Question 1

What is DISKO?

Accepted Answer

DISKO is a media asset manager (MAM) for Mac, for people who shoot and cut video — wedding and event filmmakers, documentary editors, YouTube teams, commercial production. It organizes whole drives of footage, AI-tags what’s on screen, transcribes every word with speaker labels, finds a person everywhere once you name them, and lets you search all of it in plain language. The optional DISKO Cloud adds review links, client portals and delivery for the moment you want to share.

Question 2

Does DISKO upload my footage?

Accepted Answer

Nothing uploads unless you send it. All the AI — tagging, transcription, faces, shot descriptions — runs on your Mac, and footage only goes to DISKO Cloud when you choose to sync a project for review or delivery. The honest exceptions: Make-a-Story sends that project’s transcripts to the AI provider you pick (with your own API key), location names you type are geocoded online, and a bug report sends its logs.

Question 3

What does DISKO cost?

Accepted Answer

The desktop app is a one-time purchase — $99 during founders pricing ($149 after launch) — with lifetime updates and no subscription required, after a 7-day free trial. DISKO Cloud has a free tier (2 GB, review links, plus free screenwriting and shot-list tools) and a Pro plan at $12/month for founders ($15 after launch) that adds desktop sync and 100 GB.

Question 4

What cameras and formats does it work with?

Accepted Answer

Anything you would actually shoot with: drones, mirrorless, cinema cameras, phones, action cams and stills. Playback is native for ProRes, DNxHD, MXF, 10-bit HEVC and everything else FFmpeg can decode, with real-time LUT preview that auto-detects log profiles from Sony, Panasonic, Canon, RED, Blackmagic, ARRI, DJI and GoPro.

Question 5

Does it replace Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve?

Accepted Answer

No — it feeds them. DISKO organizes, searches, selects and multicam-syncs; then it exports selects, rough cuts and synced sequences as XML straight into Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, so the edit starts with the footage already found.

Question 6

What do I need to run it?

Accepted Answer

An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later). The AI runs on the Neural Engine, so the M-series chip is the whole point. Nothing else to install — no Python, no FFmpeg, no plug-ins (one AI model is a free, one-time download inside the app) — and the desktop app never requires the cloud.

Question 7

Who makes DISKO?

Accepted Answer

DISKO Labs — Smith Robinson Multimedia LLC, a working filmmaker’s independent software shop. It is self-funded and built around the footage problems that turn up on real productions every week.