◆ GOLD
▸ TURNING POINT
EMOTIONAL
Cold Open

10 hours of interviews.
Story in seconds.

AI story mining for documentary editors. Drop footage, find the narrative, export to any NLE.

Story Intelligence

Raw footage in. Story out.

What you have

[03:52 — long pause, 4 seconds. He looks at his hands.]

FILADELFO (CONT'D)

My grandfather planted these trees. Sixty years ago. You don't walk away from that. You can't.

[04:18 — emotional, voice cracks slightly]

FILADELFO (CONT'D)

The drought killed half the crop. Half. And the price was already nothing.

3MINED WITH HI-HO
◆ Gold.
What Hi-Ho finds
The Turning Point
EMOTIONAL

The Turning Point

“After the drought. 2019. Everyone left. I couldn’t.”

Why He Stayed
NARRATIVE

Why He Stayed

“My grandfather planted these trees. You don’t walk away from that.”

What Coffee Means
EMOTIONAL

What Coffee Means

“For the first time, someone said you are worth something.”

How It Works

Drop. Mine. Direct. Export.

DROP FILES HERE
or
CONNECT TO RESOLVE
01

Drop

Drag footage into Hi-Ho or connect directly to Resolve. Any format, any length. Transcription runs locally on your machine.

Emotional peak — 04:18
Theme: legacy, family
Speaker change — 02:31
02

Mine

The AI reads every word, clusters themes, scores moments. Story structure emerges in seconds.

Put the strongest moment first
✓ Moved segment 7 to position 1
Now cut everything under 5s
03

Direct

Talk to your timeline. Merge clips, rename acts, restructure — all through natural conversation.

DIRECT TO RESOLVE
Premiere Pro — XML
Final Cut — FCPXML
Any NLE — EDL
04

Export

One click to Resolve. FCPXML, XML, or EDL for Premiere, Final Cut, and any other NLE.

Full AI Control

AI that actually edits
your story.

Not just search. Not just suggestions. A conversational AI that controls every aspect of your timeline through natural language.

Story Chat

Merge the first two clips

Merged segment 1 and segment 2 into a single 1:34 clip.

Rename Act 2 to 'The Journey'

Renamed 'Act 2: Coping Mechanisms' → 'Act 2: The Journey' (4 segments updated)

Show me the current timeline structure

Current timeline: 3 acts, 12 segments, 8:24 total Act 1: Origin Story (3 clips, 2:15) Act 2: The Journey (6 clips, 4:32) Act 3: Resolution (3 clips, 1:37)
Ask anything...

Available Tools

Timeline
ReorderMergeSplitTrim
Editing
RenameMetadataSubtitles
Search
TranscriptThemesTimestamps
Export
ResolveFCPXMLEDL

No learning curve. Just describe what you want. The AI executes instantly.

AI Timeline Control

Reorder, trim, merge, split — all through conversation.

Local-First Privacy

Your footage never leaves your machine. No cloud.

AI Speaker ID

Separates every voice — even in noisy interviews.

Word-Level Playback

Click any word to jump to that exact frame.

Multi-NLE Export

Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut. One workflow.

60 Free Minutes

No cost to start. Pay only beyond that.

Compare

They cut videos.
We find stories.

The only tool with story intelligence built in.

FeatureHi-HoEddieDescriptAdobeCardboard
Story analysis
Speaker separation½
Multi-NLE export
Local processing
Audio-video sync
AI chat direction½
Pay-per-use
Multilingual½

FIG 2.0 — Feature comparison across post-production AI tools

$25
90 minutes
  • Local processing
  • All NLE exports
  • Speaker ID
  • Story structure
$99
600 minutes
  • Everything in Standard
  • 10 hours of material
  • Best per-minute rate
  • Direct support

60 minutes free to start. No subscriptions. Pay for what you use.

The story was always there.

You just needed to dig.

Download Beta — Free

macOS only · Apple Silicon native · No account required

Hi-Ho started as a frustration. After years of watching documentary editors burn days — sometimes weeks — just getting through their bins, we decided the problem wasn't the editor. It was the tools.

Story mining is the practice of finding the narrative inside raw material. Every interview contains a story. The challenge is surfacing it without drowning in hours of footage. Hi-Ho applies large language models to this specific problem: not general summarization, but structural story analysis designed for how documentary editors actually think.

The tool is local-first by principle. Your footage is yours. It never leaves your machine. We process everything on-device — no subscriptions, no cloud dependencies, no lock-in.

Hi-Ho is macOS only, currently in beta. We're building for the editors who take their craft seriously.

Platform
macOS 13 Ventura or later
Apple Silicon + Intel
NLE Support
DaVinci Resolve
Adobe Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro (FCPXML)
Technology
On-device transcription
LLM story analysis
Bundled ffmpeg
Zero cloud dependency
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