Logging
AI-powered logs of all your footage
Kino transforms hours of raw footage into intelligently organized, searchable content through advanced AI logging that describes video as meticulously as a human logger would.
What is Video Logging?
Video logging is the process of analyzing footage and creating detailed descriptions of its content. Traditionally done manually by professional loggers, this time-consuming task involves watching every second of footage, often multiple times, and documenting what appears on screen.
Kino automates this entire process using AI to generate clear titles, comprehensive descriptions, person identification, and highlight markers—completing in minutes what would take humans hours or days.
How Kino Logging Works
Kino combines multiple AI technologies to analyze your footage:
- Computer vision identifies objects, scenes, people, and actions
- Natural language processing creates human-like descriptions
- Speech recognition captures and contextualizes dialogue
- Face detection tracks individuals across your footage
- Optional prompting to customize tone, pick out only certain details (like jersey numbers), and more
The result is time-coded descriptions that read as if written by an experienced human logger, enabling you to quickly understand and find what you need in your footage.
Key Features
Whether it’s raw footage, clips from YouTube, or a mix of both, every clip receives a descriptive title that makes footage browsing dramatically faster and more enjoyable.
Oceans of raw filenames like IMG_3923.MOV are now Brendan Backstage Interview Before Keynote, often revealing countless needles in the haystack. These AI-generated titles follow professional logging conventions while being concise and informative.
AI transforms raw filenames like 'IMG_3923.MOV' into descriptive titles
Whether it’s raw footage, clips from YouTube, or a mix of both, every clip receives a descriptive title that makes footage browsing dramatically faster and more enjoyable.
Oceans of raw filenames like IMG_3923.MOV are now Brendan Backstage Interview Before Keynote, often revealing countless needles in the haystack. These AI-generated titles follow professional logging conventions while being concise and informative.
AI transforms raw filenames like 'IMG_3923.MOV' into descriptive titles
Kino creates comprehensive descriptions that include:
- Visual elements and actions happening on screen
- Camera movements, shot types, and cinematographic techniques
- Dialogue context and key quotes from speakers
- Setting and environment details for better context
- Emotional tone and atmosphere of the scene
These descriptions provide a complete picture of your footage, capturing both the content and the craft of filmmaking.
Comprehensive descriptions capture both content and cinematographic details
Once you configure people detection, Kino’s logs will incorporate the names of people in your library.
This dramatically improves the quality of logs, making descriptions feel less anonymous and more useful.
Person identification makes logs more specific and useful
Kino automatically identifies and marks significant moments in footage:
- Creates a chapter-like experience similar to YouTube markers
- Makes footage review faster and more efficient
- Enhances searchability by marking key moments
- Provides natural edit points for rough cuts
Auto-generated highlights create chapter-like markers for easy navigation
Example Use Cases
For verité documentary footage with multiple characters:
- Ingest 10+ hours of footage from your shoot
- Kino identifies every person and describes every scene
- Quickly, you have a complete, searchable database of every meaningful moment
- Face detection automatically groups scenes by character
- Natural language descriptions allow you to search conceptually (“emotional conversation” or “urban landscape”)
A 10-hour shoot becomes scannable, searchable, and organized in a fraction of the time it would take manually.
For verité documentary footage with multiple characters:
- Ingest 10+ hours of footage from your shoot
- Kino identifies every person and describes every scene
- Quickly, you have a complete, searchable database of every meaningful moment
- Face detection automatically groups scenes by character
- Natural language descriptions allow you to search conceptually (“emotional conversation” or “urban landscape”)
A 10-hour shoot becomes scannable, searchable, and organized in a fraction of the time it would take manually.
For multi-camera event coverage:
- Ingest 20+ hours of footage from your shoot, across multiple cameras
- Logging identifies best angles and moments from each camera
- Descriptions note audience reactions, speaker highlights, and key moments
- Person detection works consistently across all cameras
This makes post-event editing significantly faster and more comprehensive.
For sports footage:
- Custom logging focuses on player movements, jersey numbers, and play development
- AI leverages sports-specific knowledge to accurately describe techniques
- Automatic highlight detection finds key plays, scores, and dramatic moments
- Person detection works based on jerseys in addition to faces, making up for helmets and partial visibility
Coaches and editors can quickly find specific plays or player performances across an entire season of footage.
Getting Started with Logging
Import footage
Import footage via drag-and-drop or storage integration
Process your content
Kino handles everything automatically
Browse and search
Browse and search your newly organized footage