Multi-year shoots, hundreds of hours of rushes. You know the scene exists — you remember shooting it — but finding it means scrubbing through folder after folder of generically named files.
Documentary footage accumulates. A feature-length documentary might shoot across three years, in fifteen locations, with fifty subjects. The material is irreplaceable — you can't reshoot historical events, disappearing locations, or candid moments. But the footage is unsearchable.
How DAAAM solves this
Search by description
Type "interview subject emotional, close-up, late afternoon light" and find the frame in as soon as you finish typing. DAAAM writes an editor-style paragraph on every sampled frame, in filmmaking vocabulary.
Search by dialogue
Every clip is transcribed and each word is fused to the exact timecode. Search "I'm done with this" and land on the take where your subject said it — with the surrounding context and the visual frame attached.
Search by location
GPS from EXIF is reverse-geocoded entirely on-device. Filter to all footage shot in a specific country, then narrow to drone shots, then search "mountain pass, golden hour" within those results.
Search by date and device
Filter to one shoot day, one camera, one lens, one device class — then search inside that slice. Multi-year rushes become a stack of focused subsets.
See it search the catalogue
A real capture of DAAAM — searching wide dry savanna with rocky hills, acacia trees, brick structure against a test catalogue. Results are ranked frames, filterable live by shot, light and place.
Privacy matters
Documentary subjects often don't sign model releases. DAAAM processes every frame and every transcript locally on your machine. Nothing is uploaded — not the frames, not the captions, not the GPS, not the audio.