Video Workspace

Your Product. Their How-To.

Show customers how to assemble, install and use the product you designed. Direct your AI to edit workshop footage, model-based assembly sequences, voiceover, titles and captions into a clear YouTube how-to. Professional editing tools, with AI at the controls from the start.

Product videos from the model
16 export templates
51 timeline actions an AI can drive

Connect your preferred AI through native MCP, use Wrangler to manage your providers and supported local models, or choose built-in Sidecar for focused work. Your AI creates; you direct, review and refine. Explore AI Workflows

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Free 3D Workspace · One project · No credit card

Download for macOS iPad · iPhone

macOS · Windows · Ubuntu · iOS · iPadOS · Android

The Fireball Trophy video in Designer's Video Workspace with its preview, title clips and animation tracks on the timeline

The trophy video on the timeline, with title clips and animation tracks beneath the preview.

Digital to Physical. AI Does the Work.

Video is part of one AI-driven design workflow: a reference image becomes artwork, physical parts, manufacturing jobs, electronics, assembly instructions and a product video. Your AI works across all eight workspaces in one project; you steer and review.

Bring an idea or the design you already started. Through native MCP, your AI sees the project geometry and makes real changes. Fireball Wrangler brings your provider accounts and supported local models together, with discovery and connection to Fireball apps when their MCP access is enabled. Built-in Sidecar handles focused tasks.

Full editing goes with you: native apps across macOS, Windows, Ubuntu, iOS, iPadOS and Android. Use touch, Apple Pencil on supported iPads, or mouse and keyboard. Windows to Mac to Ubuntu, the same .fireballdesign file keeps every workspace together. Choose cloud sync to continue on your phone, tablet or computer.

Native Apps →The Trophy Workflow →Existing CAD Projects →Explore Wrangler →

Designer is in pre-release. This site describes the complete product; download availability follows the published builds. AI capabilities depend on your chosen model and tool support.

The Fireball Trophy Project

Inside the Workspace

Real screenshots from Designer v0.19.0 on macOS. Open any image for a closer look.

Video Editing

Edit the video with the media browser, tools, canvas settings and timeline in view.

Video Export

Choose an output for a product page, a YouTube how-to or a social post.

Before and after

Turn the Build into a Clear How-To.

Today

Your customers need assembly and usage instructions, but the useful steps are scattered across workshop footage, model views and written notes.

With Fireball Designer

Your AI assembles a clear how-to: show each part, demonstrate the steps, add narration and captions, then export for YouTube and link it from the assembly guide.

The bridge: one AI-controlled editing workflow combining real footage, model animation, timeline tools, audio, titles and captions.

What it’s for

Show Customers How It Works.

Make customer assembly, installation and product-use videos for YouTube and your support pages. A professional editing workspace with AI control built in from the start. Combine real footage, timeline editing, audio, titles, color and model-based animation. Direct your AI to assemble and refine the cut, or take the controls yourself.

It's local: transcription runs on your Mac, footage stays on your disk (any drive, any size), and the export templates know what YouTube, Shopify, Etsy, eBay and Amazon each accept. Change the model later and the clips are flagged to render again.

Made for

Customer assembly and installation videos
How-to videos a manual's QR code points to
YouTube tutorials showing how to use your product
Screen-and-camera walkthroughs of a build

Headline features

Professional Editing. AI Control.

AI at the controls

Direct your connected AI to arrange footage, refine timeline edits, shape audio, adjust color and add titles using the editing tools themselves.

For you: your direction becomes real edits you can review and refine.

Product videos from the model

Hero, exploded, assembly, mockup and sign templates, rendered from the 3D project with its name, measured facts and leader-line callouts that follow the model as it turns.

For you: a listing video without a camera or a turntable.

Edit by editing the words

On-device, word-timed transcription; delete words to cut every track; remove ums and long pauses in one step, with cuts snapped to the quietest moment.

For you: editing a talk-through takes minutes, not an evening.

Captions that pop

Burned-in captions in clean, box, outline or highlight styles, where each word lights up as it's said, or SRT and VTT files alongside.

For you: most social video is watched muted.

How-to from the manual

Each step of a Doc manual becomes a scene, held while a voice reads the step.

For you: the video your manual's QR code points to, made for you.

Record screen and camera

Record a window, an app or the display, your camera, or both in one take as picture-in-picture, with a 3-2-1 count-in.

For you: walk through a build with your face in the corner.

Scenes, layouts and effects

Scene layouts, backgrounds, titles, shapes, timers and waveforms, keyframes and punch-ins, transitions, colour looks, and background removal without a green screen.

For you: a polished video without a motion-graphics app.

Studio sound

Voice isolation, music that ducks under speech, beat markers, a mixer, loudness normalised per platform and voice, music and effects stems.

For you: it sounds right on a phone speaker and on YouTube.

Every platform's export

16 templates (YouTube, Shorts and Reels, Instagram, Shopify, Etsy, eBay, Amazon, website, email and more), batch groups, a size target, a pre-flight, auto-reframe to 9:16, and a converter for any movie file.

For you: each store gets the file it accepts, first time.

Pro editing and AI video

Multicam, grading and scopes, compound clips and tracking; AI-generated video and voice; stock media.

For you: more room to grow without leaving the project.

Built-in Sidecar

“Tidy this and caption it for Shorts.”

Sidecar helps with a short caption, a focused timeline change or an export check. Transcription and editing tools belong to Designer; Sidecar helps you use them for a small task.

You

Tidy this build video, caption it, and tell me what a Shorts export will look like.

Sidecar

→ transcribed on this Mac · removed the ums and pauses over a second · highlight captions · Shorts estimate ready, with anything over the limits flagged. Undo available.

Small tasks are Sidecar’s sweet spot. Quick explanations, a focused edit or help running a built-in tool. Longer projects and repeated tool calls can use Credits quickly.

Sidecar Bronze is included with Designer Pro and Commercial at no extra charge; other plans can use its free tier. Designer works completely with the panel closed.

Find the right AI help for your work →

MCP · bring your own assistant

Your agent renders one for every shop.

Connect your preferred compatible AI to Designer through native MCP. Let it inspect the actual project, create the first draft and refine the design through editable, undoable tool calls.

The whole timeline is on MCP (51 editing actions), plus export and convert. A compatible assistant can help plan the edit, use your model, check the framing and prepare exports for the destinations you choose.

# Claude Code, connected to Fireball Designer over MCP

> Make an exploded product video of the stand with callouts, and render it for every shop.

→ describe_video_project
→ manage_video_timeline makeProductVideo: exploded, autoCallouts
→ manage_video_timeline renderFrame at 3 s
→ export_video group: all-shops, estimate first
→ export_video group: all-shops

Four MP4s (Shopify, Etsy without sound, eBay and Amazon) and a manifest, each within that platform's limits, with anything too long flagged.

Example prompt and the tool calls it takes. Designer’s MCP server is built into the app, off until you switch it on, and scoped to what you share. No Sidecar subscription is needed. Your assistant uses its own provider account, billing and usage limits; review its work before using the result.

Workflows

Videos makers make here.

A listing video in minutes

1Open the project and choose Make Product Video.
2Pick hero or exploded, and check the facts.
3Export with the Etsy or Shopify template.

A how-to for the manual

1Make a how-to from the manual's steps.
2Record a voiceover and let the music duck under it.
3Put the link in the manual's QR code.

A talking walkthrough

1Record screen and camera in one take.
2Transcribe, then delete the fillers and long pauses.
3Add captions and export for YouTube.

One project, every workspace

How Video connects to the rest.

Every workspace keeps its work in the same .fireballdesign file, so a hand-off is a button (or one tool call), not an export and a re-import.

Fireball Designer Warehouse connects the maker community to your studio. Discover shared projects, like the ideas you love, save them to collections and follow the makers, then open a design and make it yours within its sharing terms. Ask your AI for changes, prepare your build and share what you learn with the next maker. Find It. Make It Yours.

Preliminary pricing

Add Video to your studio.

Unlimited 3D projects start at $5 a month. Add the Video Workspace for another $5 a month: $10 total (or $110 a year). Designer Pro includes all eight workspaces for $25 a month. You can start with one 3D project for free. One Fireball account works across your Fireball apps. Under ten employees you sell what you make on any paid plan.

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FAQ

Video questions

Which files does it open and write?

MP4, MOV, M4V, M4A, MP3, WAV, AIFF, PNG, JPEG and HEIC in, referenced where they are. Out: MP4 (H.264 or HEVC), ProRes, GIF, M4A, PNG thumbnails, SRT and VTT captions, chapters and audio stems. WebM isn't written.

Is my footage uploaded?

No. Transcription runs on your Mac (it needs macOS 26), and footage stays on your own disks. Only the words Sidecar writes for you, such as titles and translations, use Sidecar.

Do I need footage?

No. Product videos render from the 3D model, so a listing video needs nothing but the project.

Can it hit a file size?

Yes: aim for a size such as 8 MB and it measures a sample encode before rendering, and each template respects its platform's limits (Etsy's files are written without sound, since Etsy strips it).

Which devices can I use it on?

Native apps across macOS, Windows, Ubuntu, iOS, iPadOS and Android, with full design editing on mobile. Use touch, Apple Pencil on supported iPads, or mouse and keyboard. The same .fireballdesign file carries your project across platforms; choose cloud sync to continue on another device. Download availability follows the published pre-release builds.

How much is it?

Designer is free to start. The Video Workspace is one of the $5-a-month add-ons, or part of Designer Pro. Pricing is a draft until launch.