A Mac app for wedding filmmakersPixally Prep
The tedious part, done for you.
Drop in a wedding's footage. This is what is waiting when you open your editor.
Highlight prep
Start cutting right away
Everything synced, transcribed and marked, with the soundbites and candid moments pulled aside.
Doc edit
The first cut, built for you
Cut between your angles, with the dialogue balanced and chapter titles in. You open it and polish.
Your first wedding is free. $8.99 per wedding after that.
Join the Pixally waitlist- No need to upload your footage anywhere
- No subscription
- One free wedding per person
Premiere Pro
DaVinci Resolve
Final Cut ProStart cutting your highlight right away.
Prep does not edit your highlight film. It does the tedious part before it, so you open the project and get on with the creative part.
Candid moments, pulled aside
Things people said that only the cameras heard: getting ready, cocktail hour, the party. Each one is picked out for you, with the exchange around it, ready for your highlight.
The lines worth using
Soundbites for your highlight. Each one is a whole sentence, with every angle under it.
The whole day, in order
The whole day laid out and roughly cut, to find your moments in. It is not your film. It is where you start building it.
Everyone hates cutting the doc edit. Prep does it for you.
Choose the doc edits you deliver, and Prep builds the first cut of each one right in your project: cut between the angles, with the dialogue balanced, the markers on, and a chapter title opening each part of the day. You open it and polish.
A first cut for each doc edit you choose
- Full day
- Ceremony + reception
- Ceremony
- Reception
- Speeches
- Dances
And the prep is done before you open your editor
Every camera and recorder, synced
For each part of the day you get a timeline with every camera and audio recorder lined up and stacked, nothing cut.
Every word, transcribed
Prep transcribes the speech in your footage and writes a subtitle file for each timeline.
The moments, marked
Markers sit on the day's big moments, like the vows, the rings and each toast, and on the laughs, applause and tears.
A project your editor opens
Prep writes the project for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro. Its timelines point at your files where they are.
$8.99 per wedding
- Your first wedding is free: one per person, and one per Mac.
- Buy weddings in packs of 1, 5 or 10. There is no subscription.
- A wedding uses a credit only when it finishes, and a run that fails gives the credit back.
Common questions
- What is a doc edit first cut?
- A first pass of the edit to start from: cut between the angles, with the dialogue balanced, the markers on, and each part of the day opening with its chapter title. The sound always plays in full, in real time.
- Which doc edits does Pixally Prep cut?
- Full day, Ceremony + reception, Ceremony, Reception, Speeches and Dances. Each one you choose gets a first cut built in your project.
- Does Pixally Prep edit a highlight film?
- No. A highlight film gets the prep only: every angle synced and transcribed, the moments marked, the soundbites and candid moments pulled aside, and the whole day laid out in order to pull from. You edit the film, and you can start right away.
- What are candid moments?
- Things people said that only the cameras heard, like getting ready, cocktail hour and the party, picked out for you. When Prep finds them, each one is on the "Candid moments (camera sound)" timeline with the exchange around it.
- Which editors does Pixally Prep work with?
- Prep writes a project for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.
- Do I have to upload my footage?
- No. There is no need to upload your footage anywhere. Your video and audio files stay on your Mac.
- How long does Pixally Prep take?
- It depends on how much footage there is and on your Mac. As a guide, allow about 45 seconds for each GB of footage, which is about 2 hours for 160 GB.
- Does Pixally Prep run on Windows?
- Not yet. Prep runs on a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later).
- Does Pixally Prep run on an Intel Mac?
- No. Prep needs Apple silicon, which means a Mac with an M1 chip or later.
- What does Pixally Prep cost after the free wedding?
- $8.99 per wedding, bought in packs of 1, 5 or 10. There is no subscription, and a wedding uses a credit only when it finishes.
Get your next doc edit cut for you
Your first wedding is free. $8.99 per wedding after that.
Join the Pixally waitlistPixally takes it from here
Pixally is an all-in-one CRM for wedding photographers and videographers, with photo, video and hybrid gallery delivery built in. It opens on January 1, 2027, and the first 500 accounts get the Founding Member rate: 50% off the first year. Join the waitlist to hear the moment it opens.
Join the waitlistBuilt by Ryan Geldermann, a wedding filmmaker who has been filming weddings since 2009 and founded the wedding video editing company Uncut Gems.
Premiere Pro is a trademark of Adobe. DaVinci Resolve is a trademark of Blackmagic Design. Final Cut Pro is a trademark of Apple. Pixally Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.