Thoughts on video and search

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.

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.

FrameQuery Team26 March 2026

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.

FrameQuery Team26 March 2026

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.

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.

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.