The Morning-After Reel. Without the All-Nighter.
The couple wants an Instagram Reel the morning after the wedding. Don't stay up until 4 AM cutting reception dancing. Drop your 300 clips into Onset Engine, pick an indie track, and let the AI build a perfectly paced, emotional rough cut. Export the .otio to Premiere for the final color grade while you pack your gear.
The 4 AM Problem
The ceremony ended at 6 PM. The reception ran until midnight. You've got 300 clips across 3 cameras — first dance, speeches, bouquet toss, sparkler exit, and 200 clips of guests dancing that all look the same on a thumbnail.
The couple's social media manager texts you at 11 PM: "Can we have a 60-second Reel by morning?" You know what's coming — 3 hours of scrubbing, culling, and cutting in Premiere while running on champagne and adrenaline. By 3 AM, you're second-guessing every cut.
This is the workflow that burns out wedding videographers. The shooting is the easy part. The same-day edit destroys you.
AI Culling + Emotional Pacing
Onset Engine doesn't just pick random clips. It understands what's happening in your footage. First dances score different from table conversations. Sparkler exits have distinctive motion signatures. The AI culls and ranks — you curate the final selection.
- ✓ Motion-Aware Culling: High-energy moments (first dance, bouquet toss, sparkler exit) ranked automatically above static table shots
- ✓ Emotional Pacing: The PRESTIGE preset maps calm moments to quiet musical sections and peak moments to emotional builds
- ✓ Multi-Cam Support: Ingest footage from all cameras into one library. The AI selects the best angle per beat
- ✓ OTIO Export: Hand off the AI's rough cut to Premiere or DaVinci Resolve for final color grading and client delivery
- ✓ Face-Aware Vertical: Need 9:16 for Instagram Reels? Face detection keeps the couple centered in every vertical crop
Same-Day Edit Workflow
Dump All Cards
Ingest footage from every camera at once. Pointer-only mode means no copying — just indexing. 300 clips analyzed in minutes.
Pick the Track
An emotional indie track, a piano piece, or the couple's first dance song. Onset Engine maps every beat and energy contour automatically.
PRESTIGE Preset
Cinematic letterboxing, warm grading, smooth dissolves. The aesthetic that makes wedding reels look like short films.
Export by Midnight
Render the Reel, export OTIO for tomorrow's full edit, and get some actual sleep. The couple gets their Instagram moment. You keep your sanity.
The OTIO Handoff
The same-day Reel is just the appetizer. The real deliverable — the 8-minute cinematic wedding film — comes later. That's where the .otio export saves your week.
Onset Engine's AI-generated timeline drops into DaVinci Resolve with clip references, beat-synced positions, and in/out points pre-placed. You're not starting from scratch — you're refining an AI rough cut that already respects the emotional arc of the music.
Grade it. Swap 3 clips. Add the vows audio. Export. What used to be a 20-hour edit is now a 4-hour polish.
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