Drop in an image. Get the shots that match.
Briefs rarely arrive as words. They arrive as a frame grabbed from somewhere — a still the client loves, a render from a previous campaign, a photo with the right light. Image search takes that frame and finds the video shots that match it.
Drag any image into Motion Index and the library returns shots that share its color, composition, and light — in motion. The reference your client showed you as a frozen frame becomes a set of moving references you can actually build a film from.
How it works
The search compares your image against every indexed shot in the library and ranks by visual closeness — palette, composition, and lighting character all count. Results are shots, not videos: you land on the exact moment that matches, not a 60-second film that contains it somewhere.
- Any image works: stills, renders, photos, screenshots, frames from other films
- Matches by color, composition, and light — not by tags or keywords
- Results at the shot level, across the entire curated library
- Combine with filters: match an image AND constrain by industry, pace, or palette
From a client's frame to a visual direction
The most common alignment failure in production is a reference that lives in one person's head. Image search turns the one frame everyone agrees on into a spread of reference-grade alternatives — enough to build a direction, a board, and a shot list that the whole team has literally seen.
Frequently asked
What image formats can I use?
Standard image formats — JPG, PNG, WebP. If you can drag it into the browser, you can search with it.
Is my uploaded image stored or shared?
The image is used to run your search. It doesn't enter the library — nothing you upload becomes content on Motion Index.
Try it
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