The AI workspace for your b-roll

The AI workspace for your b-roll

You've shot thousands of clips. Sunsets, cityscapes, coffee pours, walking shots, drone footage, texture close-ups. They're on an external drive, in a folder structure that made sense two years ago, with filenames like MVI_3847.MOV through MVI_4200.MOV. When you need a three-second establishing shot of a city at dusk for the video you're editing, you scrub through folders for twenty minutes, give up, and use the one you can remember the location of even though it's not quite right.

B-roll libraries are some of the most valuable assets a video creator builds over time, and some of the most unusable once they grow past a few hundred clips. The footage exists. The findability doesn't. Fabric changes that.

Find clips by describing them

AI search finds footage by what it shows, not what it's named. "City skyline at sunset" finds every clip matching that description across your library. "Close-up of hands on a keyboard" finds the typing shots. "Slow motion water" finds every water clip you've captured. Describe the shot and find it.

Similar search lets you drop in a reference frame and find every clip with a similar look, composition, or mood. "More like this" is a search you can actually run. The explorer surfaces visual connections across your library, grouping clips by visual characteristics so you can browse by mood and style rather than folder.

Search by colour and mood

Search by colour to find clips in a specific palette. Working on a project with a warm, golden tone? Search the colour and find every clip that matches. Building a moody, desaturated sequence? Search for it. The search understands visual qualities, not just subject matter.

Organised without the organising

Smart organization tags clips by content, location, colour palette, and visual style automatically. Drone shots group with drone shots. Indoor footage clusters separately from outdoor. Close-ups sort by subject. The library organises itself as you import footage, without you renaming files or building folder structures.

Annotate clips with production context

Annotations let you mark clips with notes: "great for intros," "shaky, use stabilised version," "shot for the Acme project, can reuse," "4K, good for crop-ins," "needs colour grade before use." The annotations are searchable, so "every clip I marked as good for intros" or "all 4K footage from the NYC shoot" finds them all. The production context is as findable as the footage itself.

Canvas for shot planning and lookbooks

The canvas lets you arrange reference clips, stills, and mood references spatially. Build a lookbook for a project. Plan a sequence by laying out the b-roll candidates alongside the edit structure. Share the board with a client for direction approval. Real-time collaboration means the team builds lookbooks together.

Import from existing storage

Pull footage from Google Drive and Dropbox without re-uploading. Sync a folder with desktop file sync. New footage becomes searchable as it's added. For video creators working with clients, save footage they share via email to email-to-note.

Share collections with clients

Publish curated b-roll collections with password protection and link analytics. Let clients browse and select footage from a polished presentation rather than a messy folder link.

The library compounds over time

Every shoot deepens the library. Every trip, every project, every afternoon with a camera adds footage that's searchable for every future project. A clip you shot two years ago for a different project becomes the perfect cutaway for today's edit because visual search found the connection you wouldn't have remembered.

Who uses Fabric for b-roll

Video editors managing footage libraries. Content creators building b-roll collections across projects. Agencies managing stock footage for clients. Freelancers reusing footage across client work. Music creators collecting visual references for music videos.

For managing all visual content, see visual inspiration. For the full design and production workflow, see design projects and digital asset management.

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FAQs

Can I find a clip by describing what it looks like?

Yes. AI search finds footage by description, colour, composition, and subject.

Can I find clips similar to a reference frame?

Yes. Similar search finds visually related clips across your library.

Can I search by colour?

Yes. Search a colour or palette and find every clip with matching tones.

Are clips organised automatically?

Yes. Smart organization tags by content, location, colour, and style without manual filing.

Can I annotate clips with production notes?

Yes. Annotations let you add searchable notes to any clip.

Can I share footage with clients?

Yes. Publish collections with password protection and link analytics.

Can I import from an external drive?

Yes. Sync a folder with desktop file sync or import from Google Drive and Dropbox.

Is my data secure?

Yes. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant. Your data is never used to train AI models.