Because opening a video on Windows should not be a project. REEL DEAL opens footage at its true size, shows you the honest technical stats, and gives you the few tools you need before you'd ever launch an editor.
// reel-deal.native-size
REEL DEAL is a player, not an editor. No project setup, no media bin, no timeline. You open a video, review it with honest facts in front of you, and get on with your day.
The stats rail shows what ffprobe actually finds — container, codec, resolution, frame rate, bitrate, color space — plus live playback metrics. No guessing what someone meant by final_4K_REALLY_FINAL.mp4.
Step frame by frame with the arrow keys. Pin any frame with a named mark, snap the playhead back to it, and export the marks as a plain table that reloads on the exact frames next time.
Set In and Out and save the section as a new file — stream-copied without re-encoding when it can, with a visible banner when it can't. Grab any frame as a full-resolution PNG or JPG, extracted from the source.
// reel-deal.viewing
REEL DEAL starts in 1:1 native-pixel mode and sizes the window to the video. Set it as your Windows default and double-clicking a file in Explorer opens it here — in a new tab if the app is already running.
// reel-deal.marks
A mark pins a single frame — 'audio pop', 'wrong lens' — far better than 'there's a weird bit around 12 seconds.' Marks show as amber ticks on the timeline and chips below it, and the playhead snaps to them.
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Packaged builds bundle ffmpeg and ffprobe, so stats and exports work with nothing else installed. A built-in Real-ESRGAN upscaler can make an HD or 4K copy offline — it will not invent detail that never existed. And a 21-tool MCP surface lets Claude drive a whole review session.
REEL DEAL is free — no license, no account, no catch. Download it, unzip it, set it as your Windows default, and opening a video stops being a project.