Make years of interviews, B-roll, events, and client footage searchable with a local index you can use before opening an edit.
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Short answer
Focus scans your existing drives and creates a local index for speech, scenes, people, and visual details. You keep the media where it is, then search the archive when a client asks for an old quote, a reusable shot, or proof that an event was recorded.
Older footage is hard to rediscover when it lives across multiple drives and project folders.
Manual logs and spreadsheets miss spoken lines, visual moments, and useful cutaways.
Cloud archiving adds cost, upload delay, and slow access for large libraries.
Index long-term archives in place and search by transcript, topics, people, and scenes.
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Step 1
Add a project drive, external disk, or mounted NAS folder. Focus indexes files in place instead of forcing a migration.
Step 2
Focus creates transcript, visual, people, and scene signals so old footage can be found by what happens inside the clip.
Step 3
Search for a quote, topic, person, place, or visual detail, then open the source moment before saving it for review or editing.
Find a past interview answer, location shot, or product clip without opening every project folder.
Search shoots stored across external drives or a mounted NAS before buying or filming new material.
Review family, research, or institutional footage locally when the archive should not be uploaded.
Focus is useful when file names and folders no longer describe what is inside the library. The index gives each clip more ways to be found.
Maintain a stable local catalog that stays with your archive.
No. Focus indexes folders where they already live, including external drives and mounted storage.
Yes. Search can use speech, scenes, people, and visual descriptions instead of relying only on file names or folder memory.
Focus is not a backup system. It creates a searchable catalog so archived footage is easier to find, verify, and reuse.
Related pages
Index long-term footage locally for search, review, and reuse.
Search private archives by speech, scenes, and people.
Build a fast, local index for multi-TB collections.
Index mounted NAS volumes and external drives.
Keep your library local and under your control.
Focus is a one-time purchase that keeps indexing, Smart Filters, and Sequences on your computer.
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