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Archive Catalog
Every production company has the same problem.
The footage exists, but nobody can find it.
A company I freelance for has years of drone, interview, and B-roll footage across dozens of client projects. File names like DJI_0333.MOV tell you nothing about what is in the shot.
So I built a search catalog for it.
A vision model running on my own PC watched the footage and wrote a plain-language description and keyword tags for each clip. No footage left the building. The result is a single offline search page that covers 41,414 files across 32 projects. Colleagues open it from the shared drive with nothing to install.
In the video, "aerial sunset" returns 231 clips. Not one of them has those words in its file name. Every match comes from what the AI saw in the frame.
The archive used to be storage. Now it is a library.
The next phase is to transcribe interviews and make those searchable as well.
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