After you run a search, whether in Keyword Mode or Semantic Mode, results appear with flexible viewing options. Understanding these options helps you go from a broad search to the exact moment you need, faster.
Switch between Grid View and List View
Once your search results load, you can choose how you want to view them:
Grid View: a thumbnail-first layout for quickly scanning content visually. Hover over a thumbnail to preview the shot or moment. Best for editors and producers assessing visual content.
List View: shows metadata alongside smaller thumbnails, like tags, dates and other fields. Best for researchers, archivists and anyone working with rights information or structured data. Learn how to customize which fields appear in List View.
Switch between Moments and Media Files
Moments Lab indexes content at two distinct levels, and you can switch between them depending on your needs:
Moments view: shows individual shots, sequences and moments within longer assets. Use it to find a specific moment without scrubbing through a full file.
Media Files view: shows full episodes, programs or long-form assets. Use it when you need the complete file or its full context.
Use the toggle control above the results panel to switch between these two views.
Understanding Different Moment Types in Moments View
When searching in Moments View mode, your results can include several different types of moments, each generated or defined in different ways. Understanding these types helps you refine your search and find exactly what you need
Sequence: a timecode in/out segment MXT (Moments Lab's video understanding AI) creates by combining what it sees and hears in the footage.
Describes what's happening in a scene.
Example: "John Smith discussing climate policy in the conference room."
Ideal for finding specific scenes, actions or visual contexts.
Soundbite: a timecode in/out segment MXT identifies as a significant part of the audio transcript.
Highlights key moments in speeches, interviews, debates or commentary.
Example: a politician's key statement during a press conference, or a standout answer in an interview.
Ideal for quotable moments or impactful audio.
Transcript: appears when a word in your query matches the spoken transcript.
Enables word-level search across all spoken content.
Useful for finding specific terms, names or phrases mentioned in dialogue.
Ideal for research, fact-checking or locating exact quotes.
Annotation: generated when your query matches your sports data feed, like a goal, tackle or penalty.
Covers plays and events such as goals, tackles, tries, saves, touchdowns, penalties and assists, depending on the sport.
Enables precise discovery of specific plays, actions or events within matches.
Ideal for sports editors, highlight producers and analysts building reels.
User moment: a moment manually defined by your team, for example a media manager or logger.
Highlights a specific part of a video your team has flagged as important.
Useful for surfacing editorial picks, flagged content or pre-logged highlights.
Ideal when you want to prioritize human-curated moments over AI-generated ones.
Custom moment: an AI-generated clip driven by a system prompt tailored to your organization's content type and workflows.
Configured to meet your organization's unique needs.
Can be tailored to specific workflows, content types or business logic.
Ideal for organizations with specialized content or standardized editorial requirements.
Why moment types matter
Understanding which moment type you're viewing helps you:
Refine your search strategy, for example focusing on soundbites for interviews or annotations for sports content.
Prioritize certain types of results based on your workflow.
Combine moment type filters with Keyword or Semantic Mode for more precise results.
Sort your results
Relevance (default): ranked by how closely results match your query.
Date, ascending or descending: oldest or newest content first.
Title, ascending or descending: alphabetical by media title.
Sorting by relevance, date and title is only available in Keyword Mode.
Filter your results
If your organization uses custom metadata fields, like rights status, location, event type, project name, label or contributor, apply them as filters to narrow your results. Filters update dynamically based on what's currently shown, so you'll only see options relevant to your results as you refine your search.
Best practices
Start with a broad search, then refine with filters or a different view.
Use Grid View for visual identification, like selecting shots for an edit.
Use List View for metadata-driven tasks, like rights research or logging verification.
Switch to Moments view for shot-level precision, or Media Files view for full-file context.
Sort by Relevance when meaning and context matter most, or by Date when timeline matters.
Customize List View metadata fields in your display preferences to match your role and workflow.
Use multilingual search if your library includes content in multiple languages or your team is distributed globally.
Combine filters with Keyword and Semantic Mode for precise, targeted searches.
Troubleshooting & FAQs
I don't see the metadata fields I need in List View: customize which fields appear in your display preferences.
What's the difference between Moments view and Media Files view? Moments view shows AI-identified shots or sequences within assets. Media Files view shows entire files, like full episodes or clips. Choose based on whether you need a specific moment or the whole asset.
Can I search in one language and find content indexed in another? Yes. Multilingual search adapts to your selected language and surfaces relevant content, even if it was originally indexed in a different one.
How does the Relevance sort option determine order? Relevance is calculated by our AI-native search engine, which uses audio, speech, visual and contextual signals to rank results by how well they match your query.
Why do some of my results show moments and others show full files? Check which view toggle is active, Moments or Media Files, and switch between them to see the type of content you're looking for.
Can I save my preferred view and filter settings? Display preferences for metadata fields are saved automatically. Filter combinations can be reapplied manually, or through saved searches if your organization has set them up.
What's next
Learn how to use the search bar, or learn how to use the clipping tools to trim what you find.
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