Built for macOS workflows, Emberlight helps DITs, camera teams, editors, and post supervisors understand what is inside a media folder before it moves downstream. Scan clips, review technical metadata, inspect color pipeline hints, generate previews, and export structured reports that keep production data readable, traceable, and ready to share.
Core Features
Fast Clip Analysis
Scan local or mounted media folders and surface useful clip information quickly. Emberlight helps teams move from raw folder structures to a readable production overview without opening each file manually.
Camera & Clip Metadata Extraction
Emberlight reads available metadata from supported containers, camera files, and sidecars where possible. This gives DIT, editorial, and post teams a clearer view of file names, reel context, duration, resolution, frame rate, timecode status, and other production-critical details.
Codec & Container Insight
Identify core technical properties such as codec, wrapper, resolution, frame rate, audio information, and file size where available. Teams can spot mismatches, missing data, or unexpected media characteristics earlier in the workflow.
Color Space, Gamma & Gamut Detection
Emberlight interprets available color metadata from camera files, containers, tools, and sidecars where supported. It helps make log, gamut, and color pipeline information easier to review, while keeping unknown or ambiguous values visible rather than overclaiming certainty.
Preview & Thumbnail Generation
Generate visual references for clips and reports when frame extraction or fallback previews are available. This makes media reports easier to scan, validate, and share with production or post teams.
Professional Format Awareness
Emberlight is built around professional camera media, including common MOV/MP4 workflows and selected RAW, MXF, image-sequence, and production-audio paths depending on available metadata and decoder support. Format handling is transparent, with fallback behavior where native preview or deep metadata extraction is limited.
Clean Media Library View
Review scanned clips in an organized interface with status, warnings, and technical fields in one place. This reduces the friction of navigating large card structures, mixed camera folders, and handoff packages.
Report Export for Production Workflows
Export camera reports in practical formats for handoff, archive, and review. HTML, PDF, CSV, and JSON-style outputs support both human-readable summaries and structured downstream processing.
Offline Local Workflow
Emberlight works on local media without requiring cloud upload. That keeps sensitive production assets on the workstation and fits set, lab, and post environments where bandwidth or security policies matter.
Built for DIT, Editorial & Post
Emberlight bridges on-set media checks and postproduction reporting. It gives technical teams a shared reference for what was shot, how clips are encoded, and which metadata is available before footage enters editorial, grading, or archive.
Emberlight features
Clip Scanning
Scan production folders and detect supported media files.
Recursive Folder Analysis
Review clips across full card or project folder structures.
Metadata Extraction
Read available camera, clip, container, and sidecar metadata.
Codec Information
Surface codec, wrapper, resolution, frame rate, and audio details.
Color Metadata
Detect available gamma, gamut, log, and color pipeline hints.
Thumbnail Previews
Create clip thumbnails or fallback previews where supported.
Media Library View
Browse scanned clips in a clean, structured macOS interface.
Warnings & Issue Tracking
Keep missing, unreadable, or ambiguous metadata visible.
Report Summaries
Generate production-level clip counts, durations, and file summaries.
HTML Export
Create shareable camera reports for review and handoff.
PDF Export
Produce clean paginated reports for delivery or archive.
CSV Export
Export structured clip data for spreadsheets and workflow tracking.
JSON Export
Use structured report data for technical pipelines and automation.
Sidecar Awareness
Capture and use supported sidecar metadata where available.
Cached Rescans
Reuse metadata results for unchanged files to speed up repeated checks.
Offline Operation
Analyze media locally without uploading footage.
Native macOS App
Use a focused desktop tool built for macOS production workflows.
Optional / If Implemented
Custom Branding
Add production logos and custom report labels for client-ready deliverables.
Multiple Stills Per Clip
Generate first, middle, and last-frame references for deeper visual review.
LUT / Rec.709 Preview Workflow
Preview selected log or RAW sources through a managed viewing transform.
Automation & Scripting
Trigger scans, exports, or report generation from larger workflow systems.
Offload Tool Integration
Connect reports with verified copy and checksum workflows.
Pricing
Emberlight
Explore Emberlight with real production media and generate reports from smaller clip sets before upgrading.
- Scan up to 5 clips per folder in free mode.
- Review available clip, codec, camera, and color metadata for those clips.
- Generate previews and thumbnails where supported.
- Use the native macOS media library view.
- Export reports for limited test scans.
- Work locally without uploading footage.
- Ideal for evaluation, small checks, and testing Emberlight in your workflow.
Free
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Emberlight Pro
Unlock Emberlight for full production folders, larger camera cards, and complete professional reporting workflows.
- Scan all detected clips in a selected folder.
- Build complete camera reports for full cards, shoot days, or project folders.
- Access the full metadata workflow for supported media and sidecars.
- Use cached rescans to speed up repeated checks on unchanged files.
- Generate export-ready reports for production, editorial, post, and archive.
- Activate Emberlight on licensed Macs, subject to the purchased activation limit.
- Continue working offline for up to 7 days after a successful license validation.
- Best for DITs, camera departments, editors, post supervisors, and production teams.
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