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Search locally
Find quotes, scenes, reactions, people, and B-roll across local project folders and drives.
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
Create a local index of speech, visual context, and people, then search by plain-language requests instead of filenames.
Index footage where it already lives on local or mounted storage.
Ask for the quote, scene, object, person, or action you need.
Save useful moments and export them into the handoff workflow.
The friction
Find quotes, scenes, reactions, people, and B-roll across local project folders and drives.
How Focus helps
Focus makes local footage searchable by speech and visual meaning so editors can retrieve the right moment faster.
Index footage where it already lives on local or mounted storage.
Ask for the quote, scene, object, person, or action you need.
Save useful moments and export them into the handoff workflow.
Raw footage search vs file browsing
Focus
FocusFile browsing
How it works
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
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Connect the folders or drives that contain your raw media.
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Build searchable transcript and visual context locally.
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Find candidates, verify them, and move the best ones into selects.
FAQ
Yes. Focus is designed to search source footage before timeline work begins.
No. Transcript search is important, but Focus also supports visual and people-oriented retrieval.
Yes. Focus can index footage from local folders and mounted storage.
Ready
Use Focus to search the material itself, then hand off the right moments.