Is it a web app, or something we install?

Both. Origami is a web app you open in a browser. Origami Link is installed beside your storage, on Mac, Windows or Linux, so Origami can read your media where it sits.

Is it one part of our stack, or does it replace the stack?

One part. It works alongside your edit, grade and transfer tools and hands off to them: it reads the cut from Avid, Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut, runs the pull or conform, and puts the delivery where your own tools pick it up.

What do you set up for us, and what do we do ourselves?

You install Origami Link and connect your storage. We start you on a demo account with your own footage, so the first job you run is one of your own.

Who submits the job, and who is billed for it?

Anyone on the project with permission can submit a job, and every job records who did. Usage is shown per project, so you can see what each show used. Who pays is set in your agreement with us.

Do I have to move my media to your cloud?

No. Origami is cloud-hosted but reads your on-prem storage in place without replicating it, and treats a SAN, a NAS, loose hard drives and an S3 bucket as one repository, all accessed through the Origami platform. Your camera negative never moves.

Where is my media stored, and how is it secured?

At rest, your camera originals stay on your own storage. Files move only when a job runs or you send a transfer, and then only the files that job needs, over encrypted connections. With your own bucket, Origami keeps only the index. Sign-in requires multi-factor authentication, and partners only see the shows they are invited to.

What does it actually save us?

A turnover names a fraction of what the cameras wrote, and each of those files is copied out at the cut rather than whole. Two reductions, one after the other, so the great majority of the data never moves at all. Less leaves your bucket, less crosses the line, and the vendor at the far end stores the frames of the cut rather than the whole roll. Bring a real turnover to a demo and we will measure it on your own material.

What does it cost to run?

You bring your own storage and your media stays on it, so you are not paying us to hold it. Compute runs when a job runs rather than around the clock. You can see usage per project as you go. We will size the rest with you against a real turnover.

Origami

The operating layer for post production.

Taking the work out of workflow.

Find the media, organise it for every team, pull and conform from the cut, and send only what is needed. The colour and the metadata travel with it.

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Twenty minutes on a call, then a demo account on your own footage.

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You’ve already seen the work

Ted S2

Peacock

Dear England

BBC One

Mutiny

Feature film

Strife S2

Soundfirm

Ghosts S5

Residence

Companies running Origami

Why Origami

Post runs on friction.

The hunting, the re-typing, the carrying between production and post. Origami exists to remove it.

Bandwidth, egress, storage and schedule

The cut asks for about 10% of what was shot.

100%
Everything the cameras wrote
about 10%
The files the cut names
about 1%
The frames that leave

How far it goes depends on the turnover. What does not change is the shape: you move the files the cut names, cut to the frames it uses, and everything else stays where it already was.

Only the frames in the cut ever leave the building.

Find out how the saving works

“The ability to streamline time-consuming tasks with Origami was a huge advantage on Strife S2. The efficiencies let our editorial team stay focused on the creative needs of the show.”

Lisa Jacobi

Post Production Supervisor, Soundfirm

One show, start to finish

Find it. Organise it. Pull it from the cut. Send only what is needed.

01Find
02Organise
03Pull and conform
04Sound
05Colour
06Metadata

01 · Find

Any storage. Any mix. No consolidating.

A SAN, a NAS, loose drives, an S3 bucket. One repository, where they are. Origami Link, a small app beside your storage, connects it securely.

Find out how storage works

Origami Link sits beside your own storage and only ever connects out, encrypted. Cloud buckets connect directly.

One place7 files, 11 copies, 6 storages

A001C001.ariSANBackup bucket
A001C002.ariSANS3 bucket
A002C004.movNAS
B001C005.ariShoot drivesBackup bucket
Sound roll 03.wavShoot drives
VFX_0410 plates.exrFacility
Reel 4 offline.movNASS3 bucket

Origami Link · on-premCloud bucket

S3 providers

AWS
Backblaze
Wasabi
Storj
Lyve Cloud
MinIO

02 · Organise

Your media, organised and on its way.

Collect it from any storage, lay it out the way each team asks, and send it to one vendor or several, with the CDLs and LUTs beside it.

Find out how to manage your media

03 · Pull and conform

VFX pulls and conforms, built from the cut.

VFX pulls are rendered for VFX vendors. Conforms copy out only the frames in the cut, straight from the camera original. The colour and the metadata travel with both.

Find out how pulls and conforms work

04 · Sound

Conform the sound on its own, or with the picture.

Run it alone, with the video, or drive both from one AAF.

Find out how sound conform works

EDL EP104_R2_VFX.edlEvent 014 10:24:31:07 → 10:24:58:19Sc 47B / T3

One clip · 8 tracks · one UMID

EP104_R2_V1.mxf1Picture

EP104_R2_A1.mxf2Boom

EP104_R2_A2.mxf3Radio Ana

EP104_R2_A3.mxf4Radio Marcus

EP104_R2_A4.mxf5Radio Dev

EP104_R2_A5.mxf6Plant SL

EP104_R2_A6.mxf7Mix L

EP104_R2_A7.mxf8Mix R

Matched onShared MaterialPackage UMIDEmbedded or split outWithin one project

NameTracksStartDuration

EP104_R2Sc 47B / T3

V1 A1-710:24:31:0700:00:27:12

88 tracksOp-AtomNothing re-encoded

Written with nothing re-encoded. It opens in Avid as one master clip.

The colour and the metadata travel with it.

05 · Colour

The VFX vendor sees exactly what the editor saw.

Checked by Iris, Origami's automated colour check. A pull can open in Hiero as a timeline.

Find out how the colour travels

Iris·Colour drift detected

The shot rendered without the editor's colour

Plate colour comparison

The same shot with the editor's colour applied

String-out · editor’s reference

06 · Metadata

Every source in. One answer out.

Camera, sound, script, dailies and editorial, routed into one record.

Find out how the metadata router works

See it run on your own footage.

A twenty-minute demo on a call, then a demo account of your own.

Book a demo

Across the whole show

Run it from your AI app. Keep it secure. Take it anywhere.

AI assistant

Set it up on the call.

Talk a new project through on a call, and your own AI app sets it up in Origami. It asks before it creates or sends anything.

Find out how the AI assistant works

Security

Every show is a promise about who can see what.

Scoped roles, your own storage, and a record of who ran every job.

Find out how security works

Open standards

Portable because it is built on open formats.

OpenTimelineIO, ASC CDL, MovieLabs OMC.

Find out about the open standards

Who it is for

Built for the people who carry the media.

Before

Camera, set, editorial

Origami

A web app, plus Origami Link beside your storage

Mac, Windows and Linux. It works alongside your edit and transfer tools.

After

VFX, grade, mix, finishing

Why it pays off

Hunting, re-typing, shipping whole rolls. None of that is the work. The cut is.

For a facility, the coordination nobody pays for becomes work you can show: every job records who ran it.

“It helped me lighten up the workload for certain tasks so I could focus more on support for the colourist.”

Maikel Popic

Post Assist, Unit Film & TV

“Origami has reclaimed valuable hours for our editors and support staff. It empowers our creative team to focus on what truly matters.”

Robert C. Rodriguez

VP Post Production, Point 360

“Staffing aside, the accuracy on time-sensitive pulls is the appealing part.”

Jeff Brink

Point 360

“Once that was sorted, I honestly did not have to worry about it. It just sat there, did what it needed to do.”

Maitland Buchanan

Unit Film & TV

FAQ

Questions buyers ask

The questions teams actually bring to a demo: what it is, storage, trust and commercials.

Take Origami for a spin with your own material.

A twenty-minute demo on a call, then a demo account on your own footage: pulls, conforms, deliveries, colour carried with the frames, and your AI assistant driving it.