Features
What Rooster does
Record, edit and export without media-minute limits. Rooster keeps the whole workflow together, from the first take to the finished file.
Recording suite
Record your camera, screen or both straight into a Rooster project. Choose your inputs, frame the shot and follow your script with the built-in teleprompter.
Local transcription
An NVIDIA Parakeet speech model starts when recording stops and covers English and 24 other languages. It runs on your Mac, with other local engines and your own transcription service available when you need them.
Transcript editing
Click a word to find the moment. Delete words to cut the matching video, or correct the transcript without changing the recording. Every cut can be restored, and the transcript and timeline always stay in sync.
Captions
Start with a caption preset, then adjust the type, colour, background and position in a live preview. Burn captions into the video or save a separate subtitle file.
AI assistance
Remove filler words, Shorten long pauses and Trim silence at the start and end. Rooster shows every suggestion first, so you can listen, review and decide what changes.
Or do it all in one pass. Open Improve, click Look for improvements, and Rooster lists everything it would cut: filler words, long pauses, the silence at each end and, in an English transcript, takes you said twice and false starts. Untick what you want to keep, add Studio Voice if you like, and apply the rest as one undoable step. Then step through each cut to play it, keep it or restore it.
Studio Voice
Clean up noisy or hollow speech, choose the strength and compare it with the original before keeping the result.
Eye Contact
Correct your eye line when you were reading a script instead of looking at the lens. It runs on your Mac with Apple Vision, with a switch on its row to check the result.
Green Screen
Remove your background on your Mac, then put anything behind you: a canvas colour, an image or another video. Change it without re-rendering. No physical green screen is required.
Timeline and projects
Trim and reorder clips on the timeline, undo any change and duplicate a project when you need another version. Your projects stay on your Mac, with no account needed to open them.
B-roll and layered media
Add B-roll, stills and music, then trim, position and resize them. Music can duck under speech automatically.
Export
Export a finished video ready to publish, with captions on the picture or in a separate file. You can also save the audio or transcript, and everything lands in Downloads by default.
Things Rooster is not
Deliberately out of scope
Rooster focuses on recording, transcript editing, captions, effects and export. It does not generate voices or video, dub or translate video, provide a stock library or publish directly to social platforms. See how that workflow fits different kinds of work on the solutions pages.
Where the work happens
The core workflow runs on your Mac, which is why Rooster does not charge by the minute or the action. Your footage never leaves it unless you deliberately connect a cloud provider. See the details on how it works and in the privacy policy.