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Search locally
Search raw footage by what is inside it.
Find quotes, scenes, reactions, people, and B-roll across local project folders and drives.
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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
How do you search raw footage?
Create a local index of speech, visual context, and people, then search by plain-language requests instead of filenames.
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Works before footage is cut into a final timeline.
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Keeps private media on local storage.
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Search project folders
Index footage where it already lives on local or mounted storage.
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Use natural queries
Ask for the quote, scene, object, person, or action you need.
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Keep the edit moving
Save useful moments and export them into the handoff workflow.
The friction
Raw footage is usually searchable only by memory.
Find quotes, scenes, reactions, people, and B-roll across local project folders and drives.
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Filenames rarely describe the actual moment.
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Folder structure breaks down when projects grow.
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Scrubbing every clip is too slow for active deadlines.
How Focus helps
Turn raw media into a searchable index.
Focus makes local footage searchable by speech and visual meaning so editors can retrieve the right moment faster.
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Search project folders
Index footage where it already lives on local or mounted storage.
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Use natural queries
Ask for the quote, scene, object, person, or action you need.
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Keep the edit moving
Save useful moments and export them into the handoff workflow.
Raw footage search vs file browsing
Focus
Focus- Search inside footage.
- Use transcript and visual context.
- Keep storage local.
File browsing
- Search filenames only.
- Open clips one by one.
- Depend on memory and notes.
How it works
How raw footage search works
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
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Add the folders
Connect the folders or drives that contain your raw media.
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Let Focus index them
Build searchable transcript and visual context locally.
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Search and save moments
Find candidates, verify them, and move the best ones into selects.
FAQ
FAQ
Can I search footage before editing it?
Yes. Focus is designed to search source footage before timeline work begins.
Is this only transcript search?
No. Transcript search is important, but Focus also supports visual and people-oriented retrieval.
Does it work with external drives?
Yes. Focus can index footage from local folders and mounted storage.
Ready
Stop hunting through raw footage by hand.
Use Focus to search the material itself, then hand off the right moments.