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Sequences + Smart Filters
Move from messy footage to verified selects in minutes, not hours.
Find moments without manual tagging
Use Hydrus when you want deep manual control. Use Focus when you need to search private video by speech, scenes, faces, and visual details without building a tagging workflow first.
Focus vs Hydrus
Verified selects v03
27 clips selected
Speech selects
SRT and markers synced
B-roll selects
Handles preserved
Premiere XML
Timeline handoff with clip timing
Resolve EDL
Clean conform and review exports
Final Cut / SRT
Metadata and subtitles included
Short answer
Use Hydrus when you want deep manual control. Use Focus when you need to search private video by speech, scenes, faces, and visual details without building a tagging workflow first.
Move from messy footage to verified selects in minutes, not hours.
Find exact spoken or visual moments without cloud upload delays.
Pay once for the current major version, get all updates in that major version, and avoid monthly subscription drag.
Why switch
Use Hydrus when you want deep manual control. Use Focus when you need to search private video by speech, scenes, faces, and visual details without building a tagging workflow first.
Hydrus
Deep tagging systems can be powerful, but they take time before they help you recover a specific video moment.
Focus indexes spoken words, scenes, faces, and visual details locally so search does not depend only on prior tagging decisions.
Non-technical operators struggle with advanced interfaces and migration friction.
Focus
Move from messy footage to verified selects in minutes, not hours.
Find exact spoken or visual moments without cloud upload delays.
Pay once for the current major version, get all updates in that major version, and avoid monthly subscription drag.
Compare
See where Focus removes the drag Hydrus leaves behind.
Switch cleanly
Move over without rebuilding your workflow from scratch.
Use trial indexing to validate retrieval precision and workflow speed.
Connect the same local or NAS roots and keep all content private.
Unlock production indexing after confidence checks pass.
Decision path
Run a quick trial if you need proof, or buy now if your team already feels the retrieval bottleneck.
No card for trial. Paid access includes a 14-day refund guarantee.
Ready
Use Focus when you need discretion plus faster daily archive operations.