Search the library
Use speech, visual, people, and metadata search to find candidate moments.
Search locally
Search footage, verify the source moment, save selects, and export clean handoff files.
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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
Search footage, verify the source moment, save selects, and export clean handoff files.
Use speech, visual, people, and metadata search to find candidate moments.
Open each result at the timestamp and confirm it belongs in the selects pass.
Create NLE handoff files, subtitles, metadata, or CSV outputs from reviewed selections.
The friction
Search footage, verify the source moment, save selects, and export clean handoff files.
How Focus helps
Focus gives editors a repeatable selects workflow for local footage libraries and active projects.
Use speech, visual, people, and metadata search to find candidate moments.
Open each result at the timestamp and confirm it belongs in the selects pass.
Create NLE handoff files, subtitles, metadata, or CSV outputs from reviewed selections.
Fragmented selects vs one verified loop
Focus workflow
FocusFragmented workflow
How it works
A shorter path from footage to the next useful action.
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Process speech, visuals, people, and metadata locally.
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Search, open source playback, and save only the moments that pass review.
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Export the selected moments in the format your editing workflow needs.
FAQ
Yes. The same loop works for interviews, B-roll, events, podcasts, and archives.
No. Focus prepares verified material so the NLE work starts cleaner.
Yes. Focus indexes files in place and keeps local paths for handoff.
Ready
Focus gives editors and wedding filmmakers faster retrieval, verified selects, and calmer delivery weeks.