Forgot the filename? Search for a picture or a moment in a video

SCM, or Screen Memories, adds content search to existing Mac photos and videos. In the maker’s Files demo, music returns players, headphones and album images. This mode combines visual similarity with filename and phrase signals. The result is a file you can open, even when its original name has been forgotten.

• Compare old photos: from finding them to an explorable home →Retrieval finds the material first; Astra’s old-home project continues into a scene and a visitor experience.

Scenes results carry timecodes. The code detects shot boundaries, selects segments within a limit and indexes each segment’s midpoint frame. Without detected cuts, it uses equal intervals. Opening a hit seeks to its position. A remembered image can therefore lead to a moment, while retrieval still uses representative frames rather than an explanation of every frame.

OCR searches recognized visible text; Dialogue searches Whisper transcripts. The default is tiny.en, with base.en available, both English models. Chinese OCR packs do not establish Chinese transcription quality. Optional Ask mode answers from extracted dialogue, OCR and filename evidence, with citations you can return to and inspect.

• Next: checking material and outputs from a local model →After finding material, distinguish the actual input, generated output and human checks.

The documented Homebrew install targets Apple Silicon and macOS 12 or later. Default CLIP weights initially download about 435 MB; transcription and optional chat need their own models. Imported media is copied into the managed library, alongside indexes, thumbnails and segments. The maker describes inference on the Mac. Start with familiar material and inspect whether the results fit your retrieval needs.