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The Search tab finds visual content, spoken words, and people in footage that Jumper has analyzed. You can limit a search to selected project media or search the entire analyzed library.

Search All Analyzed Media

Jumper can search all analyzed media across projects and storage drives—including media on drives that are currently disconnected—not only clips in the current editing project. Turn on Search All Analyzed Media in the Context Picker. Jumper searches the analysis data stored on your computer, so previously analyzed files can appear in results even when their source drive is offline. Results outside the current project have an amber background. Reconnect a disconnected source drive when you need to open, import, or add the original media to a timeline.

Manage search context

Choose project files and bins, or search your complete analyzed media library.
Search tab with annotated visual search controls Enter your search query in the main search box. The numbered callouts below match the annotations in the screenshot.
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Visuals

Switch to Visual search. Search by describing what you see or matching a frame.
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Speech

Switch to Speech search. Search by word or phrase in transcribed dialogue.
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Select media

Choose files or bins to include in your search. See Context Picker.
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Exclude search term

Add one or more terms to exclude from your search. For example, search for people talking but exclude meeting room. See Exclude search terms.
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Face search

Select one or more named people to search for. Opens a list of people from your Collections. You can also type @ in the search box to bring up the People dropdown. With multiple people selected, use the AND/OR control to require every person in the same frame (AND) or match any selected person (OR). See Face detection and Searching for people.
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Match Source

Takes the frame currently visible in your editing software’s Source Monitor (or Event Viewer in Final Cut Pro) and performs a search with it.
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Match Timeline

Takes the frame currently visible in your Timeline Monitor (or Timeline Viewer in Final Cut Pro) and performs a search with it.
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Match Pasteboard frame

Takes the image currently in your and performs a search with it.

Exclude search terms

To exclude terms from your search, open the exclude dropdown and enter one or many terms. Jumper will penalize results that match the excluded terms. Example: Search for people talking and exclude meeting room to favor interviews and casual conversations over conference-room setups. The exclude control is in Visual search only. It does not apply to Speech search.
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Add terms

Open the exclude dropdown and type a term, such as meeting room or outdoor. Add as many terms as you need.
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Select active terms

Choose which terms apply to the current search. You can turn individual terms on or off without deleting them.
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Set the bias strength

Use the slider to control how strongly excluded concepts are pushed down in the results. A lower setting nudges matching shots lower. A higher setting penalizes them more heavily.

Visual Search result view

After performing a search, the results are shown in a grid below the search box. SCR-20250509-nply-4.avif Jumper will rank the results by relevance, with the highest confidence result in the top-left.
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Search history

Shows a list of the last searches you have performed. Clicking on a previous query will perform a new search with the same parameters.
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Clear Search history

Clears the search history.
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Change insertion mode

Change the insertion mode (varies by editing software)
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Clear all results

Clears the results of all previous searches.
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Adjust thumbnail size

Adjust the thumbnail size of the results to fit more or less results on the screen.
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Add all to timeline

Add all results from this search to your timeline with the selected insertion mode.
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Hide result from history

Hide this search result from the search history.
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Filename

The file in which the scene is found.
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Timestamp of start of scene

The start time of the scene.
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Timestamp of end of scene

The end time of the scene.
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Show file in project

Click to open the file in the project.
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Mark In/Out

Click to Mark the In/Out of the scene in the Source Monitor.
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Find similar

Click to make a new search for scenes similar to this one.
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Add scene to timeline

Click to add the scene to your timeline with the selected insertion mode.
SCR-20250510-qava.avif Switching to the Speech search, you can use the Search bar to search for any word or phrase. The matching results will be displayed below the search bar. Exact matches are highlighted in green. Clicking a result will open up the scene in the Source Monitor. Clicking Add to timeline will add it to your timeline. Show in script on a result opens the Script Editor for that file’s full transcription. When speech is analyzed with speaker detection, you can filter speech search to a specific named speaker.

Export results (Standalone)

In Jumper Standalone, visual and speech search results include an export control. Use it to export trimmed subclips as video files, or export results as CSV. Exported subclips are saved to the directory set in Settings. NLE integrations use Add to timeline instead.

Context Picker

The Context Picker is where you view and manage the context of your search, ie. the files and/or bins you want to search in. Here you can also toggle the Search All Analyzed Media option. SCR-20250510-oswi.avif Search All Analyzed Media results from outside the current project appear with an amber background

Tag filters

Tag filters narrow a visual search to the clips in one or more tag collections. Type # in the search box to open the tag filter, or click the tag button. Selecting multiple collections matches clips in any of them (OR). Combine a tag filter with people search to search a curated set of clips for a specific person. Tag filters apply to visual search, not speech search. For how to build and share collections, see Tag collections.

Metadata filters

Metadata filters narrow visual and speech searches using supported properties from the source media. Available filters include dates, duration, location, codec, resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, bit rate, camera information, lens information, and other technical fields when present. Metadata filtering is separate from semantic search: it limits which media is eligible, while the visual or speech query determines what content matches. It does not write new metadata or keyword tags into the source files. The same metadata filters can be used to filter the Media table and to define which files a Watch Folder analyzes. For the broader distinction between automatic indexing, technical metadata, and editor-created tags, see AI video tagging.
Last modified on September 3, 2026