Kino (YC S23) lets Luke create professional videos with agents and teammates. It bundles footage storage, a rich video editor, and shareable review links, all in one collaborative timeline. Your colleagues and Codex/Claude Code can edit together, leaving comments and accessing footage instantly.
The platform is fully code‑first, built on Remotion, so every edit, motion graphic, and 3D scene is expressed as code. All media is transcribed, face‑detected, and a low‑res proxy is uploaded for teammates and cloud inference. This local scrubbing plus custom decoders for ProRes, BRAW, R3D and more lets you drag a 250GB ProRes clip from an iPhone directly into the timeline.
For the launch video, Donald coordinated agents editing concurrently, one rotoscoping effects while another performed color grading via LUT support. Kino evolved from bespoke on‑prem deployments for shows like Survivor and A24’s Beef to a true collaborative editor where everything has a URL, enabling agents and teams to reference exact timeline items and comments. The result is a single, editable source of truth for video production that blends AI power with real‑time teamwork.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing