How to Find the Right B-Roll Fast
The fastest way to find the right b-roll is to search your footage by describing the shot , “slow-motion coffee pour” or “wide shot of the city at night,” instead of scrubbing through folders of unnamed clips. When your library is indexed by visual content, the cutaway you need is one query away.
Why b-roll is so hard to find
B-roll is the footage nobody names. You shoot hundreds of cutaways, dump them on a drive, and a year later you know the perfect shot is in there, somewhere, but finding it means opening clip after clip. Folder systems and tagging help in theory, but they only work if you tag every clip, every time. Almost nobody does.
Search by what the shot shows
Visual scene understanding reads the content of each clip, objects, settings, actions, and makes it searchable without any manual tagging. You describe the shot the way you picture it, and the tool surfaces matching clips ranked by confidence. The work of organizing happens automatically, the moment you add the footage.
Doing it with Framea
Framea indexes every clip you upload by both audio and visual scene, so your whole b-roll library becomes searchable in plain language. Describe the shot and jump straight to the match, no tagging, no folders, on the web and iPhone.
Frequently asked questions
How do you find b-roll without tagging every clip?
Use a tool that indexes clips by their visual content automatically. Framea analyzes the scene of each clip you upload, so you can search for a shot, like “close-up of coffee being poured,” without ever tagging or renaming it.
Can you search b-roll by describing the shot?
Yes. Describe what the shot shows in plain language and visual search returns matching clips ranked by confidence, so the best match is first.
What's the fastest way to pull a cutaway while editing?
Search your library by describing the shot instead of scrubbing folders. With everything pre-indexed, the right b-roll is a query away rather than a manual hunt.
Stop scrubbing. Start searching.
Framea makes your whole b-roll library searchable by describing the shot. Free during beta on the web and iPhone.