What MOVON sees of your footage
Footage never leaves your machine. Only numbers about color travel. One switchable exception for saved Looks.
The short version: your footage never leaves your Mac. To compute a match, MOVON sends numbers describing color to its servers and gets the match back. No stills, no video, no project files.
One exception exists, it is small, and you can turn it off. Details below.
What happens on a match
- On your Mac, the panel reads color numbers from the selected clips and the reference.
- Those numbers go to MOVON's servers, which compute the match.
- The match comes back and lands on your timeline.
That is why the panel needs an internet connection and a signed-in account.
A note on the word "upload"
When you pick a photo or a video from your computer as a reference, the panel calls it an upload. Nothing is sent anywhere. The file is read on your machine, by MOVON's own process on your machine, exactly like every other clip. Only color numbers travel onward.
What leaves the Mac
- Color numbers, when you hit Match.
- Your sign-in and the panel's version number.
- Basic install and error reports, so we can fix crashes. These never include your footage or your edits.
What never leaves the Mac
- Your footage.
- Frame images from your timeline.
- Your project files.
Your matches are never used to train the model. If you attach clips to a bug report, they are used only to fix the problem you reported.
The one exception: saved Looks
When you save a Look, one small preview frame of its reference is uploaded, so the Look keeps its thumbnail on your other machines and after a reinstall.
Working under NDA and would rather not? Turn it off on the Account page in the panel. Looks still work, they just lose their pictures.
Bad-match reports
If a match misses and you send us clips through the Contact form, that is your choice, clip by clip. Nothing is ever uploaded automatically. What you send stays private to MOVON Labs.
One line for your producer or compliance team
MOVON computes matches on its servers from numeric color data only. Footage, frames, and project files never leave the editor's machine. The single upload exception, a preview frame for saved Looks, is user-switchable off.
