Sturm Technologies · Product family
Five focused Windows tools, one creator workflow
The Fast Series is a family of practical native Windows tools for media work: recording, playback, clipping, compression, and short-form production. Each one is small, does one job well, and keeps your files on your machine.
Pick your step
What do you need to do right now?
- 01Record
FastCast
Capture your screen locally or stream to RTMP/RTMPS.
Open Beta - 02Play
FastPlay
Review footage with instant open and responsive seeking.
Released - 03Clip
FastClip
Pull usable highlights out of long recordings.
Open Beta - 04Compress
FastCompress
Shrink files with readable presets, no FFmpeg know-how.
Beta - 05Create shorts
FastShorts
Assemble vertical short-form video locally.
Experimental
Available now
Four tools ship today
Open BetaFastCast
Native Windows screen recorder and OBS alternative. Choose a monitor or window, pick your audio, add a webcam overlay, then record MP4 locally or go live over RTMP/RTMPS. No scene setup required.
- Local MP4 recording
- Monitor or window capture
- Desktop + mic audio
- Webcam overlay
- RTMP/RTMPS streaming
- Hardware H.264 encoding
ReleasedFastPlay
Fast lightweight Windows video player for local files. Opens fast, seeks responsively, keeps video on the GPU with hardware decode, and stays out of your way when you just need to review footage.
- Instant first frame
- Responsive seek
- D3D11 hardware decode
- Keyboard-driven controls
- Recent files and resume
- Free and open source
Open BetaFastClip
Turns long local videos into vertical clips. On-device signals propose ranked highlight candidates; you review them and export 1080×1920 MP4s with optional burned-in captions. Footage never leaves your machine.
- Ranked highlight candidates
- Local-only analysis
- 9:16 vertical export
- Burned-in captions
- whisper.cpp transcription
- Hardware encoding
BetaFastCompress
Dead-simple video compression. Pick where the video is going, like Discord or email, check the plan, and get a smaller file that fits. Runs locally through FFmpeg with no watermark and no account.
- Destination presets
- Editable target size
- Plan before encode
- No watermark
- Local FFmpeg
- CLI mode
Experimental
One more tool, still taking shape
FastShorts has no public download yet and no promised launch date. Its product page says what works today and what does not exist yet.
Releases and source live on GitHub
FastPlay is open source under the MIT License. FastCast, FastClip, and FastCompress publish release artifacts, SHA-256 checksums, and beta notes on public releases repositories.
Start with the tools that ship today
Record with FastCast, review with FastPlay, clip with FastClip, and shrink the file with FastCompress. Four native Windows tools, one workflow.