Focus guides

See how Focus works. Then try it on your footage.

Watch a 27-second capture of the real app, or pick a task below. Each guide shows the exact steps and what to check in your result.

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01 Real app video02 Illustrated steps03 Results to check
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Library

Open a recording.

Begin with one local source file.

Real Focus product capture. Select a chapter to jump to that part of the workflow.

Your first result

Start with one long recording.

A fixed-camera video is a simple first test. Find → People returns passages to review, while the original recording remains available for context. Select a step to see the corresponding Focus screen.

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Captured in the Focus appOpen your local video.

Choose your task

A guide for the job in front of you.

Each guide follows one task from the original footage to a result you can check. Start with the problem closest to yours.

Focus Search workspace10 / Correct a transcript

Add a missing transcript line and find it again

Set the words and source times for a line missed by automatic transcription, then find it across your Library.

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Focus 1.21.0 Library transfer dialog for Final Cut Pro09 / Transfer full clips

Send Library clips to your video editor

Select whole original videos and bring them into Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro or Resolve, with an optional starting timeline.

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People entering a hall in an illustrative recording01 / Find passages

Find people in hours of footage

Scan an unattended tripod or fixed-camera recording and review the passages where someone appears.

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Four different shots from an illustrative recorded program02 / Select shots

Detect cuts and keep the right shots

Split a cut-heavy recording into shots, review with U, I, J and K, then export the kept result.

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Actual Focus Sequence workspace with source-backed ranges03 / Build an edit

Edit a long recorded workshop

Find an explanation and a visual demonstration, save the useful ranges, and hand off a short Sequence.

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Four interview speakers in an illustrative video contact sheet04 / Search speech

Find a quote in interview footage

Search what someone said, listen in context, and save the answer you want to use.

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Four illustrative B-roll shots from a music event05 / Search visuals

Find B-roll without tagging every shot

Describe a visible action, inspect the source, and keep the right range.

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Actual Focus Library screen06 / Search an archive

Search a NAS archive in place

Add a mounted folder to Focus while keeping the original video files where they are.

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Actual Focus Deliver screen07 / Hand off an edit

Send a Sequence to Premiere Pro

Save useful clips, arrange a Sequence, and export a Premiere XML timeline.

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Four fictional video sources from a craft workshop08 / Keep source files

Send Selects to Final Cut or Resolve

Choose moments across several files and export a small FCPXML linked to the original videos.

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Focus

Have one video in mind?

Try the matching guide with that file. The first useful result will tell you more than a feature list.