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Search raw footage by meaning
Find spoken lines, visual context, people, and scenes across active projects and archives.
Search locally
Assistant editors can find the right moment without becoming the search engine.
Search raw footage locally, verify source moments, build selects, and export clean handoffs for Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut.
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Query
speaker says "we launch tonight" while the crowd reacts
Speech
Find spoken lines in transcripts and jump to exact moments.
Visual
Match scene descriptions and visual context in your footage.
People
Filter results where detected people appear.
Short answer
Assistant editors can find the right moment without becoming the search engine.
Search raw footage locally, verify source moments, build selects, and export clean handoffs for Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut.
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Verify before handoff
Jump to the source timestamp, review transcripts, and keep selected moments tied to the original media.
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Export for the editor
Send selects, sequence outputs, XML, FCPXML, EDL, or SRT into the finishing workflow.
The friction
Assistant editors lose time before the edit is ready
Search raw footage locally, verify source moments, build selects, and export clean handoffs for Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut.
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Producers and editors ask for moments that are buried across cards, drives, and old projects.
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Transcript checks, marker passes, and B-roll searches take hours when footage is not searchable.
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Every handoff needs source context, timestamps, and export formats that the editor can trust.
How Focus helps
A local search and selects workflow for assistant editors
Focus indexes footage on your machine so assistant editors can find material, verify source moments, and prepare NLE-ready handoffs without uploading media.
01
Search raw footage by meaning
Find spoken lines, visual context, people, and scenes across active projects and archives.
02
Verify before handoff
Jump to the source timestamp, review transcripts, and keep selected moments tied to the original media.
03
Export for the editor
Send selects, sequence outputs, XML, FCPXML, EDL, or SRT into the finishing workflow.
Product preview
Query
speaker says "we launch tonight" while the crowd reacts
Speech
Find spoken lines in transcripts and jump to exact moments.
Visual
Match scene descriptions and visual context in your footage.
People
Filter results where detected people appear.
How it works
How it works
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
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Index the project drives
Point Focus at the folders or drives for the job. Processing stays local.
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Search and collect selects
Use plain-language queries, transcript hits, people, and visual filters to collect the right moments.
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Hand off cleanly
Export verified selections with timestamps and formats your editor can open.
Ready
Give the edit team searchable footage sooner.
Use Focus to help assistant editors turn raw media into verified selects and clean handoffs.