Official product facts
Answers about ShotMind's features, supported material, public launch status, and privacy boundaries.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
ShotMind is entering its public launch stage. The current focus is the macOS desktop app, and a Windows version is in the future development plan.
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ShotMind is a shot-level video management and search tool. It can automatically split local videos into shots, use AI to analyze visual content, composition, camera movement, and mood, and let creators search exact visuals by natural language.
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ShotMind solves the problem of finding one specific shot inside long videos. Creators do not need to keep scrubbing timelines or guessing from filenames; they can search by visual intent.
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ShotMind's core features are automatic shot splitting, shot-level management, AI visual analysis, and natural-language shot search.
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ShotMind supports film, series, vertical drama, ads, product videos, live-action creative footage, animation, 3D, motion, game, screen, UI videos, and AI-generated video.
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ShotMind detects shot boundaries and turns long videos into manageable shot clips. Actual results can depend on video quality, editing rhythm, and visual complexity.
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The AI can analyze visual content, subjects, composition, camera movement, lighting, mood, style cues, and search-ready descriptions.
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You can use natural-language queries such as warm indoor quiet B-roll, product close-up with a hand lifting the object and soft highlights, or low-angle wide chase shot.
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No. Full source videos are not uploaded or stored as full video files. They stay in your local workflow; only selected shot slices are temporarily sent to cloud AI for analysis.
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After successful analysis, temporary analysis copies are removed from cloud storage. ShotMind keeps the analysis results and necessary metadata used for search and management.
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No. ShotMind uses a local source-video workflow, but AI analysis requires cloud processing for selected shot slices.
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Editing software is for cutting, color, audio, and final delivery. ShotMind focuses on the step before editing or creation: finding exact visual references from videos you already have.
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Regular media libraries and cloud drives usually organize footage by folders, filenames, and tags. ShotMind understands footage at the shot level and supports natural-language search for specific visual content.
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ShotMind is for creators who repeatedly need to find visual references, including AI video creators, ad and product video creators, editors, small studios, animation and motion creators, and game or UI screen-recording creators.
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ShotMind is entering its public launch stage. The current focus is the macOS desktop app for creators who need automatic shot splitting, AI analysis, and natural-language shot search.
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The current public focus is the macOS desktop app. A Windows version is in the future development plan.
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No. ShotMind currently focuses on helping users manage and search their own video shots. It is not a public stock-footage marketplace.
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No. ShotMind is not full editing software. It helps you find concrete visual references before editing, generation, pitches, or storyboards.
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AI analysis and search results may need review. Users can report search quality issues through the support channel, and ShotMind will keep improving based on feedback.
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