Footsteps spotted. Ready to Foley.
Stepify watches the picture, finds every footstep and drops a marker on your Pro Tools timeline. The stage starts with the cues already in place, and the artist spends the session performing, not scrubbing.
Standalone companion app. It talks to Pro Tools over Avid's scripting interface, so nothing is installed into Pro Tools itself and your session is untouched beyond the markers.
Three clicks from picture to cue sheet.
The whole app is two buttons. Keep your Pro Tools session open; Stepify sits next to it and never touches the audio.
Load the picture
Press the left foot and pick the picture cut or the reel you are spotting: MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, MXF or WMV, straight from the editorial export. Several actors in frame are fine.
Press STEPIFY
Stepify finds every person, follows them through the cut and works out the frame where each foot lands, heel and toe, walks and runs, on and off screen edges. The status line tells you where it is.
Markers on the ruler
One memory location per footstep appears on the Markers ruler of the open session, in picture time. Nudge, rename or delete them like any other marker; your cue sheet is already laid out when the artist walks in.
Unreleased picture never leaves the room.
Stepify splits the work in two. Everything that looks at pixels runs on the workstation in your facility. What goes to the Stepify cloud is a small feature pack: numbers that describe motion, not frames. It cannot be turned back into an image, and no frame, still or thumbnail is ever transmitted.
- The picture file is never uploaded, in any resolution.
- Packs are deleted from our servers as soon as the job finishes.
- Markers are placed locally, straight into Pro Tools; no session data leaves the room either.
Pay for the picture you spot.
Plans are subscriptions tied to your Stepify account and measured in minutes of picture processed per month. The same account signs in on the website and in the app, and your account page shows the minutes used this month.
Trial Free
30 minutes of picture
Enough for a reel. Every new account starts here.
- One seat
- All formats, all features
- No card needed
Studio Early access
300 minutes of picture per month
For a Foley stage or an editing suite that spots every week.
- Up to three seats on one account
- Monthly usage on the account page
- Minutes roll over for one month
Facility Early access
Unlimited minutes, per site
For post houses with several stages and shared accounts.
- Unlimited seats on one site
- Priority processing
- Invoicing and a named contact
Prices are announced at launch. During early access every account is on the Trial plan with no charge, and nothing is billed without your explicit sign-up to a paid plan.
Get Stepify.
One installer, nothing else to set up on the workstation. Installing takes about two minutes; sign in with your Stepify account and spot the first reel.
Windows x64
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The installer carries everything the app needs.
Download for WindowsStepifyNativeSetup.exe, about 200 MB
- Pro Tools with the Scripting SDK (PTSL) enabled, and an open session
- A Stepify account (the free Trial plan to start)
- An internet connection while a reel is processed
- A DirectX 12 graphics card is used when there is one; without it the analysis runs on the processor, more slowly
macOS In progress
The macOS build is under way and will use the same installer-and-go setup. Create an account and we will e-mail you when it ships.
Tell me when it shipsQuestions people ask.
Is Stepify an AAX plug-in?
No. It is a separate application that talks to Pro Tools over Avid's Pro Tools Scripting Library (PTSL). Nothing is installed into Pro Tools, no plug-in authorisation is involved and no audio passes through it; you only need PTSL enabled in Pro Tools' preferences.
Where do the markers go?
Into the session that is open in Pro Tools when you press STEPIFY, as memory locations on the Markers ruler. Times are measured from the first frame of the picture file, so load the same cut the session is conformed to, or slip the markers afterwards.
What picture can I load?
Any export from editorial: MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, MXF or WMV, at any resolution. A small proxy works as well as the full-resolution cut. Several actors in frame are tracked separately, and each of their footsteps becomes a marker.
Is my picture uploaded?
No. The frames are analysed on your workstation, and only a compact description of the motion is sent to the Stepify cloud, nothing that can be turned back into an image. See the Security section above.
How long does it take?
Most of the time goes into analysing the motion locally: faster than real time on a workstation with a recent graphics card, several times slower on the processor alone. The cloud side answers in seconds, and the markers appear as soon as it does.
What if nothing is open in Pro Tools?
Stepify still analyses the picture and then reports that there is no open session. Open one and press STEPIFY again: the app keeps the result of the last run, so the same picture is not processed or charged twice until you pick another file or close the app.
How are minutes counted?
By the length of the picture file you process, per account: every run counts at least one second, and the month's total is rounded up to whole minutes against your plan. A run that fails is not counted.
Can several people use one account?
Yes, up to the seats in your plan. Each seat signs in with the same e-mail and password, and all of them draw on the same monthly minutes.