You've spent more time finding clips than editing them.
Apple Finder was never built for footage. It was built for documents — and it shows every time you're hunting through folders for that one take, waiting for a clip to load before you can see what's in it, or duplicating a file just so it can live in two places at once.
VidFinder fixes that. It's a video library for Mac built around the way editors actually think — by tags, not folders.
Free to register. No spam. Just one email when we launch.
Finder is a great app. For documents.
For video editors, it's a daily tax on your time.
Every clip has to live in one folder.
You shot the same moment from three angles. Which folder does it go in? You pick one — and the next time you need it, you look in the other two first. Every time.
Checking a clip means downloading it first.
Hover over a file in Finder. You get a filename. To actually see what's in it, you have to open it — wait for it to load, scrub through a tiny timeline, close it, and do the whole thing again for the next one.
Finding clips and exporting them are two separate ordeals.
You spend 20 minutes tracking down what you need. Then another 10 moving files individually into your editing software. There's no "select everything I found and drag them all in together."
Testimonial #1 — Coming Soon
[Early user quote about the Finder frustration and what changed]
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A video library that works the way your brain does.
VidFinder sits alongside your existing folder structure and adds a tagging layer on top. Your files don't move. Nothing gets renamed. You add tags — as many as you want, to as many clips as you want — and from that point on, you find footage by searching, not by trying to remember where you put it.
Scroll over any thumbnail and it scrubs through the footage live. When you've found what you need, select the whole lot and drag it straight into your editing software.
It's not in the App Store yet. Drop your email below and we'll tell you the second it is.
Takes 10 seconds. Free to register.
Here's how it works.
Your files stay exactly where they are
Point VidFinder at your existing video folders. Nothing moves, nothing gets renamed. You're adding a smarter layer on top of what you already have — not starting over.
Tag everything once, find it forever
Add as many tags as you want to each clip — camera angle, subject, location, event, mood, whatever fits. One clip can show up under 10 different searches at once. No duplicating files.
Find it, check it, drag it in
Search a tag. Scroll over the thumbnail to scrub through the footage without downloading it. Select what you need. Drag everything straight into your editor in one move.
One clip. Every category it belongs in.
Folders force a decision. When you shoot a wide of a crash at turn three featuring two drivers, you have to choose: does it go in 'crashes', 'Driver A', 'Driver B', or 'B-roll wide shots'? With a folder, you pick one and hope you remember later. With VidFinder, you tag it with all of them. Search any one of those tags and it appears. The clip doesn't have to choose a folder — it just knows what it is.
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Know if it's the right take before you've touched a single file.
Hover over any clip in VidFinder and scroll. The thumbnail scrubs through the footage in real time — no download, no loading screen, no opening your editing software just to check one frame. It's the equivalent of flipping through a contact sheet. Except it works for video. Which, somehow, nothing else has figured out how to do properly.
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Do your searching.
Then export everything
in one move.
Select clips in VidFinder → drag to your editor
It exists because nothing else did.
This app started out of genuine frustration — not a product pitch. After years of managing video libraries in Apple Finder, trying every folder system, every naming convention, every workaround that should have worked but didn't, it became clear that nothing built for editors actually existed. So it got built. For one specific workflow, with one specific set of pain points in mind. It worked well enough that other editors started asking about it. That's why it's getting released. Register below and you'll be one of the first to get access.
After years of managing video libraries in Apple Finder, trying every folder system, every naming convention, every workaround that should have worked but didn't — it became clear that nothing built for editors actually existed.
The VidFinder Team
Built by editors, for editors
new apps to learn
Sits on top of what you have
tags per clip
No folder decisions, ever
Sound familiar?
Drop your email below.
VidFinder is coming soon. Register now and we'll let you know when it's ready — plus anything worth knowing before launch.
Free to register. No obligation.
Testimonial #2 — Coming Soon
[Early user quote about a specific feature — tag search or scrub preview]
Questions.
Testimonial #3 — Coming Soon
[Early user quote: the 'why didn't this exist sooner' moment]
Be first in. Not first
to find out six months later.
VidFinder isn't in the App Store yet. When it launches, registered users hear first, get access first, and get whatever's on offer for early adopters first.
It takes 10 seconds. Nothing to buy, nothing to install, no commitment of any kind.
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