Once the basics are in place, let the program do some of the describing for you. Three batch tools look at what you already have and add searchable information: image tagging describes what is in each scene, face recognition finds every clip a person appears in, and transcription turns speech into searchable text. All of it runs on your own computer; nothing is uploaded.
Step by step
- Open the File menu and go to the Maintenance screen.
- AI Scenes tags what is in each frame, as orange keywords on the scene and the video. Run it on all videos, the selected ones, or the current search result.
- Face Recognition finds the people in your thumbnails and adds them to each video’s cast. Tag a few faces by hand first and it learns from them.
- To transcribe speech, right-click videos in the Video Catalog and choose Index → Transcribe Audio. Spoken words then show up in search, and the Transcription window jumps to the moment a word was said.
Each tool has its own guide: image tagging, face recognition and transcription on our YouTube channel, and the full reference in the built-in help under Help.
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