Your personal editor. B‑roll from your real footage, nothing fake.

Cleaning the sound and grading the colour happen in your browser, and no sound and no picture is sent for them. Each of these is sent when you press its button. The review after the first pass is the one exception: it sends a small copy of your cut, picture and sound, to the same models without another press.

• Transcribe sends the sound of your recording to Takehound's server, which turns it into words and deletes the sound once it has been read.
• Describe my footage sends a few small stills of each clip through Takehound's server to Anthropic's API, which describes them. They are not kept.
• The first pass sends the same as an ask (below) to the model that makes it: Gemini for a story, Anthropic for a lesson. Past the day's spending limit, a story's pass is made by Jev, a decision model made by TypeSafe AI, from the words, the clip descriptions and what you told Hound alone: your file names and the times go no further than Takehound's server.
• Any ask sends the words of your recording, a description of your timeline (file names, times, text on screen), your notes, what Hound has learned about how you cut and a few small stills of your video as it stands through Takehound's server: for a lesson to Anthropic's API, for a story to Google's Gemini model, with a small copy of your cut, picture and sound.

What goes to Anthropic's API may pass through OpenRouter on the way, and what goes to Jev or Gemini always does; OpenRouter relays it. Takehound's server keeps none of it, and nothing you send is used to train a model. Your projects and what Hound learns are kept in your browser. With an account they are kept with it too: each cut's timeline, its reasons and notes, the words and your file names, not the video files. Those are uploaded when you are signed in, because footage storage is on for every signed-in account, so your footage library is there on any computer you sign in on. Delete a project from your list in Takehound, clear what it has learned in the Takehound panel, and Delete this account removes everything an account keeps. Privacy has every detail.

Takehound can't check who agreed to be filmed, so only use footage you have the right to use.

A chat assistant can tell you what to cut, and a coding tool can run the cuts on your computer if you set it up. Then you are the one watching every render and fixing it.

Hound does that checking himself: he watches and listens to the cut. He works in a timeline you can see, where every step can be undone, and he remembers what you told him on your last video. There is nothing to install and nothing to run on your computer.

He takes the editor's work on the cut. What stays yours is the taste: the story, what to stress, and the last look before you publish. He does not decide what your video is about.

Takehound is a tool you run yourself, not an editing service: no person edits your video. If you keep an editor for the last part, hand them his timeline to open in DaVinci Resolve.

Three kinds of thing, and you can read them in his panel, under How you cut:

• what you told him in words about how you like your videos cut, as lines in his notebook;
• what he saw you take back or have redone: how long a pause you keep, and whether you want push-ins at the cuts, and how far;
• the look, the grade and the sound you chose last.

He goes by them on every job. Take a line out, or forget all of it, and he stops going by it. They are kept in your browser, and with your account when you are signed in.

Yes. Sign in with Google and Takehound opens. Your account keeps your projects, what Hound has learned about how you cut, the look you chose, your footage logs (each shot's description and your file names) and, while footage storage is on, your footage library, so all of it is there on any computer you sign in on. Delete this account, on the account page, removes all of it.

A laptop or desktop with Chrome. Takehound needs a wide screen, so it is not made for a phone or a tablet, and it works best in Chrome.

Footage from your phone works. Copy the clips to your computer first.

Yes. Save the timeline file and open it in DaVinci Resolve (free), then point it at the folder your footage is in: the clips come back online and your cuts come in placed, with the words on screen as titles you can edit. It does not export to Premiere. Its timeline file has not been opened in Final Cut.

Or finish in the browser and export an MP4. The import steps, and what to do if a clip shows as missing, are in how to import FCPXML into DaVinci Resolve.

Nothing for your first video once you are in, a recording of up to 30 minutes, and the notes you give on it. There is no card, so nothing is charged and nothing renews. More videos use credits, and they never expire.