Make video footage files searchable.
The Dream Fix
Drop twenty photos off from a camera and have them all analyzed and cataloged.
Footage and photos come off a card as a pile of numbers. The idea is that dropping them in is the whole job: each file gets looked at, described and filed so you can find it later by what is in it.
NOTICE
I caught myself doing it again.
Card out of the camera, twenty files with names like IMG_2375, and no idea what is in any of them without opening every one. A week later I am scrubbing through clips looking for the one shot I remember.
It is never a crisis. That is exactly why nobody has fixed it for me — too small to complain about, too frequent to ignore.
SIMPLIFY
Smallest version: drop files in, get a catalogue out.
No settings screen, no account. Drop the twenty files on a box and each one comes back described — what is in the frame, roughly when and where — and filed so it can be searched later.
What it does badly, on purpose: it guesses, and sometimes wrongly. There is no editing the descriptions yet, and long video gets sampled rather than watched end to end. If the idea does not survive that, more polish would not have saved it.
FIND OUT
This is the part I can't do alone.
I do not want to know whether the idea sounds good. I want to watch what happens when someone with a full camera card drops it in and then tries to find one shot again.
So: tell me whether you'd use it, and put your hand up if you want it early and rough.
Three ways in
Your turn.
None of this is a promise that the thing ships. It's how I decide whether it should.
Would you actually use this?
One tap. No email, no name.
Want it early and rough?
I'll email you when there's something to break, and tell you what happened either way.
What other people said
Nothing here yet. Be the first to tell me I'm doing it wrong.