Frame-Level Video Content Search and Discovery
For media companies with 100K+ hours of video content. Enable frame-accurate search across your entire library. Find any moment in seconds, not hours.
Media companies, streaming platforms, and broadcasters managing 100K+ hours of video content across news, sports, entertainment, and archival footage
Valuable content is locked in video archives, editors spend hours searching for specific clips, and metadata-only search misses visual content that was never properly tagged
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Why Mixpeek
Frame-accurate search results in seconds, search across visual content without metadata, and unified search across video, audio, and text in a single query
Overview
Media companies sit on decades of valuable video content that remains inaccessible due to poor searchability. Traditional metadata-based search only finds content that was manually tagged, leaving most footage undiscoverable. This use case shows how Mixpeek enables frame-level video search that unlocks the full value of video libraries.
Challenges This Solves
Locked Archives
Historical footage lacks metadata and is effectively unsearchable
Impact: Decades of valuable content cannot be licensed, reused, or monetized
Manual Logging Time
Video editors spend 40-60% of time searching for clips
Impact: Production timelines delayed, overtime costs increased
Metadata-Only Limitations
Search only finds content that was manually tagged at ingest
Impact: Visual content (B-roll, backgrounds, objects) is invisible to search
Cross-Platform Fragmentation
Content spread across multiple MAM systems with different search capabilities
Impact: Editors must search multiple systems, missing relevant content in other libraries
Implementation Steps
Mixpeek analyzes every frame of video content, extracting visual features, transcribing speech, detecting scenes, and indexing everything for instant natural language search
Connect Video Storage
Configure Mixpeek to access your video archive
import { Mixpeek } from 'mixpeek';const client = new Mixpeek({ apiKey: process.env.MIXPEEK_API_KEY });// Connect to video archiveawait client.buckets.connect({collection_id: 'video-archive',bucket_uri: 's3://media-company-archive/',extractors: ['scene-detection','speech-to-text','object-detection','face-detection','video-embedding'],settings: {frame_interval: 1, // Analyze every secondaudio_transcription: true,scene_detection: true}});
Index Video Library
Process existing video content for search
// Monitor indexing progressconst status = await client.collections.status('video-archive');console.log(`Processed: ${status.processed_hours} hours`);console.log(`Remaining: ${status.remaining_hours} hours`);console.log(`Estimated completion: ${status.estimated_completion}`);// Processing rate: ~5-10x realtime// 100,000 hours processes in ~10,000-20,000 hours
Enable Natural Language Search
Search video content using natural language queries
async function searchVideo(query: string, filters?: object) {const results = await client.retrieve({collection_id: 'video-archive',query: {type: 'text',text: query // e.g., "sunset over ocean with birds flying"},filters: filters,limit: 50,return_frames: true // Return thumbnail frames});return results.map(r => ({video_id: r.object_id,title: r.metadata.title,timestamp: r.timestamp,duration: r.segment_duration,thumbnail: r.frame_url,transcript: r.transcript_segment,relevance: r.score}));}
Build Search Interface
Create editor-friendly search UI with preview
// Search with preview clipsasync function searchWithPreview(query: string) {const results = await searchVideo(query);// Generate preview clips for top resultsconst previews = await Promise.all(results.slice(0, 10).map(async (r) => ({...r,preview_url: await generatePreviewClip(r.video_id,r.timestamp,10 // 10 second preview)})));return previews;}
Feature Extractors Used
Video Embedding
Generate vector embeddings for video content
Scene Detection
Detect and classify scenes in video content
Speech to Text
Convert speech content to text with timestamps and confidence scores
Object Detection
Identify and locate objects within images with bounding boxes
Action Recognition
Identify and classify human actions in video
Retriever Stages Used
Expected Outcomes
From hours to seconds for finding specific clips
Search Time
40% reduction in time spent searching for footage
Editor Productivity
300% increase in archival content reuse
Archive Utilization
85%+ of searches find relevant content in top 10 results
Search Accuracy
50% increase in archive licensing revenue
Content Monetization
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