HeyMonkey Library ingests your interviews and b-roll read-only, watches and transcribes every clip, identifies who's speaking, scores the shots, and hands DaVinci Resolve a Media Pool that's already organised, tagged, and searchable — down to the spoken word.
AI quality score on every clip — sharpness, steadiness, exposure — so the best takes rise.
Pick / reject flags and one-click triage pills that filter the whole bin instantly.
People & transcripts attached to each clip — search by who's on screen or what they said.
The Library, recreated — the real interface, same controls and colours.
On a documentary you drown in footage — dozens of cards, multiple cameras, hours of interviews. Before the story can start you're renaming clips, hunting the soundbite, matching timecode, and typing transcripts. HeyMonkey does that pass for you, in the background, and leaves the creative decisions where they belong: with you, in Resolve.
Each stage runs on its own — or leave it going and come back to a fully-logged project.
Point it at your cards. Originals are read in place and never moved or modified — camera-card safe.
AI watches each clip: a plain-language description, shot type, mood, faces, and a quality score.
Transcribe every interview, identify each speaker, and surface soundbites, emotions and claims.
Multicam & timecode Scene Assets, duplicate stacks, smart bins, and a coverage gap list.
Send to Resolve — metadata, bins, markers — plus the in-Resolve panel, FCPXML, ALE & Story Bible.
Keyword is an instant match across descriptions, tags, people and transcripts. 🧠 Meaning finds a moment by sense — "quiet resilience", "a turning point" — even with no shared words. And Ask the footage answers a plain question, grounded only in this project, citing the exact clip and timecode.
Poster, AI quality score, pick/reject flag and category — readable in a scroll. Right-click any clip (or the theatre player) for the full toolset: re-tag, isolate a mic, identify speakers, deep-index, link a multicam angle, or open the contributor dossier.
On-device diarization labels every line by speaker, links names to faces, and rolls up a talk-time balance across the whole project. Jump to any person's every line, or export their selects in a click.
HeyMonkey reads each clip's embedded start timecode and groups jam-synced A/B-cam and external audio from the same shoot into one Scene Asset — frame-exact, no audio guessing. Or audio-sync claps the old way when there's no matching TC.
Highlight transcript passages or soundbites and drag them into an ordered sequence — a paper edit. Export it as an FCPXML cut-list that lands the clips on your Resolve timeline in narrative order, or as a radio-cut MP3 to hear the flow.
HeyMonkey isn't a walled garden — it exists to make your Resolve project better. Three ways in, from a one-shot metadata push to a live panel inside Resolve itself.
One click pushes descriptions, keywords, people, moods and picks into the Media Pool — with clips organised into bins, colour-coded by type, and flagged pick/reject. Smart Bins then sort themselves.
Free & StudioMap metadata to Resolve marker colours — Yellow soundbites, Blue fact-checks, speaker turns, settled takes — laid onto every clip on send, to your own convention.
A Workflow Integration panel inside Resolve: search footage, read transcripts & soundbites, push selects to a bin and drop markers — without switching windows. Loopback-only, opt-in.
No window-switchingPlus universal handoff — FCPXML timelines (Resolve & Premiere), Avid ALE, a MAM/archive CSV, and a producer-ready Story Bible in PDF or Word.
A documentary lives or dies on its rushes. HeyMonkey treats them — and your accounts — accordingly.
Originals are read in place and never modified, moved or renamed. Proxies and data live in HeyMonkey's own cache — your camera-card structure is preserved.
You bring your own AI and transcription logins, stored encrypted on your machine. Nothing is shared, and no credits are ever charged without your say-so.
Every user gets a fresh, private library. Your footage, transcripts and notes never mingle with anyone else's.
Local transcription and analysis run without the cloud. The Resolve bridge is loopback-only and off by default — nothing leaves the machine.
Point HeyMonkey at your footage and come back to a Library that's watched, transcribed, sorted and ready to edit.
Limited beta · runs on your own machine · bring your own AI keys
We onboard testers in small batches on Windows. If you're a fit, we'll email your login. It runs on your own machine — footage never uploaded, bring your own AI key or go fully offline.
Tell us a little about yourself — no account is created yet, this just puts you on the list.
Thanks — we've got your request. If you're a fit for the current beta batch, we'll email your login details soon.