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Break a movie down frame by frame and get a story timeline
This tool turns a movie into an editable shot-by-shot study notebook: AI helps you map story lines, scene structure, and audience engagement — everything stays on your own computer.
The app slices a movie into frames, adds subtitles to them, and packs everything into a file for an AI chatbot. The AI analyzes it and sends back story lines, a scene structure tree, and an audience-engagement curve.
When it helps
Useful if you want to systematically study a film's story and editing for study, screenwriting, or your own projects. Skip it if you just want to watch a movie.
Pros
- Runs on your computer — nothing gets uploaded anywhere
- Works with any AI chatbot, no separate API key needed
- No coding required — launches in two clicks
- Lets you dig deeper into any single scene separately
Cons
- A movie yields thousands of frames; free AI tiers may only skim them
- Auto subtitle search pulls from public sites — personal use only
How to set it up — step by step
- 1Open the repository's Releases page on GitHub and download the zip from the Assets section.
- 2Unzip the downloaded file into its own folder.
- 3Double-click run.bat on Windows or run.command on Mac, then wait for the first-run setup.
- 4In the browser window that opens, import your movie file — frames and subtitles are prepared automatically.
- 5Hand the resulting package to your AI chatbot and upload it there.
- 6Import the AI's reply back into the app to see the timeline, scene tree, and engagement curve.
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