Practical, step-by-step answers to the questions people ask about finding things in their recordings.
File search only sees names and dates. Here is how to search what was actually said and shown inside your videos.
Get accurate transcripts from video and audio without sending files to a cloud service, using models that run on your Mac.
Stop re-listening to hours of episodes. Here's how to track down a line you half-remember, with its exact timestamp.
Find the call where a decision was made, and the minute it happened, across every Zoom recording you've saved.
Turn a list of good moments into a timeline your editor opens directly, with in and out points intact.
Type "aerial of a coastline at sunset" and get the clips, even though nobody logged them and nobody speaks in them.
Find the photo of the whiteboard, the receipt or the slide by typing a word that appears in the picture.
Clear out the copies, exports and re-encodes eating your drive, without deleting the one version you actually need.
Generate a timed subtitle file from your video on your own computer, then fix it up and convert it if you need VTT.
Find that answer you worked out with ChatGPT months ago, by keyword or by meaning, and keep a copy on your own computer.
Find the memo where you described that idea, by the words you actually said, instead of scrolling a list of "New Recording 47".
Work out which Teams call a decision came from, and jump to the minute it was said, across months of recorded meetings.
Pull your Meet recordings out of Drive and search them by what was said and shown, with every result pointing at a timestamp.
Turn a wall of transcript into who-said-what, then give each voice a name that sticks across your other recordings.
Click a face and get every clip and photo where that person shows up, with face data kept on your own computer.
Find every shot where a sponsor, product or brand shows up, by typing the brand name or uploading a sample of the logo.
Get a summary and chapters for a two-hour recording on your own computer, then ask follow-up questions with cited answers.
Turn a two-hour talk, stream or event into a short reel of its best moments, without watching the whole thing again.
Ask your Obsidian vault questions in plain language and get answers that show which notes they came from, on your own computer.
Turn a stack of recorded interviews into speaker-labeled, timestamped transcripts ready for coding, without sending participant audio to a cloud service.
Name the track in one clip with a free recognition app, then find every stretch of music and every clip that reuses it across your own footage.
Find the teal night shot or the warm golden-hour clip by how it looks, not by its filename.
Start from a picture and find the matching photos and video frames in your own library, without uploading anything.
Cut the ums, uhs and dead air out of a talking-head video by editing its transcript instead of scrubbing the waveform.
Reframe a 16:9 recording into a 9:16 clip for Shorts, Reels or TikTok, and pick the right part of the frame to keep.
Hard-code captions into the picture so they show everywhere, even where subtitle files aren't supported.
Get back the plan, draft or fix you worked out with Claude, and keep a searchable copy on your own computer.
Let Claude, Claude Code or Cursor search, ask and read transcripts from your own recordings through a local MCP server.
Copy terabytes of footage to a new machine, check nothing went missing, and keep your index, tags and links working.
Turn the "I'll send it by Friday" moments in a meeting into dated tasks you can import into your calendar or task app.
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