Broadcast & ad verification
Confirm that commercials aired, detect missed or shortened spots, and generate proof-of-broadcast reports for reconciliation.
Video fingerprinting software
Find any video, inside any video.
nablet Video Search locates reference clips inside hours, days, or years of video and returns exact timestamps, durations, confidence scores, and exportable reports — even when the source has been re-encoded, scaled, or lightly edited.
Frame-accurate timestamps
Perceptual fingerprinting
Broadcast monitoring
Archive-scale search
JSON / CSV / EDL reports
What it solves
Prove what aired. Find what was reused. Search your archive by example.
Video Search is built for teams that need evidence, not guesses: broadcasters, rights owners, content producers, archive managers, advertising operations, and compliance teams.
Media archive search
Find a clip, logo, station ID, shot, interview segment, duplicate, or near-duplicate by showing the system an example.
Compliance monitoring
Verify whether licensed or contracted content was used at the right time, in the right place, and for the correct duration.
Rights protection
Detect unauthorized re-broadcasting or reuse across monitored channels, recordings, archives, and incoming files.
How it works
Three steps from reference clips to detected matches.
Point Video Search at the content you want to find, select where to search, and review every detected occurrence with timestamp, duration, and export options.
Point at your content
Select clips, ads, logos, images, station IDs, or reference segments that should be detected.
Point at your archive or stream
Search local folders, external files, recorded broadcasts, or network streams including RTMP, HLS, UDP, and SRT.
Start detection
Video Search fingerprints, compares, and reports every match with exact position, duration, and confidence score.
Perceptual fingerprinting
Matches content by what it looks like — not by filename.
Stations re-encode. Aspect ratios change. Files get renamed. Bumpers are added or trimmed. Video Search compares visual structure and motion, so the same content can still be found after common broadcast and archive transformations.
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Re-encoded or compressedFind matches even when codec, bitrate, or container changed.
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Scaled, cropped, or color-adjustedDetect the same visual fragment after practical delivery transformations.
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Inserted into longer recordingsLocate exact positions and durations inside hours, days, or years of video.
Robustness
Still a match — even when the content has been changed.
Reused content is rarely a clean copy. It gets mirrored, cropped, reformatted for social, overlaid with graphics, or buried under commentary. nablet fingerprints are built to survive exactly those transformations, so a match is still a match.
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Click to enlargeMatch confidence values shown are from real detection runs. Actual results depend on the source material and the degree of transformation.
Use cases
What teams use Video Search for.
From protecting content and verifying broadcast usage to cutting storage costs, the same fingerprinting technology solves a wide range of real problems.
Cost savings for video libraries
Detect duplicate and near-duplicate files across large libraries. Automated reports compare matching assets by duration, resolution, quality, and content differences, so teams can decide what to keep, archive, or remove — reducing redundant storage and delivering significant savings, especially in the cloud.
Film studios
Identify duplicate and recurring content across film archives and edited sequences. Integrated into Avid Media Composer via dedicated plug-ins (beta for Windows), the system generates a fingerprint file during export — enabling content indexing, duplicate detection, and archive verification without disrupting post-production. Deeper MAM integration possible.
Content owners
Monitor TV channels and media platforms for your content, live or on demand. Detect whether your content is used only by authorized customers, and measure exactly how much was used, which scenes, and for how long — with frame-accurate automated reports.
Broadcasters & content buyers
Precisely track when, where, how often, and for how long licensed content or advertisements are broadcast. Match each detected usage against defined rights, territories, time periods, and permitted volumes — reliable data for license compliance, rights verification, and contract management.
Ad detection without SCTE-35
Automatically detect commercials across channels — which ads were broadcast, when, how often, on which channel, and even the length of each spot. Reliable analysis of reach, repetition frequency, and broadcast times, even across very large volumes of content.
Automated archive search
Quickly identify content within large film archives. Using a short clip or a single reference image, the system detects the films where the content appears. nablet demonstrates this with a searchable archive of more than 5,000 films and shows.
Brand impersonation & authenticity
Detect channels that impersonate a brand by publishing AI-generated or third-party videos under its name and logo. Video Search compares suspicious uploads against the customer's verified library to determine whether material comes from an authorized source — supporting platform enforcement and protecting brand trust.
Workflow modes
Run it as a desktop search tool, a monitoring workflow, or an enterprise service.
Standard and Pro are Windows desktop applications. Enterprise is a server product for cloud or on-prem deployment on Windows or Linux.
Drop-in folder mode
Configure recording or ingest systems to deposit files into watched folders. Video Search processes new material and produces reports.
Live stream monitoring
Point Video Search at RTMP, HLS, UDP, or SRT streams and detect reference content in near-real time.
Bulk reconciliation
Check weeks of recorded broadcasts against campaigns, schedules, or reference libraries and export the results.
Results and exports
Every match is reviewable and report-ready.
Use the side-by-side preview to confirm detected matches, then export the data into your traffic, archive, compliance, billing, or editorial workflows.
On-screen reviewSource file, detected content, start time, duration, and confidence score.
UIMachine-readable reportsJSON and CSV outputs for downstream systems and spreadsheets.
DATAEditorial workflowsEDL export for NLE and review workflows.
EDLCustomer stories
How customers put Video Search to work.
Automated content usage verification
A producer of news and shows supplies footage to multiple broadcasters. Broadcast usage was previously recorded via DVR and reviewed manually each week to verify licensing and billing. With video fingerprinting and automated search, the system now continuously detects where, when, and how the supplied footage is used — enabling scalable, precise, automated verification of broadcast usage and content-based billing.
Detecting reused YouTube content
A customer runs over 50 YouTube channels with more than a million subscribers. Video Search helps detect unauthorized reuse of their videos across selected channels. Robust fingerprinting identifies copied content even after transformations such as picture-in-picture commentary, text and graphic overlays, cropping, zooming, scaling, or mirroring — a scalable basis for copyright claims, takedown workflows, licensing enforcement, and revenue recovery.
Editions
Choose the right Video Search configuration.
Start with desktop search workflows, add parallel processing and monitoring with Pro, or deploy a scalable server product with Enterprise.
Standard
Windows desktop application for file-based video search.
- File-based video search
- Exact timestamps and durations
- Side-by-side preview
- EDL / report export
- Avid Media Composer export plug-in
- Network stream analysis
- Image search
- REST API
Pro
Parallel scanning, live monitoring, image search, and n.Player integration.
- Everything in Standard
- Multi-thread analysis and search
- Network stream analysis: RTMP, HLS, UDP, SRT
- Image search: PNG, JPG, BMP
- External file search against existing archives
- n.Player integration for professional media files
- Watch-folder workflows
- REST API control
Enterprise
Server product for automated, cloud, or on-prem search and monitoring.
- Everything in Pro
- REST API control
- Cloud or on-prem deployment
- Windows / Linux server operation
- Designed for huge archives
- Real-time and large-scale search workflows
- Custom integration support
- Deployment planning with nablet
Ready to verify, search, and protect your video content?
Start with a download or schedule a short technical meeting. We’ll help you map Video Search to your archive, broadcast monitoring, or compliance workflow.