AI B-roll finder
find cutaways by describing them
Find the perfect B-roll by describing it in plain English. EditAssist indexes every frame locally and uses semantic search to locate cutaways, establishing shots, inserts, and atmosphere across your entire media library.
Workflow
Describe what you need: 'find all B-roll of the city skyline and arrange by time of day' or 'find the b-roll that best illustrates each interview segment and suggest cutaway placements'. The agent searches across every frame in your project, ranks results by visual relevance and narrative fit, and presents them as a selects timeline.
It understands visual concepts: 'golden hour', 'close-up of hands', 'overexposed exterior', 'drone establishing shot'. Results can be sorted, filtered, and dropped directly into the main timeline as cutaways. The search is local, private, and works across terabytes of footage.
Prompts
“Pull all B-roll of the city skyline and arrange by time of day.”
“Find the b-roll that best illustrates each interview segment and suggest cutaway placements.”
“Find every shot of the red car and create a selects timeline.”
“Pull all the behind-the-scenes footage and build a 3-minute BTS reel.”
“Find all clips shot at golden hour and arrange them chronologically.”
“Find every clip where the boom is visible in frame and flag it for the editor.”
“Extract every frame where the product is visible and export as stills for the client deck.”
“Find all b-roll of cityscapes in the archive.”
Features
Semantic visual search
Describe what you need in plain English and find it across terabytes of footage without manual logging or tagging.
Narrative matching
Ranks B-roll candidates by how well they illustrate the current interview segment or narrative beat.
Auto-selects timeline
Builds a dedicated selects timeline from search results, ready to drop into the main edit as cutaways.
Local indexing
Every frame is indexed on your own machine. No footage is uploaded. Search is private and unlimited.
Local-first
All transcription, vision analysis, semantic search, and clustering run on your own GPU. Nothing about your footage is uploaded. The only data that leaves is the text of your conversation with the agent. It's free to download, local models are free, and a new account starts with £15 of credit and no card. For long-running cloud work, pay as you go, or choose £20/mo Starter or £100/mo Pro.
Getting started
- 01Download EditAssist for macOS or Windows and create an account. You get £15 credit and no card is needed.
- 02Ingest your footage. The agent transcribes, indexes, and clusters automatically.
- 03Describe what you want in plain English and let the agent build the cut.
- 04Review, refine with conversational commands, and export to your delivery spec.
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