Search your video library by meaning, not by tags.
Most media libraries are full of content that nobody can find. Tags are missing, terminology is inconsistent, and the moment you need is buried somewhere in a petabyte of footage. Nomad Media Discover uses multimodal, embedding-based search to understand what is happening inside your content, automatically flagging every object, action, scene, and spoken word, and returning the exact moment, down to the timecode, without the need for manual tagging.
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Precision Searching at Petabyte Scale
Most search tools fall apart when you're dealing with terabytes or even petabytes of content. Results slow down, tags become inconsistent, and years of archive content become virtually inaccessible. Nomad Media delivers timecode-accurate search across massive media libraries in seconds, using semantic understanding rather than keyword matching. No matter how large your library grows, the right moment is always discoverable.
The Difference
Tag-Based Search (Most MAMs)
Nomad Media Semantic Search
What Nomad Media Discover Enables
Find any moment by meaning. No manual tags required.
AI-Powered Discovery
Manual tagging is slow, inconsistent, and never fully captures what is actually in your content. Nomad Media automatically analyzes every asset at the moment it uploads, generating rich, searchable metadata across people, objects, themes, and spoken words in 40+ languages.
Centralized, Searchable Library
Scattered archives across drives, servers, and platforms mean content gets lost, and value goes unrealized. Nomad Media consolidates everything into one centralized, semantically indexed library, so decades-old footage is just as discoverable as content you uploaded this morning.
Multi-Platform Access
Switching between your media library and your creative tools breaks momentum and wastes time. Nomad Media Explorer brings your entire library directly into Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Search, preview, and pull assets without ever leaving the app you are working in.
Face Recognition
Finding every appearance of a specific person across thousands of hours of footage is extremely time consuming to do manually. Train Nomad Media to recognize individuals once, and it automatically tags every appearance across your entire library at the timecode level, making any person instantly searchable.
Key Platform Capabilities
Enterprise-grade search capabilities built for libraries that never stop growing.
Rigid search syntax forces teams to know exactly what they are looking for before they start. Nomad Media understands plain language. Just ask for what you need in natural terms, and the platform finds the right content across your entire library without requiring tags or query logic.
New content should be detectable the moment it enters your library, not hours later. Nomad Media indexes every asset in real time, with distributed architecture that delivers consistent search performance whether your library holds a thousand files or a hundred million.
Live content loses value fast if it takes days to tag and search. Nomad Media analyzes live streams with near real-time processing (3 to 10 second latency) tagging and indexing moments as they happen, so your archive is searchable from the moment the broadcast ends.
Most teams have no visibility into what content is actually being used and what is being ignored. Nomad Media's analytics surface usage patterns, underutilized assets, and emerging content trends, so you can make decisions about what to produce, repurpose, or retire based on real data.
Sharing content across teams and external partners creates access control risks if permissions are not granular enough. Nomad Media controls exactly who sees what at the content and asset level, with role-based security, SSO, SAML, and OAuth 2.0 that plug into your existing identity systems.
Trusted Across Industries
Organizations across media, enterprise, and public sector rely on Nomad Media Discover to increase efficiency and maximize content value.
Sports & Entertainment
Sports and entertainment teams are grappling with thousands of hours of footage and a shrinking window to publish highlights. Nomad Media finds specific plays, athletes, or moments in seconds, so your team can build clips and promotional content while the crowd is still cheering.
News Organizations
Breaking news does not wait for manual archive searches. Nomad Media makes every spoken word and visual element searchable across all connected stations instantly, so your team finds the right b-roll and footage in seconds, not hours.
Government & Public Sector
Respond to records requests in hours, not weeks. Locate critical evidence in body cam footage, security recordings, or public meetings using facial recognition and audio transcription. Maintain chain-of-custody tracking and compliance while accelerating investigations.
Worship
Instantly find past sermons by topic, speaker, or scripture reference. Locate special moments from guest speakers, baptisms, or community events. Create topical playlists or share specific teachings with your congregation.
Built for Scale, Security, and Performance
Built for Search at Any Scale
Frequently Asked Questions
Nomad Media uses AI-powered search built on Amazon OpenSearch Service to search across your entire media library. Search capabilities include:Natural language queries: Ask questions in plain English using Generative AI without needing to know exact tags or terminology.
Boolean search: Use advanced query syntax across multiple sources.
AI-generated metadata search: Search content by automatically generated tags including facial recognition, object detection, spoken words, text detection, labels and categories.
Timecode-level precision: For videos, search results identify exact moments down to the timecode.
Real-time indexing: New content becomes immediately searchable upon upload.
Multi-source search: Search across multiple stations, locations, or asset libraries simultaneously (referenced in news organization use case).
The platform uses AWS AI services including Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Transcribe to automatically analyze and index content, making it searchable without manual tagging.
Yes. Nomad Media provides granular content search capabilities that locate specific moments within videos at the timecode level. You can search for:
Specific people: Using facial recognition to identify individuals appearing in videos
Objects and scenes: Visual elements detected through AI object recognition
Spoken words and phrases: Every word is transcribed and searchable through audio transcription
On-screen text: Text detection captures visible text within video frames
Audio bites: Specific audio segments or spoken contentSearch results show the exact timecode where content appears, allowing you to jump directly to relevant moments rather than reviewing entire videos.
For live video streams, Nomad Media can analyze content in near real-time (3-10 second latency) and tag moments as they're captured.
Yes. Nomad Media provides robust filtering and sorting capabilities to refine search results. Filtering capabilities include:
Advanced filtering: Multiple filter options to narrow results
Category filters: Filter by content categories and collections
Cross-station filtering: Refined search and discovery across multiple stations
Yes. Nomad Media's Content Portal enables external user access with granular permission controls. Access control features include:
User permissions and roles: Administrative controls determine what content users can access and search
Guest contributor approval: Administrators can approve external guest contributors
Content-level and asset-level security: Permissions can be set at both the content and individual asset levels
Role-based security: Different roles can have different search and viewing permissions
Single Sign-On (SSO) support: Integration with existing authentication systems via SAML and OAuth 2.0