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On-device AI video search

Every clip you've ever shot, found in seconds.

Built for editors, vloggers, and family archivists.

Turn your video folders into a searchable library — by what's shown, what's said, and who appears.

  • Natural-language search
  • AI scene tagging
  • Transcripts
  • Faces
100% local video processing

AI features run on-device — no cloud inference. How we handle face data →

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Windows 10/11 · 24 MB · v0.19.1

Built for multi-terabyte libraries Works with NAS & external drives Supports 360° & action-cam footage

500 videos free · no credit card · no account

Walkthrough of the ClipCatalog search interface — switching between visual, transcript, person, and metadata filters across an indexed local video library.
How it works

Import folders, let AI do the heavy lifting, search everything

Point ClipCatalog at a folder, watch it generate thumbnails, detected content, transcripts, and face data locally on your PC, then search the resulting catalog.

Point ClipCatalog at any folder on your PC or external drive. It processes every clip locally — generating thumbnails, detected content, speech transcripts, and optional face data — so you can browse and find footage in seconds.

Powerful filters

Find the exact clip — no matter how you remember it

Whether you recall what was on screen, what someone said, or who was in the shot, ClipCatalog has a filter for it. Switch All/Any when combining multiple terms.

Search by what's in the shot

ClipCatalog's AI watches every clip and automatically detects scenes, objects, and actions — cars, beaches, interviews, celebrations, you name it. Type what you're looking for and matching clips surface instantly. No manual labeling required.

Filter local video clips by automatically detected scenes, objects, and locations using the Detected Content filter — no manual labeling required.
Type a word or phrase into ClipCatalog's transcript filter and jump to the exact moment it was said — searchable speech across your local video library.

Find clips by what was said

Every word spoken in your footage becomes searchable. ClipCatalog transcribes audio locally using state-of-the-art speech recognition, so you can type a spoken word and jump straight to the moment — perfect for pulling sound bites, interview quotes, or voiceover takes.

Natural-language search filter with a free-text query and semantic strictness controls.Natural-language search results sorted by semantic relevance.Directory processing view showing natural-language search indexing progress.

Natural-language search

Describe the shot you want in plain language instead of guessing exact tags. ClipCatalog's natural-language search lets you adjust semantic strictness, sort by relevance, and move from broad scene descriptions to the right clips faster.

Find every appearance of a person

Face recognition groups appearances automatically across your entire library. Need every clip featuring a guest or collaborator? Select their face and get every matching video in one click — no scrubbing through timelines.

Use ClipCatalog's face filter to find every clip a recurring person appears in, grouped automatically from on-device face recognition.
Footage type filter showing dialog, voiceover, and scenic categories.Footage type filter detail view.

Smart footage type

ClipCatalog uses smart heuristics to classify every clip as dialog, voiceover, or scenic. Instantly filter by footage type to find exactly the kind of shot you need — no manual labeling required.

Highlight score sorting exciting moments to the top.

Highlight Score

A smart heuristic ranks your clips by how engaging they are — so the most exciting footage floats to the top. Spend less time previewing and more time editing the good stuff.

Drone footage filter detail.Drone footage filter results.

Drone footage detection

Automatically identifies aerial shots across your library. Quickly limit results to drone or non-drone footage without manually labeling a single file.

Technical filters for resolution, orientation, recording time, and more.

Technical filters

Filter by recording date, clip length, resolution, frame rate, horizontal vs. vertical, audio/no-audio, and more. Narrow thousands of clips down to exactly what fits your project specs.

Try it yourself — free for up to 500 videos

Processing

Robust, GPU-accelerated processing

ClipCatalog offloads thumbnail extraction, detected content, transcripts, and face data to your GPU, falling back to CPU automatically when needed.

ClipCatalog takes advantage of your graphics card to speed up analysis — and falls back gracefully to CPU on any hardware. Stop and resume processing anytime; your progress is never lost. Learn more →

Workflow

Drag clips straight into your editor

Found the perfect take? Select it and drag it directly into your editor — tested with CapCut, PowerDirector, Kdenlive, Premiere Pro, Vegas, and ShotCut. No more hunting through nested folders on multiple drives.

Drag matching clips out of ClipCatalog directly onto a Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve timeline — tested with major NLEs on Windows.

Drag & drop to your timeline

When you've found the clips you need, grab them from ClipCatalog and drop them right into your favourite video editor. Multi-select is supported, so you can move entire batches at once.

Tested drag & drop into:

CapCutPowerDirectorKdenlivePremiere ProVegasShotCut

Or copy matches to any folder

Prefer to collect files first? Copy all matching clips to a location of your choice — great for handing off footage to collaborators or building project-specific folders.

Select results in ClipCatalog and copy the original files to a folder of your choice — useful for shortlists, project handoffs, and archive moves.
Scale

Built for serious footage libraries

Whether you have a few hundred clips or terabytes of raw footage across dozens of drives, ClipCatalog handles it.

Large library view showing thousands of indexed clips.

Large library support

Import many terabytes of video into the app. Lightning-fast thumbnail browsing with smart caching keeps everything responsive, even at massive scale.

ClipCatalog handles native 360-degree footage from Insta360, GoPro, and DJI cameras with dedicated equirectangular preview and filters.

360° video support

Analyse native 360-degree footage from Insta360, GoPro, and DJI cameras. ClipCatalog recognises equirectangular and native formats with dedicated filters so your immersive clips are never left behind.

Storage

Your catalog works even when drives are unplugged

ClipCatalog tracks your external drives so you can search and shortlist clips even when the SSD is disconnected — reconnect only to grab the file.

Connect external drives or SD cards — ClipCatalog remembers them. Search and plan edits even when the drive is disconnected, then plug it back in when you're ready to use the files. NAS support is coming soon. Learn more →

And more

Handy tools built right in

Download word-for-word video transcripts as plain text or SRT subtitle files, ready to drop into your editing timeline or publish alongside the clip.

Export transcripts

Download word-for-word captions as plain text or SRT subtitle files — ready to drop straight into your editing timeline or publish alongside your video.

Preview matched clips in ClipCatalog's built-in video player without switching apps — verify a shot is the right take before sending it to your editor.

Built-in video player

Preview clips right inside the app without switching windows. Quickly verify a shot is the one you want before sending it to your editor.

Language selection showing 10 supported locales.

Fully localized

The entire interface — including AI-generated detected content labels — is translated into 10 languages: Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese.

Search problems we solve

Find what you need across drives, libraries, and shoots

Who is this for

Built for anyone with a growing video library

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