Search

Find any moment in your video library

Without an index, a big library is write-only: footage goes in and never comes out. Kino indexes everything, so you can search by transcript, visual content, people, and plain-language queries.

Natural language search for 'massive crowds' finds relevant scenes

Search by people

Person detection lets you filter footage by who appears in a shot.

@'ing Brian returns all footage containing him, plus 'ethernet'

Search modes

Transcript

Spoken words become searchable after transcription. Find dialogue without making transcripts by hand.

Visual

Kino recognizes objects, scenes, actions, and visual elements in your footage. Search for “beach sunset”, “two people walking”, or “drone shot of city”.

Visual search can find shots that filenames and folder names miss. Chapter highlights from logging surface in visual results too.

Files

Matches filenames, folder paths, and AI-generated titles. This tab appears when your query looks like a file — useful when you know a clip is called A012_C004 but not what’s in it.

Press Shift+Tab to cycle between search modes.

Filtering

Combine search methods:

• Find all clips where “@Sarah mentions quarterly results near whiteboard”
• Locate “exterior shots of building with people entering during daytime”
• Filter for “closeup shots with dramatic lighting and minimal dialogue”