I’d rather drive
Saved truck footage, timed shots and edit notes in one board, ready to refer to while writing the next brief.

Ask about your teardowns and saved ★ Library from the tools you already use. Find a shot, read the notes behind it, or have a Canvas board laid out for your next video. Connect with your own account, or use a personal API key for local setup; Canvas needs a paid plan.
Connect your Library · up to 83 tools · 81 never spend credits

Your references and decisions stay in videngineer. The connector lets you work with them from another app.
Search your teardowns by topic, hook or format, and your cuts by subject or camera move. Open a saved Library folder to find the references you kept.

Read the script, cuts and sound from a teardown. Search the notes on a Canvas board and open the full note behind a decision.

On a paid plan, ask for notes, labels, arrows and saved references to be arranged on Canvas. Open that same board in videngineer to review and change the plan.

These are our own film plans, opened through the local connector. The connector returns the saved work for you to study and plan from.
Saved truck footage, timed shots and edit notes in one board, ready to refer to while writing the next brief.

The character sheet and shot-by-shot plan stay together, so the next decision can start from the choices already made.

The connector brings your saved study into the app where you are working. Canvas holds the plan you hand off.
Sign in to connect, or use your personal API key locally. Reading existing results does not spend analysis credits; starting a teardown uses your plan’s allowance, and requesting a cut blueprint can spend credits.
Manage your connection or revoke your local key in your account.
One address for every Claude surface.
https://mcp.videngineer.com/mcp
Sign in to your own videngineer account and approve access. The tools appear in your chat.
Run this in your terminal.
claude mcp add --transport http videngineer https://mcp.videngineer.com/mcp
In Claude Code, run /mcp, pick videngineer and sign in. Approve access to your own account and the tools are ready.
Prefer to run it on your own machine? Use the local connector with an API key.
Guides for each assistant: Claude · Claude Code · Codex · Grok (custom connector) · ChatGPT and Muse (in review) · Perplexity (coming soon).
Local setup is documented for Claude Desktop and Claude Code. Other apps are not tested yet; use one of the guides below.
Open Account → API access → Generate key. Your account shows whether key access is available.
Open API access →Install Python and the connector runtime, then save the connector file on your machine.
Download the connector →Set the local file path and your key in the config below. Restart your app, then ask about a teardown or board.
Download example config →pip install "mcp[cli]" curl -O https://videngineer.com/mcp/videngineer_mcp.py
Claude Desktop: use claude_desktop_config.json. Claude Code: use .mcp.json in your project. Replace the example path and key with your own.
{
"mcpServers": {
"videngineer": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["/absolute/path/to/videngineer_mcp.py"],
"env": { "VIDENGINEER_API_KEY": "your-key" }
}
}
}
Restart your app. Try: “Find the hooks in my recent teardowns.” On a paid plan, try: “Open my Canvas board and read the shot notes.”
Read your teardown reports, scripts, cuts, scenes, saved assets, Sound Kit and cast details. Compare several saved analyses, open Library folders, browse public teardowns and their tags, and search Canvas notes and references, and inspect version history.
Start a teardown from a supported video link, check its progress, or request a cut blueprint. On a paid plan, build a missing cut grid without using wallet credits.
On a paid plan, create boards and folders, add saved references or a public media URL to your Library, and arrange cards, notes and arrows. Save a new board version, restore an earlier version, or move a board to Recently Deleted, where it stays restorable in the app.
read-only · 0 credits — 35
spends credits · only when you ask — 2
builds & board edits · 0 credits from your balance — 46
Tool availability depends on your plan, permissions and enabled features. Changes require your request; permanent deletion requires confirmation.
Private uploads use your footage storage: 50 GB on Pro, 250 GB on Power, 500 GB on Studio, 5 GB during a trial. Videos up to 2 GB and 30 min each, images and audio up to 50 MB. Uploads are stored, not analysed.
Open your Library and boards from the apps you already work in. Ask about a reference, then lay out the next plan on Canvas.