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I made a tool to search your video footage and it's on GitHub

Name: I made a tool to search your video footage and it's on GitHub
Availability: InStock
Author: iliashad

by iliashad·May 8, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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Local YOLO and Whisper indexing beats Google's $400 API bill for private video search.

Strengths

•Multi-modal analysis combining transcription, face recognition, and object detection locally.
•Docker-ready deployment avoids complex local Python environment configuration for ML tools.
•Semantic search via ChromaDB allows finding specific scenes using natural language queries.

Weaknesses

•Active development status means features are incomplete and bugs are expected for early users.
•Heavy resource requirements for running multiple ML models simultaneously on local hardware.

Post Description

I make YouTube videos (~80 so far, most around an hour). Plus, I have 6TB + of personal videos and unpublished. I tried the Google Video Intelligence API. Got a $400 bill for 4 videos (5 minutes average, 4k videos) of analysis (doesn't include video transcription), and I used my GCP startup credits to cover the bill.

I decided to build my own tool that needs to have 3 important things: can transcribe videos, analyse video frames, and everything needs to be done locally.

I don't wanna deal with storing my videos in the cloud because of two concerns: privacy and storage cost.

I've been working for the last couple of months. I have a source available version that can be used for free (personal and commercial use with companies that have fewer than 5 people). Available here (https://github.com/IliasHad/edit-mind), and the project has 1.3k Github stars

Now, I'm building a desktop app with direct NLE integration (Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Adobe Premiere Pro). This includes an editing agent that understands your footage and your editing style. (https://edit-mind.com)

Demo Video: https://youtu.be/jcctyfVg_34