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"I know I shot that — somewhere."
A cafe interior at dusk. A back-of-the-head walking shot. A reaction take from two years ago. You remember the scene clearly. You have no idea which project folder it is in.
01 · VLOG & YOUTUBE
Your best B-roll is buried in a drive you forgot existed.
You shot it. You remember it. You just cannot find it. Scenelet searches every clip on your machine by what is actually in the frame.
THE PROBLEM
Vloggers and YouTubers shoot far more footage than they ever publish. The footage piles up across drives, project folders and old shoots — and the cost of finding one shot becomes the cost of opening every folder.
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Tagging is a job you will never finish.
Every editor has tried it once. Spreadsheets, folder names, color labels in the NLE. By the time the third shoot lands, the system is already abandoned.
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Scrubbing burns the hours you need for editing.
Opening a 90-minute clip and pulling the scrubber to find a 4-second insert. Multiply by 30 clips. That is a whole afternoon gone before the edit even starts.
WHY THE OLD WAY DOESN'T WORK
The existing options are not designed for the way you actually shoot.
- Filename and folder search only works if you renamed every file — and nobody does, especially on travel and event shoots.
- NLE proxies and bins help inside one project, but they cannot reach into the dozens of older projects on your archive drive.
- Cloud "smart search" tools want you to upload the raw footage — which is slow, expensive, and questionable for client work.
HOW SCENELET HANDLES IT
Point Scenelet at your footage drive once. It builds a local index in the background. After that, you type the shot the same way you would describe it to an editor.
AI · ready
walking shot at golden hour, back of head
What Scenelet finds
Every late-afternoon walking shot across every project on the drive — with thumbnails and exact timestamps to jump to.
File Tokyo_BRoll_2025_06_18.mp4
Scene Person walking along a city street at golden hour, seen from behind
cafe interior with warm window light
What Scenelet finds
Interior B-roll from the cafes and coffee shops you filmed last year, ranked by how well the lighting matches.
File Cafe_Interiors_Setpiece_A.mov
Scene Cafe interior glowing in the golden-hour light
reaction shot, surprised laugh
What Scenelet finds
Talking-head moments where a guest or subject reacts and breaks into laughter — useful for thumbnails and cold opens.
File Interview_Reactions_Archive.mov
Scene reaction shot, surprised laugh
IN PRACTICE
You stop apologising to clients for missing the perfect B-roll, because the perfect B-roll is searchable now.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Do I have to copy footage off my external drive?
No. Scenelet reads files where they already live. Indexes are stored separately so the original files are untouched.
Will it slow my editing PC down?
Indexing runs in the background and you can pause it. Search itself is sub-second and runs locally — no upload, no API call.
Does it work on 4K and long-form recordings?
Yes. MP4, MOV, MKV and most common formats. Long files and 4K are fine — Scenelet stores compact semantic indexes, not the video itself.
TRY SCENELET
Spend the afternoon editing, not searching.
Install Scenelet, point it at your footage archive, and the next time you remember a shot, it takes seconds — not an afternoon.