Narrative Node

Narrative Node Made by editors, for editors

Workflow plugins that clear the bottlenecks in post-production.

Narrative Node is a software brand that makes specialized plugins for professional video editors. A professional wedding videographer and editor founded it, and every product is built to fix a real performance or workflow bottleneck.

See our plugins Our story
The path of an edit
  1. 01

    Ingest

    A card dump lands, thousands of clips at once.

  2. 02

    Browse

    Finding the take without opening every clip.

    Navigator
  3. 03

    Mark

    Keeping the moments you chose.

    Navigator
  4. 04

    Assemble

    Building the cut on the timeline.

  5. 05

    Deliver

    Getting ranges and files out.

    Navigator
Each plugin we build clears one stretch of this path.

Every plugin follows the same rules.

They came out of building Navigator, and they apply to everything we make next.

  • It lives inside your editing app

    Plugins dock beside your timeline in Premiere Pro, so a small job doesn't send you to another program.

  • It uses the shortcuts you already know

    Navigator keeps Premiere's own keys, like I and O for marks, so there is nothing new to learn.

  • It's measured on real projects

    Performance is checked against a wedding project of 1,089 clips, not a demo bin of a dozen.

  • Your footage stays on your computer

    Previews are made locally and nothing is uploaded. The plugin has no telemetry.

  • One bad clip doesn't block the rest

    A file that won't decode costs its own tile and nothing else in the grid.

  • Slow work shows its progress

    Previews build in the background and the panel says what it's doing, so an empty tile never looks broken.

Kush, the founder of Narrative Node, filming at an event with a cinema camera on a gimbal and headphones on

Hi, I'm Kush.

A Professional Videographer and Editor who's been deep in video work for years.

Video project is a footage dump of a thousand-plus clips and a highlight film due on Friday. The tools weren't built around that kind of pressure.

I looked for software that matched how professional editors actually work, and didn't find it so I started building it myself. That's how Narrative Node began.

Every product here comes from a real bottleneck on a real job, built by someone who still shoots and edits for a living.

Our plugins.

Navigator browses your footage. Spotter browses your sound and is free. Each one docks inside Premiere Pro.

7-day free trial, then from $2.99 a month

Scrub every clip in your project with the pointer, mark the part you want and send it to the timeline.

  • Every bin in one tree, with a clip count on each
  • Search that puts every matching clip in the grid
  • Export In to Out without building a sequence
See Navigator Docs

Free and open source

Spotter

Browse your music and sound-effect folders inside Premiere, hear every sound and import the one you keep.

  • Music and SFX folders, with a waveform on every sound
  • Import into bins that mirror your folders
  • Open source under the GPL-3.0, with no account
See Spotter Docs

How a plugin gets made.

Every plugin follows the same three steps before it reaches you.

  1. 01

    A bottleneck on a real job

    Something slows an edit down: a panel that can't keep up with the footage, or a task that takes too many steps.

  2. 02

    We use it on paid work

    We build the fix and cut real projects with it. Navigator was measured on a wedding project of 1,089 clips.

  3. 03

    Then other editors get it

    A plugin reaches other editors only after it has held up on full-size footage. Navigator comes with a 7-day free trial.

More plugins are on the way.

Each one starts with a problem from a real job. Leave your email and we'll write once, when the next one is ready.