Chris Cardoza

Director / Photographer 🎥 📸 working with brands, artists, athletes and nonprofits to tell their stories. Building @DozaAssist. Luma AI Creative Partner

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

Shipped the biggest update to Doza Assist since launch today, and I want to tell you about the part that still blows my mind.

You can now connect Claude to the app. Not upload anything, not send your footage anywhere. You flip a switch on a single project, and then you can just talk to Claude about that interview. I asked it to find every moment my subject talked about leaving home, and twenty seconds later the clips were waiting for me in the app, labeled so I knew Claude picked them and not me. Then straight onto a Final Cut timeline. Fifteen years of doing that pass by hand and it happened while I refilled my coffee.
Your video and audio never leave your Mac. Only the projects you turn on are ever visible. That was non-negotiable for me.

But the real headline is this. Version 1.1 is almost entirely other people's ideas. Editors wrote me about long interviews breaking chat, so that got rebuilt. Someone wanted to fix a misspelled name by double-clicking it in the transcript, so now you can. A broadcast engineer in Norway found a frame rate bug in Sony camera files and worked through it with me over a weekend.

Doza Assist just passed 50 paid users. Fifty is a small number in software. It is a very large number when every one of them is a working editor who took time out of a real deadline to make your thing better.

Thank you. Sincerely.

Release notes: https://t.co/gz7xAofe9e

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

Did they try asking Claude what to do?

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Sometimes the best gift isn’t just something new. It’s helping someone remember what they love doing.

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@andreeliasdev beautiful

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@calebfahlgren Pretty awesome, I made an entire museum for my work! https://t.co/sXvopRnmrK

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

Step into my virtual museum and experience my portfolio of stills and video work in a new way. I even built a basketball court! All made with claude 5.2 + blender.

https://t.co/sXvopRnmrK

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

Doza Assist huge new update

Doza Assist 1.1.15 is out. It transcribes your interviews, finds the best moments and sends them to Final Cut Pro. Your hub for searching hours of interview footage.

What's new:

• Simpler layout

• Faster chat

• Soundbite and story finder is smarter

• Works with Claude and ChatGPT over MCP, so your assistant can read a transcript and pull selects for you

We also launched Doza Cuts. It switches your multicam podcast or interview to whoever is talking or reacting and hands back a live multicam in Final Cut Pro. Combine connectors for Assist and Cuts and Claude or chat gpt and you can edit 90% of a video podcast or long form interview in minutes.

https://t.co/RfT6QEoA3N

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@comebackshane @SteveHullfish @fxfactory I was shocked at how good it was at switching to reactions and choosing the wide shot during cross talk. Give it a try, it’s free to try and you don’t have to give it an email. https://t.co/GWsWcZ0yTI

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@SteveHullfish @comebackshane @fxfactory Yea this is for long form video podcasts, panels interviews. Stuff like that. I’m a firm believer that stuff like this is a starting point. That’s why it maintains the multicam in FCP and resolve to the editor can adjust to their taste

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

Experience it at https://t.co/NAXDjzJpHv. Just toggle the museum on, top right.

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

I built an interactive virtual museum of my photo/video work to allow visitors to my site a new way of experiencing my portfolio. Build with Claude Fable 5.2 + Blender.

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@Blackmagic_News yea this is sweet

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@comebackshane @SteveHullfish @fxfactory It does cut to reaction shots. Uses apple vision to watch the cameras and reactions. You can also toggle how to do that in the app. I guess I should have included that in the trailer

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.

30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@WassymBensaid @MotorTrend Amazing, congratulations! Best car I've ever had by far

[Wassym Bensaid @WassymBensaid]

R2 is @MotorTrend 2027 SUV of the year.

“The R2 is something of a miracle,” said Jonny Lieberman, MotorTrend editor at large. “This car is sort of a lights-out moment for a lot of the rest of the industry. How is a young company like Rivian able to pull off a vehicle like this?”

Proud of the team who made this happen!

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@fxfactory 🙌🏻

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@kieranklaassen @danshipper @every Very cool!

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

@boardyai Nice try ai

[Chris Cardoza @DozaVisuals]

10 years ago every company had to become a media company.

Now every company needs to be a software company.

This time you don't need to hire anyone to do it.

[FxFactory @fxfactory]

New: Doza Cuts for Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, by @DozaVisuals.

It edits multicam podcasts, interviews and panels for you, cutting to whoever is speaking and adding punch-ins and cutaways. Runs locally on your Mac. No subscription.

https://t.co/ixoba7Fp2S

#FinalCutPro #DaVinciResolve