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Getting started
Quick Start
A short first-use path for installing the macOS app, importing a video, analyzing selected shots, and searching.
Guides
Video Asset Management Guides for Searchable Footage
Build a local searchable shot library from footage you already have
Start with the task you need: organize video assets, search inside footage by description, find reference shots before AI video generation, or compare ShotMind with your existing workflow.
Start here
Use these pages when you want the shortest path to what ShotMind does and where it fits.
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Product overview
Search videos by description
Understand what ShotMind does, where it fits, and what to know before using it.
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Facts
What is ShotMind
Check platform support, pricing, privacy boundaries, and current product limits.
Tutorials and workflows
Use these when you are turning existing footage into a local searchable shot library.
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Tutorial
How to search video by description
A step-by-step workflow for turning a local video library into analyzed shots with a local searchable index.
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AI video workflow
Find reference shots before AI video generation
Use old footage from your local library as searchable references before prompting, storyboarding, pitching, or editing.
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Reference workflow
Build a Searchable Video Reference Library
Turn local footage, B-roll, product videos, AI tests, and reference reels into searchable shot references.
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AI video workflow
Manage AI-Generated Video Tests
Keep prompt records in your existing project system while organizing useful generated outputs as a local searchable shot library.
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Product workflow
Find product shots in existing videos
Recover product close-ups, hand actions, packaging details, and lighting references from old local footage.
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Commercial workflow
Shot Library for Commercial Video Creators
Recover product details, hand actions, lighting references, B-roll, and reusable commercial moments from local footage.
Learn the basics
Use these reference glossaries to learn shot types and camera movements, the same vocabulary you can later search by.
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Glossary
Video shot types glossary
Learn shot sizes, angles, and function shots, from extreme wide to extreme close-up, each with a search example.
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Glossary
Camera movement names glossary
Learn the names for pan, tilt, dolly, crane, zoom, and more, each with an example of how to find the move in your footage.
Video asset management
Use these when you are starting from older pain points: organizing local video files, B-roll, and tags before learning the local shot-search workflow.
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Guide
Video Asset Management 101
Learn what video asset management means and how folders, Eagle, editors, cloud drives, MAM, and shot-level search fit together.
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Asset management
Video Asset Management Software for Creators
Understand lightweight video asset management for creators who need to find exact shots inside footage they already have.
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Shot-level search
Shot-Level Video Asset Management
Learn why the useful unit of a video library is often a shot, not only a file, and how to search inside long footage.
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Mac workflow
Video Organizer for Mac
Organize local Mac videos into a searchable shot library without relying only on folders and filenames.
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Shot detection
Shot Detection Tool for Mac
Learn how shot detection differs from scene detection and how to split local Mac footage into searchable shots.
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B-roll
Organize B-roll Footage
Turn reusable B-roll, cutaways, mood shots, and product details into searchable shot references.
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AI tagging
AI Video Tagging for Local Video Search
Use AI descriptions to make selected local footage searchable without tagging every clip manually.
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Semantic search
Local Semantic Video Search
Search analyzed local shots by visual meaning when folders, filenames, and broad manual tags are not specific enough.
Comparisons and boundaries
Use these when you need to decide how ShotMind fits with folders, editors, and heavier media systems.
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Comparison
ShotMind vs video editors
Compare folders, editors, and ShotMind so you know when to search first and when to open the timeline.
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Comparison
AI video search vs manual tags
Compare broad manual tags with shot-level AI search when you need to find exact visual moments inside footage.
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Comparison
ShotMind vs Finder and folders
See why folders stay useful for storage while shot-level search helps you find exact moments inside local footage.
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Comparison
ShotMind vs cloud drives and NAS
Compare storage, backup, and sharing systems with ShotMind's local shot-search layer.
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Comparison
ShotMind vs Frame.io, iconik, and MAM
Compare review tools, media asset management systems, and ShotMind's local shot-search layer.
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Comparison
Local video reference library for teams
Use a local shot-search reference layer while keeping collaboration, approvals, and MAM work in dedicated tools.
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Comparison
ShotMind vs Eagle
See how Eagle organizes image and design assets while ShotMind searches inside videos at the shot level, and when to use each.
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Comparison
Eagle alternative for video
If you need to find specific shots inside video footage rather than manage image assets, see where ShotMind fits.
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Comparison
Video reference library vs design asset library
Compare still-image design asset libraries with shot-level video reference search for local footage.
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Comparison
Video moodboard vs shot library
Compare visual moodboards with searchable shot libraries for motion, action, lighting, and camera movement references.
Updates and notes
Use these when you want product updates, creator workflow notes, and behind-the-scenes thinking.
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Blog
ShotMind Blog
Read product updates and notes on searchable video libraries, AI video references, and creator workflows.
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Search evidence
A real close-up shot search test
Review a recorded search across 163 analyzed shots, including useful matches, broad results, source licenses, and the need for human review.
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Workflow
Use Eagle and ShotMind together
Two-layer workflow: organize cross-format assets and known timestamp notes in Eagle, then search selected analyzed video shots in ShotMind.
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Mac workflow
A local Mac video organizer workflow
A practical Mac workflow for keeping source videos local while making selected shots searchable by description.