I often see tv shows and video creators quickly put together compilations where, for example, a politician repeats the same word or phrase across many different appearances. How are they able to find and organize these clips so efficiently?
Is there a specific tool, database, or workflow used to index and search video/audio by spoken words or ideas I’m curious what this process is called and where something like this is accessed.
EDIT: Transcripts can be searched, which are accessible through various means, but it is time consuming and most people don’t have libraries built up that contain the content for quick access.
I’m thinking more about something like The Daily Show, SNL, or any late night TV show. I can’t imagine that they’re manually doing all this work independently.
Depends on what exactly they want; just audio or both audio and video.
Tools like the Adobe suite, specifically Premiere, After Effects, and Audition are made to manipulate video and audio.
There’s open source options as well. I’d recommend looking into those if you’re interested since they’re typically free and not made by a garbage tech giant. Audacity is a good one for audio. Idk off the top of my head what open source video editors are good. I’m sure someone else will mention one. Davinci Resolve maybe?
If there’s a really common clip someone uses, they can just save it somewhere and drop it the tool in when they want it. How someone organizes their media is probably just personal preference. There might be an industry standard.
I understand on an individual basis how to search transcripts and find the cuts one is looking for. There’s a variety of applications and indirect ways to achieve this even for a small time content creator. However, this is time consuming and most people don’t have libraries built up that contain the content for quick access.
I’m thinking more about something like The Daily Show, SNL, or any late night TV show. I can’t imagine that they’re manually doing all this work independently.
Perhaps there are databases made available to them through a third party or perhaps their production companies?
Thinking about sound effects specifically, there are libraries, both paid and free, that you can find online. Those contain a whole bunch of various audio clips. The same general thing applies to graphics, video, and other stuff. That’s usually why you might hear the same effects in different media. Some video game devs might buy the same audio library and you’ll hear the same sound effect in their games. This goes way back to where you would buy CD packs of stock sounds or earlier.
Just doing a quick search online for “sound effects library” took me to https://freesound.org/. I’ve never used it, but it might be good. There’s content all over the internet.
“B-role” would be the term to use if you wanted stock video clips.
Exactly. I’m so very curious if something like this exists for processing high profile figures like politicians and celebrities. A catalog of things they’ve said, actions and insinuations, and etc.
I mean, maybe there’s a team that manually looks up every single time X politician mentions or is seen eating McDonald’s. Or… perhaps there’s this awesome database that maintains this kind of info.
You never know when you need a reference every time X politician talks about grabbing 🐈.
That sounds a bit more specific, so it’ll be harder to find. It’s probably out there somewhere. Or maybe you could start one.
When in doubt, there’s probably a YouTube video that’s a compilation of stupid shit a politician said. Download it with yt-dlp and cut it up, lol.