Getting a video in
Mac — drop a video onto the window, or use the import screen.
iPhone and iPad — Choose from Photos for footage in your library, or Browse Files for anything synced from a Mac or an external drive. The three videos you opened most recently sit under Recent for one-tap reopening.
Scene detection starts on its own once the video loads. You can mark while it runs; you do not have to wait for it.
Marking
The three actions are the same everywhere — keys on the Mac, buttons on iPhone and iPad.
| Mac | iPhone / iPad | |
|---|---|---|
| Mark a still | S |
STILL |
| Set the in point | I |
IN |
| Set the out point | O |
OUT |
Either order works. In then out, or out then in — both close a clip. Press Escape (or tap the marker again) to drop a pending point.
Snap pulls a marker onto a detected cut when you are within three frames of one. The in point lands exactly on the cut; the out point lands one frame before, so the next shot’s first frame stays out of your clip. Turn Snap off to place markers exactly where the playhead is.
Auto-generate
One tap fills the timeline from the detected cuts.
- Stills land in the middle of each scene, clear of any transition at either end.
- Clips span one, two, three or four scenes. Spanning several gives you short sequences that keep their cuts, which is usually what you want for a social edit. Spanning one gives you every shot separately.
Auto-generate replaces markers it created before. Anything you placed by hand stays.
Review
iPhone and iPad — everything you marked comes back as a card deck. Swipe right to keep, left to delete. Stills show the exact frame that will be exported; clips loop in the card. Skip review keeps everything at once.
Deleting here removes the marker from the timeline. Undo brings it back.
Grids
Arrange stills and clips into a grid for a story or a feed post.
- Tap a frame in the strip to drop it into the next empty cell, or select a cell first to choose where it goes. Tapping a placed frame takes it back out.
- Tap a cell to select it. The zoom slider and the cell’s actions appear.
- Drag inside a cell to reframe. At 1× a 16:9 frame nearly fills the cell, so there is very little to move — zoom in first and there is room.
- Hold a cell, then drag it onto another to swap the two.
- Auto Fill picks a set for you and lays it out in timeline order. Re-roll picks a different set.
Grids of stills export as JPEG. Any grid containing a clip exports as video, with shorter clips looping to fill. A 9:16 grid comes out at 2160×3840.
Export
Stills as JPEG, PNG or TIFF, at full or half size. Clips as MP4 from 480p to 4K, muted if you like. GIFs with their own resolution and frame rate. Add 4:5 and 9:16 crops for feed and story — each item carries its own reframe position, so you decide what stays in shot.
Everything from one video lands together: a FramePull_<video name> folder on
Mac and in Files, an album of the same name in Photos. Exporting again continues
the numbering rather than overwriting.
Timeline
Zoom up to 20× with pinch, or the slider on Mac. The playhead stays put as you zoom, so you keep your place. Drag the timeline to scrub — the picture follows your finger frame by frame, whatever the format.
LUTs
Mac only. Load .cube files to preview a colour transform in real time; exports
carry the grade. Point FramePull at a folder of your own LUTs, or use the ARRI,
Canon and Sony log transforms that ship with the app.