The best version of a video editor. A review tool. Software you make yours.

Native on Mac and Windows, or open a tab and cut. Edit and review together in real time — in the room or across the world — then make the editor your own.

Alchemist web editor workspace with source and program monitors, clips bin, timeline, and scopes
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One editor, native or in a tab

The same editor on your own machine and in a browser — same projects, same sequences. Pick the surface that fits where you are sitting.

In a browser
Open a tab and cut. Nothing to install, on a machine you do not own.
On Mac and Windows
Native builds for the work that wants a whole workstation behind it.
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It opens what you shot

Professional formats and raw camera media, straight off the card — and the browser is not the stripped-down one.

Professional formats
The codecs post actually runs on, in the containers they arrive in. Nothing has to become something else first.
RAW video
Camera raw decoded natively, through the camera maker's own image pipeline rather than a flattened preview.
Image sequences
Frame-per-file media for VFX and animation, handled as one clip on the timeline.
In the browser too
The same professional formats open in a tab — no server transcode standing between you and the media.
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Fast enough to stop noticing it

Most of the waiting in post is not the edit — it is everything the software makes you do before you can start.

No ingest step
Point at the media and cut. No transcode pass, no proxy generation, no cache to warm up first.
GPU end to end
Preview, compositing, and scopes all run on one GPU pipeline rather than three code paths.
Scrubbing that keeps up
Real-time scrub and playback on the heavy formats, in the browser as well as on the desktop.
More machines when you want them
Spread an export across the other machines on your network instead of watching one of them work.
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Extensible where other editors are sealed shut

Plugin seams run through effects, media handling, and review — not a filter API bolted to the side of a closed application.

Three seams, not one
Write an effect, teach it a format, or change how review works. The same door is open in all three.
Yours, or everyone's
Write what you need for one job. Keep it, hand it to the cutting room, or put it out for everyone.
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Review with everyone, everywhere, all at once

One session instead of one link each. The screening room, the iPad in someone's hand, and a browser on the other side of the world all sit in the same review — and the cut can change while they watch.

In the room
Apple TV carries the picture to the big screen — the cut as it stands in the project, not an upload to a review site.
In hand
iPhone and iPad take notes on the frame, typed or drawn with Pencil, while playback stays in sync with the room.
Anywhere else
Your team and your client join from a browser with nothing to install, voice and video alongside.
Change it on the spot
Notes come back to the project against the frame they were marked on, and whoever is hosting can cut while everyone watches.