Create your first project
Updated September 15, 2026·1 min readDesktopDesktop + Max AI
Projects hold a game
Work in Maxmiize is organized into projects. A project holds the film for a game, every angle you captured or imported, the moments you tagged, your annotations, and the playlists you built from them.
Where your work is stored
Everything lives in the app's local database on your Mac. Your film is never uploaded to our servers — we could not see it if we wanted to. That is a deliberate design choice, and it is why the app keeps working on a bus.
It also means backups are your responsibility. Include your Maxmiize project data in whatever you already use — Time Machine, an external drive, or your program's storage.
Next
With a project created, bring in your footage: Import your first game.
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