DISKO vs QMedia

DISKO is a media asset manager for Mac that organizes video footage using AI tagging, transcription, face recognition, shot descriptions, and plain-language search. The maker says these AI functions run on the Mac; footage is uploaded only when a user chooses to sync a project to DISKO Cloud. The desktop app plays formats including ProRes, DNxHD, MXF, and 10-bit HEVC, with real-time LUT preview. It can export selects, rough cuts, and multicamera sequences as XML for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. DISKO can index and preview Google Drive clips without downloading originals until they are needed for editing. Cloud review includes timestamped comments, frame drawing, side-by-side comparison, version stacking, client portals, and viewing analytics. The desktop app requires an Apple Silicon Mac with an M1 chip or later. Cloud Free includes 2 GB, screenwriting and shot-list tools, and review links. Cloud Pro costs $12 a month at a founders rate locked for life; DISKO Local costs $99, paid once.

QMedia is an open-source multimedia AI search engine for content creators. It searches and extracts information from text, images, and short videos, combining those formats in a multimodal retrieval and question-answering system. Its web service displays content and sources as cards with image, text, and short-video breakdowns. The project can run locally for offline search and question answering over private data. The web service, RAG search and Q&A service, and image, text, and video model service can be deployed separately. The standalone model service offers an API for image and text encoding, video transcription, and image OCR. Documented model options include CLIP, BGE, Qanything OCR, LLaVA, and Faster Whisper, with local Ollama model switching. Google content search is configurable but disabled by default, as is video service use in the RAG server configuration. The RAG service depends on a separate mm_server service. QMedia is self-hosted, available through its web service, and licensed under MIT.