KIRA Studio · Glass UI
Made for creatorsMake the videos you wish you could.
From your next YouTube upload to a reel with your own signature look. Cut the dead air, add captions, create custom effects and bring your ideas into 3D—all in KIRA Studio.
From the first idea to the final export
Create the opening that pulls people in, the look they remember and the details a client notices. Bring your edit, effects, captions and color together without breaking your flow.
01 Smart Timeline
Make the change you had in mind. KIRA’s Smart Timeline closes gaps as you edit and keeps connected titles, graphics, and sound with their shots. Spend more time finding the cut and less time putting everything back together.
02 Planar tracking & rotoscoping
Put a design on a moving surface. Replace a screen in perspective. Separate the subject and carry a color correction through the shot. KIRA brings planar tracking and rotoscoping into the edit, with editable results you can keep refining.
Corner-pin graphics and replacement footage to the plane of the shot.
Refine masks, control the edges, and keep the subject at the center of the work.
03 Color grading
Build the look from the first correction to the final grade. Balance a shot, match a reference, shape individual hues, and check the result with four scopes beside your picture.
04 Silence detection & sound
One click starts silence detection. Review the pauses, keep the ones that matter, and apply the cuts. Set the threshold and minimum pause duration, then decide which edits suit the conversation.
05 Create with AI
Connect an MCP-compatible AI agent to KIRA and build editable 3D scenes together. Shape the geometry, choose materials, place the lights, animate a camera, and refine the result in the same project as your edit.
Try a creative brief“Build a keyboard scene. Place the lights, animate the keycaps, and make the camera move.”
Works with a connected MCP-compatible AI agent. Model access is separate; you stay in control of the editable scene.
Extend the edit
Auto subtitles & search
Make your videos easier to follow, even with the sound off. Turn dialogue into editable captions, then find the exact line you need in a long recording.
Custom effects
Make the effect your heart desires. KIRA’s built-in creative workspace lets you write custom visual effects, build them inside the editor, see the result, and save it to your own library. Your style doesn’t have to end where a preset does.
Retiming & reframing
Stretch the moment with speed ramps and neural slow motion. Reframe a wide shot for vertical delivery with a tracked crop. One story can take on a different rhythm and a different shape.
Mastering & delivery
Queue the deliverables while keeping the work on your machine. Choose a supported master or distribution format, carry the captions through, and put the finished project in front of its audience.
Some AI tools require compatible hardware and installed models. Learn to create your own effects
01 / Native engine performance
Under 300 MB in KIRA’s single-video benchmark. Efficient local playback. Glass UI brings the tools together, with real-world editor references beside the numbers.
<300MB in KIRA
A compact native footprint. KIRA’s single-video benchmark is approximately 250 MB, staying under 300 MB. See it alongside published app-memory observations from other editors.
Glass UI. Less overhead.
More room to create.
Reported app memory · GB · lower is better
Real-world reference points from different workloads, machines and software versions—not a matched four-editor test or a prediction of your project. KIRA’s bar plots ≈250 MB; Final Cut’s bar is a reported upper bound; Resolve’s band spans two observed edits. GPU/shared-memory accounting differs across platforms. No efficiency ratio is inferred.
KIRA. The developer confirms a sub-300 MB single-video result; the reported reading is approximately 250 MB. An earlier multilayer observation was approximately 448 MB. Those are different workloads, not a universal RAM cap. GPU memory and total system RAM are separate.
Competitor memory. Published app-memory observations are rounded for a cross-source reference. The row labels identify the workload and date. This is not one controlled four-editor benchmark; source links remain directly under the chart. Modern versions and other projects can behave differently.
PCIe. The zero-copy figure describes copied video-frame traffic in the supported playback case. It is not a measurement of whole-system PCIe utilization or every operation in KIRA. Competitor traffic remains path dependent and unmeasured in this comparison.
Scrub trace. The historical RTX 3050 Laptop GPU debug run used an H.264 720p CFR intra-frame proxy. P99.9 successful-submission gaps were 11.1684, 13.0153 and 30.6096 ms. These are renderer cadence measurements, not input latency or a 4K playback guarantee.
A compact application foundation, with memory spent on the work your project needs.
An integrated workspace for picture, sound and finishing, with personal backdrops and adjustable glass materials.
Local media, rendering and model inference. Installed models and compatible hardware enable the AI tools.
Zero-copy architecture
A video file is compact. A decoded frame is much bigger. Copying those full frames between system memory and the graphics card takes time and bandwidth. KIRA keeps each frame in GPU memory on its supported playback path.
The GPU can use the decoded frame for your preview where it already sits. Skipping that full-frame transfer leaves bandwidth for other work. Loading the compressed file and other device activity can still use PCIe.
Simplified playback paths. Editors can use different paths depending on footage and hardware. See KIRA’s benchmark notes ↗
02 / Glass UI
Glass UI brings the tools around your edit together. Move from your first assembly to the finishing details in a workspace built to keep the picture at the center of your attention.
Organize supported media and find the shots that belong in your story.
Trim precisely, connect clips and shape the pace of your project.
Bring tracking, color, sound and custom visual effects into the edit.
Choose supported delivery settings and queue the finished work.
Keep editing, tracking, grading and sound in the same project. Personalize your workspace, refine the details and choose the output that suits your audience. Performance depends on your footage, project and hardware.
03 / KIRA MANAGER · PROJECT LAUNCHER
KIRA Manager brings your projects into a native glass workspace. Choose a built-in backdrop or personalize the material with your own image or video. Five of the available presets are shown here; the Program viewer keeps workspace styling separate from the picture.
Atomic Super Resolution · ASR
Upscale your editing preview to 4K as you work—without waiting for a separate upscale render. ASR brings clearer edges and finer detail to lightweight previews, with support for integrated and dedicated graphics. Smoothness depends on your footage, effects and hardware.
Drag to explore the detail. Arrow keys work too.
Illustrative comparison. Left side subtly softened for presentation; not a measured ASR benchmark.
A new dimension for your edit
Give your intro depth. Move a camera through your titles. Turn a stack of clips into a scene. Position video, text and graphics in 3D, then animate the camera to bring them together.
Layer your shots. Set your camera. Make the move yours.
Explore the interactive 3D demoMade for the way you create
Explore alternate takes, keep the dialogue in sync, and carry the same project from the first assembly to the final grade.
Smart Timeline · Multicam · Color grading
Explore the toolsWindows · planned launch pricing
Start with the free editor. Choose a paid plan when you’re ready to publish without a watermark.
For learning and making your first edits.
A founder rate locked while you stay subscribed.
Standard monthly rate · India
The planned trial lets you finish a real project in Studio. When it ends, you can continue on Free or choose a paid plan.
Spots are counted when the first payment succeeds. Your rate stays locked at ₹99 in India or US$1 internationally while your subscription remains active, including its payment retry window. After your paid access ends, you return to Free and can choose Studio at the current rate.
“I spent two years building KIRA Studio from scratch in Rust on a midrange laptop. If it earns a place in your workflow, your support helps me fix bugs, test more setups, and keep building it.”
The creator of KIRA Studio
A few things to know
KIRA Studio is a native Windows video editor that brings editing, tracking, color grading, sound, captions, and delivery into one workspace. It is built for creators working on films, YouTube videos, podcasts, social content, and client projects.
Choose Get KIRA Studio to check Windows installer availability. Pricing shows the planned Free, Founding 100 and Studio options.
KIRA is designed around local project files, media, rendering, and AI processing. Some AI features need compatible hardware and separately installed models. Internet access and activation requirements for the subscription will be confirmed before launch.
The memory comparison pairs KIRA’s sub-300 MB single-video benchmark with linked, published observations for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Workloads and platforms differ. Zero-copy shows decoded-frame PCIe staging on the stated architecture, not total bus usage. The scrub tab shows KIRA’s own recorded renderer timings. Each view includes its scope and sources.
Automatic ripple closure helps keep the sequence together when a shot changes. Connected titles, graphics, and sound follow their shots, while precision trims and compound clips give you more control over the edit.
KIRA is being developed for 64-bit Windows. Its media pipeline includes H.264, HEVC, AV1, Intra, and DNxHR support, with hardware acceleration depending on the codec and GPU. Tested system requirements and the final format matrix will accompany the release.
This page includes KIRA workspace, timeline, tracking, rotoscoping and 3D scene recordings, plus color and silence-detection images. They illustrate development builds; appearance and availability can change before release.
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