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    Intermediate
    Entertainment
    10 min read

    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.

    Who It's For

    Media companies, streaming platforms, and broadcasters managing 100K+ hours of video content across news, sports, entertainment, and archival footage

    Problem Solved

    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

    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

    1

    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 archive
    await 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 second
    audio_transcription: true,
    scene_detection: true
    }
    });
    2

    Index Video Library

    Process existing video content for search

    // Monitor indexing progress
    const 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
    3

    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
    }));
    }
    4

    Build Search Interface

    Create editor-friendly search UI with preview

    // Search with preview clips
    async function searchWithPreview(query: string) {
    const results = await searchVideo(query);
    // Generate preview clips for top results
    const 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;
    }

    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

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Ready to Implement This Use Case?

    Our team can help you get started with Frame-Level Video Content Search and Discovery in your organization.