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BonFrame Engineering

Local video AI, long-context retrieval, grounded editing and unattended batch production.

Desktop media tools

Batch Video Transcription — Drag a Folder for Local ASR

Transcribe multiple video files with Bonframe Auto ASR jobs: drop a local folder, follow each queued job and review searchable transcripts.

Video translation guides

How to Translate Multiple Videos at Once

Plan multiple-video translation with a pilot clip, a file-and-language job list, consistent speaker references and per-output review.

Video translation comparisons

HeyGen Alternatives for Multi-Speaker Video Translation in 2026

Compare Bonframe, HeyGen and Vozo for translating interviews and group conversations: speaker labels, voice identity, timing and lip-sync review.

Media workflow guides

How to Download YouTube Videos with Bonframe

Use Media download in the desktop app to resolve a permitted YouTube URL, choose video or audio, preview the result and save the file.

Media workflow guides

How to Transcribe Multiple Videos by Dropping a Folder

Prepare a video folder, submit Auto ASR jobs, follow transcription and indexing, and review each project’s transcript.

Video translation guides

How to Translate a Video on Mac with Local AI Dubbing

Translate video on an Apple Silicon Mac using local transcription, translation and voice generation. Check your Mac, prepare models and review the exported video.

Video translation guides

How to Translate Videos Locally Without Uploading Your Footage

Translate video on your computer: prepare local models, review translated dialogue, generate a voice track and check the exported result.

Video translation guides

How to Translate YouTube Videos: A Creator’s Dubbing Workflow

Translate your own YouTube videos from a local source file. Review the transcript, translated voice and export before publishing a new language version.

Video translation guides

How to Translate a Video and Keep the Original Voice

Create a translated voice track with the original speaker as a reference, then review pronunciation, speaker identity, timing and lip sync.

Desktop media tools

YouTube Downloader for Mac & Windows — Save Video or Audio

Download supported YouTube video or audio in the Bonframe desktop app, then continue with transcription, search or translation.

Local-first long-video editing

Selecting grounded video spans with an 8B local model using 81% fewer input tokens

How retrieval, transcript IDs and deterministic assembly reduced long-video generation context from about 4,600 to 860 tokens in a small locked holdout—and where the system still failed.

Research notes

Grounded video RAG benchmark: protocol, results and claim boundaries

The locked eight-case protocol behind BonFrame's 3B, 8B and DeepSeek full-transcript comparison, including the earlier negative result and known failures.