First Pass is an AI edit assistant that helps you turn your raw footage into a first draft in minutes. It finds the themes, builds your sequences, and clears the boring part of the edit, so you get straight to the creative.
Built by Editors. For Editors.
Synced video or audio on your timeline. Interviews, documentaries, podcasts, speeches, vlogs. Anything with dialogue.
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.
The secret weapon editors won't shut up about. To each other.
Every plan includes the full toolkit. Pick the hours and machines you need. We won't tell if you won't.
7-day free trial on all plans. No card details required.
First Pass organises it all by topic before you even open a bin. Tell the producer it took all weekend.
Long-form conversations sorted into segments. Themes in, sequences out. Stop scrubbing, start cutting.
Town halls, testimonials, conference talks. Get to the usable footage without watching everything twice.
First Pass supports Adobe Premiere Pro 25.6+ on macOS and Windows. DaVinci Resolve support is on the roadmap.
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.
Of course. First Pass builds your starting point. The sequences are fully editable. 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.
The plugin you're looking at. Native to Adobe Premiere Pro, dialogue footage in, sequences out.
The same magic, baked into Resolve. Plus speaker recognition: First Pass tells who's talking, every time.
7 days free. No card. Full access. Just don't tell your clients how fast you got it done.
Five steps. That's it.
Download from your account and install in Premiere Pro. One time only.
Synced video or audio. Interviews, podcasts, anything with dialogue.
Window → Extensions → First Pass. It lives inside Premiere.
Type the topics you're looking for. Or let First Pass find them.
New sequences appear in your bin, organised by theme. Start the real edit.