StoryToolkitAI

What's new in this release

Main new features:

• Story Editor make selections from your transcripts to create timelines that can be imported into your editing or screenwriting software
• Speaker Detection detect speaker changes in audio either while ingesting or directly from the transcription window
• Meta Transcription Segments add speakers, notes, etc. to your transcripts using SHIFT+ENTER while editing a transcript
• Major improvements to the Assistant including the ability to provide new Transcriptions or Stories as responses

A few highlights:

• Export Story Editor content as EDL, XML or Fountain for editing in Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.
• Ability to request transcription and story responses from the Assistant using the [t] or [st] keywords
• Ability to create new transcriptions, groups and stories based on Assistant responses
• Ability to change the models and settings used for the Assistant
• Ability to edit the Assistant chat history by enabling or disabling messages via right click context menu
• Ability to reuse Assistant prompts via right click context menu
• Ability to copy the Assistant prompts and conversations to clipboard via right click context menu
• Support for storytoolkit.ai Assistant Models
• Automatic Speaker Change Detection via Ingest or from the Transcription Window
• Ability to add transcript meta segments, such as speaker, notes, etc.
• Find and Replace for Transcriptions via Find window
• Improved handling of timecodes for EDL, XML, AVID DS and Fusion Comp exports

See CHANGELOG.md for more info.

Help us make a better tool!

This tool and its code is free and open source.

If you find the tool useful, please consider becoming a patron.

This way, we can speed up development to work on cool features that you might need and keep up with rapid advancements in AI.

It also helps if you report any potential bugs or problems using the Issues tab here on Github: https://github.com/octimot/StoryToolkitAI/issues

Installation

macOS

Requirements

macOS 12.6 Monterey or newer Intel or arm64 (M1, M2 etc.) 8 GB RAM

Installation Steps

Download the zip file that fits with your platform. Unzip, copy the app file into your Applications folder, then double-click and it should start.

Please also read Info For All Platforms below.

Unsafe warnings

If you get something like "StoryToolkitAI is damaged and can't be opened", try to right click and then click open in the dropdown menu. It will warn you that it's unsafe, but that's just because we haven't notarized the tool with Apple.

If you still have problems opening it, try to take it out of quarantine: open up Terminal and execute: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./StoryToolkitAI.0.23.1.arm64.app (or x86_64 if Intel).
More details on the issue here.

Windows

Requirements

Windows 10 or newer

Installation

Just follow the installer to get the tool on your machine.

Notes for Windows

Do not install this version of the tool in Program Files unless you know what you're doing. Some users have experienced permission issues which will make some features unusable.

If the tool returns errors or would not start after updating an older version, we recomme

What's new in this release

Main new features:

• Story Editor make selections from your transcripts to create timelines that can be imported into your editing or screenwriting software
• Speaker Detection detect speaker changes in audio either while ingesting or directly from the transcription window
• Meta Transcription Segments add speakers, notes, etc. to your transcripts using SHIFT+ENTER while editing a transcript
• Major improvements to the Assistant including the ability to provide new Transcriptions or Stories as responses

A few highlights:

• Export Story Editor content as EDL, XML or Fountain for editing in Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.
• Ability to request transcription and story responses from the Assistant using the [t] or [st] keywords
• Ability to create new transcriptions, groups and stories based on Assistant responses
• Ability to change the models and settings used for the Assistant
• Ability to edit the Assistant chat history by enabling or disabling messages via right click context menu
• Ability to reuse Assistant prompts via right click context menu
• Ability to copy the Assistant prompts and conversations to clipboard via right click context menu
• Support for storytoolkit.ai Assistant Models
• Automatic Speaker Change Detection via Ingest or from the Transcription Window
• Ability to add transcript meta segments, such as speaker, notes, etc.
• Find and Replace for Transcriptions via Find window
• Improved handling of timecodes for EDL, XML, AVID DS and Fusion Comp exports

Download links

This update is available early for Frequent Users only, to download see this post.

Everyone else can still download version 0.19.5 from here.

Help us make a better tool!

This tool and its code is free and open source.

If you find the tool useful, please consider becoming a patron.

This way, we can speed up development to work on cool features that you might need and keep up with rapid advancements in AI.

It also helps if you report any potential bugs or problems using the Issues tab here on Github: https://github.com/octimot/StoryToolkitAI/issues

Installation

macOS

Requirements

macOS 12.6 Monterey or newer Intel or arm64 (M1, M2 etc.) 8 GB RAM

Installation Steps

Download the zip file that fits with your platform. Unzip, copy the app file into your Applications folder, then double-click and it should start.

Please also read Info For All Platforms below.

Unsafe warnings

If you get something like "StoryToolkitAI is damaged and can't be opened", try to right click and then click open in the dropdown menu. It will warn you that it's unsafe, but that's just because we haven't notarized the tool with Apple.

If you still have problems opening it, try to take it out of quarantine: open up Terminal and execute: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./StoryToolkitAI.0.23.1.arm64.app (or x86_64 if Intel).
More details on the issue here.

Windows

Requirements

Windows 10 or newer

Installation

Just follow the installer to get the tool on your machine.

Notes for Windows

Do not install this version of the tool in Program Files unless you know what you're doing. Some user

Release Info

This release focuses on improving some of the functions introduced in the previous versions.

Key Features

• Full video indexing and search (v. 0.19.2+ - How-To)
• Free Automatic Transcriptions on your local machine
• Free Automatic Translation to English on your local machine
• ChatGPT integration - talk to AI about your content, or generate new ideas
• Search Content intuitively without having to type in exact words
• Transcript Groups - group transcript lines into whatever you need to find them easier
• Automatic Question detection in transcripts
• Multi-format export of transcripts, including SRT, TXT, AVID DS and as Fusion Text node
• Import of existing SRT files
• Easy copy of timecoded transcript text to clipboard etc.

Resolve Studio Integrations

• Mark and Navigate Resolve Timelines via Transcript, plus other handy Resolve-only features
• Advanced Search of Resolve timeline markers using AI
• Copy Resolve timeline markers to transcript and vice-versa for advanced search
• Direct import of subtitles into Resolve bin

For a detalied list of version to version changes, see the Changelog.

Please report any issues that you might encounter here.

StoryToolkitAI Patreon

If you find the tool useful, please consider becoming a patron. This way, we can speed up development to work on cool features that you might need and keep up with rapid advancements in AI.

Installation:

IMPORTANT NOTE

We recommend backing up the configuration folder your user directory if you update from versions earlier than 0.18.0, since this version contains a major overhaul of the tool file structure.

macOS

Requirements

macOS 12.6 Monterey or newer Intel or arm64 (M1, M2 etc.) 8 GB RAM

Installation Steps

Download the zip file that fits with your platform. Unzip, copy the app file into your Applications folder, then double-click and it should start.

Please also read Info For All Platforms below.

Unsafe warnings

If you get something like "StoryToolkitAI is damaged and can't be opened", try to right click and then click open in the dropdown menu. It will warn you that it's unsafe, but that's just because we haven't notarized the tool with Apple.

If you still have problems opening it, try to take it out of quarantine: open up Terminal and execute: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./StoryToolkitAI.0.18.0.1.arm64.app (or x86_64 if Intel).
More details on the issue here.

Console Mode

Note: The standalone version does not open up the console. If you're interested to see what is happening behind the hood, open a terminal in the folder where you have the tool (typically in your Downloads or Applications folder) and run this command:

./[STORYTOOLKITAI_APP_NAME].app/Contents/MacOS/[STORYTOOLKIT_APP_NAME]  

# (but replace [STORYTOOLKIT_APP_NAME] with the name of your release)

Windows

Requirements

Windows 10 or newer CUDA-enabled graphics card

Installation

Just follow the installer to get the tool on your machine.

Notes for Windows

Do not install this version of the tool in Program Files unless you know what you're doing. Some users have experienced permission issues which will make some features unusable.

If the tool returns errors or would not start after updating an older version, we recommend completely uninstalling and re-installing before reporting the issue.

You don't need to have Python installed on your machine for the standalone version to w

What's new in this release

AI-Powered Text to Image Search in Videos - find anything you can describe with words in your footage (quick demo)!

And a new UI that makes the tool look less like it's supposed to run on a Windows 95 machine...

A few highlights:

• Advanced Video Search - find anything you can describe with words in your footage
• New User Interface
• Ingesting of video content which includes AI based scene detection and video content indexing
• New Ingest window to handle both Transcriptions and Video Indexing
• A better Queue system which allows queuing and managing of all CPU/GPU intensive tasks
• Improved Advanced Search
• Easier handling of multiple files when using the Transcription Settings window
• Right-click context menu on transcripts for easier access to functions
• Improved handling of Transcript Groups
• Significant code refactoring and cleanup, multiple bug fixes etc.

Download links

This update is available early for Frequent User and Producer tiers only, to download see this post.

For everyone else, download version 0.17.16 from here.

StoryToolkitAI Patreon

BTW, if you find the tool useful, please consider becoming a patron. This way, we can speed up development to work on cool features that you might need and keep up with rapid advancements in AI.

Installation:

IMPORTANT NOTE We recommend backing up the configuration folder your user directory if you update from versions earlier than 0.18.0, since this version contains a major overhaul of the tool file structure.

macOS

Requirements

macOS 12.6 Monterey or newer Intel or arm64 (M1, M2 etc.) 8 GB RAM

Installation Steps

Download the zip file that fits with your platform. Unzip, copy the app file into your Applications folder, then double-click and it should start.

Please also read Info For All Platforms below.

Unsafe warnings

If you get something like "StoryToolkitAI is damaged and can't be opened", try to right click and then click open in the dropdown menu. It will warn you that it's unsafe, but that's just because we haven't notarized the tool with Apple.

If you still have problems opening it, try to take it out of quarantine: open up Terminal and execute: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./StoryToolkitAI.0.18.0.1.arm64.app (or x86_64 if Intel).
More details on the issue here.

Console Mode

Note: The standalone version does not open up the console. If you're interested to see what is happening behind the hood, open a terminal in the folder where you have the tool (typically in your Downloads or Applications folder) and run this command:

./[STORYTOOLKITAI_APP_NAME].app/Contents/MacOS/[STORYTOOLKIT_APP_NAME]  

# (but replace [STORYTOOLKIT_APP_NAME] with the name of your release)

Windows

Requirements

Windows 10 or newer CUDA-enabled graphics card

Installation

Just follow the installer to get the tool on your machine.

Notes for Windows

Do not install this version of the tool in Program Files unless you know what you're doing. Some users have experienced permission issues which will make some features unusable.

In case some functions return errors, a first good step is to uninstall the tool using the uninstaller and then re-install it again.

You don't need to have Python installed on your machine for the standalone version to work, only if you want to use the Resolve API with the tool. But, if you have Resolve Studio installed and the tool doesn't start, it's probably because you have multiple Python versions installed on your machine (see #22). This