You're already wearing every hat. Wear fewer.
Filmit.io builds tools for indie filmmakers, solo creators, and no-budget productions. Plugins to make your edit and grade faster — plus a coming wave of web apps for the producer hat you didn't ask for: estimates, call sheets, crew lists, release forms, and project tracking.
The Indie Reality
Director, editor, producer, accountant.
When you're running an indie production, you're not just making the work — you're scheduling it, budgeting it, paperworking it, and chasing every signature yourself. The bigger crews have a producer for that. You don't. So you live in spreadsheets, sticky notes, and Notion docs that fall apart by week three.
Estimates from scratch, every time
Every new project starts with a blank Excel sheet. Crew rates, gear, locations, contingency — all of it tallied by hand, then rebuilt the next time around because the last one is buried in last quarter's Drive folder.
Estimator (web app) — coming soonA crew list that lives in 4 places
Who's the gaffer? What's their day rate? Did they sign the W-9? You've got it in a Google Sheet, a Notes app, three text threads, and an email from two weeks ago. Then you re-enter it on every call sheet.
Crew List + Call Sheet (web apps) — coming soonRelease forms on shoot day
You forgot to print appearance releases. Or location agreements. Or you printed them, the talent signed them, and then they vanished into a paper folder you'll never find again. Now your edit is legally awkward.
Release Forms (web app) — coming soonEdit-bay friction kills momentum
You finally sit down to cut. Then you spend 90 minutes setting up bins, color matching the B-cam to the A-cam, looking up reference, and fighting Premiere instead of cutting. The flow state never arrives.
Organizer + ColorMaster + GIFer (available now)Available Now
Edit-bay tools that pay for themselves on the first project.
Indie filmmakers don't have a post supervisor. You're the post supervisor. These plugins shave time off the parts of editing and finishing that nobody pays you extra to do.
One-click bin and folder cleanup so the project file looks like someone actually owns it.
Centralized color control for every layer in the comp. Match cameras, build palettes, swap looks fast.
Browse, preview, and apply LUTs without dragging files around. Build a starting grade in a minute.
Pull reference GIFs straight onto the timeline for transitions, kinetic type, and visual targets.
Strip dead air and tighten interview-driven cuts in one pass. Hours saved on doc-style work.
Lower thirds and titles you can update in seconds, not minutes. Brand-safe across the whole project.
Annotation graphics for tutorials, BTS, behind-the-pitch, and explainer cuts. Polished, fast.
Find and relink missing footage in one place. Useful when you bounce between machines and drives.
Coming Soon
The producer hat, finally automated.
A series of web apps purpose-built for indie productions. No bloated enterprise pricing. No 12-month contract. Just the producer-side tools every indie creator quietly cobbles together in spreadsheets — done properly.
Build a full project budget — crew, gear, locations, contingency — from a saved template. Reuse it next time.
Coming SoonA live roster of every collaborator you've worked with. Rates, contacts, paperwork status, all in one place.
Coming SoonAuto-generate clean call sheets from your crew list and shoot day. Send by email, no PDF wrangling.
Coming SoonAppearance, location, and minor releases ready to e-sign on set. Stored, searchable, and never lost.
Coming SoonA single project hub linking your estimate, crew list, call sheets, and releases. One place per gig.
A Real Indie Day
From email to final master, on your own.
A short film, a passion project, a low-budget commercial — the workflow is the same. You wear five hats and you need each one to take less time than it used to.
Spec the project
Use Estimator (when it ships) to put together a real budget from a saved template. Send a proper number, not a back-of-napkin guess.
Lock the crew
Pull from your Crew List. Day rates, contact info, paperwork — all there. No re-asking the gaffer for their email.
Shoot day, on paper
Generate a Call Sheet with locations, weather, and scene order. Capture Release Forms on a phone instead of a clipboard you'll lose.
Ingest and organize
Drop footage into Premiere or After Effects. Run Organizer and Sourcer. Bins are clean, missing media gets linked, and you start on the actual cut.
Cut and color
JumpCut for interview pacing. ColorMaster and LUT Manager for a starting grade. GIFer when you need a reference. Title cards via TextPilot.
Deliver and archive
Send the master, file the paperwork, log the project. When the next gig calls, the template is already there.
We're indie filmmakers. We built Filmit.io because we couldn't find tools priced for the way we actually work — solo, scrappy, low-budget, often unpaid. We're a mission-driven indie company, and the money we make goes back into more tools, more affordable pricing, and more support for the next creator behind us. You buy the suite. We make the next thing. That's the whole loop.
Make the project. Skip the friction.
Start with the plugin suite today. Be first in line for the production web apps.