Subslate
All your dailies, labelled and organized, in just a click and a few minutes…
Our North Star
We design software tools that do the uncreative, uninspiring, tedious, bottomless-pit-vibe parts of filmmaking, so artists can spend more time doing what they love - making art. Subslate is here to do the grunt work.
Drop in your raw footage, no prep needed.
Subslate sits between your camera cards and your editors.
While traditionally an editor or DIT might spend days labelling and organizing thousands of video files, Subslate does it all in just a few hours.
All you have to do is select the folder with all your footage—completely unorganized, straight from the camera.
Define how your files are organized.
You choose how Subslate renames and sorts your clips.
Label format: How each file is named (e.g. scene_take → 12A_2.MOV).
Directory format: How subfolders are structured (e.g. one folder per scene with all the takes inside → 12A / 12A_1.MOV + 12A_2.MOV + …).
Let Subslate read the clapperboard, so you don't have to.
At a high level, Subslate automatically locates the clapperboard in each take, reads it, and renames/moves the clip accordingly. No more scrubbing through footage manually—just let Subslate handle the tedious work.
Straight to the editor's desk.
And bam! Your footage is labeled and structured—ready for import into AVID, Premiere, or wherever you edit.
Privacy
Your footage NEVER leaves your computer. Subslate processes everything locally, except for a close cutout of the clapperboard, which is sent up to the cloud for optical character recognition (OCR) to read the slate—nothing else.
Safety
Subslate NEVER alters your footage. The software only renames and moves around files in the folder you select. Codecs, video content, and everything outside the footage folder is completely untouched.
Generative AI
Yeah, no. None of that.
About Us
Raiyan Rizwan
Hello!
I am a practitioner of EECS, and a senior thereof at Berkeley. I also love film! Back in high school, I was part of FilmEd Academy of the Arts.
I decided to pursue engineering in college, and now I'm excited to build software tools for filmmakers.
And what better than making something to do the one thing everyone loathed doing back in the day?
My favorite movie is A Separation (2011).
Kaif Jeelani
Hey y'all!
I'm a senior studying EECS at Berkeley with a passion for creative expression. My background spans music production, sound design for games and film, and narrative game design.
Recently, I've ventured into filmmaking as a scriptwriter. I'm especially excited about Subslate, as it tackles a real pain point for filmmakers, according to my friends in the industry!
My favorite movie is Interstellar (2014).
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