A visual research tool built by a Vienna film director
A film director and cinematographer with little coding experience built a tool with Claude Code for collecting and organising visual references.
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The full story
Hold My Frame is a visual reference tool built by a film director and cinematographer who says only scraps of university coding remain. He started with Claude Code half as a joke, to replace reference tools he was no longer happy with.
It holds about 370,000 frames from 2,800 curated commercials, searchable by light, colour, composition or a sample image. Frames can be collected, presented and voted on by clients, and three longtime collaborators now use it for their own pitches.
At its busiest, the director says he was working across 12 terminal tabs and shipping several times a day.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Film director from Vienna here. I built a visual research tool with Claude CodeReddit poster: tdizzlczPosted
The director's post in r/BuildWithClaude.
- The project: holdmyframe.com
The tool's website.