AfterRushes

00:00:00:00 For wedding photographers who don’t edit video

Shoot the wedding. Skip the timeline.

AfterRushes is the AI film editor that does the part you never wanted to learn. Drop in your camera cards and it finds the moments, builds the story, cuts it to the music and hands you a highlight film and a social teaser.

Download for Windows First film free
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  • No uploads
  • No subscription
  • No editing experience needed

00:00:08:00The problem

“I don’t want to become a video editor.”

  • “The photos are culled by Tuesday. The film is still on the card.”

    Hours of clips from three cameras and a phone, and no time to edit them.

  • “The upload takes all night.”

    Cloud editors want the whole wedding first, often 100 to 500 GB.

  • “Another monthly bill.”

    One more subscription for a tool you use at weekends.

  • “Couples keep asking for video.”

    You’d sell more of it if editing weren’t the bottleneck.

00:00:21:12How it works

You already let AI cull your photos. Now let it cut your film.

  1. 1

    Add your cards

    Point AfterRushes at your camera cards and phone folders. It reads several cameras at once, rejoins recordings the camera split into parts and skips junk files.

  2. 2

    AfterRushes watches every second

    It checks every half second for sharpness, shake and faces, transcribes speech and finds the music’s beats. All on your computer.

  3. 3

    The AI writes your film

    Claude, Anthropic’s AI, reads still frames and the transcript, logs each clip’s best moments and writes the story of the day.

  4. 4

    Review, tweak, export

    Ask for changes in plain English, or move, trim and delete shots yourself. Then export the film, the teaser and the captions.

See each step in detail

00:00:47:00What you get

Every wedding, four ways to watch it.

00:03:12:081920×1080

The highlight film

3, 5 or 8 minutes, in a cinematic, documentary or upbeat style. Vows and toasts laid over the music, cuts on the beat.

00:00:21:141080×1920

The vertical teaser

30 or 60 seconds for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, with each shot framed around faces.

“…and that’s when I knew.”00:11:40:02Optional

The speeches edit

The toasts in one film, for the couple and the families to keep.

14
00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,400
I promise to laugh with you,
even on the long days.

15
00:14:37,050 --> 00:14:39,900
And to always save you
the last dance.

The captions

A .srt file for every film, ready to upload wherever the film goes.

00:01:12:08Your footage stays with you

Nothing to upload. Not one clip.

Cloud AI video tools make you upload the whole wedding before they can start. AfterRushes does all the video work on your own PC. Only still frames and transcripts go to the AI.

GB
Mbps

Uploading to a cloud editor

13 h 20 min

0 h6 h12 h18 h24 h

Start it at 10 pm after the wedding and it finishes at 11:20 am the next day.

AfterRushes

Nothing to upload

Your footage stays on your computer. Only still frames and transcripts go to the AI.

Hours = GB × 8,000 ÷ Mbps ÷ 3,600, at full speed the whole time. Real uploads are often slower.

Stays on your computer

Your PC

  • Every video and audio file
  • Your edits
  • Your finished films

Sent to the AI to plan the film

Claude, Anthropic's AI

  • Still frames from each clip
  • The transcript of what was said

Sent to us

AfterRushes

  • Your account and licence details
  • Anonymous usage statistics, if you allow it

Never footage, names or transcripts.

Where your footage goes, in plain English

00:01:38:16Made for weddings

It knows the vows from the vol-au-vents.

AfterRushes understands a wedding day: getting ready, the ceremony, the vows, the speeches, the first dance, the party.

  1. getting ready00:02:10
  2. ceremony00:12:48
  3. vows00:14:32
  4. confetti00:31:05
  5. speech01:58:20
  6. first dance124 bpm
  7. party03:40:11
What the AI noticed, on one timeline: the moments of the day, the lines worth keeping, and the music dipping under the vows and the speech.

  • Vows over the music

    It finds the vows and toasts and lays the best lines over the film, with the music dipping under them.

  • The band’s own music

    It uses the band or DJ recorded on the day as the soundtrack, when the recording is clean enough.

  • Faces kept in frame

    The vertical teaser frames each shot around faces, so nobody loses their head in 9:16.

  • Cuts on the beat

    Cuts land on the beat, and shots skip blurred and shaky seconds.

  • Slow motion

    Footage shot at 50 or 60 frames per second plays as slow motion.

  • Streaming-ready sound

    The sound is levelled to streaming standards, and every film gets a captions file.

00:02:04:00You stay in charge

No editing skills needed. You still get the final say.

  • Ask for changes in plain English, like “make the opening slower” or “use the second song”.
  • Accept one-click suggestions.
  • Prefer hands-on? Move, trim or delete any shot on the timeline.
  • Undo is always there, and only the shots that changed re-render.
How to make an AI first cut your own
Illustration of the editor: the timeline and the assistant side by side.

00:02:31:12Pricing

Buy it once. Pay for the AI at cost.

AfterRushes

[Price to confirm]

One-time purchase. No subscription.

The AI

Your own key, at cost

Connect your own Claude account and pay Anthropic directly for what you use. No markup, no credits to buy from us.

Your first film

Free, AI included

For a film of up to 8 minutes. No key needed to start.

Pricing and AI costs in full

00:02:55:20On our test wedding

Measured, not promised.

Our test wedding was a reception: 26 clips, 15 minutes of footage. These are the numbers it produced.

Camera card to finished preview films, AI included
~7min

On a PC with an NVIDIA graphics card, using GPU acceleration.

AI cost for the whole wedding
$0.55–0.66

Paid to Anthropic with the photographer’s own key.

Local analysis on a 2017 Intel i7, no GPU
~11min

Including a one-time download. The AI steps added a few minutes more.

Time grows with the amount of footage and depends on your computer. It all runs in the background.

[Founder photo]

00:03:20:04Who made it

Built by a wedding photographer.

[Founder's name] shoots weddings and built AfterRushes to edit their own films.

[Two-line founder story]

Why we built AfterRushes

00:03:41:00Guides

Learn the craft of the wedding film.

Practical guides for photographers who shoot video: kit, settings, audio, structure, music and the vertical teaser.

00:04:02:12Questions

Asked most often.

All questions
Does my footage get uploaded anywhere?

No. All the video work happens on your computer, and your video files, edits and finished films stay there. Only still frames from each clip and the transcript of what was said go to the AI to plan the film. Where your footage goes shows the whole picture.

Is there a subscription?

No. AfterRushes is a one-time purchase ([Price to confirm]). The AI is paid for with your own Claude key, directly to Anthropic, at cost.

How much does the AI cost per wedding?

On our 26-clip test wedding the AI cost $0.55 to $0.66. We estimate about $3 for 150 clips and about $8 for 500 clips. Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs about half as much as the default, Claude Opus 5.5.

Does the AI edit the whole film for me?

It makes the first cut. You make it yours: move, trim or delete shots, accept one-click suggestions, or type requests like “make the opening slower” or “use the second song”. Undo is always there, and only the shots that changed re-render. See making an AI first cut your own.

What computer do I need?

A PC running Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. We recommend an NVIDIA graphics card (it’s faster), [RAM to confirm] of RAM, and plenty of free space on a fast drive for working files. See the download page.

00:04:30:00Roll credits

Start the film. Then cull the photos.

Add your cards first. AfterRushes works through the footage in the background while you cull the photos.

Download for Windows First film free
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