The problem
Editors waste enormous time finding the right material and dealing with high-resolution media before they can even start cutting.
- Finding the right shot means remembering where it was or scrubbing through footage by hand.
- Teams have shot the same kind of location or subject many times before, but cannot easily pull those past shots together.
- Working with full-resolution media for assembly is slow and storage-heavy, when most of the cut can be done against proxies.
- Editorial, storage, and review tools are separate, so moving from search to a working sequence takes too many steps.
Who it is for
- News divisions that need to find archive and field footage fast and turn it around.
- Magazine and broadcast publishers running distributed editing across locations.
- Post teams that want cloud-assisted assembly without moving their masters.
How Ceivo solves it
Ceivo sits on the customer's existing storage and indexes their library, so editors search by what is on screen or said. A reporter can search a location and subject and instantly see every past shoot that matches.
Editors add results to a playlist, and Ceivo can use AI to build a proxy version of the sequence. That proxy drops into a Premiere panel, the editor cuts against lightweight proxies, and when they save, Ceivo renders the high-resolution version from the mezzanine in the cloud. The cloud does the heavy lifting, and the editor does the touch-up work.
What is live today and what is next
- Live today: search and discovery across the library, AI-assembled playlists, and a proxy-based editing workflow that runs on a proven stack alongside the customer's existing storage and editing tools.
- In progress: the Premiere panel for the find-to-cut workflow is at proof-of-concept stage and is being hardened toward production.
- On the roadmap: Ceivo-native online conform and relink, so the full assemble-to-finish path can run end to end without a separate finishing stack. Today this is staged honestly: land on the proven find-and-cut workflow first, with native conform scoped as a funded roadmap deliverable.
In practice
A news editor needs footage from a location the team has covered before. They search the location and subject in Ceivo, see every prior shoot, and add the relevant clips to a playlist. Ceivo builds a proxy sequence, the editor opens the Premiere panel and refreshes it, cuts the story against proxies, and on save Ceivo renders the high-resolution version from the mezzanine. No masters were moved, and the cut was built in minutes rather than hours of searching.
Why Ceivo
- Find-to-cut starts from real understanding of the library, not filenames.
- The cloud handles proxies and high-resolution rendering, so editors stay fast and light.
- Honest staging: proven workflow today, native conform on a funded roadmap, with no overclaiming.