Download for Windows

Reelwright 0.4.0 for Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit), as a single program: unzip it and double-click Reelwright.exe. There is no installer and nothing is uploaded. It is the same code as the live preview, built from commit 46aa7da on 2026-10-13.

Download the .zip (19.4 MB)Just the .exe (49.8 MB)

The zip holds the program and its license files. SHA-256 of the zip: f6c3dd63c063b1473c56c4cbf3c56ce6a2271c67638dc780d619d7adb5032c01

Windows will warn you. The file is not code-signed (a signing certificate costs money I have not spent), so SmartScreen says “Windows protected your PC”. If you trust it, choose More info and then Run anyway; you can check the SHA-256 above, or build it yourself from the source. It needs a graphics card with DirectX 12 or Vulkan; without one, use the live preview. For macOS and Linux, build from source.

What it is

Reelwright is a fork of FilmCraft, a non-linear video editor written from scratch in Rust. It keeps that project's engine: exact integer time so edits never drift, codecs written from the public specifications, and one registry of more than 650 commands that the menus, the command line, a JSON control channel and an MCP server for AI agents all share.

The same repository builds three programs: the desktop editor, a headless command-line tool for batch work and scripting, and this browser build.

What works today

A multi-track timeline with three-point editing, ripple, roll, slip and slide trims, razor, nesting, multicam and unlimited undo
Lumetri-style color: curves, wheels, HSL secondary, LUTs and live waveform, vectorscope, histogram and parade scopes
93 video effects, around 80 transitions and 53 audio effects, with keyframes, masks and blend modes
Titles with a real text engine, shapes, captions in SRT, WebVTT, SCC and more, and a mixer with broadcast loudness meters
H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, ProRes and DNxHD decoders, and H.264, ProRes and DNxHR export written in Rust
Final Cut XML, FCPXML, EDL, OpenTimelineIO, AAF and OMF in and out

What I changed

This is a fork of FilmCraft, an early-alpha project. I kept its engine and fixed or finished things first, then added a few features of my own.

Rebranded and re-iconed, with the original authors credited and the licenses kept intact
Edit Statistics: shots, cuts, average and median shot length, cuts per minute and a shot-length histogram
Export Chapter List: the chapter markers as a YouTube-style list, with warnings for what a platform rejects
Check Caption Readability: reading speed, line length, lines per caption, on-screen time and gaps, with a jump to each problem
Fixed relinking of moved media by folder when the folder is given with Windows separators, and made the test suite run on Windows
This web build can open a project by a link and ships a few sample projects
A size-optimised browser build, and a Windows download (a zip with the .exe) built from the same code

Honest limits

It is young software. The upstream roadmap puts it at roughly 87 percent of Premiere Pro's checklist but only 50 to 60 percent ready for real work, and I have not changed that
The web build is single-threaded, so heavy footage and export are slow, and there is no hardware decoding on Linux
No plugin hosting (VST3, Audio Units, OpenFX), no HEVC or AV1 export and no camera RAW
The web build keeps unsaved work in the browser, so saving and exporting download a file

Credits and license

Reelwright is a modified fork of FilmCraft (storytold/filmcraft), created by the ArtCraft team and the FilmCraft contributors, who keep their copyright. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by them, and carries none of their branding. The code is MIT OR Apache-2.0; see the repository for NOTICE and attribution.