Organizing
Videos & scenes
Video as a first-class citizen — scene detection, keyframe posters, an in-app player, and per-video facets.
Video is a first-class citizen in Tessera, not an afterthought bolted onto a photo tool. Clips are indexed, split into scenes, and made searchable alongside your stills.
Scenes and posters
Each clip is split into scenes automatically. Tessera extracts a keyframe poster per scene, so a long video becomes a row of legible thumbnails you can scan at a glance instead of scrubbing.
In-app player
Open a video to play it inline, with the timeline marked by scene chips. Jump straight to a scene from its chip — the player and the scene index stay in sync.
Per-video facets
Videos carry their own facets so you can filter footage the way you filter stills:
- People detected in the clip.
- Duration and orientation.
- Audio presence.
These combine with the same faceted search used for images, so a query can span both media types.
What runs locally
Scene detection, poster extraction, and the people lane all run on your machine using the local pipeline and FFmpeg. As with everything in Tessera, your footage is never uploaded.