Find a person in video on Windows
Search by face across local folders, external drives, and old archives. ClipCatalog groups recurring people locally so you can pull matching clips fast without relying on filenames or memory.
Choose people from detected faces
ClipCatalog groups recurring faces into selectable person filters. Pick one person to find every matching clip, or combine multiple people when you need clips where the same people appear together.
* Some faces are pixelated for privacy.
Built for anyone with a growing video library
Family & travel archivists
A lifetime of footage, finally organized.
Search by person, scene, and spoken words without digging through years of folders and old drives.
YouTubers & vloggers
Your archive becomes your advantage.
Find recurring guests, callbacks, and past moments quickly when your footage library keeps growing.
Filmmakers & editors
Built for TB-scale projects and long edit cycles.
Pull interview moments, recurring subjects, and event coverage faster across projects and archive drives.
Real-world face-search use cases
These are the situations where face search saves the most time: when the same people appear again and again across years of footage, recurring shoots, or large archives.
Build family compilations faster
Find every clip of one family member across holidays, birthdays, trips, and everyday footage when you want a montage or one specific memory.
Pull every guest appearance
Recurring guests and collaborators show up across episodes and shoots. Select their face once and pull every appearance across project folders and drives.
Search interview archives by person
Filter by one subject's face, then combine it with transcript search to find the exact moments they said what you remember.
Find important people in event footage
Weddings, events, and documentaries produce hours of material. Face search helps you find every clip of the couple, guest, speaker, or subject without scrubbing by hand.
How to find a person in video with ClipCatalog
Add the folders where your footage already lives
Point ClipCatalog at local folders, external SSDs, or archive drives. No reorganization required.
Enable face detection if you want person search
Face processing is optional. Once enabled, ClipCatalog detects faces and groups recurring people locally on your PC.
Filter by person and refine the result
Search by one person or require two together, then refine with transcript, dates, folders, and other filters.
Keep face search local and under your control
If you are using face search for family archives, unreleased footage, client projects, or anything sensitive, local processing and explicit opt-in matter.
Face search stays opt-in. You can enable it, turn it off, or delete face data later.
Face detection starts only if you enable it deliberately.
Videos and face data stay on your own hardware instead of being sent to a remote face API.
If your situation changes, you can clear detections, groups, and the face index from Settings.
What to expect from face search
The goal is to get you to the right clips fast, not to guarantee perfect biometric identity in every difficult shot.
Distant, blurry, heavily shadowed, or partially hidden faces can reduce reliability.
Once indexed, person search works across years of footage, multiple projects, and disconnected archive drives.
Face search gets even better when you add transcript words, dates, folders, resolution, or detected content.
Combine face search with the rest of ClipCatalog
See the broader face recognition workflow, practical limitations, and policy details.
Find clips where a specific person appears and a specific word was spoken.
Keep person search useful across archive drives, even when a drive is not plugged in.
Understand the local-only privacy model behind face search and the rest of the app.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Start from a clip that already contains the person you want, then use the face workflow to find more videos with the same discovered people across your indexed library.
Yes. After selecting multiple people, switch the matching mode to All so the results only show clips where both selected people appear together.
No. Face detection, embeddings, grouping, and search all run locally on your Windows PC. Your footage and face data stay on your machine.
It is especially useful for family archives and content creators with recurring people on camera. It also helps with interviews, podcasts, documentaries, and event footage.
No. ClipCatalog groups similar faces so you can get to the right set of clips quickly, but occasional mistakes can happen with blurry, partial, or difficult shots.
Yes. You can remove face detections, person groups, and the face index from Settings at any time.
Try it on a small archive first
Start with a small archive, enable face detection only if you want person search, and test it on footage where the same people appear repeatedly.
Try ClipCatalog free — up to 500 videos
No account required. Your footage stays on your computer.