300 minutes only if you cut the month in half, and inside Pro's 2,000 comfortably. Business is the tier the parallelism argues for rather than the minutes: at twelve videos a month, twelve jobs at once is the difference between a batch finishing overnight and a batch finishing over three days.
$27.20 is 408 minutes at the 300-minute pack rate of $0.067. Two of those packs cover the month for $40. The subscription is $100 and includes 5,000 minutes.
Put your own client volumes inOr compare the tiers side by side before you decide.
Send us the volume. We will send back the tier.
Tell us how many clients and how much footage, and you get a tier, a monthly total and the rate per minute — including the honest answer if the answer is that you should buy top-up packs instead. You can also just start free and put a real client video through it first.
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