Creative Tools Lab builds focused desktop software for video editors and filmmakers. We take the slow, repetitive parts of post-production and make them fast — on your machine, without subscriptions or cloud uploads.
Editing software keeps getting bigger, heavier, and more subscription-shaped — while the actual grunt work stays exactly as tedious as it was ten years ago. Syncing footage. Recovering a corrupt card. Cutting a two-hour podcast down to the good bits.
Our answer is the opposite of a bloated suite: one tool per problem. Each "Lab" does a single job extremely well, opens instantly, and gets out of your way. No feature you'll never use, no account wall, no monthly fee just to keep working.
Your footage never leaves your computer. No uploads, no servers holding your work hostage. It's faster, and it's private by default.
A tool should do one thing brilliantly. We'd rather ship a sharp, fast app than a giant suite of half-finished features.
Clear about what a tool does and doesn't do. No dark patterns, no surprise charges, no holding features ransom.
SyncLab is our first tool — it lines up multi-camera footage to a master audio track automatically, including slow-motion, and hands you a ready-to-edit timeline for DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro. It's in free public beta right now.
More focused tools are in the works. We're building them quietly, testing them with real editors, and shipping when they're genuinely good — not before.
Creative Tools Lab is a small, independent studio. We edit, we shoot, and we got tired of the busywork — so we started automating it. If that sounds like your kind of software, try the beta or say hello.
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