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What stays on your machine

Your footage never leaves your computer. An assistant connected to Shotwork reads the text you wrote about your shots, not the shots themselves, and it can write reel files into one folder only.

How it works

The assistant starts a small Shotwork server on your computer and asks it questions. The server reads your Library: the shot lists and reels listed there, and the details you entered in them. It answers with text.

For each shot, the assistant can read:

It can read It never receives
The shot's name and the shot list it belongs to A frame of video
Its length, frame rate and frame size A thumbnail
Tags, rating and notes Sound
Every preset field, such as project, client, year, role and assets Anything outside your Library
Whether it is restricted

Shotwork includes no AI model, calls no AI service, and needs no account. The assistant you connect does the thinking, under its own terms. Whatever Shotwork tells it becomes part of your conversation with that assistant, like anything else you type there.

Restricted work

  • Searches leave restricted shots out unless you ask for them. The library summary still reports how many exist.
  • A timeline with a restricted shot in it is refused unless you said restricted work may appear.

Where it writes

Only into Shotwork Reels in your home folder. The assistant names a reel; Shotwork turns the name into a safe file name and chooses the folder. The assistant cannot write anywhere else, and it cannot change your shot lists.

What this means when you

  • ...disconnect: Shotwork's entry leaves the assistant's settings, and nothing else there changes. Restart the assistant.
  • ...mark a shot restricted mid-conversation: save the shot list, and the next question already respects it. The library is read fresh every time.
  • ...share a file the assistant made: neither file holds footage. The timeline names the video files on your computer, the way any timeline does.