# An AI video editor that never uploads your footage > Source: > Published: 2026-08-19 12:00:00+00:00 **blog**· aug 19, 2026 · 5 min # An AI video editor that never uploads your footage Most AI editors are websites: your footage goes to their servers before anything happens. Here is what local actually means, and the questions to ask any tool. Almost every AI video editor is a website. That single fact decides more than people realize: your footage uploads before the first cut, lives on someone else’s servers while you work, and is governed by whatever their terms say this quarter. For a holiday video, maybe fine. For client work, unreleased product footage, legal or medical material, or anything under NDA, it is a real decision, and it deserves better than a checkbox at signup. ## What "local" actually means in klo **Your media files never upload.** The library, the timeline, the autosaves, the exports: all on your disk.**A request sends the minimum it needs.** Your typed ask, timeline metadata, compressed audio when transcription is needed, individual frames when the agent has to look at a shot to grade it. Processed transiently, not kept.**The processors are named.** Our[privacy policy](/privacy)lists every third party and what each one touches. No analytics brokers, no ad networks. ## Questions to ask any AI editor, including us - Does my raw footage leave my machine? Which parts, exactly? - Is my content used to train models? Where is that promised? - What license do the terms grant to what I process? - Can I finish an edit with the network off? (In klo: cutting and playback yes; transcription and generation need a connection.) - When I delete my account, what actually gets deleted? A tool with good answers will publish them. Be suspicious of the ones that make you dig. ## Privacy without giving up the AI part The usual trade is: local means dumb, smart means uploaded. A native app with a cloud brain splits it differently: the intelligence sees your request, your machine keeps your footage. That is klo’s architecture, and it is why a two-hour ProRes project is normal here and impossible in a browser tab. [Get klo for Mac](/api/download). Your footage will not go anywhere, which is the point.