For video editors
Find any line of dialogue in your footage in seconds.
Transcribes every clip on your Mac. Search your library for the line you remember. Send the cuts to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or Resolve.
Most of the work in interview-driven editing isn’t the cuts. It’s the listening. Watching the same hour of footage three times because you remember someone said the perfect line, but you can’t remember which clip. ReelChest does that listening once, on your Mac. Then you find what you need by searching for it.
Library Search
Find any line of dialogue across your whole library.
I know I said it on day three of the shoot. I just can’t find which clip. ReelChest transcribes every clip in your library, right on your Mac. Type the phrase you remember. Every match shows up. Click one to play the exact second. Interviews, vlogs, podcasts, multi-cam talking heads: you stop re-watching, you start finding.
Subtitle Editor
The transcript hub of the whole app.
Open it on any clip from the inspector and three jobs share the same window. Read what was said. Drag-select the segments you want and send them straight to a paper edit. Style the captions you’ll ship: eight animation presets from Hard Cut to Word Reveal, a nine-zone position grid, font and color and weight per caption, down to a single word. Build a paper edit and the captions follow with your styling intact. Assemble a mosaic and captions transcribe fresh from the new cut, timed to the words. Export as a Final Cut Pro captioned timeline, alpha MOV for finishing, or universal .srt, .vtt, .txt, or .json.
Paper Edit
Build a rough cut from a script of your interviews.
Open every clip’s transcript as one continuous script. Highlight the lines that matter. Stack them in the order you want. Send the result to Final Cut Pro as a sequence with the cuts already made. Premiere and Resolve XML available too. The slog of cutting interview footage, mostly handled before you open the timeline.
Mosaic Editor
Type the script you wish you had. We find the words.
Write the line you want, even if nobody said it that way. ReelChest scans every transcript in the project, finds matching words across different clips, and snaps them into a sequence in the order you wrote them. Promo edits, supercuts, music video voice, sizzle reels: built from the words you have, in the cadence you want. Stuck on the script? Export every transcript in the project as one file, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, ask for a draft built only from your own words. Drop the result back in. The matcher takes it from there.
Also included.
Work that doesn’t make the headline, but makes the difference.
Captions, animated.
Animation presets you’d actually pick. Frame-accurate timing. Per-style text-transform. Export as Final Cut Pro timelines, alpha MOV, .srt, .vtt, .txt, or .json.
Codec transcoding.
DNxHR, MXF P2, MKV, and GoPro flavors converted to ProRes proxies inside the app. One clip from a right-click, or the whole library at once. Imports cleanly into Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or Resolve.
FCPXML that just works.
Sequences land silently in your active library. Clips, edits, and timing intact. No picker dialog, no manual step.
Per-word subtitle edits.
Fix, retime, or restyle a single word without touching the rest. Word timings come from on-device speech-to-text, refined against the audio.
Per-clip transcript inspector.
See what was said in any clip without leaving the browser. Color labels, tags, and full-text filters built in.
Premiere and Resolve.
Final Cut Pro is the deepest integration, but XML export sends your cuts to Premiere and Resolve too. Same paper edits, same mosaic assemblies, just a different finishing app.
What ReelChest isn’t.
- Not a cloud tool. Every transcript happens on your Mac. Your footage stays on your drives. NDA work, embargoed interviews, unreleased client cuts: nothing leaves the machine.
- Not an auto-editor. We help you find and assemble the words. The cuts are still yours.
- Not a kitchen-sink NLE. Built for the prep work, the part before you cut. Hand off to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or Resolve when you’re ready to finish.
Get notified when it ships.
End of May 2026. Be first in line for the launch build.