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Post Production workflow software designed by those who use it the most.
Lead AE Assist is a production-safe toolkit built for assistant editors, editors, and post teams who are tired of babysitting the same fragile steps on every job. It combines the unglamorous but critical parts of post - verified ingest, organized project setup, dependable transcoding/proxy workflows, timecode-accurate transcription deliverables, and system cleanup utilities - into one app designed to be repeatable, auditable, and fast.
This isn’t a “creative app.” It’s the thing that keeps creative apps running smoothly. Lead AE Assist is built around real facility problems: transfers that “look done” but aren’t, proxy pipelines that break silently, folders that drift into chaos across episodes, captions that don’t match timeline timecode, and caches/settings rot that slowly turns machines unreliable. Every major workflow includes guardrails, clear logging, and optional automation so you can trust what happened and reproduce it later.
A Seamless User Experience
I come from a family of programmers. My uncle always encouraged me to learn, but I didn’t take a serious interest until I saw how AI could supercharge creativity. Once I realized how quickly I could build, test, and deploy tools for the industry I worked in, everything changed. I began creating software tailored to the real needs of post-production teams and within months, Lead AE - Assist was born.
Before that, I was deep in the trenches. While working on Ridiculousness, one of the first scripts I wrote automated a 15-minute-per-episode task down to under 5 minutes, a 67% time savings. Multiply that across 300+ episodes a year, and that one automation saved over 50 hours of manual work annually. That’s when it clicked: every minute saved at scale makes a difference.
Lead AE - Assist is built on that principle. It’s a modular post-production toolkit created by an assistant editor with a decade of experience in fast-paced, high-pressure environments. From ingest to delivery, it streamlines workflows with purpose-built panels - cloning with media verification, transcoding for multiple NLEs, automated folder creation, Avid and Adobe cleanup, and more. Every tool is designed to be fast, reliable, and built for the real-world demands of editorial teams. Because it's modular, you only activate the tools you need while staying ready for what’s next. New automation features are already underway, with AI integrated where it truly adds value: helping you work faster without replacing your role.
Lead AE - Assist isn’t just software. It’s a platform built to elevate what assistant editors can do and redefine what they’re trusted with next.
David Binns
President
Lead AE Inc
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