AI video search: find any clip in seconds

Stop scrubbing through hours of footage to find one shot. Fast Video Cataloger uses AI to index everything in your library — the words spoken, the people on screen, and the scenes and objects in every frame — so you can search your whole archive the way you search the web.

And it all happens on your own PC. Your footage never leaves your machine, there’s no cloud to upload to, and it’s a one-time purchase.

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One catalog. Every way to search.

Fast Video Cataloger’s AI indexes your footage so you can find a clip the way you actually remember it — all processed locally on your own machine.

Search by what was said

Built-in speech-to-text makes every spoken word searchable across your whole library, in 10+ languages.

Find anyone in your footage

Teach face recognition a person once, then automatically tag them everywhere they appear.

Auto scene & object tagging

AI classifies scenes and detects objects, adding them as searchable keywords automatically.

See every scene at a glance

Automatic keyframe thumbnails turn each video into a visual contact sheet — no playback needed.

One search box for everything

Combine words, people, scenes, objects and your own tags to narrow a terabyte archive in seconds.

Private by design

Every AI feature runs on your computer. Nothing is uploaded; no internet needed to search.

Search by what was said

Fast Video Cataloger transcribes the speech in your videos with built-in speech-to-text and makes every spoken word searchable. Remember a phrase from an interview but not which file it’s in? Search the phrase and jump straight to the moment it was said — across your entire catalog, not just one clip.

  • Automatic transcription as videos are indexed — or transcribe clips already in your catalog on demand
  • Search transcripts across your whole library and jump to the exact timecode
  • Works in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian — with automatic language detection
  • A transcript panel that follows along as the video plays, with click-to-seek and in-window search

Great for interviews, talking-head footage, lectures, and any project where you need to find a clip by what someone said.

Find anyone across your footage

Built-in face recognition finds the people in your videos. Teach Fast Video Cataloger a face from a few photos, and it will automatically detect and tag that person everywhere they appear — across your entire library. No more opening file after file to find where someone shows up.

  • Automatic face detection and recognition from your video thumbnails
  • Learn a person’s face from a handful of photos, then find every clip they appear in
  • Choose fast or high-accuracy detection depending on the job
  • Ideal for documentary, event, interview, and family-archive projects

Automatic scene and object tagging

Let the AI describe your footage for you. Fast Video Cataloger can classify the type of scene in each shot — indoor, outdoor, kitchen, beach, and more — and detect the objects in frame, adding them all as searchable keywords automatically. Footage you never had time to log becomes findable.

  • AI scene classification (e.g. indoor, outdoor, beach)
  • Object detection (e.g. car, person, dog)
  • Results added as keywords automatically — with a confidence control you set
  • Run it during indexing, or as a batch over videos you already have

See every scene at a glance

As it indexes, Fast Video Cataloger extracts keyframe thumbnails for every video, giving you a visual contact sheet of each clip. Scan a whole video at a glance instead of playing it start to finish — then tag, keyword, and organize straight from the thumbnails.

  • Automatic scene-thumbnail extraction — visual scrubbing without playback
  • Hierarchical keywords, scene-level tags, and custom metadata fields
  • Auto-keywording from file paths and folder structure

One search box for everything

Spoken words, people, scenes, objects, your own keywords, and metadata all live in one searchable catalog. Combine them — find every clip where a specific person appears and a specific word is said, filter by your own tags, and narrow to the shot you need in seconds.

Private by design — it all runs on your PC

Every part of this works locally. Transcription, face recognition, and scene and object detection all run on your own computer — your footage is never uploaded to a cloud service, and you don’t need an internet connection to search your library. Your media, and the work you put into organizing it, stay yours.

Why editors choose Fast Video Cataloger

Footage you can’t find is footage you can’t use. The hours you spend hunting for a clip are hours you’re not editing. Fast Video Cataloger turns a sprawling, unsearchable archive into a library you can query in plain language — giving you back the time you’d otherwise lose to scrubbing and re-logging.

  • Built for large local libraries — terabytes of footage on your own drives, including external and archived disks
  • Local and private — AI runs on your machine; nothing is uploaded
  • One-time purchase — own it, no subscription
  • Mature and proven — trusted by editors and videographers for over a decade

Try it on your own footage

Download the free trial and let Fast Video Cataloger index a folder of your video. See your archive become searchable — by word, by face, by scene — in minutes.

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