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Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos

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Hey,

I'm Ilias, the founder of Orcah Studio. I'm building a local-first desktop app (Mac OS available now) that can transcribe audio, recognize faces, detect objects, perform OCR, and describe video scenes.

Plus, a local-first video agent that understands your prompt and finds the exact moment you're looking for. I fine-tune the agent based on an open-weight model (an 8-billion-parameter model) with tool calling.

You can check out all the features here: https://orcah.app.

Plus, I have an MCP that you can connect to Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to search your indexed videos: https://orcah.app/mcp

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Congrats on the launch, Ilias! It's great to see more people working on local-first media search. Amazing design <3

Full disclosure: I've been building something similar. SCM is a free, open-source macOS app for searching photos and video scenes locally:

https://github.com/allenv0/SCM

Plus, you can search your video moments using a reference image or color https://orcah.app/features/visual-search or an audio file https://orcah.app/features/audio-search.

And transcription with speaker diarization: https://orcah.app/features/transcription

Plus, I have a source-available version that can be self-hosted via Docker (https://github.com/iliashad/edit-mind) (Rebranded from Edit Mind to Orcah Studio)

I set the battery to low power mode on the website and it didn't do anything and now I'm profoundly disappointed.

On a more serious note, I think on-device object/face recognition search is a great idea. Having the cta button on the site go to Polar is a little unexpected. It'd be nice to be able to try the app without going through the hoops of running it in a Docker container, if that's the same app or system?

I added the lower battery mode. haha.

Noted. Would like to show the app in a 15-minute call here (https://cal.com/iliashadad/orcah-studio-demo)

Yes, the Docker container is pretty different than the app, but it does share similar infrastructure with richer video scene data, direct integrations with Davinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere Pro, and a smart video search agent.

Thank you for your comment, much appreciate it

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