Thoughts on video and search

FrameQuery Team25 August 2026

FrameQuery 1.2.3: Guided First Run, Steadier GPU Indexing

FrameQuery 1.2.3 adds first-run tours of video search, a faces and bib-number opt-in at first process, verified GPU decode, and instant sign-in. Free update.

FrameQuery Team15 August 2026

Searching Screen Recordings & Training Videos

Meetings, demos, and training modules pile up into hundreds of unsearchable hours. Transcript, speaker, and scene search jump to the moment inside the file.

Product4 min read

FrameQuery 1.2.1: Search Footage by Bib Number

FrameQuery 1.2.1 reads race bibs and jersey numbers so you can search bib:100, runs AI on your GPU, and fixes filters that AI results used to ignore.

FrameQuery Team12 August 2026

Workflows7 min read

Best Video Search Software & Tools Compared (2026)

A practical comparison of video search software for editors and teams: NLE built-in search, cloud DAMs, transcript tools, and AI multimodal search. What each searches, where data lives, side-by-side pricing, and the trade-offs.

FrameQuery Team12 August 2026

Product8 min read

FrameQuery 1.2.0: Video Search Overhaul

FrameQuery 1.2.0 overhauls video search: natural-language queries return far more relevant results, results arrive as one ranked list, and there are new color, codec, camera and lens filters.

FrameQuery Team9 August 2026

FrameQuery Team7 August 2026

FrameQuery 1.1.1: Scene Search and Face Sampling Fixed

FrameQuery 1.1.1 restores scene and transcript results in search, makes per-second face detection run as intended, and names speakers the transcript missed.

FrameQuery Team7 August 2026

FrameQuery 1.1.2: Sign-In and Face Thumbnail Fixes

FrameQuery 1.1.2 is a maintenance update fixing a sign-in that could hang, blank face thumbnails in the People tab, and an FFmpeg download failure.

FrameQuery Team6 August 2026

FrameQuery 1.1: Tune Face Detection to Find More People

FrameQuery 1.1 lets you tune how hard face detection looks, check a frame every second instead of one per scene, and fixes a startup failure.

FrameQuery Team7 July 2026

FrameQuery is now available on Windows

FrameQuery for Windows has shipped, with the same indexing and search as the macOS app. Here's how to get it, and what to do if Windows SmartScreen flags the installer.

Product2 min read

FrameQuery 1.0: AI video search for macOS

Stop scrubbing. FrameQuery indexes your footage locally and lets you search it in plain English. Available today on macOS, with Windows and ARRI RAW support both coming in the next few weeks.

FrameQuery Team22 June 2026

Workflows6 min read

Dual-System Audio Sync: Auto-Aligning Boom and Camera Tracks

How FrameQuery automatically syncs boom and camera tracks using BWF timecode and acoustic fingerprinting, even when AGC mangles the camera signal.

FrameQuery Team7 May 2026

FrameQuery Team10 April 2026

Searching Broadcast Archives: Making Decades of News Footage Findable

Broadcast stations sit on decades of archive footage that is barely catalogued. Retroactive AI indexing makes old footage valuable again without requiring a migration or re-tagging project.

FrameQuery Team9 April 2026

How Video Scene Detection Breaks Footage Into Searchable Segments

A 30-minute clip might contain 50 shots. Scene detection finds each transition and turns every shot into a searchable segment with its own description, objects and metadata.

FrameQuery Team9 April 2026

What Is AI Video Search and How Does It Work

AI video search indexes the content of your footage. How it differs from filename search, the four modalities behind it, and why the index lives on your machine.

FrameQuery Team8 April 2026

Find Every Clip of a Specific Person in Footage

Finding every appearance of one person across a large footage library is one of the slowest tasks in post-production. Face recognition turns it into a search.

FrameQuery Team8 April 2026

Speaker Diarization vs Transcription: What Is the Difference

Transcription records what was said. Diarization records who said it. Most transcription tools skip the second step, and multi-speaker search depends on it.

FrameQuery Team8 April 2026

Video Library Organization: From Folder Chaos to Instant Search

Organization and search are different problems. Content search finds footage in a library that was never reorganized, and lets you fix the folders on your own schedule.

FrameQuery Team7 April 2026

Build vs Buy: Should You Build Your Own Video Search or Use an API

Building video search means wiring together transcription, object detection, scene analysis, face recognition, a search engine and format decoding. When that makes sense.

FrameQuery Team6 April 2026

AI Video Search Without Uploading Your Footage to the Cloud

Most AI video search tools require uploading your originals. FrameQuery keeps your footage local, extracts only frames and audio on your device for cloud analysis, and runs all biometric processing on-device.

FrameQuery Team5 April 2026

Video Metadata Search: Date, Format, Resolution

Video files carry two kinds of metadata: technical facts about the file and AI-generated descriptions of what is inside. Combining both in one search narrows a broad query to a short list.

FrameQuery Team4 April 2026

How News Teams Search Footage Archives Under Deadline Pressure

Breaking news means pulling archive footage in minutes. Local AI search makes transcript, face, and scene queries instant across years of broadcast archives.

FrameQuery Team3 April 2026

Video Asset Management Software: What It Is and When You Need It

Enterprise DAMs start at $500 to $2,000 per month and solve problems many teams do not have. What video asset management software does, what it costs, and when a search tool is enough.

FrameQuery Team2 April 2026

What Affects Speaker Diarization Accuracy

Speaker diarization accuracy depends on audio quality, overlap, speaker count, and microphone setup. What to expect from real recordings and how to improve them.

FrameQuery Team31 March 2026

How Accurate Is AI Video Search? Setting Realistic Expectations

Accuracy of AI video search across transcription, object detection, scene descriptions and face recognition, and how combining modalities covers the gaps.

Technology3 min read

Why We Chose Rust and Tauri Over Electron for a Video Desktop App

Electron ships a whole browser. Tauri ships a native webview. For a video application that decodes RAW formats and manages large libraries, that difference shows up in memory, installer size and CPU work.

FrameQuery Team31 March 2026

FrameQuery Team30 March 2026

Getting Started With a Video Search API: A Developer Guide

Integrating video search into an application. RESTful endpoints, four search modalities, authentication, and a walkthrough of the upload-process-search workflow.

FrameQuery Team29 March 2026

How to Tag and Categorize Video Without Manual Data Entry

Manual tagging is the gold standard for organizing video, but nobody has time to watch and tag thousands of clips by hand. AI-generated metadata gives you searchable categories automatically.

How to Use Advanced Search Operators to Find the Right Clip Faster

Basic keyword search gets you started. Exact phrases, @mentions, exclusions, and boolean operators get you to the specific clip you need in a library of thousands.

How to Filter Video Search Results by Date, Duration, or Resolution

A search query might return hundreds of results. Narrowing by when it was shot, how long it is, or what resolution it was captured at turns a broad search into a precise one.

Technology5 min read

5 Minutes, 2 Lines of Rust, Measurably Less Memory: Our mimalloc Migration

Swapping the global allocator to mimalloc took two lines of Rust. With release profile tuning and AVX2 targeting, it cut memory use about in half.

Technology7 min read

Making SQLite Fly as a Desktop Video Database

SQLite holds FrameQuery's video library, search indexes, and biometric data. From one mutex to a concurrent, trigger-maintained, full-text-searchable backend.

Technology6 min read

From 500 Threads to Sanity: Taming Concurrency in a Rust Video Pipeline

Tokio's spawn_blocking pool grows to 500 threads, which breaks CPU-bound video decoding. We replaced it with a bounded Rayon pool, cancellation tokens, and atomics.

Technology5 min read

Why Our Thumbnails Were Secretly Lossless (and How We Fixed It)

The image crate's WebP encoder ignores the quality parameter and always outputs lossless. We found out the hard way, and rebuilt the entire thumbnail pipeline while we were at it.

Technology6 min read

Zero-Copy GPU Decoding on Every Platform

CUDA pinned buffers on Windows, Metal unified memory on macOS, Vulkan compute shaders for ProRes RAW. How FrameQuery decodes professional video formats without unnecessary memory copies.

FrameQuery Team25 March 2026

Introducing Projects: Workspace-Level Organization for Your Video Library

When you manage footage for multiple clients, everything in one flat list stops working. Projects give you scoped workspaces that filter your entire library, from videos and sources to search and dashboard stats.

FrameQuery Team25 March 2026

From Shoot to Selects in Minutes: Searching Multicam Interview Footage

Eight hours of multicam interview footage. Multiple cameras, multiple subjects. Pull your selects in minutes instead of spending a full day scrubbing timelines.

FrameQuery Team25 March 2026

Video Object Detection Explained: How AI Finds Things in Your Footage

Object detection labels the things in your footage: cars, laptops, dogs, products, furniture. How it works, what it can find, and where it helps an editor searching by what is on screen.

FrameQuery Team24 March 2026

Corporate Video Management: A Complete Guide for Growing Libraries

Corporations produce hundreds of videos that end up buried on shared drives where nobody can search what is inside them. How AI search makes an existing library findable.

FrameQuery Team24 March 2026

How to Search Your Video Library Without an Internet Connection

Cloud-based video tools stop working when you are offline. A local search index means you can search your entire footage library from an airplane, a remote set, or anywhere else without a connection.

FrameQuery Team23 March 2026

Video Content Search: How to Find Clips by What Is Inside Them

Most video search is metadata search: filenames, dates, folders. Content search indexes the footage itself, across dialogue, visuals, objects and people. How it works and where it applies.

FrameQuery Team22 March 2026

How to Organize Terabytes of RED and Blackmagic Footage Without Transcoding

R3D and BRAW files don't need to be transcoded before you can search and organize them. A practical workflow for cinema camera shooters who want a searchable archive without the intermediate files.

FrameQuery Team22 March 2026

What Is Speaker Diarization and Why Does It Matter for Video

Speaker diarization identifies who is speaking at every moment in a recording. With transcription, it turns a block of text into a conversation attributed to named people.

Product5 min read

A Video Editor's Guide to BIPA, GDPR, and Facial Recognition Compliance

If your video tools use face or voice recognition, privacy laws apply. What BIPA, GDPR, and other regulations mean for video teams, in plain English.

FrameQuery Team19 March 2026

FrameQuery Team13 March 2026

What Is Semantic Video Search? A Plain-English Guide for Editors

Semantic search matches meaning rather than exact words. How it works for video, and what it changes in an edit.

FrameQuery Team8 March 2026

FCPXML Export: Search Results to Timeline

How FrameQuery's FCPXML export puts search results on a Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro timeline, with handles, file paths and clip metadata.

FrameQuery Team3 March 2026

How to Build a Searchable Stock Footage Library Without Paying for Cloud Storage

Turn years of accumulated footage into a private, searchable archive on your own drives. The index is local, and search runs with no storage subscription.

Technology5 min read

How We Built People Matching: Face and Voice Recognition

FrameQuery can match faces and voices across your entire video library. We built the encryption architecture for GDPR, CCPA, and BIPA compliance from day one.

FrameQuery Team23 February 2026

FrameQuery Team23 February 2026

Introducing Reviews: Get Feedback on Your Edits Without Leaving FrameQuery

Share any video as a review link. Reviewers leave frame-accurate comments and annotations, you get notified, upload revisions, and track approvals. Unlimited reviews on every plan.

Technology3 min read

Native R3D and BRAW Decoding: How We Built GPU-Accelerated Cinema Camera Support

Most video tools punt on professional RAW formats. FrameQuery decodes RED R3D and Blackmagic BRAW files natively with GPU acceleration, so you can index cinema footage without transcoding.

FrameQuery Team18 February 2026