ClapperOpen Clapper ↗

Your AI-assisted film studio · Active alpha

Big director
energy.

The film in your head has had a very long development cycle.
Give it a screenplay, a timeline, and a fighting chance.

Start creating ↗Meet your studio ↓

Open source. Bring your models, your API keys, and your opinions.

● ● ●Clapper · Your next filmTake 01
Clapper’s real editor showing a screenplay, film monitor, assistant, and multitrack semantic timeline.
The actual Clapper editor. The director’s chair is wherever you’re sitting.

FROM “WHAT IF” TO “ROLL IT”

Your story.
Now with pictures.

Start with a screenplay. Build scenes, characters, shots, dialogue, and sound into an editable project. Finally, something to show the friends who keep asking how the film is going.

01 / THE SCRIPT

It starts with
a great line.

INT. KITCHEN — MIDNIGHT

A filmmaker stares into the fridge.
The light is perfect.

FILMMAKER

We’re going to need a wider shot.

Original example screenplay. Snacks not included.

YOUR IDEAS, WITH STRUCTURE

Less copy-paste.
More plot twist.

Import a screenplay and organize the story as scenes and entities. Keep the words and the media connected, so changing your mind is part of the process.

Give your story a timeline ↗

THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. AND THE NEXT SEVEN.

“One tiny change.”
Famous last words.

Shots, speech, music, and sound live on one semantic timeline. Adjust a segment, try another generation, and keep shaping the scene. It’s your film. Be particular.

Illustrative timeline. Your late-night masterpiece may vary.

A STUDIO WITH OPTIONS

Creative control.
Control-freak approved.

01

Models change.
Your vision stays.

Connect supported providers or your own workflows. Choose how you generate images, video, speech, music, and sound. Provider availability and costs vary.

02

The assistant.
Not the auteur.

Use the AI assistant to help develop and edit your project. You keep the decisions, the timeline, and full responsibility for the ending.

03

Open the project.
Or the source.

Save your work in OpenClap and explore the GPLv3 source. A studio you can look inside. No secret handshake required.

LESS “SOMEDAY”. MORE “ACTION”.

Your debut
is waiting.

For wildly ambitious ideas and very small crews.
Including crews of one.

Get the macOS build ↗Try it in your browser ↗

macOS builds on Patreon · Active alpha · External providers may require paid accounts