Questions, answered honestly

A post‑production pipeline app for Mac. It takes a whole shoot day — camera cards, audio dumps, drone footage — and syncs sound to picture, drives RAW proxies, sorts and transcribes everything on‑device, and exports a cut‑ready package for your editor (FCPXML, Premiere XML, ALE, multicam groups, sync report). It runs entirely on your own Mac: no account, no cloud, one‑time purchase. Client review links are next on the roadmap.

No card, no account. You download the app, enter an email address, and the 7‑day trial license is issued — no password, no profile, nothing to cancel later. The email is only used to issue your trial license.

No — it’s the full app for 7 days. Every feature, no watermarks, no locked panels. Sync a real shoot day and judge the result on your own footage.

The trial simply ends — nothing to cancel, because we never took a card or created an account. If Launchr Post earned its place, buy a license (€99, one‑time) and pick up right where you left off. Your library and files stay untouched on your disk either way.

Because everything is built in: ffmpeg, Whisper and the transcription language model ship inside the app. That’s what makes it a download‑open‑run experience — no dependencies to install, and transcription runs fully offline on your Mac instead of in someone’s cloud. The size is a deliberate trade.

Open the downloaded .dmg, drag Launchr Post into Applications, and open it — the first start takes a moment while macOS verifies the app. There’s also a .pkg installer if your setup prefers one. The app is signed and notarized by Apple and keeps itself up to date.

Timecode first: file timecode and BWF/iXML metadata pair every audio take with the right camera clip. Wherever timecode is missing or untrustworthy, sample‑accurate waveform matching takes over. The app measures recorder drift in real numbers (ms/min), groups multiple cameras into multicam clips, and processes a whole shoot day in one pass — no clapper, no manual nudging, no plugins.

Honestly: for a single‑camera interview with one recorder, your NLE’s built‑in sync is often enough — try that first, it’s free. A dedicated tool earns its keep on bulk work: multicam shoot days, long recordings that drift, multi‑recorder sessions, hundreds of takes. Launchr Post also runs before the edit — your editor opens a project that’s already synced, sorted and searchable — and sync is one stage of a pipeline that also covers proxies, transcription and handover. Full comparisons: PluralEyes, Kyno, OffShoot.

On the picture side: MOV, MP4, MXF, AVCHD, R3D, BRAW, Canon CRM and ARRIRAW. On the sound side: WAV/BWF, MP3 and M4A. It also reads Premiere .prproj and FCP7 XML project files. If a file from your rig behaves oddly, email us — camera quirks are exactly the kind of thing we fix.

For RAW formats that need a licensed decoder (Canon CRM, RED, BRAW), Launchr Post drives your own tools — DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Media Encoder or Compressor — kicks off the render with the right settings and picks up the finished proxies automatically. Already have editor proxies? They’re reused instead of re‑rendered. And the full‑resolution original is always one click away from any clip.

Speech is transcribed on your Mac with Whisper — nothing is uploaded anywhere. You then search a whole shoot day by filename and by what was said, and jump straight to the timecode where the words are spoken, instead of scrubbing through hours of footage.

One click exports synced timelines as FCPXML and Premiere XML, an ALE for workflows that want one, multicam groups ready to cut, and a sync report that shows exactly what was matched and how. Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and Avid‑style workflows all have a way in — your editor opens a project, not a puzzle.

Yes. Drag in a Premiere .prproj or FCP7 XML project and Launchr Post finds the clips that are actually on the timeline — not just everything that was imported. Useful for archiving, reuse, and collecting only what made the film.

€99 as a one‑time purchase (launch pricing, down from €129), excluding VAT — VAT is added at checkout based on your country. No subscription, no meter running, no per‑seat anything. The 7‑day trial is completely free.

One license covers two machines, with one in use at a time, and includes all v1.x updates — the pipeline keeps growing and your license grows with it. The app updates itself automatically.

Yes. Release the license on the old machine from inside the app and activate it on the new one. If a machine dies before you can release it, email us and we’ll sort it out.

The free 7‑day trial is the full app precisely so you can find out before paying. If you bought and something isn’t right, email us — we’d rather fix the problem or make it right than keep money from an unhappy editor.

No. Sync, sorting, proxies, transcription and search all run on your own Mac, and your media never leaves your disk. The only exception is explicit and yours: an optional one‑click push to Launchr if you want a shared team library.

For three small things: issuing your trial or license, checking for app updates, and optional anonymous app diagnostics — crash reports and feature usage with no filenames, no media, no transcripts, which you can switch off in Settings. Your footage and everything derived from it stays on your disk.

Yes. The whole pipeline — sync, proxies, sorting, transcription, search, handover — runs without a network connection, and your license is verified locally on the machine. You only need to be online to get the trial or license issued in the first place, and for updates.

Launchr ApS, a Danish company (CVR 46553837). The app is signed and notarized by Apple. Support email goes to the people who build the product, not a ticket queue.

Not yet — that’s the next stop on the roadmap. Send‑to‑review from the app, with browser links your clients can watch, comment on and approve without an account, is in development. Today the pipeline ends at the editor handover, and buying now includes all v1.x updates as the pipeline grows.

Not yet. Today you point Launchr Post at footage that’s already on a disk, and it takes over from there. Checksum‑verified card offload is on the roadmap; until it ships, a dedicated offload tool is the right choice for that step.

No. Launchr Post is Mac‑only and requires Apple Silicon (M1 or later) with macOS 12+. Intel Macs are not supported — the on‑device transcription and proxy pipeline are built for Apple Silicon. On Windows, Syncaila is the closest one‑time‑purchase sync specialist; our PluralEyes comparison covers the options honestly.

Email martin@unflair.com. Your message lands with the people who build the app, and bug reports about real footage — odd camera files, sync edge cases — get particular attention, because that’s how the app gets better.