Runs on your machine · nothing uploads

Find any shot in seconds.

You shot it. You just can't find it. Media Search reads every frame of your footage so you can describe the shot the way you'd say it out loud, or pick who's in it, and drop the exact clip straight into Premiere.

Download for Windows See it search ↓ Free · local · no account

media-search — the cutting room 128,940 moments indexed · 0 uploaded

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The archive that eats your afternoon

The good stuff piles up faster than anyone can label it.

Terabytes of clips across drives and cards, and one way to find a shot: scrub for it, or trust your memory of a filename. So you re-shoot what you already have, or settle for a worse take because the good one was buried. The footage you worked hard to capture should be findable the moment you need it.

REEL_0447.MOV · 00:00:00:0001:12:38:04

One shot you need. Seventy-two minutes to scrub for it. Every project. Every week.

Three things it always does

Search the way you already think about footage.

Describe it

Plain-language search over every frame. A real vision model ranks moments by what's actually on screen, not by a filename someone forgot to write.

"excavator digging at golden hour" → the exact clip, with timecode.

By who's in it

Tag a face once, straight from the footage. Then find that person across everything you've ever shot. No photo files, no manual tagging.

Filter to shots with Caleb and Elijah both on screen.

Inside Premiere

It lives where you already work. Find the shot, trim it to your In/Out, and drop it onto the timeline. No exporting, no hunting through bins.

Search → Fit to In/Out → it's on the timeline.

Look closer

Every frame already knows what it is.

As it indexes, Media Search reads each frame, the scene, the objects, who is on camera. Run the glass across the wall and see what it already tagged.

Yours stays yours

It reads every frame on your own machine.

Point it at a drive and it indexes in the background, on your GPU, while you keep cutting. Your footage is never uploaded, there's no cloud to trust, and there's no per-seat meter running. Unplug the internet and it still finds every shot.

Nothing leaves the drive. Indexing and search happen entirely offline.
No API bills. Install once and every search is free after that.
The only copy is still yours. Vision model and faces stay on your GPU and disk.

From install to first shot

Three steps. Then you never scrub again.

Point it at your footage

Pick a folder or a whole drive. Your NAS, the Lexar, a card you just dumped. Media Search takes it from there.

Let it index in the background

It samples every clip a few times a second and reads each frame. Clips become searchable as it goes, so you can start finding shots before it even finishes.

Find it and place it

Search in plain language or by face, preview at the exact moment, then Fit to In/Out and drop it into your Premiere timeline.

Lives in your editor

It reaches into your timeline.

The desktop app does the heavy lifting, reading your footage and keeping the search engine running quietly in your tray. The Premiere panel comes built in and installs itself, so you search without leaving your edit and place the clip trimmed to fit, right where the playhead sits.

Premiere Pro Included DaVinci Resolve Coming soon Final Cut Pro On the roadmap

Media Search ● connected · localhost

drone push over the mountains

04:12:07

09:41:22

01:58:33

Founding window · open beta

Get in free. Lock Pro at the founder price.

Media Search is free during the beta, index up to 500 clips and keep it free for good. Get in now and you can lock lifetime Pro, your whole library with no cap, at the founder price before it goes to full price at launch.

$49founder → ~~$149~~at launch

Download free to get in Founder Pro checkout opens during the beta.

When we launch: free stays free up to 500 clips, Pro unlocks your whole library, and beta testers keep the founder price. No surprises.

Download

Point it at a drive. Find your first shot tonight.

Free to install. The app runs the engine, lives in your tray, and installs the Premiere panel for you so search is right inside your edit.

Ready now

Windows

The desktop app and search engine in one installer. Built and tested on the workstation.

Download for Windows

MediaSearch-Windows.exe · Windows 10/11

Fresh build

Mac

Universal build for Apple Silicon. Same app, same local index, nothing uploaded.

Download for Mac First time on Mac? 2-minute install guide →

Apple Silicon · .dmg

The Premiere extension is included

No separate install. The app adds the panel to Premiere on its own, restart Premiere and it's under Window ▸ Extensions. DaVinci Resolve support is coming next.

Windows may warn on an unsigned installer for now, choose "More info → Run anyway." Signing is on the way.
First search downloads the vision model once (about 1.7 GB), then everything runs offline.