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People and face search
Find every video moment where a person appears.
Find where a person appears across local video folders on your Mac. Focus detects faces locally, lets you review and name people, and opens matches at the source moment.
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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 can you search videos by person or face on a Mac?
Index the folders in Focus, review and name detected faces, then filter search results by person. Focus opens each match against the original local video so you can verify the shot before using it.
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You review and name detected people; Focus does not claim automatic identity recognition.
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Your original video files are not moved or renamed when you add library folders.
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Detect locally
Scan video frames for face appearances without uploading the footage.
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Review people
Name people, merge duplicates, and check suggestions against frame context.
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Find source moments
Combine a person filter with speech, scene, and visual queries, then jump to the timestamp.
The friction
Filenames rarely tell you who is in the frame.
Find where a person appears across local video folders on your Mac. Focus detects faces locally, lets you review and name people, and opens matches at the source moment.
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A person may appear across ceremony, interview, B-roll, and archive folders.
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Folder browsing makes brief reactions and background appearances easy to miss.
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Unreviewed face matches can be wrong, so each result still needs source playback.
How Focus helps
Build a reviewed people index for local footage.
Focus separates detection from identity. It finds face appearances, gives you a review queue for naming and merging people, and then uses those reviewed assignments as a search filter.
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Detect locally
Scan video frames for face appearances without uploading the footage.
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Review people
Name people, merge duplicates, and check suggestions against frame context.
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Find source moments
Combine a person filter with speech, scene, and visual queries, then jump to the timestamp.
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.
How it works
From an unnamed face to a usable shot
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
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Index a representative folder
Start with one real project and let Focus analyze its local video files.
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Review the people queue
Name useful people and correct duplicates before relying on the filter.
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Search and verify
Filter by person, open the source moment, and save confirmed shots to a Sequence.
FAQ
FAQ
Does Focus identify people automatically?
No. Focus detects and groups face appearances, but you review and name the people you want to search.
Are faces uploaded to a cloud service?
No cloud upload is required for Focus indexing. Video files, face data, and search indexes stay on the device.
Can I search for a person and an action together?
Yes. A reviewed person filter can narrow speech, scene, and visual searches.
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