Doza Assist vs Jumper: finding shots versus building the story.
Jumper and Doza Assist get mentioned together because both run on your own machine and both talk to Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. They solve different problems. Jumper finds the shot you describe. Doza Assist reads what people said and builds the story from it.
Jumper is AI footage search that runs as a panel inside Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio and Avid. Describe a shot or search the dialogue, and results open in the source monitor and add to your timeline, all processed on your device. Doza Assist is story selection for interview footage: on-device transcription with named speakers, ranked soundbites, a Story Brief, a Story Builder that only cites real transcript spans, and selects placed frame-exact into your existing multicam timeline.
01Side by side
| Doza Assist | Jumper | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Mac with Apple Silicon, 16 GB memory minimum | macOS 14 or later (Apple Silicon or Intel) and Windows 10 or later; panels for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio and Avid Media Composer |
| Where processing happens | On your Mac. Transcription, speaker labels and the language model all run locally. Nothing uploads by default | On your device. Jumper states footage never leaves your computer. Licensing checks and crash reports go out, and a remote model used for agentic editing receives metadata, thumbnails and transcript excerpts |
| Pricing model | $199 once with 12 months of updates, then $49/yr if you want more updates. Studio $29/mo or $299/yr | Jumper $169 per seat, lifetime, with 1 year of updates. Jumper Pro $599 lifetime, $49 a month or $399 a year. Further update years at half the lifetime price |
| Works inside your FCP, Premiere or Resolve timeline | Reads your Final Cut Pro project (FCPXML 1.11+) and hands selects back into it. Sequences for Premiere Pro (xmeml) and DaVinci Resolve (EDL) | Yes, as a panel. Results open in the source monitor and add to the active timeline. Resolve needs the paid Studio edition |
| Multicam and sync-clip round trip | Yes for Final Cut Pro. Multicam and sync clips come back as the same clip type with the original media references. Premiere and Resolve receive a flat sequence | Premiere multicam sequences supported. Multicam and sync clips in Final Cut Pro, Resolve and Avid not stated |
| Speaker labels | Yes, on device, with real names | Speaker 1, Speaker 2 by default; you can name and filter them per file. Names do not carry across files |
| Story selects and rough cuts | Ranked soundbites, Story Brief, Story Builder, and Chat that cannot invent a timecode | Visual and dialogue search, a Script Editor to trim segments and add them to the timeline, and Pro agentic editing over MCP that can build selects sequences with Claude Code, Codex or LM Studio |
| Learns your editing style | My Style (Editorial DNA) learns from cuts you have already finished | Not stated |
| Privacy of footage | Footage never uploads. The optional Claude or OpenAI key is off by default | Local. Jumper does not train AI on your media |
| Free trial | Every feature on the first 2 minutes of any file. No account | Unlimited analysis with 40 searches, no credit card; license key by email |
Last checked: September 2026. Jumper facts from getjumper.io and docs.getjumper.io. Prices as displayed on the pricing page.
02Finding shots versus building the story
Jumper's job is retrieval. It samples your footage one frame a second, transcribes the dialogue with local models, and lets you search either by description or by words. The result is a clip in the source monitor, marked in and out, ready to add to the timeline. Its Script Editor lets you trim a transcript and push the remaining segments to the timeline, and the Pro tier exposes an MCP server so an AI agent can assemble selects.
Doza Assist's job is judgment about dialogue. It reads the whole interview, or a whole Collection of interviews, and tells you which lines carry the story, what is missing, and how a cut might go, with every claim pinned to a transcript span. Speakers are labeled by name across the project. When you approve the selects, they land in your existing Final Cut Pro multicam or sync-clip timeline frame exact, or go out as a Premiere or Resolve sequence.
Both tools stay on your machine and both expose an MCP connector for AI assistants, so they are closer in philosophy than in function.
03How editors use both
Interview-driven documentary and corporate work is the obvious case: Doza Assist for the A-roll story, Jumper for finding the B-roll to cover it. Jumper's visual search finds the drone shot of the harbor at dusk; Doza Assist found the line about the harbor in the first place.
04When Jumper is the better fit
- The bottleneck is finding visuals across a big archive: B-roll, sports, events, anything you describe by what it looks like.
- You cut in Premiere Pro or Avid, or on Windows, and want search inside the panel.
- You need face and people search across footage (Jumper Pro).
- You want an AI agent to assemble selects sequences over MCP from inside Premiere, Resolve or Avid.
05When Doza Assist is the better fit
- The story lives in what people said: interviews, testimonials, pressers, oral history.
- You want ranked soundbites, a Story Brief and a rough cut that only ever cites real transcript spans.
- You need speaker labels with real names that hold across a whole project or Collection.
- Your Final Cut Pro project is a multicam or sync-clip timeline and you want selects placed into it, frame exact.
- You want the suggestions to learn from your finished cuts with My Style.
06Why not just use the transcription built into your editor?
Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve can all turn audio into text now, and for captions that is often enough. Doza Assist is for the step after the transcript, and it adds six things the built-in tools do not:
- Grounded selects. Every soundbite, Story Builder cut and Chat answer points at a real span of the transcript. The app cannot invent a timecode.
- Frame-exact multicam placement. Selects go back into your existing multicam or sync-clip timeline as the same kind of clip they came from, with the original media references intact.
- My Style. Editorial DNA learns how you build a story from cuts you have already finished, so the suggestions sound like you.
- Quote sheets. The transcript becomes a formatted pull-quote document as PDF or Word for producers, clients and comms.
- True on-device privacy. Transcription, speaker labels and the language model all run on your Mac. Nothing uploads by default.
- Pay once and own it. $199 with 12 months of updates, then an optional $49 a year. The app keeps working either way.
Read the full breakdown on Doza Assist vs the transcription built into Final Cut Pro, Premiere and Resolve.
07Frequently asked
Does Jumper process footage locally?
Yes. Jumper's documentation says everything runs on your device and footage never leaves your computer, with licensing information and crash reports as the stated exceptions. If you use a remote model for its agentic editing, metadata, thumbnails and transcript excerpts go to that provider. Doza Assist likewise keeps footage on the Mac, and its optional cloud model key is off by default.
Does Doza Assist do visual search?
No. Doza Assist works from the transcript: what was said, by whom, and when. For describing a shot visually, Jumper is the right tool, and the two coexist well.
Can Doza Assist work inside Premiere Pro like Jumper's panel?
No. Doza Assist is a separate app. It reads your Final Cut Pro project by FCPXML and hands selects back into it, and it writes a Premiere xmeml sequence or a Resolve EDL. Jumper runs as a panel inside those editors.
How do the prices compare?
Jumper is $169 per seat lifetime with a year of updates, and Jumper Pro is $599 lifetime or $49 a month, as displayed on their pricing page in September 2026. Doza Assist is $199 once with 12 months of updates, then an optional $49 a year, and Studio is $29 a month or $299 a year.
No account, no card. Transcription, speaker labels, ranked soundbites, Story Builder, My Style and the NLE round trip all run on your Mac.
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