StoryToolkitAI posts
Early access to version 0.25.1 standalone
Long overdue, but here it is!!!This early release for Frequent Users includes the projectsupdate, expanded LLM support(via ollama or other solutions), reasoning LLM support(OpenAI o1 and o3 series, DeepSeek-r1), Whisper Turbosupport, custom transcription (auto-)exports, and improved Assistant model ...
Using free local Assistant models via Ollama
We get asked a lot if there are any free GPT-like models available for the Assistant and the answer was always, "yes, but it's complicated".Well... thanks to the work done by the people working on Ollama, we finally have a painless solution to run large language models on our own machine...
Projects management update
We're often working with projects with a lot of footage that we transcribe and index using the tool, and navigating through all of them has always been a pain, especially if the transcription.json files are not all in the same place on our storage.We just pushed update 0.24.0 on GitHub which all...
Early access to version 0.23.2 standalone
We received some feedback and patched a few things related to the Story Editor and Speaker Detection function - detailed infos here.So, here are the re-compiled apps for all platforms, just for Frequent Users.For macOS arm64 (M1, M2 etc.): use this top-secret link.For macOS Intel: use this top-secre...
Early access to version 0.23.1 standalone
This early release for Frequent Users packs the three main things we've been working in in the past few weeks:1. The Story Editor, which allows you to select and export timelines/sequences into your NLE,2. A significantly improved Assistant that can reply with Stories or Transcriptions, and3. Sp...
The Story Editor is here
In our last post, we mentioned that we're going to focus our attention on creating a system that (1) allows the selection of content from transcriptions and (2) lets AI auto-complete with its own suggestions based on existing content.After weeks of tinkering and testing in our editing room, step...
Release of version 0.19.5 and future plans
Yesterday, we uploaded on GitHub the latest release of the tool which improves some of the features we've been coding in the past couple of months.Here are the direct download links:For macOS arm64 (M1, M2 etc.) use this link.For Windows (CUDA only) use this link.Although not perfect, it somehow...
How to use the Video Search feature
Here's a quick video we made over the weekend to better explain the new Video Search feature.
Early access to version 0.19.4 standalone
After last week's update, we found a few issues which were mildly annoying, so here are the top-secret links for early access to version 0.19.4 standalone.Besides these fixes, we also made a patch with the new version of OpenAI Whisper which seems to transcribe faster than the previous versions ...
Early access to version 0.19.3 standalone
A few days ago we pushed the new AI-Powered Text to Image Search in Videos update which is one of the things that we really wanted to implement before compiling the new standalone versions.For an ultra-short demo, see this. Until we publish a more detailed tutorial, just follow this 5-step how-to.As...
AI-Powered Text to Image Search in Videos
We just pushed version 0.19.2 on the private GitHub repo with a very early video search feature which we've been developing here in our editing room in the past few weeks.Basically, you can now find anything you can describe with words in your footage.Here's a 5 step how-to:1. Press Ingest (...
How to optimize the transcription process
Hello there!We've been chatting with some of the Patrons in private and realized that sometimes the transcription process feels like it's 1992 and you're loading Lemmings on a Commodore 64 (takes very long).Now, this might be fun in 1992 especially if you're a 10-year-old who hasn...
Early access to version 0.18.3 standalone
Last week we pushed version 0.18.3 on the private repo, so here come the links for the standalone version too. To see a full list of the updates, see the CHANGELOG from the public GitHub page.More export options and time codes!We've added the ability to export to Avid DS files and into Blackmagi...
Early access to version 0.18.1 standalone
We just finished testing the latest version, see CHANGELOG for a detailed list of stuff that was added. We focused mostly on improving the Transcription Window, since a lot of users were having a hard time finding features, but also added some other stuff.BTW, a bug that was messing with some Resolv...
Early access to version 0.18.0 standalone
We just finished freezing version 0.18.0 standalone. Please read the CHANGELOG for a detailed list of stuff that was addedBut if you don't want to read that, here are some pointers: cancel transcriptions from queue, easier time with transcripts and groups, all updates since the last standalone -...
New Transcription and Assistant features in 0.17.19
We recently pushed version 0.17.19 to the private repo which packs a few useful features and bugfixes. This update is available early for Patrons in the Frequent User and Producer tiers.Transcription stuffWith this version, you can check Split On Punctuation when transcribing, so that the transcript...
Fixed project.json bug
Some users were reporting problems when using the tool in connection with Resolve projects but we managed to work on a fix.Simply download version 0.17.16.2 available for macOS arm64 or Windows on the GitHub releases page: https://github.com/octimot/StoryToolkitAI/releases/tag/v0.17.16More info abou...
ChatGPT integration
We're excited to announce that we've integrated ChatGPT in the latest version available only for Frequent User and Producer tiers.This comes under the form of the Assistant feature, read more about it here.To use this feature, you'll also need an OpenAI account and key (see the above lin...
StoryToolkitAI - private repo
Hello there!We just created a private repository on GitHub to provide Frequent User and Producer tier patrons with the latest non-standalone version of the tool.If you're part of one of those two tiers, just send us your GitHub username via Patreon Messages and we'll give you access as soon ...
StoryToolkitAI Patreon Page
If you're here on this page, you probably heard of or used StoryToolkitAI. If not, this is really strange and also raises the question "why are you here?"... but, here's why you might want to stay...When we started to code this tool, we only meant to have something that we can use in...
