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B/side. Local and cloud, in one editor.
Cut from anywhere at the speed of a local drive, with the whole team in the same cut. No remote desktop, and review that happens inside the editor instead of around it.
Remote editing, without the remote desktop
Today a remote editor drives a machine back in the building through a remote desktop app. Picture arrives compressed, and a bad connection costs an afternoon.
Review happens somewhere else entirely. Export it, upload it, send a link, then wait for notes in an email.
B/side is local and cloud at the same time. You cut on your own machine, and everybody else is in the same cut from wherever they are. There is nothing to remote into.
No remote desktop
Nobody drives a machine back in the building from home. Each person cuts on the computer in front of them.
Review inside the editor
Producers open the real cut rather than an export of it. A note left on the frame lands on the editor’s timeline.
One cut, wherever everyone is
The team works in the same cut at the same time, in the building or not. No bin locks, and nobody has their work overwritten.
Local speed
Cutting feels like cutting on a local drive, because that is what it feels like to the person doing it.
Being built now
Built to take over your Avid and Premiere projects
Switching editors has usually meant starting over, or accepting a translation that loses something on the way across. Nobody moves a show mid-season on those terms.
B/side is being built to open the Avid and Premiere projects a show already has, and keep cutting them. The goal is easy to say. Your bins and sequences come across whole, and the team keeps sharing one project the way an Avid shop expects, without the bin locks.
As far as we know, no browser-based editor has done that. We intend to be the first.
This part is not in the product yet. When it is, this page will say so.
Built by an assistant editor
The assistant is the most technical seat in post, and usually the one who ends up setting up everybody else’s remote desktop.
Assistant editors know where every file lives and why a project will not open. When a cut has to leave the building at two in the morning, they are the ones who get it out.
Editing software is usually designed for the person in the chair. This one is designed by the person who keeps the chair working. We do not know of another editor that was.
A cloud editor you can cut a show on
Cloud editing has mostly meant apps built for a phone and a feed. Plenty of AI effects, and very little you can trust on a long taping day. This is the other kind.
Frame accurate
Every edit lands on the frame you chose. Nothing slides because the software decided it knew better.
Sync that holds
Sound and picture stay together across a full taping day, not just the first ten minutes.
Real multicam
A dozen cameras and a sound bag, cut as one scene rather than a pile of clips.
No AI filler
No effects library standing in for editing. It is built for people who cut for a living.
The cut stays the same. Everything around it changes.
Your hands already know it
The layout and the keys you cut on today. Nobody relearns their job.
Media that is just there
You do not relink. Your footage stays wherever you want it to live.
Nothing to lose by trying it
Your current edit system keeps running the whole time. You move over when you are sure, and not before.
From the team that makes Baton
Baton keeps track of every episode and where it came from. B/side is where the episode gets cut. The same team builds both, and they are designed to work together. Neither one needs the other.
Where it stands
B/side is in development. A lot of the editing already works in our own build, and it is being hardened before any show relies on it. It is not for sale yet.
We are showing it to a small number of shows, in person. That is where we show the parts we do not put on a website.
B/side is a working name.
Avid and Media Composer are trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. Adobe and Premiere Pro are trademarks of Adobe Inc. They are named here only to describe compatibility. Manifest Post is not affiliated with either company, and neither one endorses B/side.