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Use a cleared corpus
Publish the clip list, rights status, duration, codec, frame rate, resolution, and audio properties. Keep the same corpus across tools.
Focus Research · Published 16 July 2026
Measure video search without turning a pilot into a promise.
A disclosed Focus pilot on Apple M1 Pro, its limitations, raw JSON, and a reusable CSV protocol for measuring indexing and search relevance honestly.
CC BY 4.01 run disclosedNo product comparison
Short answer
What does this pilot actually show?
On 5 January 2026, a MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro and 32 GB of memory processed a 97.685-second H.264 720p clip at a 0.76 real-time factor. That is about 46 seconds of processing per source minute. This result covers one local-ingestion run.
0.76×
real-time factor
M1 Pro
32 GB memory
1
pilot run
Pilot method
The recorded facts
Missing details are listed as limitations instead of being reconstructed after the fact.
| Run date | 5 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Device | MacBookPro18,1; Apple M1 Pro; 10-core CPU; 32 GB memory |
| Source clip | 97.685s; H.264; 1280x720; 24 fps; AAC |
| Pipeline | Local ingestion including transcription, visual analysis, scene detection, embeddings, and indexing |
| Runs | 1 |
| Measured result | 0.76 real-time factor |
The data file and method are licensed CC BY 4.0. The source clip is not included in the download.
Limitations
What this result does not prove
These limits prevent the pilot from being used as a product ranking or universal estimate.
This is one run on one short clip. It is not a population estimate or a hardware comparison.
The internal source clip cannot be redistributed, so the original run cannot be reproduced bit-for-bit.
The original output did not record app version, macOS version, elapsed seconds, thermals, or power state.
The run measured ingestion time. It did not measure search precision, recall, user task time, or another product.
Open protocol v1
How to produce a defensible benchmark
The downloadable CSV supplies the fields for timing runs and retrieval judgments.
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Record the machine and build
Capture app version, commit, operating system, device model, chip, memory, power state, and cold or warm cache state.
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Repeat timing runs
Run at least three cold and three warm trials per clip. Report every observation, median, range, failures, and real-time factor.
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Judge retrieval separately
Pre-register speech, visual, person, and scene queries. Label relevant moments before testing and report precision@5 and recall with human review.
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