Maiden is building the first generation of AI-assisted post-production services.
AI does the heavy lifting, so professionals can do their best work.
Maiden raises accuracy and quality while taking cost out at every step. AI evaluates every file against the specs that matter; professionals make the final call.
Seven capabilities. One intelligence layer.
Maiden is the orchestration and intelligence layer for AI-assisted content production — from on-set capture through global delivery. Every capability feeds the same intelligence layer, and every touch point makes the whole system smarter.
AI is the helping hand, not the leading hand.
The machine does the repetitive, precise work against the spec, and the professional stays in control.
QC
Compliance faults, program layout, S&P, OCR, forced narratives and textless material, festival strategic fit, FAST ad‑marker, localization and translation, and AI detection with Maiden QC.
RESTORATION
Picture and audio restoration, AI‑assisted or manual.
EDIT
Conversions, the Maiden ACES Gen AI 8K/16‑bit Upscaler, color and auto LUT scene match‑back workflow, commercial break detection and insertion, syndication, tilt & scan, pan & scan, and reframing with motion control.
AUDIO
Layback and simple to complex conforms.
LOCALIZATION
Dubbing, subtitles, closed captions and SDH for every language a destination needs.
DELIVERY
Final packaging and spec conformance: DCP, IMF, broadcast, streaming and FAST.
MARKETING
Story moments, cutdowns, clips, trailers, micro drama episodes, and feature to episodic re‑cuts.
MAIDEN INTELLIGENCE · LEARN
Every job, from every capability, writes to one intelligence layer. It compounds with volume, it cannot be purchased or scraped, and it is the reason the platform gets better for every customer at once.
Compliance stopped being a delivery spec and became law.
Obligations now index to audience geography, content type and actor role at the same time. No delivery spec in the industry models more than one of those three.
EU AI Act Article 50 applied and California CAITA became operative — the same day. Two major blocs made “did a machine make this?” a statutory question.
The Article 50(2) grace period ends. Every generative system already on the EU market must mark its outputs machine-readably.
Watermark-detection interoperability deadline. Detection stops being a proprietary vendor feature and becomes public infrastructure.
WHAT THE INCUMBENTS CHECK
Today’s QC tools validate the contractual delivery spec — and nothing above it. A master can satisfy a streamer perfectly and breach EU law the moment it streams into Dublin.
WHAT MAIDEN ADJUDICATES
Regulation is commoditizing detection. Maiden resolves the result against the audience — one file carries different obligations in the EU, California, New York and China.
WHAT MAIDEN DECLARES
Dubbing, repair and upscale fall under Article 50(2). Maiden classifies and marks each one as it runs, then writes it to the certificate — one platform making the change and keeping the record of it.
Two ways in. One platform.
Built to scale, from independent to enterprise.
Self-serve, sized for one.
Solo filmmakers, and sole-operator editors, colorists and mixers with a capable workstation, start on the Local app. The player is free either way.
- Maiden Cloud $29.99 / month
- Maiden Local $49.99 / month
- Consumption on top
Studios, distributors, post and marketing teams.
A Maiden Edge Node on site, the capabilities you need licensed individually or as one bundle, and consumption on top. Each studio holds a catalog, not a title.
- Enterprise Contact us for pricing
Every spec you deliver to, not just DCP.
Maiden checks, conforms and packages against the formats and standards your destinations actually require.
MEZZANINE & MASTER FORMATS
STREAMER & TVOD PLATFORM SPECS
BROADCAST SPECS
FAST & OTT DELIVERY
HDR & AUDIO
CAPTIONS & ACCESSIBILITY
The people who did this job by hand are building the platform that does the heavy lifting.
Steve Spear
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
30 years in media operations, post-production and QC. SVP Operations at Visual Data Media Services, growing the business from $8M to $90M and winning Netflix Preferred Vendor of the Year three times.
Owns GTM, fundraising, investor relations
Sean Hart
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
20+ years in media technology, broadcast engineering, VFX and full-stack platform architecture. Founder of Silo FX, an ML and VFX partner to Disney, Netflix, Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Owns architecture, AI/ML pipeline, platform
BOARD ADVISORS
Start with the player. It's free.
Maiden Media Player plays the file you actually have — EXR and DPX sequences, professional codecs, real container metadata and Blackmagic SDI output, without transcoding anything first. Mac and Windows.
Your player is ready.
Choose your installer below.
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⌘IFour things, done properly.
Built for editors, VFX artists, colorists and post teams who need more control than a general-purpose player gives them — and less overhead than opening a full editing application.
Inspect
Every field the container actually carries: resolution, frame rate, bit depth, chroma, primaries, transfer, matrix, range, bitrate, GOP structure and audio.
Review
Shuttle, step, loop a range, and drop markers on exact source timecode without stopping playback.
Edit
Set in and out, then trim, delete, copy or export just that range. Join clips into one movie, losslessly where the formats match.
Output
Still frames as PNG, JPEG or TIFF, and frame-accurate playback to a connected Blackmagic device for SDI review.
What you get in the free download.
All of it. There is no paid tier of the player.
Image sequence playback
Open a folder of numbered EXR, DPX or other frames, pick the frame rate, and play it back natively. No QuickTime wrapper first.
File and codec information
One panel for file, video, audio and advanced container detail. ⌘I
Markers on source timecode
Press M while the clip runs. The marker lands on the source timecode
and stays on the timeline as a return point.
Loop playback
Repeat a range continuously for timing, animation and motion checks.
⌘L
In and out editing
Define a precise range, then trim, delete, copy it to the bin, or export only the selected material.
Append and combine
Join clips in a chosen order and save one new movie. Where all sources match, cuts snap to keyframes and nothing is re-encoded.
LUT preview
Load a .cube, toggle it against the ungraded image during playback, and
choose whether it also reaches the SDI output.
Aspect ratio masks
1.43, 1.78, 1.85, 2.39, 2.40, 9:16, 4:5 and custom, with action safe, title safe, center crosshair and adjustable opacity.
Audio operations
Extract as WAV, AIFF or original codec. Remove, replace, add a track, or mute individual channels.
Captions and subtitles
Load a caption or subtitle file for review, or extract embedded CEA-608 from the stream.
Blackmagic SDI output
Send frame-accurate playback through a connected Blackmagic device for review rooms and client displays.
Keyboard-first
J K L to shuttle, arrows to step a frame, ⌘← and
⌘→ to jump a second, 0–9 to scrub by tenths.
Check the frame before anyone else does.
Overlay the delivery frame on full-frame media without touching the source. Action safe, title safe, center crosshair, adjustable opacity, and any aspect from 1.43 through 4:5.
What it runs on.
Version 1.5.4. Choose the Mac build for your processor, or the Windows installer.
- Processor
- Apple Silicon / Intel (separate builds)
- Version
- 1.5.4
- Download
- Apple Silicon: 210.1 MiB · Intel: 217.4 MiB
- System
- Windows 10 and 11
- Version
- 1.5.4
- Download
- 119.2 MiB
- Signing
- Not digitally signed
What comes next.
The player is the first piece. Everything after it works on the same files, in the same place.
Maiden Media Player
Frame-accurate playback, inspection, review and output. Free, and it stays free.
Maiden QC and the Maiden Edge Node
Phases 1–2: the Maiden Edge Node and the Maiden platform on AWS. Point it at a master, tell it where the film is going, and get back what is wrong, what we fixed, and a package that conforms to the destination spec.
First customers live and billing
The Maiden Edge Node goes live with its first customers, and the first compliance certificates are issued.
Maiden On-Set
Capture-side metadata, verified offload and indexing, and provenance that travels with the footage from the first day of photography.
Independents launch
The Cloud and Local tiers open up, with Film Festivals and Film Schools first.
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