Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut, and every tool you use around them — on one flick. Drag a proxy onto a wedge to open it in the right app. Context profiles for edit mode vs color mode vs review mode.
Video editors run a stack built around one NLE plus half a dozen satellites. DaVinci Resolve 21, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro at the center. Photoshop and Illustrator for title graphics. Audition or Logic Pro for audio cleanup. After Effects for VFX. A screen-recording tool like CleanShot or Loom for review notes. A transfer or asset manager like Hedge or Shotput for ingest. Every cut day you bounce between these constantly, and most of the time you're doing it with a Wacom pen or a trackpad in your right hand.
The NLE swallows the whole screen. A typed launcher means leaving fullscreen, breaking the pen out of your timeline, and Cmd+Tabbing through a stack of apps that all look similar in the dock. A radial menu appears at your cursor without breaking fullscreen context — you flick, you release, you're in the next app. Bind it to a mouse side button and you never lift your hand off the device.
Concrete wedge configurations that map to how editors actually work. Mix and match, or keep them as four separate profiles.
Default profile, eight wedges. Your NLE in the noon slot, satellites around it.
Drag a clip, project, or proxy onto any wedge. The wedge's app opens it. No "Open with…" submenu hunt three right-clicks deep.
For the back-and-forth with clients and producers. Keep the cut paused, flick, paste a timestamp, jump back.
Time-of-day and external-display triggers swap the layout. Plug the grading monitor in after lunch, the color profile loads itself.
.mov, .mp4, .braw, .r3d, .psd, .ai, .wav, .aif, .fcpxml — drag onto a wedge and the assigned app opens the file. Faster than walking the file through Finder's "Open With" menu, and it works for project files and sidecar XML too.
Last eight text clips on a sub-menu. Copy a SMPTE timecode out of Resolve, paste into Frame.io. Copy a client note out of Slack, paste into your notes doc. Each clip is one flick away, and Swik pastes via Cmd+V so it works inside any text field.
Wire any Apple Shortcut to a wedge. "Import selected folder to Resolve media pool" via the Resolve Python API. "Render selection via Compressor". "Export current Final Cut project as FCPXML for review". One flick each.
Edit, color, and review sessions with the same hand motion, different targets. Trigger on Wi-Fi network, attached display (a grading monitor counts), or time of day. The 5 PM client review loads itself.
Six categories with a recents ring on the first slot. Useful for Frame.io reactions, Slack thumbs-ups on client notes, and the small emoji-shaped social work that surrounds a cut.
A wedge can open another radial menu. Group your active NLE projects on one sub-menu, your color LUT presets on another, your render Shortcuts on a third. No top-level slot pressure.
Not with a built-in plugin, and it doesn't need one. Swik launches Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut, or any other app on a wedge. It also lets you drag a clip, project, or proxy onto a wedge to open it with the wedge's app. For actions inside the NLE — "import selected folder", "render selection", "send to Compressor" — you wire an Apple Shortcut to a wedge. Resolve exposes a Python/Lua scripting API; Final Cut accepts FCPXML via Apple events; Premiere has its own ExtendScript and UXP layers. Swik triggers the Shortcut, the Shortcut talks to the NLE.
No. Swik draws a transparent overlay on top of whatever has focus. It appears at your cursor, you flick to the wedge you want, and it dismisses on release. Your NLE doesn't lose its fullscreen space and your timeline stays where it is.
Yes. Swik's context-aware profiles switch your layout based on Wi-Fi network, whether an external display (or reference monitor) is connected, or time of day. Your edit profile loads the NLE plus After Effects plus Logic. Plug in the grading monitor and the color profile loads with Resolve and your LUT shortcuts. Review hours load Frame.io, Slack, and a notes profile.
Yes. Swik runs as a tiny menu-bar overlay process. It isn't injected into your NLE, it doesn't hook the GPU, and it doesn't watch your timeline. The overlay is only drawn while you're holding the trigger. Idle, it costs nothing measurable on M-series machines, even alongside a 4K Resolve project with hundreds of clips.
Launch anything. One gesture. Free for five wedges, $9 one-time for unlimited. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
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