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Search Your Footage: Text and Scene Search

Learn how to find any moment in your footage using text or visual search, without scrubbing through hours of video.

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Written by Annie Park

Finding a specific moment in hours of footage is a common bottleneck. Selects gives you two ways to search: by what was said and by what was shown.

Search scope: choose where to look

Before searching, set your search scope using the dropdown. You can search across [original footage], a specific [draft], your [B-roll] library, or [audio] files. Choose your scope first so results are relevant to what you are working on.

Search scope dropdown showing options for Original, B-roll, Audio, Topic stringout, and individual drafts

Text search

Search any word or phrase across your transcript. Results show every instance with surrounding context and timestamps. Click a result to jump directly to that moment in the video. This is faster than scanning the transcript manually when you remember someone mentioned a specific topic but not when.

Text search results showing matching sections in the transcript

Scene search

Browse visual thumbnails of scenes detected throughout your footage. Search visually for specific moments, locations, or setups. Helpful when you remember what something looked like but not what was said. This mode works best when your footage has distinct visual changes or location shifts.

Scene search results showing visual thumbnails of matching scenes with timestamps

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