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Zak Melms
Here's what I've been looking for for years:
An AI-powered video search engine that can tap into a local data set and provide search while also adding the capability to add and edit metadata for the video files themselves. AKA - location, date, camera, subject, client, etc, etc. That way I can organize the media before I get into Premiere. Or have an assistant do the cleanup of organization and then have an exportable sidecar file that can go with that media onto the client or next editor... There is only so much data that an AI can pull from the image so adding metadata layer is huge. And it has to build a database.
Then I'd like that to be accessible to my clients in an online form, or at least the option to provide access to selects clips online for clients. With the ability to download proxy or full res video/images.
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Max
This has now been released at https://getjumper.io and https://download.getjumper.io
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A standalone version of Jumper has now been released, included in the beta builds with Avid and Resolve support. Just ask in the Discord if you want access. Zak Melms
Chris Hocking
As suggested in one of your other feature requests...
FWIW, I personally think a really good solution would be to have a Jumper menubar icon on macOS (i.e. put the Jumper icon next to the clock in the top right corner of your screen) that when you click on it pops out a search panel (similar to Dropbox's menubar icon in design for example), so you can search through all your already analysed footage - but also easily add folders to be analysed. The menubar app can also have a progress bar, showing what's currently processing in Jumper (whether it's been triggered from an NLE or from the menubar). You could then assign a global shortcut key, so you can press a key combination and access the menubar interface - basically similar to how Spotlight works, for instant searching.
Sky Makai
I'm also asking for a standalone version since I have to keep FCPX open while Jumper is analyzing footage. For big libraries this takes hours. I'd rather not need to have FCPX open.
Chris Hocking
Sky - FWIW you don't HAVE to have Final Cut Pro open. You can quit Final Cut Pro, and just leave the Jumper.app open whilst it's analysing.
Sky Makai
Chris, I'll have to try again. Jumper, launched as a FCPX plugin, has closed when I've closed FCPX.
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mgl
Sky Makai Even though the Jumper window closes, the background process called "JumperHelper" that actually does the analysis keeps running if the Jumper.app launcher application is still opened.
Sky Makai
mgl, Good to know! This is not intuitively clear. Perhaps Jumper could have a warning pop up stating this when closing during analysis?
Chris Hocking
Sky Makai - When you quit Final Cut Pro it will also close the Jumper Workflow Extension interface, but as long as you have the main Jumper.app running, the Jumper Engine (called JumperHelper.app) will keep running in the background analysing your files. You can look at Activity Monitor to confirm, or re-open FCP and check to see the status of the analysis files.
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Max
We have a proof-of-concept standalone version built for Linux that we haven't released. The way this works is that you select folders from your filesystem, and Jumper recursively traverses it and finds all media files (that we support) in all subdirectories. Then you can analyse and search those files, but e.g. clicking a search result does nothing since we are not running inside the NLE where we can open the clip at the right time in e.g. Premiere's source monitor. We could probably make some bindings to VLC or similar, and make one of the buttons like "Add to timeline" do something like "Reveal in Finder/File Explorer". Other than that, our idea is that Jumper makes organising and adding metadata less useful since you can just "Ctrl+F" for what you want. But we have had similar requests for exposing some "tags", "keywords", etc, so if we have enough requests that we can crystalise into some clear requirements, we could possibly build some solution for this. But right now it's all very unclear what to build exactly (I am not an editor after all).
Another option would be to add a switch in the NLE versions of Jumper that says "search in all analysed footage in current cache", i.e. not just in the media that exists in your current project. Thoughts on this?
Jumper will not do online/cloud/uploads of anything unless it is a specific request from a significantly large customer. Our niche is total privacy, unlimited processing and "freedom" by running everything locally instead of having to pay for things like "limited to 20 hours of footage analysis per month, buy credits for $X per every extra minute you want to analyse".
Sky Makai
Max, "Another option would be to add a switch in the NLE versions of Jumper that says "search in all analysed footage in current cache", i.e. not just in the media that exists in your current project. Thoughts on this?"
This seems like a suitable option to disable/enable NLE dependent features.
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Sky Makai this has been added in the latest version, see towards the end of this short demo video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aR7rgZBU52OzPWoaUSbv6E-VJZkcxkGF/view?usp=drivesdk