Breakdown Studio is live and open source

What it does

A film production hands you the edit and needs a number. Breakdown Studio builds the shot breakdown that every bid, schedule and vendor package hangs off, straight from the cut:

• Detects every shot in the edit, offline
• Reads the burned-in slates and VFX notes
• Builds a live, thumbnailed breakdown you can bid and share immediately
• Re-matches every new cut back to your master, one to one, so a re-cut is a short review instead of a full re-log

Why it exists

The job that produced it was running the VFX department of an independent feature alone: supervising, budgeting, and keeping the breakdown current through cut after cut. The evolving film cut used to mean weeks of hand-logging that got half-thrown-away on every re-cut. Breakdown Studio turns that into one pass that updates itself.

It also ships with a context pack that briefs an AI assistant on the pipeline's rules and guardrails, so the mechanical half runs on its own and the judgment calls, what counts as a real drop versus a protected shot, which master row a drifted code belongs to, stay with the supervisor.

Try it

The pipeline is validated against a real feature in active production: multiple successive cuts, thousands of operator-verified slate reads, and a producer-approved master match as ground truth. It runs on your own machine, on your own Google account, offline.