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Search Your Footage: Text Search and Scene Search

Search across your original footage or a specific draft using text keywords or visual scene descriptions. Find the exact moment you need without scrubbing.

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. You can search across your original footage to find moments from everything you imported, or select a specific draft to search only within that edit. Choose your scope first so results are relevant to what you are working on.

Screenshot: Search scope selector showing original footage and draft options

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.

Screenshot: Text search results showing query hits with timestamps

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.

Screenshot: Scene search grid of visual thumbnails
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