Local Creator Kit

LOCAL VIDEO TOOLS THAT STAY ON YOUR MAC

Local Creator Kit is a small, transparent toolkit for creators who want their video workflow to run on their own Mac. Nothing publishes automatically. Every finished video stays in a review folder until you decide what to do with it.

LITE — FREE

• Use your own or licensed video
• Add your own narration recording
• Burn in a readable caption
• Export and verify a 1080×1920 H.264/AAC MP4
• No accounts, tracking, API calls, or uploads

STARTER — $1 INTRODUCTORY PRICE

• Everything in Lite
• Search licensed Pexels portrait footage
• Preserve creator and source attribution
• Avoid previously used sources
• Analyze three frames with your local Ollama model
• Generate four candidates and run a separate editor pass
• Gate visual grounding, style match, and clarity
• Generate narration locally with Kokoro on Apple Silicon

REQUIREMENTS

Lite: macOS, Python 3.11+, uv, FFmpeg, and your own video and narration recording.

Starter: Apple Silicon Mac, Python 3.12, 16 GB memory recommended, uv, FFmpeg, Ollama, a free Pexels API key, and about 7 GB for local models and runtime.

Model weights, API keys, stock footage, and social-platform credentials are not included. Use only footage you own or are licensed to use. You are responsible for source licenses, platform rules, and AI-content disclosures.

Each download includes QUICKSTART.md. Begin with: ./bin/local-creator-kit doctor