The studio
One problem at a time.
Most software tries to do everything and ends up doing nothing well. Özbek’s studio works the other way round: it picks one problem, stays with it until the rough edges are gone, and ships something small enough to explain in a single sentence.
The shelf is numbered, and N°01 is subtitles: subMatik turns a video into subtitles in 110 languages with Whisper, running on the user’s own machine. N°02 gives any font the Turkish letters it forgot. N°03 marks up photos with arrows and real-world measurements. N°04 finds a photo from a few typed words.
N°05 turns songs into chords for guitarists. Then the shelf turned toward people who cut video. Three Premiere Pro plugins fetch sound, fetch video and match colour. One app lines up two to nine clips side by side, frame-locked. A browser tool builds the chat screens that film and TV props need. A tiny menu bar app finally brings cut and paste to Finder.
Every one of them is free: no trial, no tier, no subscription. Most run entirely on the computer they are installed on, so there is no cloud to depend on. When an app does go online, the terms say when.
The look is hand-pulled print: cream paper, vermilion ink, halftone dots, and a mascot, a long-haired black cat with a permanently unimpressed face. Each tool gets its own page, its own colour and its own tiny film, in English and in Turkish. The studio’s own line for all of it: Built with craft. Shipped with attitude.
