Tellers for TV Post-Production

Rough cuts.
Real time.

What Tellers does for TV post-production: Real-time rough cuts from thousands of hours of footage. Native MXF and AAF file analysis. Auto-relink to source media on your infrastructure. Export directly to Avid, Premiere, and DaVinci. B-roll matching tightly synced to narration. Condensed format reformatting from a single prompt. Siloed per client — read-only access, your data stays yours.

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The assembly cut shouldn't take days

The most time-consuming work in post comes before a single creative decision. Tellers handles it.

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Assembly cuts take days, not hours

Reality TV shoots produce thousands of hours of multi-camera footage per series. Getting from raw rushes to a watchable assembly cut takes days of manual logging, selecting, and assembling before a single creative decision is made.

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Footage is hard to navigate at scale

When your archive spans hundreds of MXF reels across multiple shoots, finding the right moment — the right angle, the right take, the relevant B-roll — means either exhaustive manual review or an incomplete search. Tellers indexes everything automatically.

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Format changes restart the edit from scratch

Repurposing a finished cut for a different format, duration, or platform usually means starting over: re-selecting shots, re-cutting pacing, re-exporting. With Tellers, editorial rules become a prompt — and the agent applies them to any existing cut.

Core Workflow

From rushes to rough cut.

Native format support, real-time assembly, and direct NLE export — the full pipeline without the overhead.

MXF & AAF Analysis

Tellers ingests native MXF and AAF files directly. Every clip is automatically analysed: scenes, speech, faces, action, and semantic content. The result is a fully indexed library ready for agent-driven editing.

Multi-camera reality TV, documentaries, news rushes, long-form footage libraries

Real-Time Rough Cuts

Feed the agent an episode script, a brief, or a plain-language prompt. Tellers selects the best takes, assembles a rough cut, and delivers an editable timeline — in real time, from thousands of hours of source footage. No offline batch job, no waiting overnight.

Reality TV assembly, documentary rough cuts, news packages, episode structure from script

NLE Export & Relink

Timelines export directly to Avid Media Composer, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve — with automatic relinking to your source media on your own infrastructure. Editors open a sequence that already points to the originals at full resolution.

Avid AAF roundtrip, Premiere XML export, DaVinci EDL, source relink on shared storage

Platform Capabilities

Beyond the rough cut.

B-roll intelligence, format reformatting, and a full suite of generative AI tools — all from the same workflow.

B-Roll Intelligence

Tellers understands what the journalist or narrator is saying and surfaces the most relevant B-roll to illustrate each segment. Tight semantic alignment between speech and visuals — automatically, across your entire archive.

News show intros, documentary illustration, narration-driven B-roll selection

Format Reformatting

Transform a finished cut into a new format using a simple prompt or a text document that describes your editorial rules. 6-minute package to 2-minute condensed, long-form doc to social clip — one instruction, new output.

6 min → 2 min condensed, long-form doc to social clip, custom editorial rules as text

GenAI Model Aggregator

Tellers aggregates all the leading AI video, image, SFX, voice, and music generation models behind a single interface. Illustrate a documentary section that has no archive footage, remove an object or a person from a shot, generate a voice-over — all inside the same workflow.

Documentary illustration, object removal, voice generation, music & SFX, image generation

AI Generation

Every major AI model. Inside your edit.

Tellers aggregates all the leading AI video, image, SFX, voice, and music generation models behind a single interface — accessible directly inside your editing workflow. Illustrate a documentary section that has no archive footage, remove an object or a person from a shot quickly, generate a voice-over or a music bed — without switching tools.

  • Illustrate documentary sections lacking archive footage
  • Remove objects or people from shots
  • Generate voice-overs, music beds, and SFX
Security & Isolation

Your footage stays yours.

The Tellers agent operates with read-only access to the files you explicitly make available on your account. It cannot write, move, or delete source media. Each client company is fully siloed — no footage, metadata, or timeline data is shared across accounts.

Already trusted by major TV broadcasters and post-production companies across Europe.

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Read-only agent access

The agent can read and analyse your media — never write, move, or delete it.

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Client isolation

Each production company is fully siloed. Footage and metadata never cross account boundaries.

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Your infrastructure

Source media stays on your storage. Tellers relinking points back to your originals — nothing is duplicated externally.

What post-production teams do with Tellers

Reality TV rough cuts

Feed the agent an episode script and thousands of hours of multi-camera rushes. Get a rough cut assembly that follows the story structure — angles selected, pace set, ready for the editor to refine.

News & current affairs

Find the most relevant B-roll to illustrate any segment tightly following what the journalist is saying. Works across your entire archive, updated as new footage is ingested.

Format reformatting

Define your editorial rules once as a text document or a prompt. Apply them to any finished cut or raw footage to produce a new duration or format — 6 min to 2 min, broadcast to streaming, long-form doc to social.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about Tellers for TV post-production.

What file formats does Tellers support for TV post-production?
Tellers natively analyses MXF and AAF files. Every clip is automatically indexed — scenes, speech, faces, action, and semantic content — so it is immediately available for agent-driven editing and rough cut generation.
How does Tellers generate a rough cut from thousands of hours of footage?
You provide a script, a brief, or a plain-language prompt — for example the episode synopsis or a rundown. The Tellers agent analyses your indexed footage library, selects the best takes and angles for each story beat, assembles a timeline, and delivers an editable rough cut in real time. No batch job, no overnight processing.
Does Tellers relink to the original high-resolution source files?
Yes. Tellers exports timelines that automatically relink to your source media on your own infrastructure — shared storage, NAS, or archive system. Editors open a sequence in Avid, Premiere, or DaVinci that already points to the originals at full resolution.
Which NLEs does Tellers export to?
Tellers exports natively to Avid Media Composer (AAF roundtrip), Adobe Premiere Pro (XML), and DaVinci Resolve (EDL/XML). The timeline relinking step is handled automatically — editors do not need to manually repoint media.
Can the Tellers agent work from an episode script?
Yes. Providing a script or rundown gives the agent a structural guide for the rough cut — it maps footage to story beats, selects appropriate takes, and assembles a timeline that follows the scripted structure. The resulting cut is fully editable in any NLE.
How does B-roll selection work?
Tellers analyses the speech track of your edit — narration, interview, or presenter delivery — and semantically matches the most relevant B-roll from your archive to illustrate each segment. The selection is tightly aligned to what is being said, not just timecode proximity.
Can Tellers reformat a finished cut to a shorter duration?
Yes. You define your editorial rules as a simple prompt or a text document — for example "condense this 6-minute package to 2 minutes, keeping the opening and closing statements". The agent applies those rules to produce a new timeline, preserving your preferred shots where possible.
Is my footage secure? Who can access it?
Tellers operates with strict client isolation. The agent has read-only access to the files you explicitly make available on your account — it cannot write, move, or delete source media. Each client company is fully siloed: no footage, metadata, or timeline data is shared across accounts.
Can editors continue working in Tellers after the rough cut is generated?
Yes. Every rough cut is fully editable inside Tellers — you can continue interacting with the agent to refine the cut, watch it edit in real time, or take the timeline to Avid, Premiere, or DaVinci to finish manually. The two workflows can be combined freely.
Does Tellers work with documentary and long-form content?
Yes. Long-form documentary is one of the primary workflows. Tellers handles large footage libraries, supports illustration of archive sections using the GenAI model aggregator when no suitable footage exists, and can reformat finished documentaries into new duration cuts based on your editorial rules.
What AI generation capabilities are available for TV post-production?
Tellers aggregates leading AI video, image, SFX, voice, and music generation models. For TV post-production this means: illustrating documentary sections that lack archive footage, removing unwanted objects or people from shots, generating voice-overs, creating music beds and SFX. Everything is accessible from within the same editing workflow.
Do you work with major TV broadcasters and post-production companies?
Yes. Tellers is already used by major TV broadcasters and post-production companies across Europe for reality TV assembly cuts, news B-roll selection, and long-form documentary workflows.
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