swiftbird

For YouTube documentary makers · Windows

From first idea to final export.

Swiftbird puts a whole documentary on one desk. One Chat drives your own Claude Code or Codex, and every film's script, shots, scenes, thumbnails, calendar and upload sit one click away.

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Scene editor · Blender Illustrative demo

A staged enactment from the Swiftbird ad, not a recording of a real agent run.The app itself sends proposals to your agent; Blender stays unchanged until the agent builds them.

  • Your AI, your subscription

    Swiftbird drives the Claude Code or Codex you already use. It sells no AI, and your provider bills you directly.

  • Your files stay on your machine

    Swiftbird keeps your films, scripts, media, conversations and keys on your PC and never uploads them. Its cloud holds your sign-in and minimal billing history; what you send your agent goes to its provider.

  • Your tools still render

    Blender, Remotion and Premiere make the picture. Swiftbird shows you the work, carries your corrections and keeps the film in order.

The shot list

Six pages you'll live in. One desk.

Swiftbird is a front end to the way documentaries are already made: a folder per film, agents working in the repository, and you reviewing and correcting. It reads your film's real files in place and never moves them.

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    Chat with your agents

    CLAUDE CODE · CODEX

    One conversation runs the studio. Ask for research, a script, a scene fix or a thumbnail, and the answer opens the page that holds the work.

    Chat talks to the Claude Code or Codex CLI installed on your computer, with its own skills, tools and sign-in. Switch provider beside the composer, and pick the model and reasoning level in one menu. When an agent finishes, it returns buttons such as Open in Production, not a wall of file paths.

    • Warming up agent prepares each new conversation with the app's guide before any task runs.
    • Queue the next request, watch subagents and background tasks, quote a line to reply to it, attach files.
    • If a send is interrupted, Check send status reads the receipt instead of sending twice.
    recreatedFrom the app's Chat page. The conversation is illustrative.
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    Production, shot by shot

    SCRIPT · SHOTS · STILLS

    Every shot of the film in order, with its line of narration, its build route and what exists for it right now.

    Production imports the film's script and visual sheet in place. Open a row to see its stills full screen, its rendered segment if one exists, and where its source lives. Select words in the script, or write a note on a shot, and the correction goes to Chat with the exact text and revision it refers to.

    • Rows know their lane: Open in Blender and Open in scene editor for 3D, View Remotion source for 2D.
    • Builder, judge and your own checkpoints are shown as recorded, kept separate from whether the source has changed since.
    • Missing files stay visibly missing. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.
    example filmShots, narration and stills from The Lighthouse at the Edge of the Map, an illustrative example film made for this page.
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    The scene editor, for exact direction

    PROPOSAL · BLENDER

    Stop describing camera moves in paragraphs. Show them.

    The scene editor is a light wireframe view of a saved Blender shot. Block out where something should go and name what it should be, move and key the camera, preview the path and measure distances. Your edits become a precise proposal that goes to your agent through Chat; the agent builds the change in Blender, and you compare the result against exactly what you asked for.

    • Proposal only — Blender stays unchanged until your agent does the work. Undo and reset to the Blender baseline at any time.
    • Camera paths: straight segments, smooth curves or orbit arcs, with colour-coded cuts.
    • A ruler measures between objects, so "move it closer" becomes a number.
    illustrative demoClips from the Swiftbird ad, staged in a sample scene. The scene editor is being refined to match this look.
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    Thumbnails, side by side

    VERSIONS · NOTES

    Every version of the thumbnail in one place, compared at the size people will actually see it.

    Thumbnails shows the film's thumbnail folder with its versions. Compare two or three, pick a visual target and write a correction: composition, type, lighting, object scale. The note goes to Chat, where your agent makes the next version with the image tools it already has.

    • Notes are tied to the exact version you were looking at.
    • A new version appears beside the old ones, so you never lose the one you liked.
    illustrativeVersions of the example film's thumbnail, made for this page. None is marked approved for publication.
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    Calendar, for the next story

    PLAN · DATES

    A month of approved titles, with the problems flagged before they become late nights.

    Calendar shows only titles you've approved. Propose a date with the date picker, edit a title card's wording, and see alerts for date issues, schedule reviews and approvals waiting on you. Save a date locally, or draft it into Chat for your agent to plan the work.

    • Every status dot has a text label, not just a colour.
    • Dates do not publish videos. Planning and uploading stay separate on purpose.
    recreatedFrom the app's Calendar page. The dates shown are illustrative.
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    Publishing, checked before it's sent

    METADATA · REVIEW

    Title, thumbnail, description, tags and visibility, prepared next to the exact file they belong to.

    Publishing gathers everything YouTube asks for: title, description, tags, category, audience, the altered-or-synthetic-content answer, visibility and an optional scheduled release time, plus up to three thumbnail variants to test in YouTube Studio. Review upload shows the exact final file and thumbnail before anything could be sent.

    • Honest status: Swiftbird prepares and reviews uploads. No video has been published through it yet, and it never uploads without your explicit review.
    recreatedFrom the app's Publishing page, stopped at Review upload.

Also on the desk

  • ProjectsEvery film, from first idea to final export.
  • ResearchReview ideas. Pick the next story.
  • AssetsFind it once. Keep it within reach.
  • ReferencesThe shared language of your productions.
  • FilesRegistered locations, preserved project snapshots and previews.
  • Film editorVoice, notes and timing on a timeline, handed to Premiere as XML.

How a film moves

You direct. Your agents build.

Swiftbird doesn't replace your workflow or your tools. It keeps each step's evidence in view, and keeps every approval in your hands.

  1. 1

    Pick the story

    Research findings arrive as cards in Chat, with their sources and their gaps. Shortlist, dismiss or approve a title, then give it a date in Calendar.

    You decide Agent researches
  2. 2

    Write and approve the script

    Your agent drafts in the film's folder. You read it in Production, select the lines that need work, and approve it when it's right. An agent never approves its own script.

    Agent drafts You approve
  3. 3

    Build the shots

    Agents build scenes in Blender and graphics in Remotion, lane by lane. Production shows each shot's stills and checkpoints; notes and scene-editor proposals go straight back to the right agent.

    Agents build Blender · Remotion You correct
  4. 4

    Cut and finish

    Lay out voice and notes in the film editor, then hand the sequence to Premiere as XML. Premiere finishes the film; your own narration edits are preserved.

    illustrative demoShot notes in the film editor, from the Swiftbird ad.
    Film editor Premiere
  5. 5

    Prepare the upload

    Fill in the release details next to the final export and thumbnail, then review exactly what would be uploaded. Planning a date never publishes anything.

    Review upload You publish

Pricing

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Every plan needs a Swiftbird sign-in. Plus and Pro are coming soon; they can't be bought yet. Your AI subscription is separate and billed by your provider.

Free

$0 forever

Make your first film on the desk.

  • One active project
  • Basic editing and agent chat
  • Open and export existing work
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For a channel with more than one film in flight.

  • Multiple active projects
  • Reusable styles
  • Asset and reference libraries
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