Scan static footage
Focus checks long, mostly still videos for movement and visual change.
Rare Events
Focus helps you review locked-off cameras, long takes, and archives without watching every quiet minute by hand.
Static camera scan
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Use Focus when a camera records for a long time but only a few moments matter. It scans for motion and visual change, gives you candidates to review, and keeps useful moments searchable in your local video library.
Best fit
Rare event review is for footage where most of the timeline is empty, repetitive, or waiting for something to happen.
How it works
The desktop app includes a static-camera scan mode with fast, high-recall, and max-recall presets for different footage.
Focus checks long, mostly still videos for movement and visual change.
Jump to the few places where something actually happened.
Save useful moments as selects, search them later, or send them into an edit.
Built for review
Keep useful moments in the same library as transcripts, scenes, people, and visual search.
Review private or sensitive footage on your Mac without turning it into a cloud upload workflow.
Save the moment, open the video at the right time, or move selected ranges into an edit workflow.
FAQ
Use these checks to decide whether Focus fits the footage you need to review.
Rare event review means scanning long, mostly quiet recordings to find the short moments where motion or visual change deserves a closer look.
It fits locked-off event footage, wildlife and trail cameras, security-style review, interviews, long takes, and archive footage where most of the recording is repetitive.
No. Focus is local first, so private or sensitive footage can be reviewed on your computer without turning the workflow into a cloud upload.
Rare Events
Use Focus to find the parts of static footage that deserve a closer look.