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Search locally
Use local indexing to search private projects, verify moments, and prepare editor-ready handoffs.
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.
Short answer
Yes. Focus uses local indexing and retrieval workflows so teams can search footage without sending media to a cloud workspace.
Keep media on your machine or controlled storage.
Search by transcript, visual meaning, people, and scene context.
Export verified selections instead of trusting opaque AI suggestions.
The friction
Use local indexing to search private projects, verify moments, and prepare editor-ready handoffs.
How Focus helps
Focus keeps footage local while helping assistant editors find, verify, and hand off the right material.
Keep media on your machine or controlled storage.
Search by transcript, visual meaning, people, and scene context.
Export verified selections instead of trusting opaque AI suggestions.
Local AI assistant editor vs cloud AI tools
Focus
FocusCloud AI tools
How it works
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
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Work from local folders, drives, or mounted storage.
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Ask for moments by quote, topic, visual description, or person.
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Check the source and send clean selections to the editing workflow.
FAQ
No. Focus is strongest as a retrieval, verification, and handoff tool.
Local workflows reduce upload friction and help with private or sensitive media.
It is useful for teams that keep media on shared local or mounted storage and need faster retrieval.
Ready
Search private footage locally and hand off verified moments.