Documentary production

From development to final delivery, documentary productions relies on complex and long running workflows, multiple versions, and strict privacy requirements. Limecraft gives documentary producers one secure, collaborative workspace to manage media, metadata, and deliveries—so you spend less time on admin and more time telling stories that matter.

Limecraft Edge

Limecraft Edge removes friction at ingest. Upload any file format from any location—local, remote, or cloud storage—without pre-conversion or manual handling.

Media Intelligence

Using advanced speech and image recognition agents to automatically log your footage as it’s ingested.

Limecraft Production Workspace

Search and clip Clip moments directly from rushes, group them by theme, and assemble pre-cut storylines.

Export to Edit

Export clips, sequences, metadata, and subtitles straight into Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro—no relinking, no XML clean-up, no human error.

Upload content in Limecraft Flow directly by drag and drop in the browser

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Ingest any Format, From any Location, in One Place

Edit Producers work with footage coming from multiple cameras, contributors, archives, and locations. Limecraft Edge removes friction at the very first step: ingest. Upload any file format from any location—local drives, remote units, or cloud storage—without pre-conversion or manual handling. Files are securely transferred, automatically validated, and immediately available in the platform. No FTP juggling, no format anxiety, no wasted time before real work can start.

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All Your Media and Data, in One Place

The Limecraft production workspace is built for documentary researchers. Search across transcripts, tags, visuals, and timecode to find the exact fragment you need. Clip moments directly from long-form footage, group them by theme, and assemble pre-cut storylines before editorial even begins. This structured approach turns raw material into narrative building blocks, accelerating collaboration between researchers, producers, and editors.

Onze Natuur - Hotel Hungaria

Hotel Hungaria - Our Nature

To support their ambitious feature film and docuseries Onze Natuur (‘Our Nature’) featuring Belgium’s wildlife, they extended the workspace thereby optimising for larger picture sizes and massive volumes. Using cold storage managed by Archiware, Scale Logic near-line storage, and Limecraft as the main user interface, they created a cost-effective architecture without compromising on quality.

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A promotional image for Arrow Media's hit TV series Body Cam, powered by Limecraft.

Operational Efficiency at Arrow International Media

With teams operating in both the UK and the USA, the key issues for Arrow Media have been how to share content across teams and locations, including managing remote ingest and editing.

“Most of our shooting happens in the US. Editorial control sits with the London office, which is also where post-production happens, but we have editorial and archive professionals in a variety of locations and so it’s crucial that we can share and move content around securely and efficiently.”

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Limecraft supports threads of comments pinned to a specific region of interest to enable collaboration, which particularly useful when logging large volumes for the purpose of documentary or reality production

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Media Intelligence Automates Logging at Scale

Manual logging slows documentaries down. Limecraft Media Intelligence uses advanced ASR and image recognition agents to automatically analyse your footage as soon as it’s ingested. Spoken content is transcribed, speakers and objects are detected, and key moments become searchable metadata. Researchers and editors can instantly find what’s relevant—without watching hours of rushes—while maintaining full control over what gets used and refined.

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Export to Edit

Once stories take shape, Limecraft connects directly to editorial. Export clips, sequences, metadata, and subtitles straight into Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere Pro—no relinking, no XML clean-up, no human error. What researchers and producers prepare is exactly what editors receive. The result: faster turnaround, fewer mistakes, and a seamless path from research to final cut.