Hi Product Hunt! TraceVid came from a pretty simple frustration: having hours of old footage, remembering that a great moment exists somewhere, and then wasting a ton of time trying to find it again. We noticed that a lot of tools go in one of two directions. They either assume you want a cloud-first media system, or they focus on AI without really solving the retrieval problem. We wanted to start with search first. TraceVid lets you import videos from local folders, NAS-backed archives, or supported URLs, search by transcript and visual content, recover the exact clip, and then ask AI about the moments you actually picked. Our goal is to make existing video archives genuinely reusable again, without forcing creators to move everything into the cloud first. Happy to answer questions, and also curious how other people here deal with searching old footage today.

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How do you find a specific moment in old video footage?

I ve been thinking a lot about this lately.

For people who work with a lot of video, one of the most annoying problems is remembering that a useful moment exists somewhere in an old archive, but not being able to find it again without scrubbing through everything manually.

I m curious how people here handle this today.

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AI search for exact clips in your local video library.

AI search for exact clips in your local video library.

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How do you find a specific moment in old video footage?

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How do you find a specific moment in old video footage?